Human Rights & Human Welfare | Vol 9 | Iss 1

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Book Notes

Kathie Barrett on The Global Justice Movement: Cross-National and Transnational Perspectives edited by Donatella Della Porta. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2007. 278pp.
Kathie Barrett

Marten Zwanenburg on International Peacekeeping edited by Boris Kondoch. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 578pp.
Marten Zwanenburg

James Pattison on Waging Humanitarian War: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention by Eric A. Heinze. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009. 224pp.
James Pattison

Stephen James on Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal Justice by Roger Normand & Sarah Zaidi. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 2008. 486pp.
Stephen James

Lanse Minkler on Human Rights and Structural Adjustment by Rodwan Abouharb & David Cingranelli. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 276pp.
Lanse Minkler

The Responsibility to Protect: A Policy Forum
Sarah Bania-Dobyns, Kathy Gockel, Kyle Matthews, and Jodi Vittori

Rebecca Root on Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security. Edited by Jody Williams, Stephen D. Goose and Mary Wareham. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008). 348pp.
Rebecca Root

Josiah Marineau on Housing, Land, and Property Restitution Rights of Refugees and Displaced Persons: Laws, Cases, and Materials . Edited by Scott Leckie (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007). 592pp.
Josiah Marineau

Jessica Burley on Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles. By Richard Dowden (New York: Public Affairs, 2009). 592 pp.
Jessica Burley

Joyce Apsel on To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today's Slaves. Edited by Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008). 260pp.
Joyce Apsel

Nigel Parsons on Israel's Occupation by Neve Gordon. Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 2008. 318pp.
Nigel Parsons

David P. Forsythe on John Charvet and Elisa Kaczynska-Nay. The Liberal Project and Human Rights: The Theory and Practice of a New World Order. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 446pp.
David P. Forsythe

Elisabeth King on Genocide: Truth, Memory and Representation edited by A. L. Hinton & K. L. O'Neill. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 352pp.
Elisabeth King

Eric K. Leonard on The Future of Human Rights: US Policy for a New Era edited by William F. Schulz. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 314pp.
Eric K. Leonard

Tahira Khan on Wives, Widows, Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India by Mytheli Sreenivas. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008. 169pp.
Tahira Khan

Mahmood Monshipouri on Political Participation in the Middle East. Edited by Ellen Lust-Okar and Saloua Zerhouni. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008. 286pp.
Mahmood Monshipouri

Tahira Khan on Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media by Kelly Oliver. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2007. 208pp.
Tahira Khan

Kimberly Lanegran on Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa edited by François Du Bois and Antje Du Bois-Pedain. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 311pp.
Kimberly Lanegran

Review Essays

A Symposium on Confronting Global Terrorism and American Neo-Conservatism: The Framework of a Liberal Grand Strategy. By Tom Farer. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Richard Falk, Dino Kritsiotis, Paul Taylor, and Tom Farer

Peace from Below: Recent Steps Taken along the Track-Two Diplomacy Path
Michael Thomas Kuchinsky

Reconciliation and the Therapeutic Impulse: What Does It Mean to “Heal”?*
Elizabeth S. Dahl

Silhouettes of the Disappeared: Memory, Justice and Human Rights in Post- Authoritarian Argentina
Vincent Druliolle

International Justice and International Politics: Intertwined Paths
David Penna

Ubi Jus, Ibi Remedium
Steven M. Schneebaum

Topical Research Digest

Human Rights and Human Trafficking: Introduction
Claude d’Estrée

Human Trafficking in the People’s Republic of China
Annie Dullum

The Development of Sex Trafficking in Central America
Kate Zdrojewski

Corruption and Crime in the East: Organized Crime and Human Trafficking in Russia and Ukraine
Danielle Mossbarger

Globalization and Human Trafficking
Devin Brewer

Robbed of the American Dream
Megan Walker

Human Trafficking in the Middle East and North Africa Region
Schuyler Dudley

International Law and Human Trafficking
Lindsey King

Smuggling Versus Trafficking: Do the U.N. Protocols Have It Right?
Carolyn Burke

Considering the Margins: Developing a Broader Understanding of Vulnerability to Trafficking
Christopher Anderson

Topical Research Digest 2

Human Rights in China: Introduction
Hsiu-lun Teng

Trafficking of Women and the Harmonious Society: The Chinese National Plan of Action on Combating Trafficking in Women and Children Within the Context of Chinese Patriarchy and Reform
Sean Michael Barbezat

Tibet Under Chinese Rule
Dina Buck

Uyghurs Under the Chinese State: Religious Policy and Practice in China
Katie Corradini

Chinese Women and Economic Human Rights
Lisa Fry

The One-Child Policy, Gay Rights, and Social Reorganization in China
Kody Gerkin

Education for All Children
Sharon Harrall

Economic Incentives Preempt Independence Movements: A Case Study of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China
Iman Jafarynejad

The Continuation of Slavery in the Modern World: The People’s Republic of China and Forced Labor Practices
Jasmine Koehn

Institutionalizing Torture: The Case of Hospitals and Prisons in China
LeighAnn McChesney

The Challenges of Change: Causes and Consequences of Child Labor in China
Andrea Morley

The Past, Present, and Future of Freedom of Speech and Expression in the People’s Republic of China
Liza Negriff

China’s Relationship with Sudan—and Human Rights Consequences
Tessa Li Powell

A Legal System that Compromises Due Process and Promotes Organ Harvesting and Human Rights Abuse of Prisoners: A Case Study of China
Shivani Ramdeo

Uighurs in Xinjiang: A General Assessment of the Roots of Unrest
Vladislav Shchukin

Why China Supports Burma’s Dictators
Dustin Stokes

China’s Infanticide Epidemic
Winter Wall

2008 Beijing Summer Olympics
Allison Welch

Topical Research Digest 3

Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: Introduction
Jendayi E. Frazer

Violated: Women’s Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kathryn Birdwell Wester

Transforming Children of War into Agents of Change
Brooke Breazeale

Political Oppression in Sub-Saharan Africa
Alayna Hamilton

Universal Human Rights vs. Traditional Rights
Brittany Kühn

Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Amy Rademacher

Considering the International Monetary Fund and World Bank: Lending Effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa
Daniela A. Wohlwend

African Aid and Success: Four Keys
Susan Paganelli

The Limits of International Humanitarian Law
Melissa Eli

Youth Migration and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Empowering the Rural Youth
Charlotte Min-Harris

Topical Research Digest 4

Revisiting Human Rights in Latin America: Introduction
Christina Cerna

The Continuing Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil
Sarah Mogab

The Brazilian Paradox: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Battle for Human Rights
Adrienne Rosenberg

Child Labor in Latin America: Poverty as Cause and Effect
Michaelle Tauson

Confronting the Past: Democratic Rhetoric or Socially Necessary?
Rachel Oster

Human Rights Abuses Along the Dominican-Haitian Border
Calla Cloud

Indigenous Rights in Latin America: The Gap Between Doctrine and Reality
Dan Ruge

Moving Beyond Divisive Discourse: Latin American Women in Politics
Ursula Miniszewski

The Colonial Legacy and Human Rights in Mexico: Indigenous Rights and the Zapatista Movement
Alexander Karklins

Police Violence in Brazil
Kyra Moon

Violence Against Sex Workers in Latin America: Pervasiveness, Impunity, and Implications
Stephanie A. Bell

Working Papers

Darfur: In Search of Peace Exploring Viable Solutions to the Darfur Crisis
George Shepherd, Peter Van Arsdale, Negin Sobhani, Nicole Tanner, and Frederick Agyeman-Duah

The Responsibility to Protect: Three Pillars and Four Crimes
Heraldo Muñoz

A Human Rights-Oriented Approach to Military Operations
Federico Sperotto

Repression and Punishment in North Korea: Survey Evidence of Prison Camp Experiences
Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland