Activists, students, teachers, lawyers, government officials, and judges will welcome this thoroughly researched, comprehensive examination of human rights violations in the wake of 9/11. Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute Executive Director Ann Fagan Ginger has created an accessible, well-organized reference work divided into six parts:· Part I, The Mobilization of Shame, describes executive orders violating basic rights, and citizen reactions, emphasizing that reporting violations has brought about many new programs in various areas, from new treatments for AIDS to new practices in South Africa to stop apartheid practices.· Part II, What the People and their Lawyers Can Do in the U.S., spells out the complaint process through the little known offices of Inspector General, and in U.S. federal and state courts.· Part III, What the Government Is Committed and Required To Do in the United Nations and Organization of American States, begins the unique discussion of the reports the U.S. Government is now required to make under three human rights treaties ratified by the U.S., and how the reporting process has brought about improvements in many countries.· Part IV, Report on Human Rights Violations, forms the bulk of the book. It describes all the relevant facts in 160 reports on 28 types of violations, from the Right Not To Be Killed or Disappeared to the Government's Duty to Count the Votes Accurately and Report to the People Honestly. Activists will find all the facts they need in each report: who did what to whom and when. Lawyers will also find the specific laws being violated by the actions, and inactions, of government officials, military personnel, agents, and contractors.· Part V, Text of Petitions, Resolutions, Ordinances, spells out what has been proposed, and adopted, since 9/11 to stop violations.· Part VI, Text of Laws Violated and Ignored, provides the language of the U.S. Constitution, Bill Of Rights, Articles in the UN Charter, the Convention Against Torture, the Geneva Conventions, and other human rights and international law treaties the U.S. has ratified or signed.This is an indispensable tool for citizens' awareness and defending civil liberties in the era of the Patriot Act and the War against Terror.Ann Fagan Ginger (San Francisco, CA) is the former president (1964-1988) and the current executive director of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute. She lectures frequently on human rights for the ACLU, National Lawyers Guild committees, United Nations Association, and many other organizations.
