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Challenging US human rights violations since 9/11 / Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute ; edited by Ann Fagan Ginger.
- Title
- Challenging US human rights violations since 9/11 / Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute ; edited by Ann Fagan Ginger.
- Publication
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | JC599.U36 C37 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 574 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Lawyer and Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute executive director Ann Fagan Ginger has created an accessible, well-organized reference work that identifies all the relevant facts in almost two hundred reports on thirty types of human-rights violations; describes executive orders and new laws that violate basic rights; extensively quotes the US Constitution and the UN Charter, as well as other human rights and international law treaties the United States has ratified or signed; and describes some successful efforts to combat the government's suppression of our basic liberties." --Book Jacket.
- Alternative Title
- Challenging U.S. human rights violations since 9/11
- Challenging United States human rights violations since 9/11
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-524) and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The mobilization of shame -- Where people and their lawyers can go to redress grievances -- What the government is committed and required to do in the UN and the OAS -- Report on human rights violations -- Text of petitions, resolutions, and ordinances -- Text of laws violated and ignored (excerpts).
- ISBN
- 1591022797 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2004027189
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library