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Reviews for Historical Dictionary of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations

$93.50	Cloth	Mar 2007	0-8108-5548-8 / 978-0-8108-5548-9	488pp

"The authors are well qualified. The book is easy to read...should be of interest to students, practitioners, libraries, government officials, journalists, and those interested in human rights."—March 2008, ARBA

"...[an] ideal reference for college library shelves and students of human rights and international politics."—July 2007, WISCONSIN BOOKWATCH

"Working from the notion that organized response to inequity and violations of human dignity started in the nineteenth century, the contributors of these several hundred cross-referenced entries explain such movements as women's suffrage, refugee relief, and poverty and hunger abatement, as well as recent developments in the arena of human rights. Entries include biographies of those prominent in humanitarian and human rights work, such as Frederick Douglass and Eleanor Roosevelt; histories of relief organizations and agencies, including the evolution of regional human rights bodies in Africa, Europe, and Latin America; descriptions of key treaties and agreements; and definitions of human rights concepts. Also included are a chronology of movements from the 1800s on, numerous photographs, and a bibliography."—August 2007, REFERENCE & RESEARCH BOOK NEWS