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Public Sentinel
What are the ideal roles the mass media should play as an institution to strengthen democratic governance and thus bolster human development? Under what conditions do media systems succeed or fail to meet these objectives? And what strategic reforms would close the gap between the democratic promise and performance of media systems? Working within the notion of the democratic public sphere, 'Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform' emphasizes the institutional or collective roles of the news media as watchdogs over the powerful, as agenda setters calling attention to social needs in natural and human-caused disasters and humanitarian crises, and as gatekeepers incorporating a diver...
The Human Rights Industry
The promotion and protection of human rights is a pillar of the United Nations, enshrined in the Charter, the international bill of rights, elaborated in General Assembly resolutions and declarations, and buttressed by monitoring mechanisms and regional human rights courts. After WWII the world demanded respect for collective and individual rights and freedoms, including the right to live in peace, i.e.freedom from fear and want, the right to food, water, health, shelter, belief and expression. Human dignity was understood as an inalienable entitlement of every member of the human family, rights that were juridical. justiciable and enforceable. It did not take long for these noble goals to b...
Land of the Unconquerable
Reaching beyond sensational headlines, this book offers a three-dimensional portrait of Afghan women. In a series of wide-ranging, deeply reflective essays, this book examines the realities of life for women in both urban and rural settings.
Protecting Humanity
Navi Pillay is a modern icon in the world’s efforts to protect humanity through international law and policy. She played a leading role in the multi-national operation to clean up the humanitarian dross left on the essence of modern civilization by the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. Her contributions in that effort were in virtue of her role as a judge—and, eventually, as the President—of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. From there, she went on to serve as one of the first appeal judges at the newly established International Criminal Court—another international endeavour aimed at protecting humanity through law. In time, she was fittingly appointed the United Nations High C...
Reporting for Journalists
Reporting for Journalists explains the key skills needed by the twenty-first century news reporter. It is an essential handbook for students of journalism and a useful guide for working professionals.
Faire la paix
Depuis la fin de la guerre froide, les innombrables acteurs de la communauté internationale se sont efforcés plus de « faire la paix » que de préparer la guerre. Imaginatifs, créatifs et inspirés par les espoirs comme les déboires du début des années 1990, ils ont cherché à définir les nouveaux mécanismes, les nouvelles pratiques et méthodes qui transforment les terrains de guerre en chantiers de la paix. Démobiliser, désarmer, réintégrer, réconcilier, juger, démocratiser, faire élire, administrer, assurer la sécurité intérieure, former ou réformer des forces de sécurité, asseoir la bonne gouvernance comme modèle de gouvernement et d'administration sont autant de...
The Rushdie Letters
In February 1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran announced that Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, and "all involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death." Anyone who died in the cause of killing Rushdie, he said, would be "regarded as a martyr and go directly to heaven."ø The death sentence?or fatwa?quickly drew blood. Bookshops in London, Oslo, and Sydney were firebombed. Five people were killed and a hundred wounded when demonstrators attacked the U. S. embassy in Islamabad. In Bombay, twelve rioters were shot dead. The Italian translator of The Satanic Verses was stabbed viciously and the Japanese translator was stabbed to death. In Berkeley, bombs were thrown in Cody?s Bookstore and Waldenbooks. Fifth Avenue in New York was sealed off after a bookshop received a bomb threat. In The Rushdie Letters twenty-six internationally renowned authors respond to the most extreme example of censorship in modern times. Also included is Rushdie?s reply to their letters, his essay on exile, "One Thousand Days in a Balloon," and a chronology of the fatwa.
