The Leadership of Women : More Stories of Solidarity and Struggle in the Human Rights Movement.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hinkley, David.

Series:

Gender Studies

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Lived Places Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

Celebrating the resilience and innovations of women's contributions to global human rights.

Contents:

FrontCover

Half-Title

Title Page

Dedication

Copyright Information

Abstract

Table of Contents

Introduction

Learning objectives

Warning

1 The mentor, the music and the muse: Ginetta Sagan, Joan Baez, and Rose Styron

The mentor and the music: A human rights journey begins

Learning the work

The music

The muse: Rose Styron and the conflagration in Chile

Ginetta, Joan, and Rose in Poland under the Jaruzelski dictatorship

Topolino

2 The anatomy of human rights: Susannah Sirkin and the power of medicine in the pursuit of justice

Sometimes, you see something in a fighter

Susannah's transition

A chance encounter and the lessons of Srebrenica

Glimpses of a record of historic accomplishments

1 Tragedy and injustice in Pinochet's Chile

2 The International Campaign to Ban Landmines

3 Sexual violence in conflict zones

Horror and hope in Kavumu

Finally, a breakthrough

A dispatch from Oslo

4 Doctors in the crosshairs in Syria

5 Violations of human rights at the US-Mexico border

Violations involving US clinicians

Compromised patient safety

Unsafe discharge

Misuse of patient information

Standing Up for Patients

Inspiration

3 Justice and accountability: Sandra Coliver and the fight against impunity

Sandra Coliver in the spotlight

Our next meeting opened a window on Sandy's work after Amnesty

Neris Gonzales

Zenaida Velásquez Rodriguez and the phenomenon of forced disappearances

The Guernica 37 Center and "nonrecurrence"

4 A lamp beside the golden door: Karen Musalo and the struggle for equal rights for refugee women

The elusiveness of victory

The Holocaust and the beginning of a global consensus on the rights of refugees

Equality in application of the law

Our first meeting.

Case study 1: Fauziya Kassindja or "Matter of Kasinga"

Case study 2: Rody Alvarado or "Matter of R-A-"

The urgent need for regulations governing asylum for gender-based harms and the long-term failure of both political parties to provide them

A message from Karen Musalo to students of the law

5 Confronting extreme poverty and inequality: A voice from Yemen

Global Priorities sends me to Cairo and Amman

A warm welcome

Dealing with "intelligence" in Jordan

Music in the Roman Amphitheater

A voice for economic justice and equality from Yemen

Hansuli Gerber and Arnold Kohen

Success and failure for the Global Priorities Campaign and the Millennium Development Goals

What remains from the Global Priorities Campaign

6 The Memphis blues again: Sullivan Robinson, Johnnie Rogers Turner, and the evolution of the civil rights movement

Beale Street 2008

Echoes of history: the National Civil Rights Museum

The Hip Hop Caucus

Circle Up Now and Tom Lee Park

Sullivan Robinson

Keep the Dream Alive

7 The girl scouts of Seneca Falls: The legacy of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

The 150th anniversary of the woman's rights convention of 1848

The footprints of history

Reflections on challenges we face today

Glossary

Appendix 1 Chronology of the author's collaboration with featured leaders

Appendix 2 Nongovernmental, Intergovernmental, and other Organizations

Appendix 3 Timeline of gender-based asylum, prepared by Karen Musalo

Recommended projects

Bibliography

Recommended further reading

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-917566-71-9

1-917566-70-0

9781917566704

OCLC:

1553783107