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Contents: Fatherless children -- When you're forsaken -- Here I am -- Revolt -- Our faith -- Rest stop -- For the love of Jah Nation -- Good to go -- We sight.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Railroad Records 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE HUMSummary: This program sets two crucial human rights-related Constitutional amendments within the context of their historical times: Amendment 13, abolishing slavery throughout the U.S., and Amendment 14, defining U.S. citizenship and stipulating due process and equal protection under the law. Four additional amendments-11, judicial powers construed; 16, federal income tax; and 18 and 21, Prohibition and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Morlock, Theresa
Summary: People who identify as LGBTQ are often treated with inequality and violence. Until recently, they were viewed as sick or even criminals. This volume gives important insight into the injustices faced by LGBTQ individuals, and the activists and groups that have fought for equal rights. Photographs and primary sources help readers grasp and connect with information in the text. Readers will learn...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2017
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Summary: An introduction to human trafficking discusses the reasons it still flourishes, the challenges that face victims even after rescue, and how people are working to make a change.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364 CURSummary: China is booming economically. U.S. companies, including Motorola and Boeing, are employing thousands in new factories. However, Western economic investment has not translated into a Chinese acceptance of Western ideas concerning human rights-as evident in the Tiananmen Square massacre. This program discusses the progress that is being made. We meet a radio talk-show host who invites callers to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In 1971, 28 activists in Camden, N.J., planned to break into a draft office and destroy records; however, before they could carry out their plan they realized they had been infiltrated and were arrested by the FBI.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CAMMarquardt, Kathleen
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Gateway 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.3 MARBirch, Beverley.
Summary: Follows the life of the statesman who was a key figure in India's fight for independence from Great Britain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. Stevens Children's Books 1990
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB GANDHI BIRRuggie, John Gerard
Summary: Describes the transformative Guiding Principles developed in 2005 by the United Nations and the author that sought to regulate harmful corporate practices in the far reaching corners of the world and promote and sustain human rights.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 174.4 RUGHarris, Duchess
Summary: Eleanor Roosevelt is well known for her time as First Lady of the United States, but she also made important contributions to women's rights before, during, and after her husband's presidency. Eleanor Roosevelt Champions Women's Rights examines her efforts from multiple perspectives, including those of Roosevelt herself, her husband, Franklin, and later feminist activists.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.917 HARKeys, Barbara J.
Summary: The American commitment to international human rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprising response to national trauma, as Barbara Keys shows in this provocative history. Reclaiming American Virtue situates this novel enthusiasm as a reaction to the profound challenge of the Vietnam War and its tumultuous aftermath. Instead of looking inward...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.0973 KEYFelix, Rebecca
Summary: Introduces readers to the pride movement, from its beginnings at the Stonewall Riots to the LGBTQ rights movement, the first pride parade, the creation of the rainbow flag, and legislation such as the Matthew Shephard Act and the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo & Daughters, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: George Marshall speaking about the Declaration of Human Rights at UN Conference in Paris
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1948
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Branker, Anthony D. J.
Contents: Chant for peace eternal -- Parris in April -- Spirit song -- Sketches of Selim -- Imani (faith) -- In God's hands -- Mentor -- J.C.'s passion.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sons of Sound 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BRAEbadi, Shirin
Summary: "For several years the Iranian government tried everything to silence Shirin Ebadi: They arrested her, bugged her phones, attacked her home, shadowed her everywhere she went, seized her office, and nailed a death threat to her front door. But nothing could stop Ebadi from her work as a human rights lawyer defending women, children, and the persecuted in Iran. After several years of harrassment...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EBADI, SHIRIN EBAShattuck, John H. F.
Summary: "A bold new assessment of the multipronged attack on American rights, and how to push back, from experts at the Fletcher School at Tufts and the Carr Center at Harvard. In fifteen accessible chapters dealing with voting rights, freedom of speech, criminal justice, gun rights, LGBTQ+ rights, disability rights, religious freedom, privacy, immigration, and more, three renowned thought-leaders,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 SHAAgosín, Marjorie.
Summary: A collection of poems by Marjorie Agosin that give voice to the victims of the corrupt dictatorships that existed in Latin America during the late twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Pine Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 AGOSummary: A commemorative edition of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as adopted in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly offers insight into the world's shared views about the rights of all people, with illustrations by artists from around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books in association with Amnesty International 2008
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Summary: In the 1970s an important disability rights law, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, was waiting to be signed. Judy [Heumann] and other disability rights activists fought for YES! They held a sit-in until Section 504 was signed into law. Section 504--established thanks in large part to the ongoing work of Judy and her community--laid the foundation for the Americans with Disabilities...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HEUBlake, Melissa
Summary: In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN Opinion. A conservative pundit caught wind of it, mentioning Blake's work in a YouTube video. What happened next is equal parts a searing view into society, how we collectively view and treat disabled people, and the making of an advocate. After a troll said that Blake should be banned from posting pictures of herself, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4092 BLASummary: Although China’s government has pledged to revise its policies toward political dissidents, that promise remains largely unfulfilled. This program reveals egregious cases of political oppression occurring in recent years, countering the picture China painted of itself as it promoted the Beijing Olympics. Pushing back against bureaucracy and official stonewalling, the program examines the work...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Siegel, Mona L.
Summary: "Peace on Our Terms follows dozens of remarkable women from Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Asia as they crossed oceans and continents; commanded meeting halls in Paris, Zurich, and Washington; and marched in the streets of Cairo and Beijing. Mona L. Siegel's sweeping global account of international organizing highlights how Egyptian and Chinese nationalists, Western and Japanese...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.082 SIESummary: Five decades after the inception of the Geneva Refugee Convention, the European immigration system is on the verge of collapse as a flood of people fleeing persecution and violence threatens to engulf the E.U. This program looks at the processing of refugees and asylum-seekers in Sweden and Britain-typified by a lengthy detention punctuated by interrogation and a summary legal hearing-as the UN...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Hope, Bradley
Summary: "A gripping account of an Ivy League activist-turned-fugitive and his clandestine effort to subvert the North Korean regime, a heart-pounding tale of a self-taught operative and his high-stakes attempt to change the world. In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022