Book Review: Educating for Human Dignity: Learning about Rights and Responsibilities
| Published date | 01 June 1996 |
| Date | 01 June 1996 |
| DOI | 10.1177/092405199601400218 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
Documentation
Commission
for
Truth and Reconciliation in South
Africa:
2. - Oecumenisch Advies- en
Informatiecentrum Zuid-Afrika. - Utrecht: KAIROS, 1996. - [54] p.
Second part
of
compilation
of
articles and press clippings on the Truth Commission in
South Africa.
The Copts
of
Egypt. -Ibrahim, Saad Eddin. - Minority Rights Group. - London: MRG,
1996. - 30 p.
ISBN: 1 897693 26 5
For centuries the Copts in Egypt, one
of
the largest Christian communities in the Arab
world, have been socially, economically and culturally integrated. However, this report
demonstrates that the Christian Coptic way
of
life is under threat, and that Copts face
subtle but routine discrimination. The report explains how religious extremists are seeking
to divide the Muslim and Christian communities. In addition it contains important
information on current opinion within the Coptic community, including opposition groups,
and a discussion
of
the specific discrimination faced by Coptic women, both within the
Coptic church and wider Egyptian society.
Death by default: apolicy
of
fatal neglect in China's state orphanages. -Munro, Robin.
_Human Rights Watch. HRW/Asia. - New York: HRW, 1996. - 394 p.
ISBN: 1-56432-163-0
This report documents the cruelty, abuse, and neglect which has dominated child welfare
work in China since the early 1950s, and which now constitutes one
of
the country's
gravest human rights problems. Human Rights Watch describes the situation
of
conditions
for abandoned children throughout China, including staggering mortality rates for infants
in state institutions and the failure
of
official statistics to track the majority
of
orphans,
whose whereabouts and status are unknown.
Educatingfor human dignity: learning about rights and responsibilities. -Reardon, Betty
A. - Philadelphia: University
of
Pennsylvania, 1995. - xii, 238 p.
ISBN: 0-8122-1524-9
This book is written for teachers and teacher educators. It offers both guidance and
support materials for human rights education programs from kindergarten through high
school. It opens possibilities for an holistic approach to human rights education that
directly confronts the values issues raised by human rights problems in a context
of
global
interrelationships. The first two chapters discuss the purposes and approaches
of
the book.
The next four chapters address grade levels. Flexibility is built in to adjust the curriculum
for schools with other grade divisions. The last chapter identifies additional resources for
teachers.
European human rights
law:
text and materials. -Janis,
Mark;
Kay,
Richard;
Bradley,
Anthony. - Oxford: Clarendon, 1995. - xxxvi, 516 p.
ISBN: 0-19-876396-4
This book introduces the process and substance
of
European human rights law. It also puts
European human rights law into a comparative framework, discussing human rights cases
decided by courts in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. It includes an
assessment
of
the widening
of
the Strasbourg system to include the newly democratic
states
of
Central and Eastern Europe.
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