Human Rights Books

A photographic study of poverty in Thailand from October 2013 to June 214. Dave John Cole, a photographer, spent months exploring and photographing the real Bangkok. These are the stories and photos of those people.

Leading experts on mediation and the plight of internally displaced persons (IDPs) collaborated to produce this handbook, which gives mediators the tools they need to incorporate IDP's concerns into peace processes and agreements.

Informal justice is an often debated yet poorly understood concept in Afghanistan. Generally, it refers to a series of mechanisms, such as local councils (shuras and jirgas), that are outside of the state’s direct control—though not necessarily beyond its influence and that are used to resolve...

The journey from abduction to empowerment.

What to do if you question the safety of, or hazards in your workplace. Lists addresses and phone numbers for more information.

The Movie/Book Dirty Millions The Clean Way (3-D) was written with more passion than the award winning movies. The Butler, D'Jangle, Good Deeds, and 12 Years A Slave, combined! If you have not seen the above mentioned movies, it is a must add to your weekend to do list. These movies will in...

The solution is fantastic and intelligent. The plan is innovative, economically and financially viable for the refugee camps. Resolve the issue differently to make the decentralization of the refugee camps. Extinguish their existence. Solve local problems with global coverage. There is synergy of...

Inspired by true stories of victims of human trafficking. What would it be like to be physically, emotionally and sexually abused while being trapped in trafficking situation? What would it be like to be treated like a commodity, to be bought and sold?

While the Guatemalan Truth Commission came to the conclusion that agents of the state had committed acts of genocide in the early 1980s, fundamental questions remain. Should we indeed speak of the massacres committed between 1981 and 1983 in Guatemala as “geno- cide”, or would “ethnocide”...

In this paper I explore how and if meditation may be used as a tool of transforming domestic violence batterers (people who use violence and coercion with intimates), into peaceful, non-violent individuals. Previous studies on the effectiveness of Vipassana and Transcendental meditation used in...