Carrie Booth Walling has written the essential text for anyone who teaches or trains about human rights in a college or a community, providing just the right mix of history and theory with stories of emblematic activists and their struggles. An amazing toolkit for advocacy at the end helps the reader put it all into action.
Kathryn Sikkink, Harvard University
What does it really mean to make human rights change? Everyone demands it; so few do it well. As Carrie Wallings unique book teaches through gripping real-life stories, the necessary skills in messaging, organization, and advocacy can be taught. Additionally, human rights work also requires insight, commitment, ingenuity, sweat, and optimistic persistence. And most importantly, the book illustrates the necessity of believing in a better world, a world for which one is willing to fight and die.
Harold Hongju Koh, former Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, US Department of State
Human Rights and Justice for All takes on the complex topic of universal human rights and explains what these rights are, and how they are protected (or not) in the world today. By sharing the stories of advocates around the world, author Carrie Walling emphasizes the human part of human rights, in addition to the historical and legal aspects. This is an indispensable text for students and lifelong learners seeking to understand how to utilize the human rights framework to ensure respect for the rights and dignity of all people.
Jill Savitt,National Center for Civil and Human Rights
Carrie Wallings book is a must-read for anyone looking to make sense of human rights and justice on the local, national, and international level. This is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to rights that concern us all and provides an unmissable resource for students, teachers, and practitioners alike. The book explores a wide array of different human rights issues and highlights areas in which they have come under threat. This contested nature of human rights is brought to life through numerous case studies from across the world which provide grounds for hope and optimism that ordinary individuals can (and do) make a difference to protect and promote justice and rights. This book is also a call to action by providing a human rights advocacy toolkit that will inspire readers to become human rights defenders themselves and transform their ideas into action. Carrie Walling shows that human rights matter and that we all can make a real difference.
Andrea Birdsall, University of Edinburgh
Human Rights and Justice for All
Human rights is an empowering framework for understanding and addressing justice issues at local, domestic, and international levels. This book combines US-based case studies with examples from other regions of the world to explore important human rights themes the equality, universality, and interdependence of human rights, the idea of international crimes, strategies of human rights change, and justice and reconciliation in the aftermath of human rights violations. From Flint and Minneapolis to Xinjiang and Mt. Sinjar, this book challenges a wide variety of readers students, professors, activists, human rights professionals, and concerned citizens to consider how human rights apply to their own lives and equip them to be changemakers in their own communities.
Carrie Booth Walling is Professor of Political Science and Faculty Director of the Gerald R. Ford Institute for Leadership in Public Policy and Service at Albion College. Her research interests are in human rights, international politics, transitional justice, and the United Nations. Walling is a Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project and teaches for the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program which brings incarcerated and non-incarcerated people together to study justice behind prison walls.
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES INTENSIVES
Series Editors: Shareen Hertel and Michael J. Butler
Series Description
International Studies Intensives (ISI) is a book series that springs from the desire to keep students engaged in the world around them. ISI books are meant to offer an intensive introduction to subjects often left out of the curriculum. Our authors are from a range of disciplines and employ many different methodological approaches to teaching about international issues. Yet each and every ISI book packs a wealth of information into a small space, and does so in ways that students find compelling and instructors find useful. ISI books are relatively short, visually attractive, and affordably priced. Examination/inspection copies for course adoption may be requested from the Webpage of any book in the series. Book proposals for the series should be directed to the co-editors: shareen.hertel@uconn.edu and mbutler@clarku.edu.
Recent Books in the Series:
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Politics of Apology
Loramy Gerstbauer
American Exceptionalism Reconsidered
U.S. Foreign Policy, Human Rights, and World Order
David P. Forsythe and Patrice C. McMahon
All the Worlds a Stage
The Theater of Political Simulations
Hemda Ben-Yehuda
Human Rights and Justice for All
Demanding Dignity in the United States and Around the World
Carrie Booth Walling
Cover image: We the People Must Come Together, was created by Kelly Simpson Hagen, www.kellysartfromthesoul.com.
First published 2022
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Walling, Carrie Booth, author.
Title: Human rights and justice for all : demanding dignity in the United States and around the world / Carrie Booth Walling.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |
Series: International studies intensives | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2021040712 (print) | LCCN 2021040713 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367902124 (paperback) | ISBN 9781032189093 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003256939 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Human rights--United States. | Justice, Administration of--United States. | Human rights--Case studies. | Justice, Administration of--Case studies. | Social justice--Case studies.
Classification: LCC KF4749 .W357 2021 (print) | LCC KF4749 (ebook) | DDC 341.4/8--dc23/eng/20211004
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021040712
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021040713
