Speak truth to power
Subtitle: human rights defenders who are changing our world
By: Kerry Kennedy Cuomo ; photographs by Eddie Adams ; edited by Nan Richardson.
Contributors: Adams, Eddie, 1933-2004.; Richardson, Nan.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Umbrage Editions
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781884167522
Subjects: Human rights workers -- Biography; Human rights movements -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: Through photographs by Eddie Adams, and interviews by human rights activist, Kerry Kennedy, gripping stories are revealed of 51 men and women around the globe who put their lives on the line, surviving imprisonment, torture, and death threats, because of hope for and dedication to a future where equality is common and oppression rare.
Table of contents: title: Introduction by Kerry Kennedy; title: Map; title: Abubacar Sultan/Mozambique; title: Juliana Dogbadzi - Ghana; title: Bruce Harris - Guatemala - United Kingdom; title: Muhammad Yunis - Bangladesh; title: Rana Husseini - Jordan; title: Dalai Lama - Tibet; title: Wangari Maathai - Kenya; title: Oscar Arias Sánchez - Costa Rica; title: Dianna Ortiz - Guatemala - Unites states; title: Havez Al Sayed Seada - Egypt; title: Desmond Tutu - South Africa; title: Senal Sarihan - Turkey; title: Van Jones - Unites States; title: Ka Hsaw Wa - Burma; title: Juan Méndez - Argentina; title: Jaime Prieto Mendez - Columbia; title: Very Stremkovskaya - Belarus; title: Bobby Muller - United States; title: Raji Sourani - Gaza; title: Martin O'Brien - Northern Ireland; title: Doan Viet Hoat - Vietnam; title: Natasa Kandic - Serbia; title: Fauziya kassindja - Togo - United States; title: Elei Wiesel - Romania - United States; title: Samuel Kofi Woods - Liberia; title: Baltasar Garzón - Spain; title: Vaclav havel - Czech Republic; title: José Zalaquett - Chile; title: Zbigniew Bujak - Poland; title: Sezgin Tanrikulu - Turkey; title: Maria Teresa Tula - El Salvador; title: Rigoberta Menchú Tum - Guatemala; title: José Ramos-Horta - East Timor; title: Koigi wa Wamwere - Kenya; title: Bishop Wissa - Egypt; title: Kek Galabru - Cambodia; title: Anonymous - Sudan; title: Francisco Soberón - Peru; title: Marian Wright Edelman - United States; title: Digna Ochoa - Mexico; title: Tguillaume Ngefa Atondoko - Democratic Republic of the Congo; title: Wei Ingsheng - China; title: Helen Prejean - United States; title: Kailash Satyarthi - India; title: Patria Jiménez - Mexico; title: Bagor Gombos - Hungary; title: Marina Pisklakova - Russia; title: Asma Jhangir and Hina Jilani - Pakistan; title: Harry Wu - china; title: Freedom Neruda - Ivory Coast; title: Resource guide; title: Acknowledgments; title: Credits and copyright.