Human Rights & Human Welfare | Vol 8 | Iss 1

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Book Notes

Tugba Basaran on Savings Services for the Poor: An Operational Guide edited by Madeline Hirschland. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2005. 380pp.
Tugba Basaran

Tugba Basaran on The Rights of Refugees Under International Law by James C. Hathaway. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 1239pp.
Tugba Basaran

Aziza Khatoon on Human Rights in Turkey edited by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 349 pp.
Aziza Khatoon

Matthew S. Weinert on Back to Peace: Reconciliation and Retribution in the Postwar Period edited by Aránzazu Usandizaga and Andrew Monnickendam. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. 320pp.
Matthew S. Weinert

Matthew S. Weinert on Democracy, Minorities, and International Law by Steven Wheatley, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 201 pp.
Matthew S. Weinert

Matthew S. Weinert on Constructing Justice and Security after War edited by Charles T. Call. Washington: United States Institute of Peace, 2007. 432pp.
Matthew S. Weinert

Jessica Burley on The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story by Asif Dowla and Dipal Barua. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, Inc. 2006. 320pp.
Jessica Burley

Matthew S. Weinert on A Decade of Human Security: Global Governance and New Multilateralism by Sandra MacLean, David Black, and Timothy Shaw. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006. 264 pp.
Matthew S. Weinert

Eric Pianowski on Trafficking in Humans: Social, Cultural and Political Dimensions edited by Sally Cameron and Edward Newman. New York: United Nations University Press, 2008. 284 pp.
Eric Pianowski

Ayse Betul Celik on The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past edited by Mark Gibney, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Marc Coicaud, and Niklaus Steiner. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 333 pages.
Ayse Betul Celik

Kurt Mills on Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure by Sonia Cardenas. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 200pp.
Kurt Mills

Gregory J. Moore on The U.N. Secretary General and Moral Authority: Ethics and Religion in International Leadership. Edited by Kent J. Kille. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. 2007. 370pp.
Gregory J. Moore

Stephen James on The Challenge of Human Rights: Origin, Development and Significance by Jack Mahoney. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. 215pp.
Stephen James

Richard Burchill on Contemporary Human Rights Ideas by Bertrand G. Ramcharan. New York, NY : Routledge, 2008. 192 pp.
Richard Burchill

Eric A. Heinze on Humanitarianism and Suffering: The Mobilization of Empathy edited by Richard Ashby Wilson & Richard D. Brown. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 328pp.
Eric A. Heinze

Heather Heckel on Child Soldiers: From Violence to Protection by Michael Wessells. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2006. 284 pp.
Heather Heckel

Christina M. Cerna on Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa, Did the TRC Deliver? Edited by Audrey R. Chapman and Hugo van der Merwe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 346 pp.
Christina M. Cerna

Stephen James on The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America by Felicia Kornbluh. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 287pp.
Stephen James

Review Essays

The Promise of Economic Rights and the Welfare State
Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat

Moving Beyond Markets and Minimalism: Democracy in the Era of Globalization
Richard Burchill

Memory and Violence in Israel/Palestine
K. M. Fierke

Rights and the Hijâb: Rationality and Discourse in the Public Sphere
Howard Adelman

Germany, Afterwards
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

Privatization, Efficiency, Gender, Development, and Inequality— Transnational Conflicts Over Access to Water and Sanitation
Srini Sitaraman

Intelligence and Human Rights: A View from Venus
Peter Gill

What Happened to Africa?
J. Peter Pham

Topical Research Digest

Human Rights and Contemporary Slavery
Kevin Bales

Bonded Labor in India
Devin Finn

The Children of War
Jennifer Plante

Contemporary Slavery and International Law
Jessica Bell

Contract Enslavement of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
Romina Halabi

The Dark Side of Labor in China
Karine Lepillez

The Economic Foundations of Contemporary Slavery
Justin Guay

Forced Child Labor and Cocoa Production in West Africa
Marjie Sackett

Forced Child Labor in El Salvador: Contemporary Economic Servitude
Michelle Doherty

Forced Labor in the United States: A Contemporary Problem in Need of a Contemporary Solution
Chrissey Buckley

A Growing Concern: Modern Slavery and Agricultural Production in Brazil and South Asia
Justin Campbell

Poverty’s Captives
Tim Brauhn

Under the Iron Thumb: Forced Labor in Myanmar
Anil Raj

Working Paper

The International Security Presence in Kosovo and the Protection of Human Rights
Federico Sperotto