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  1. Access to Justice
    The Struggle for Human Rights in South East Asia

    Resource Type: Book
    This volume brings together the experiences and ideas of leading human rights campaigners from Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia. They demonstrate the imaginative ways in which people are struggling to assert their human dignity in the face of authoritarian regimes wedded to keeping in power the narrow classes that benefit from their countries' continued subordination to the US dominated world economy.
  2. Africa
    Perspectives on Peace and Development

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The African continent is today riven by a variety of conflicts that threaten not only human rights and social order, but also prospects for development and even the sovereignty of African states, In this volume, leading African scholars to confront the issues that peace studies in an African context raise. Peace is considered in the light of continuing struggles for democracy and social rights.
  3. Against the Current
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
  4. Beyond Chutzpah 
    On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A meticulously researched expose of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Bringing to bear the latest findings on the conflict and recasting the scholarly debate, Finkelstein points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record. Why, then, does so much controversy swirl around the conflict? Finkelstein's answer, copiously documented, is that apologists for Israel contrive controversy. Whenever Israel comes under international pressure, another media campaign alleging a global outbreak of anti-Semitism is mounted.
  5. Canada and the Rights of the Chilean People
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    Brief presented to the Canadian Government by the Coalition on Canadian Policy Toward Chile.
  6. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
  7. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
  8. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
  9. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  10. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  11. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  12. Chile Report
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1975
    Describes the repression and injustice that exists in Chile and criticizes Canada's attitude.
  13. Columbia's Paramilitary Politics
    Against The Current vol. 135

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    In a surprise move in the early morning of May 13th, Colombian President Álvaro Uríbe announced the extradition of fourteen top paramilitary leaders to the United States, where they are charged with cocaine trafficking and money laundering. His move has provoked an outcry from victims’ and human rights groups, who fear that the extraditions will undercut efforts to hold the paramilitaries accountable for massacres, disappearances, torture, extra-judicial executions, and the displacement of thousands of people in Colombia.
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    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
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    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
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    First Published: 1979
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    First Published: 1979
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    First Published: 1979
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    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
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    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
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    Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme

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    First Published: 1980
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    Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
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    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
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    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
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    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
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    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
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    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

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    First Published: 1992
  30. Counter-Rhetoric 
    Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    This useful little book does two things. It challenges the rhetoric, the perceptions and assumptions regarding the conflict in Israel/Palestine, and it exposes the underlying imbalance of power around which this rhetoric swirls. It is both useful as a historical guide and as a tool for countering the prevailing divisive rhetoric. Whether challenging the concepts embedded in Zionism, the wars of the mid 20th century and the later occupation, or the Wall as security argument, this book gives a systematic alternative to the prevailing mantras and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
  31. Disappeared!
    Technique of Terror

    Resource Type: Book
    During 1985, the United Nations reported on cases ofdisappearance in 36 countries in all parts of the world. This Report looks at the psychological, legal, and political context of disappearances. It proposes improvements in the procedures and means at the disposal of the international bodies dealing with this issue, and urges sanctions against governments guilty of this abuse of human rights.
  32. The Everyday Activist
    365 Ways to Change the World

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
  33. The Fire Each Time
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind, and suddenly there was light, and warmth, and the gathering at the hearth. The gods never forgave, and ever since periodically they thrust a torch into villains' hands and watch the hearths burn and bring the roofs down. Civilization weeps, in Troy, Hiroshima, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria.
  34. Gaza: Health System in Collapse
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The extremity of suffering in Gaza is little known in the West. Underlying the health emergency is the Israeli military's destruction of Gaza's basic infrastructure and Israel's closure of all Gaza's borders.
  35. The Globe and Mail as corporate apologists: behind the love affair with Barrick Gold
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    In the rural highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), a Canadian gold mine operates amongst the Ipili people, who were one of the last major ethnic groups to be contacted by the Australian colonial administration of New Guinea, or "white man", in 1939. Since that date, Porgera was known for its rich gold deposits and eventually became the site of one of the largest gold mines in the world. Today, Porgera is a site of controversy, as it riches are overshadowed by stories of gang rapes and killings of the Ipili people at the hands of Barrick security and police.
  36. Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured or killed, or suffering injuries or danger themselves. The trauma goes on, long after the experience has ended and they are back in a place of safety. How much worse then for children in Gaza who witness and experience these events day after day, week after week with no end and with no place of safety.
  37. Hidden Agendas
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
  38. Human rights violations in Latin America
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
  39. In Support of the Palestinian Human Rights Community Call for International Action
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    In the past the world knew how to fight criminal policies. The boycott on South Africa was effective, but Israel is handled with kid gloves: its trade relations are flourishing, academic and cultural cooperation continue and intensify with diplomatic support. This international backing must stop. That is the only way to stop the insatiable Israeli violence.
  40. Is Israel singled out for its human rights violations?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Some people assert that human rights activists and the international community are disproportionately – and unjustifiably – focusing their attention on the Jewish state. They are "ignoring" human rights violations elsewhere — Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Chad, wherever — in order to unfairly vilify Israel. This bias, the argument usually goes, is motivated by anti-Semitism.
  41. Is the UN complicit in Israel's massacre in Gaza?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A friend forwarded to me the most original greeting for the New Year: "I wish in 2009 a horrible year for all war criminals and their accomplices." I could not but think of whether some United Nations officials can be counted among such "accomplices."
  42. Israel, Lebanon and Torture
    Against The Current vol. 125

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    An interview with Marty Rosenbluth. Marty Rosenbluth is Amnesty International’s country specialist for Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Authority.
  43. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2014
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
  44. Israel's appalling bombing of Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Destroying the only power source for a trapped and defenseless civilian population is an unprecedented step toward barbarity. It reeks, ironically, of the Warsaw Ghetto.
  45. Journalists Killed since 1992
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A database of more than 700 journalists who have been murdered or killed on dangerous assignments since 1992. Interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns providing analysis by country, year, and type of death with a special emphasis on unsolved murders, a focal point of CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
  46. The Liberal Defence of Murder
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    A searching examination of the influence of the "pro-war Left" on US foreign policy.
  47. Liberation, Then What?
    Against The Current vol. 124

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    In a lucid contribution to our understanding of contemporary Africa, David Seddon and Leo Zeilig recently charted that continent's two waves of popular protest and class struggle over the last 40 years, as well as pointing to signs of a nascent third wave.
  48. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
  49. Mayhem, Murder and Manipulation - Mexico in Turmoil
    Against The Current vol. 123

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Mexican police attacked activists and residents in the town of San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico in early May, killing one, injuring scores, and jailing over 200. The police attack on Atenco followed a violent police assault on striking steelworkers in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán that left two dead and several severely injured. Local residents believe that the Fox government was taking revenge on Atenco activists for their success four years ago in blocking the construction of a new airport.
  50. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
  51. The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    A review of the increasingly prolific global arms trade and its economic, political and social impact on exploited and vulnerable nations.
  52. The OIC does not speak for Muslims
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Tarek Fatah says that "To suggest that any criticism of Islamism, the political ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Ayatollahs, is anti-Islamic is a bogus and fraudulent position. I would contend that my religion Islam demands that I stand up to these bullies and take away from their right to put padlocks on poetry and chastity belts on independent thinking."
  53. Press for Conversion #44
    April 2001

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2001
    This annual research report by COAT juxtaposes evidence from a variety of sources to demonstrate Canada's complicity in international war crimes and crimes against humanity.
  54. Put the Palestinians on a Diet
    Media Bury Documents Revealing Israel's Deliberate Policy of Near-Starvation for Gaza

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time: that the blockade of Gaza is state policy intended to inflict collective punishment, not to bolster Israeli “security”.
  55. A Record of Resistance
    Against The Current vol. 121

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Here is a stunning book, filled with photographs that record the suffering and strength of the indigenous population in the Guatemalan countryside over the past 15 years. In short essays and photos Our Culture Is Our Resistance records the harsh life of those who survived the army’s “scorched earth” of the early 1980s and fled to isolated areas of the country.
  56. Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents.
  57. Revisiting the partition of Palestine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Henry Lowi calls on honest, realistic and pragmatic peace activists the world over to expose partition, protest against it and propose an alternative solution to the question of Palestine.
  58. The Selective Compassion of the Media & Human Rights Establishment
    Ignoring the Victims of State Crimes

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    “Human rights” doctrine has devolved into a mere tool used by the U.S. to carry out its imperial aims, and many times by means (such as war) which cause many more human rights violations than they purport to solve.
  59. Take a STAND Canada. An Interview on the Darfur advocacy group's path to success with director Ben Fine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    An interview on the Darfur advocacy groups's path to success with director Ben Fine.
  60. The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
    The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    Chomsky and Herman demonstrate, with devasting logic and overwhelming documentation, that the purpose of U.S. global policy is to make the world safe for exploitation by U.S. corporate interests and that this has required and continues to require the installation and support of brutal military/police dictatorships throught the Third World. It also requires an apologetic ideology which portrays all this as being in the highest interests of democracy and human rights.
  61. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
  62. Year 501 
    The Conquest Continues

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
  63. You either believe in freedom or you don't
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    Speak out for human rights by joining the European Community and the majority of the United Nations in calling for a free East Timor.

Experts on Violations des droits de l`homme/International in the Sources Directory

  1. International Court of Justice
  2. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

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