Current conditions for human rights defenders and lawyers in China, and implications for U.S. policy : roundtable before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, June 23, 2011.

“…Current conditions for human rights defenders and lawyers in China, and implications for US policy…”
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The social origins of human rights : protesting political violence in Colombia's oil capital, 1919-2010 by Van Isschot, Luis, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Biography of a Movement; 6. The War on Human Rights Defenders; 7. Social Movements Respond to Catastrophic Change; Conclusion: "This utopia, this chance to continue dreaming -- Notes.…”
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The violence of development : resource depletion, environmental crises and human rights abuses in Central America by Mowforth, Martin

Table of Contents: “…. ; 6 Deforestation and Reforestation: Can't See the Wood for the Trees; 7 Industrialisation and Free Trade Treaties: From Slavery to Sweatshop; 8 Indigenous Groups: The Fourth World Fights Back; 9 The Violence of Development: Human Rights Defenders against the Wall; 10 Whither Development?…”
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Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies : Multiple InJustices : Indigenous Women, Law, and Political Struggle in Latin America. by Hern?andez Castillo, R. A?ida

Table of Contents: “…From victims to human rights defenders, international litigation and the struggle for justice of indigenous women -- chapter 5. …”
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Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

Table of Contents: “…Reid -- Moscow human rights defenders look West : attitudes toward U.S. journalists in the 1960s and 1970s / Barbara Walker -- Conclusion: Transnational history and the East-West divide / Michael David-Fox.…”
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Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

Table of Contents: “…Reid -- Moscow human rights defenders look West : attitudes toward U.S. journalists in the 1960s and 1970s / Barbara Walker -- Conclusion: Transnational history and the East-West divide / Michael David-Fox.…”
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Open wounds : Armenians, Turks and a century of genocide by Cheterian, Vicken

Table of Contents: “…Denial by Turkish Intellectuals and LeftistsHitler Remembers the Armenians; The Negation Industry; 4: WRITING AS RESISTANCE; Fifty Years of Silence; From Memory to History Writing; German Responsibility; The Genocide of the Armenians and the United Nations; Encyclopaedic Work; 5: DECADE OF TERRORISM; From Bank Ottoman to Operation Nemesis; 6: A REVOLUTIONARY ACT; The Human Rights Defender; Breaking the Taboo; An Intellectual Journey; 7: RE-AWAKENINGTHE STRUGGLE FOR MEMORY AND DEMOCRACY; Things Falling Apart; EU Association and AKP Coming to Power; Timid Dialogue; Leaving History to Historians.…”
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Teach me how to work and keep me kind : the possibilities of literature and composition in an American high school by Riener, Joseph F., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Note continued: Consideration of some people talked about in Speak Truth to Power, Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World / Nan Richardson -- "Examined Life" / Malcolm Gladwell -- Selections from Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond, Malcolm Gladwell's review of the book, and a Jared Diamond review of other books -- 19. …”
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On China. Xi Jinping

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Freedom in the world 2014 : the annual survey of political rights and civil liberties

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Banning landmines : disarmament, citizen diplomacy, and human security

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