You're History! : How People Make the Difference.

Intro -- Contents -- A Poet's Response: De Rong Radio -- Contributors -- Foreword: From Live Aid to Live 8 -- Preface: the UN Millennium Campaign -- Introduction: History in the making -- Making Poverty History -- The UN Declaration of Human Rights, printed with comments -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- 'It's Positively Medieval': Challenging Some Preconceptions of History -- Inequality: A Modest Proposal? -- The Other, Man-made Tsunami -- Africa, the Crisis Continent? -- How the Modern-day Missionaries Called 'Human Rights Activists' Help Wreak Havoc in Africa -- Twenty Years with AIDS -- Reviving Democracy -- Celebrating the Heroes of Democracy -- Cinema in Control and Conscience: Moviemakers from 'Double V' to McCarthyism -- Time to Make War History As Well -- Islam: Clash or Dialogue of Civilizations? -- Conflict and Personal Liberty -- What Price Imprisonment? -- 'Places Without a Future': the Jarrow March and the Great Depression -- Reporters on the Line: Risk Taking and Conscience in the Former Soviet Union -- The Media's Fault? -- Genocide: the Violence and the Silence -- Change - and North Korea: Is Aid Really Making a Difference? -- The Dregs in the Pot of Gold: the Irish Experience of Exchanging Dignity for Racism -- Silent Suffering, Stoic Resistance: Human Rights Abuses of Women and Children in Latin America -- Pious Aspiration or a Tool for Change? The Significance of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -- The Politics of Sexuality: Faith - the Final Frontier? -- Surviving Ourselves: Environment, Society and the Future of Our Civilization -- Greenbacks in the Garden of Eden: an Essay on How Not to Save the Rainforests -- Ourselves and Other Animals: the Ethics of Farming -- The Human Race - a Marathon, not a Sprint: the Millennium Development Goals and their Ethos -- Appendices: 'So you think you know about...?'.

The Millennium Development Goals -- The Faces of Poverty -- Modern-day Slavery -- Women's Rights -- Childhood under Threat -- Disability Rights -- The Death Penalty -- Arms and the Arms Trade -- Global Landmine Crisis.

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