Human Rights Politics

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    • A History
    • By: Lynn Hunt
    • Narrated by: Siiri Scott
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture....

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    • By: Angela Y. Davis
    • Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings
    • With her characteristic brilliance, grace, and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration," and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole....

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    • Law and the Question of Palestine
    • By: Noura Erakat
    • Narrated by: Christine Rendel
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Justice for Some offers a new approach to understanding the Palestinian struggle for freedom, told through the power and control of international law. Focusing on key junctures, Noura Erakat shows how the strategic deployment of law has shaped current conditions....

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    • From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    • By: Chris Harman
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 29 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Andrew Clapham
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Today, it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attention internationally, and must move quickly in order to keep up with a social world that changes so rapidly....

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    • A History of the Occupied Territories
    • By: Ilan Pappe
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Published on the 15th anniversary of the Six-Day War that culminated in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Pappe offers a comprehensive exploration of one of the world's most prolonged and tragic conflicts....

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    • The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans
    • By: Vivien Spitz
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 279 ratings
    • This is the account of torture and murder by experiment in the name of scientific research and patriotism....

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    • A World History
    • By: Odd Arne Westad
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 22 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 419 ratings
    • In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe....

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    • A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa
    • By: Douglas Rogers
    • Narrated by: Kevin Hanssen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • When Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe launched his violent program to reclaim White-owned land and Rogers' parents were caught in the cross fire, everything changed....

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    • The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
    • By: Laura Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 309 ratings
    • First published in 1997, The Story of Jane recounts the evolution of Jane, the underground group in Chicago that performed abortion services before the procedure was legalized....

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    • Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
    • By: Nick Estes
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the 21st century....

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    • The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
    • By: Richard McGregor
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • The Party is Financial Times reporter Richard McGregor's eye-opening investigation into China's Communist Party, and the integral role it has played in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival to the United States....

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    • By: E. Stanly Godbold
    • Narrated by: Graham Winton
    • Length: 31 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The dual biography of the powerful First Couple who attempted to use their presidency to bring peace, human rights, and justice to all peoples of the world and dedicated the remainder of their long lives to making a safer, more caring world....

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    • By: Phyllis Chesler PhD
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Few westerners will ever be able to understand Muslim or Afghan society unless they are part of a Muslim family. Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more than a half-century....

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    • The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America
    • By: Dr. Anita Hannig
    • Narrated by: Linda Jones
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking book, Anita Hannig brings us into the lives of ordinary Americans who go to extraordinary lengths to set the terms of their own death. Faced with a terminal diagnosis and unbearable suffering, they decide to seek medical assistance in dying....

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    • Human Rights in an Unequal World
    • By: Samuel Moyn
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. Even as state violations of political rights garnered unprecedented attention due to human rights campaigns, a commitment to material equality disappeared....

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    • Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
    • By: Keramet Reiter
    • Narrated by: C.S.E Cooney
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in US prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend 23 hours a day in featureless cells....

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    • A Story of Persecution
    • By: Nils Melzer
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In July 2010, Wikileaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and torture. In the aftermath, Julian Assange, the founder and spokesman of Wikileaks, found himself at the center of a media storm....

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    • A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Erwin Chemerinsky
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • From gun control to reproductive health, a conservative Supreme Court will reshape the lives of all Americans for decades to come. The time to develop and defend a progressive vision of the US Constitution that protects the rights of all people is now....

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