Title: Women reshaping human rights
First published: 1996
Description: Women have long been active in the struggle for human rights: in the Resistance during World War II; in rebellion against authoritarian governments; and in seeking environmental justice and cultural equality around the world. Yet often their accomplishments have remained unrecognized.

In Women Reshaping Human Rights, ordinary - yet extraordinary - individuals tell their stories. Readers will meet Vera Laska, who joined the Resistance against the Nazis in Czechoslovakia; Dai Qing, who fights the Communist Party's grip upon the government in the People's Republic of China; and Juana Beatrice Gutierrez and the Mothers of East Los Angeles, who challenge drug dealers and toxic polluters threatening their neighborhood.

Professor Marguerite Bouvard provides a complete biography of every activist. The stage is thus set for each individual, who recounts real-life tales of courage that force us to ask what each of us must do in the fight for justice and dignity.
Subjects: Biography, Human rights, Civil rights, Women human rights workers, Women civil rights workers, Political Freedom & Security, Political, Vrouwen, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Mensenrechten, Women social reformers, Droits de l'homme (Droit international), Défenseuses des droits de l'homme, Biographies, Menschenrechtlerin, Biografie, Women human rights workers--biography, Women civil rights workers--biography, Jc571 .b6735 1996, 323/.092/2 b
LC classification: JC571 .B6735 1996