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Lawyers Beyond Borders

Advancing International Human Rights Through Local Laws and Courts

By: Maria Armoudian

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Lawyers Beyond Borders

Advancing International Human Rights Through Local Laws and Courts

By: Maria Armoudian

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.

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263

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University of Michigan Press

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047212904X

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9780472129041

Kill the Messenger

The Media's Role in the Fate of the World

By: Maria Armoudian

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Kill the Messenger

The Media's Role in the Fate of the World

By: Maria Armoudian

This wide-ranging, insightful book will make readers keenly aware of the media’s power, while underscoring the role that we all play in fostering a media climate that cultivates a greater sense of humanity, cooperation, and fulfillment of human potential. What role do the media have in creating the conditions for atrocities such as occurred in Rwanda? Conversely, can the media be used to preserve democracy and safeguard the human rights of all citizens in a diverse society? How will the media, now global in scope, affect the fate of the planet itself? The author explores these intriguing questions and more in this in-depth examination of the media’s power to either help or harm. She begins by documenting how the media were used to spread a contagion of hate in three deadly conflicts: Rwanda, Nazi Germany, and the former Yugoslavia. She then turns to areas of the world where the media acted constructively—by aiding the peace process in Northern Ireland, rebuilding democracy in Chile, bridging ethnic divides in South Africa, improving the lot of women in Senegal, and boosting transparency and democratization in Mexico and Taiwan. Finally, she explains how the media interact with psychological and cultural forces to impact perceptions, fears, peer-pressure, "groupthink," and the creation of heroes and villains.

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482

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Prometheus Books

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1616143886

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9781616143886

Reporting from the Danger Zone

Frontline Journalists, Their Jobs, and an Increasingly Perilous Future

By: Maria Armoudian

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Reporting from the Danger Zone

Frontline Journalists, Their Jobs, and an Increasingly Perilous Future

By: Maria Armoudian

Journalism is a dangerous business when one’s "beat" is a war zone. Armoudian reveals the complications facing frontline journalists who cover warzones, hot spots and other hazardous situations. It compares yesterday’s conflict journalism, which was fraught with its own dangers, with today’s even more perilous situations—in the face of shrinking journalism budgets, greater reliance on freelancers, tracking technologies, and increasingly hostile adversaries. It also contrasts the difficulties of foreign correspondents who navigate alien sources, languages and land, with domestically-situated correspondents who witness their own homelands being torn apart.

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243

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Routledge

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1317556844

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9781317556848

Poor Preschool-Aged Children

Numbers Increase But Most Not in Preschool

By: Maria Armoudian

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Poor Preschool-Aged Children

Numbers Increase But Most Not in Preschool

By: Maria Armoudian

Examines the number & characteristics of preschool-aged children -- 3- to 4-year-olds -- & how they changed between 1980 & 1990, & (2) differences in preschool participation rates for children by income level, age, & other demographic characteristics & location. 65 charts & tables.

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