Human Rights In Minefields

Author : Baquero Díaz, Carlos Andrés,Benya, Asanda,Burawoy, Michael,Cárdenas Mendoza, Omaira,González Armijo, Mariana,von Holdt, Karl,Kodiveri, Arpitha,Mendieta Miranda, Maximiliano,L., Morris, Meghan,Nakiganda, Ida,Sanhueza Cubillos, Cristián,Viegas e Silva, Marisa,Sundar, Nandini,Veramendi Villa, María José,Wicomb, Wilmien
Publisher : Djusticia
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789585903777

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Human Rights in Minefields by Baquero Díaz, Carlos Andrés,Benya, Asanda,Burawoy, Michael,Cárdenas Mendoza, Omaira,González Armijo, Mariana,von Holdt, Karl,Kodiveri, Arpitha,Mendieta Miranda, Maximiliano,L., Morris, Meghan,Nakiganda, Ida,Sanhueza Cubillos, Cristián,Viegas e Silva, Marisa,Sundar, Nandini,Veramendi Villa, María José,Wicomb, Wilmien Pdf

Este libro reúne los relatos de 16 investigadores activistas del Sur Global sobre diferentes temas de derechos humanos en sus respectivos países. Son el resultado del primer taller de investigación-acción que llevó a cabo Dejusticia.

Author : Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1564321134

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Landmines by Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) Pdf

10. The future of Landmines

Author : Richard A. Matthew,Bryan McDonald,Kenneth R. Rutherford
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791483992

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Landmines and Human Security by Richard A. Matthew,Bryan McDonald,Kenneth R. Rutherford Pdf

An impressive array of activists, scholars, government officials, journalists, and landmine victims themselves are gathered here to tell the dramatic and inspiring story of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). Organized in the early 1990s, the ICBL is a network of more than one thousand nongovernmental organizations worldwide, working for a global ban on landmines. It was an important force behind the treaty to ban antipersonnel landmines that was signed in Ottawa in 1997, and which led to its being awarded the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, along with its coordinator.

Author : Leon V. Sigal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135447915

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Negotiating Minefields by Leon V. Sigal Pdf

Against all odds, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines helped to enact a global treaty banning antipersonnel mines in 1997. For that achievement it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In this volume, Leon Sigal shows how a handful of NGOs with almost no mass base got more than 100 countries to outlaw a weapon that their armies had long used. It is a story of intrigue and misperception, of clashing norms and interests, of contentious bureaucratic and domestic politics. It is also a story of effective leadership, of sustained commitment to a cause, of alliances between campaigners and government officials, of a US senator who championed the ban, and of the skilful use of the news media. Despite this monumental effort, the campaign failed to get the United States to sign the treaty. Drawing on extensive internal documents and interviews with US officials and ban campaigners, Sigal tells the story of the in-fighting inside the Clinton administration, in the Pentagon, and within the ban campaign itself that led to this major setback for an otherwise unprecedented, successful global effort. Negotiating Minefields will be of interest to students and scholars of military and strategic studies and politics and international relations.

Author : Matthew Breay Bolton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780755618491

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Political Minefields by Matthew Breay Bolton Pdf

Thousands of people around the world are maimed and killed by landmines and unexploded ammunition every year. International law classifies landmines as 'evil in themselves', but minefields are expressions of 'political minefields' that create them and allow them to persist. In this travelogue through Iraq, Laos, Cambodia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Sudan, South Sudan and New York City, we follow Matthew Bolton's quest for solutions to the landmine crisis and emerging autonomous weapons. Throughout his journey we meet deminers, paramilitaries, journalists, mercenaries, diplomats, aid workers, and campaigners working in and around the minefields. It is a must-read for those working to alleviate the devastation of war.

Author : Alex Vines
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1564322068

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Still Killing by Alex Vines Pdf

Momentum for a ban

Author : International Campaign to Ban Land Mines
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 1114 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1564322319

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Landmine Monitor Report 1999 by International Campaign to Ban Land Mines Pdf

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Author : Stuart Maslen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004480476

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Anti-Personnel Mines under Humanitarian Law : A View from the Vanishing Point by Stuart Maslen Pdf

Anti-Personnel Mines under Humanitarian Law: A View From the Vanishing Point considers in depth the various customary and conventional legal regimes applicable to the use of anti-personnel mines. All involved with the global effort to control and eliminate anti-personnel mines as well as the policy-makers who are concerned about the devastation resulting from the widespread deployment of these arbitrary weapons need to familiarize themselves with the information presented in this timely volume. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Author : Dinah PoKempner,Arms Project (Human Rights Watch),Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1564321509

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Cambodia at War by Dinah PoKempner,Arms Project (Human Rights Watch),Human Rights Watch (Organization) Pdf

7. Mining and demining

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Human Rights Encyclopedia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Barry S. Levy,Victor W. Sidel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195311181

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War and Public Health by Barry S. Levy,Victor W. Sidel Pdf

The first comprehensive examination of the relationship between war and public health, this book documents the public health consequences of war and describes what health professionals can do to minimize these consequences and even help prevent war altogether. It explores the effects of war on health, human rights, and the environment. The health and environmental impact of both conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction--nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons--is described in chapters that cover the consequences of their production, testing, maintenance, use, and disposal. Separate chapters cover especially vulnerable populations, such as women, children, and refugees. In-depth descriptions of specific military conflicts, including the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, and wars in Central America provide striking illustrations of the issues covered in other chapters. A series of chapters explores the roles of health professionals and of organizations during war, and in preventing war and its consequences. This revised second edition includes seven new chapters, including one on landmines by the Nobel Prize-winning founding director of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.A wide range of individuals, including physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, will find this book enlightening and useful in their work. The book will be valuable for faculty and students in schools of public health, medicine, nursing, and other health professions. In addition, it will be useful to those working in the fields of law, economics, international studies, peace and conflict resolution, military studies, diplomacy, and sociology, and in related disciplines.

Author : Margaret Sönser Breen
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042016781

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Minding Evil by Margaret Sönser Breen Pdf

Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity brings together fifteen essays, versions of which were presented at the Fifth International Conference on Evil and Wickedness, held in Prague in 2004. The volume examines evil and wickedness from a variety of disciplines, including criminology, cultural studies, gender studies, law, literature, peace studies, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. In so doing Minding Evil keeps in play the doubled meaning of its title: on the one hand, to tend to evil, that is, to oversee, cultivate, and deploy it; on the other hand, to be bothered by evil and so, in learning to identify or recognise it, to try to understand its workings and thus contain or control it and, perhaps, repair or undo it. While the essays taken together work to show the difficulty and at times the travesty of not being able to distinguish between the two meanings, it is this second meaning that remains key. What are the individual and collective responsibilities entailed in minding - being troubled by - evil? This is the central question of this volume.

Author : Lydia Monin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446443859

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The Devil's Gardens by Lydia Monin Pdf

'The image I have is a kid on a country lane on a Saturday afternoon herding his family cattle, meaning no harm to anybody and putting one step wrong. It's one thing to die in combat, it's one thing to die defending land, but it's another thing to die tending cattle on a Saturday afternoon and we want a world where that doesn't happen' - Michael Ignatieff During the twentieth century a landmine plague raged across the globe. It began on the battlefields of two world wars, it gathered momentum in Korea and Vietnam and then spread like wildfire throughout the developing world. The Devil's Gardens is the definitive story of the landmine. It is the story of the development and proliferation of a weapon of terror. It is also the story of suffering and devastation, and a worldwide crusade to put an end to the curse of landmines forever. The issues surrounding landmines and their continued use are controversial. Drawing on a wide range of distinguished interviewees and the authors' first-hand experiences in severely mine-affected countries, The Devil's Gardens look at all sides of the landmine story.

Author : James R. Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Human rights
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025800702

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The Human Rights Encyclopedia: Issues and individuals by James R. Lewis Pdf

Provides a country-by-country analysis of the approach to human rights as well as examination of such topics as torture, slavery asylum, genocide, freedom of the press, and the right to education.

Author : Shai M. Dromi,Samuel D. Stabler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226828176

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Moral Minefields by Shai M. Dromi,Samuel D. Stabler Pdf

An analysis of the effects of moral debates on sociological research. Few academic disciplines are as contentious as sociology. Sociologists routinely turn on their peers with fierce criticisms not only of their empirical rigor and theoretical clarity but of their character as well. Yet despite the controversy, scholars manage to engage in thorny debates without being censured. How? In Moral Minefields, Shai M. Dromi and Samuel D. Stabler consider five recent controversial topics in sociology—race and genetics, secularization theory, methodological nationalism, the culture of poverty, and parenting practices—to reveal how moral debates affect the field. Sociologists, they show, tend to respond to moral criticism of scholarly work in one of three ways. While some accept and endorse the criticism, others work out new ways to address these topics that can transcend the criticism, while still others build on the debates to form new, more morally acceptable research. Moral Minefields addresses one of the most prominent questions in contemporary sociological theory: how can sociology contribute to the development of a virtuous society? Rather than suggesting that sociologists adopt a clear paradigm that can guide their research toward neatly defined moral aims, Dromi and Stabler argue that sociologists already largely possess and employ the repertoires to address questions of moral virtue in their research. The conversation thus is moved away from attempts to theorize the moral goods sociologists should support and toward questions about how sociologists manage the plurality of moral positions that present themselves in their studies. Moral diversity within sociology, they show, fosters disciplinary progress.