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Civil rights lawyers --- Authors, American --- Civil rights movements --- History
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Despite international conventions and human rights declarations, millions of people have suffered and continue to suffer torture, slavery, or violent deaths, with no remedy or recourse. They have fallen, in essence, "below the law," outside of law's protection. Often violated by their own governments, sometimes with support from transnational corporations, or nations benefiting from human rights violations, how can these victims find justice? Lawyers Beyond Borders reveals the inner workings of the advances and retreats in the quest for redress and restoration of human rights for those whom international legal-political systems have failed. The process of justice begins in the US, with a handful of human rights lawyers steeped in the American tradition of advancing civil rights through civil litigation. As the civil rights movement gained traction and an ample supply of lawyers, this small cadre turned their attention toward advancing international human rights, via the US legal system. They sought to build another piece of the rights revolution, this time for survivors of egregious human rights violations in faraway lands. These cases were among the most unlikely to be slated for victory: The abuses occurred abroad; the victims are aliens, usually with few, if any, resources; the perpetrators are politically powerful, resourced, and well connected, often members of governments, militaries, or multinational corporations. The legal and political systems' structures are mostly stacked against these survivors, many who bear the scars of trauma and terror. Lawyers Beyond Borders is about agency. It is about how, in the face of powerful interests and seemingly insurmountable obstacles--political, psychological, economic, geographical, and physical--a small group of lawyers and survivors navigated a terrain of daunting barriers to begin building, case-by-case, new pathways to justice for those who otherwise would have none.
Civil rights lawyers --- Lawyers, Foreign. --- Human rights advocacy. --- Human rights. --- International law. --- Cases.
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Profiles African American lawyers during the era of segregation and the civil rights movement, with an emphasis on the conflicts they felt between their identities as African Americans and their professional identities as lawyers
African American lawyers --- Cause lawyers --- Civil rights movements --- Cause lawyering --- Lawyers --- Public interest law --- History --- Civil rights lawyers --- African American lawyers - Biography --- Civil rights lawyers - United States - Biography --- Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century --- Etats-Unis
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Human rights workers --- Civil rights lawyers --- Défenseurs des droits de l'homme --- Avocats des droits de l'homme --- Trarieux, L.
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Human rights workers --- Civil rights lawyers --- Défenseurs des droits de l'homme --- Avocats des droits de l'homme --- Droits de l'homme --- Prix et récompenses --- Trarieux, L.
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Human rights --- Civil rights lawyers --- Human rights workers --- Political prisoners --- Political persecution --- Violence against --- Abuse of --- United States --- China --- Foreign relations
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Human rights --- Civil rights lawyers --- Human rights workers --- Political prisoners --- Political persecution --- Violence against --- Abuse of --- United States --- China --- Foreign relations
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"No Country for Eight-Spotted Butterflies is a collection of soulful ruminations about love, loss, struggle, resilience and power. Part memoir, part manifesto, the book is both a coming-of-age story and a call for justice-for everyone but, in particular, for indigenous peoples-his own and others"--
Chamorro (Micronesian people) --- Civil rights lawyers --- Chamorro (Micronesian people) --- Indigenous peoples --- Social justice. --- Environmental justice. --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Aguon, Julian.
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"A cataclysmic earthquake, revolution, corruption, and neglect have all conspired to strangle the growth of a legitimate legal system in Haiti. But as How Human Rights Can Build Haiti demonstrates, the story of lawyers-activists on the ground should give us all hope. They organize demonstrations at the street level, argue court cases at the international level, and conduct social media and lobbying campaigns across the globe. They are making historic claims and achieving real success as they tackle Haiti's cholera epidemic, post-earthquake housing and rape crises, and the Jean-Claude Duvalier prosecution, among other human rights emergencies in Haiti. The only way to transform Haiti's dismal human rights legacy is through a bottom-up social movement, supported by local and international challenges to the status quo. That recipe for reform mirrors the strategy followed by Mario Joseph, Brian Concannon, and their clients and colleagues profiled in this book. Together, Joseph, Concannon, and their allies represent Haiti's best hope to escape the cycle of disaster, corruption, and violence that has characterized the country's two-hundred-year history. At the same time, their efforts are creating a template for a new and more effective human rights-focused strategy to turn around failed states and end global poverty"--
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Depuis 35 ans, Bertrand Favreau, avocat lui-même, s'est attaché à distinguer et à célébrer les destins de ceux qui exposent leur liberté et leur vie, leur carrière et leurs familles, leur prospérité et leur tranquillité, pour pouvoir défendre ceux que personne ne défend. Il a créé en 1984 le prix international des droits de l'homme Ludovic Trarieux qui est attribué chaque année à un avocat du monde qui a illustré la défense des droits de l'Homme. Comme les trois précédents, ce volume de « Derrière la cause isolée d'un homme », évoqueannée par année les itinéraires croisés des lauréats de ce prix. Les défenseurs des victimes du travail forcé en Birmanie, de la liberté d'expression au Zimbabwe,de la condition des prisonniers en Russie ou au Kazakhstan, de l'universalité des droits de l'homme au coeur de la démocratie balbutiante ou impossible en Libye, en Egypte, en Arabie Saoudite ou aux Émirats arabes unis, de la liberté d'un peuple en Turquie. Les évocations que l'on pourra lire dans ce livre ne sont après tout que des exemples parmi tant d'autres. Ainsi, au prix de la perte de leur profession, de leur liberté, et parfois de leur vie, ils sont un instant d'un combat sans fin, comme celui d'Œdipe contre le Sphinx, comme celui d'Antigone contre Créon. Ils sont à la source de la défense du droit donc de son existence. Tous, en Chine ou en Birmanie, au Zimbabwe ou en Libye, au Kazakhstan ou en Russie, en Égypte ou en Turquie, ou dans les pays d'Arabie, en ont appelé à un moment de leur vie, à ce droit des hommes qui veut combattre et éradiquer les actes comme les normes injustes que la férocité de certains engendre à l'abri de leurs frontières. Nous ne saurions avoir d'autres portraits à brosser, d'autres modèles à suivre et d'autres références à citer. À respecter
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