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Human rights advocacy --- Political persecution --- Colombia
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The 1960s marked a transformation of human rights activism in the United States. At a time of increased concern for the rights of their fellow citizens-civil and political rights, as well as the social and economic rights that Great Society programs sought to secure-many Americans saw inconsistencies between domestic and foreign policy and advocated for a new approach. The activism that arose from the upheavals of the 1960s fundamentally altered U.S. foreign policy-yet previous accounts have often overlooked its crucial role.In From Selma to Moscow, Sarah B. Snyder traces the influence of human rights activists and advances a new interpretation of U.S. foreign policy in the "long 1960s." She shows how transnational connections and social movements spurred American activism that achieved legislation that curbed military and economic assistance to repressive governments, created institutions to monitor human rights around the world, and enshrined human rights in U.S. foreign policy making for years to come. Snyder analyzes how Americans responded to repression in the Soviet Union, racial discrimination in Southern Rhodesia, authoritarianism in South Korea, and coups in Greece and Chile. By highlighting the importance of nonstate and lower-level actors, Snyder shows how this activism established the networks and tactics critical to the institutionalization of human rights. A major work of international and transnational history, From Selma to Moscow reshapes our understanding of the role of human rights activism in transforming U.S. foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s and highlights timely lessons for those seeking to promote a policy agenda resisted by the White House.
Human rights advocacy --- United States --- Foreign relations
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The European Union's leverage to promote human rights values and its vision of a rules-based world order has dramatically declined over the last decade, ECFR reveals in a new report, after analyzing over ten years of UN voting statistics.
Human rights. --- Human rights advocacy. --- International relations.
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Stones of Hope shows how African human rights activists have opened new possibilities for justice in the everyday lives of the world's most impoverished peoples.
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Magdeleine Paz fut pionnière en bien des domaines. Figure essentielle et oblitérée de l'histoire intellectuelle de l'entre-deux-guerres, elle lutte contre le racisme, le colonialisme et le stalinisme, pour le droit des étrangers. Exclue du PCF, elle adhère ensuite à la SFIO où elle va porter ces différents combats. Parallèlement, elle est membre du Comité central de la Ligue des Droits de l'Homme. L'ardeur et la ferveur de ses articles décrivent et dénoncent l'inacceptable, cherchent et donnent à voir la vérité. Elle se transforme alors en ± voix des opprimés via des reportages de combat, engagés, mais aussi militants. Le reportage nourrit son activité militante, de même qu'elle éclaire celui-ci. Ses textes sont des tribunes pour inviter les Français au réveil. Ils sont parfois aussi un outil pour interpeller la véritable conscience de gauche de ses camarades socialistes. Magdeleine Paz est aussi celle qui porte sur la place publique ce qui est demeuré dans l'Histoire comme ±l'affaire Victor Serge. Cheville ouvrière et âme de la campagne pour la libération de l'écrivain retenu en URSS, elle s'évertue dans la presse et dans sa sphère intime à mobiliser les énergies. Magdeleine Paz a été, comme elle le disait à propos de sa consoeur Andrée Viollis, ±une lueur qui a percé le brouillard d'une époque. Les écrits de ce volume forment une appproche inédite de la femme aux multiples facettes qu'elle fut. Bref, c'est bien une intellectuelle d'importance que nous côtoyons ici, consciente de la force de son témoignage et de la certitude de la vérité qu'elle porte. (éditeur)
Human rights advocacy --- Journalists --- Human rights advocacy. --- Journalists. --- History --- Serge, Victor, --- Marx, Magdeleine. --- 1900-1999 --- France.
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Political prisoners --- Torture --- Human rights advocacy --- Human rights advocacy. --- Political prisoners. --- Torture.
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Elections --- Civil rights --- Human rights advocacy --- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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