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Human Rights Book Review – ‘Half the Sky : Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide’ by Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn

Posted on October 4, 2009. Filed under: Human Rights | Tags: book reviews, case studies, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), gender rights, human right book review, Human Rights, human trafficking, poverty, sex discrimination, sex trafficking, slavery, social conditions, Social Justice, women, women's rights |

Human Rights Book Review – ‘Half the Sky : Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide’ Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn From the outset, we here at the HRBR were impressed by the high concentration of quality information presented in this book. Few stones appear left unturned in this work and few of our heartsrings [...]

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Is Jean Allain a slave to the study of slavery? – book review – The Slavery Conventions: The Travaux Preparatoires of the 1926 League of Nations Convention and the 1956 United Nations Convention (Martinus Nijhoff, 2008)

Posted on May 11, 2009. Filed under: Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights, human rights book review, human trafficking, Queen v Wei Tang, slavery, Slavery Conventions, Slavery-Law and Legislation |

Jean Allain is one of the worlds foremost experts on the international law of slavery. Some would argue, it is his lifes work. One thing is certain, he is one of the few legal scholars in history who has had the steadfastness to dig into the bowels of various UN libraries worldwide to put together [...]

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