Human Rights (World Issues)

by JaneSherwin (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1989

  $6.24

  This book discusses the most fundamental human rights - food, clothing and shelter as well as freedom of expression. It shows how an awareness of human rights has developed from the Middle Ages up to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. All over the world, people are still being held against their will and tortured because of their beliefs. This book tries to explain why such methods are employed and to understand the minds of the torturers, as well as the sufferings of the victims. It shows how people are putting pressure on their governments to try and stop this most grotesque violation of human rights. It also considers the widespread injustices which exist to some degree in every country: inequality of the sexes, unemployment, poverty and hunger. There is a list of organizations providing further information on how we can help to spread recognition of human rights and the book also includes poems by prisoners of conscience. Jane Sherwin is a member of Amnesty International and is Chair of their Human Rights Education Working Party. She has edited Poetry as Witness , a collection of poems by prisoners of conscience and The Central America Crisis - A European Response .