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Righting Wrongs: 20 Human Rights Heroes Around the World
Many young people aren't aware that determined individuals created the rights we now take for granted.
The idea of human rights is relatively recent, coming out of a post-World War II effort to draw nations together and prevent or lessen suffering. Righting Wrongs introduces children to the true stories of 20 real people who invented and fought for these ideas. Without them, many of the rights we take for granted would not exist.
These heroes have promoted women's, disabled, and civil rights; action on climate change; and the rights of refugees. These advocates are American, Sierra Leonean, Norwegian, and Argentinian. Eleven are women. Two identified as queer. Twelve are people of color. One campaigned for rights as a disabled person. Two identify as Indigenous. Two are Muslim and two are Hindu, and others range from atheist to devout Christian. There are two journalists, one general, three lawyers, one Episcopal priest, one torture victim, and one Holocaust survivor.
Their stories of hope and hard work show how people working together can change the world for the better.
Book Details
- Publisher: Chicago Review Press
- Publish Date: Jun 14th, 2022
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.90in - 0.60in - 0.66lb
- EAN: 9781641605595
- Recommended age: 08-12
- Categories: • Biography & Autobiography - Social Activists• Activism & Social Justice• Social Science - Politics & Government
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Praise for this book
"Righting Wrongs offers a fresh and engaging perspective on the human rights movement. Kirk shares the stories of 20 inspiring but often unlikely heroes, showing how individuals have been able to shape history and build a powerful movement for human rights. This book is a wonderful and unique contribution to our understanding of how people can challenge injustice and make change in the world." --Jo Becker, Children's Rights Advocacy Director at Human Rights Watch and author of Campaigning for Children: Strategies for Advancing Children's Rights
- I love the map at the beginning. It's cute and orients us.
- A powerful and engaging introduction.
- I love the style of storytelling throughout the book where it makes these real-life events seem so magical and storylike, while also sharing the gravity of the situation.
- I like the anecdotes and informational gray things (not sure what to call them) in the middle of chapters, but I wish they were like on the side of the page instead of in the middle and the regular text went around them- the formatting was a bit weird in those cases.
- The discussion questions were insightful and thought-provoking. even though I had no one to discuss the book with I still appreciated getting to consider them myself.
- Chapters have the perfect length.
- The only person I'd heard of was Pauli Murray and not in this detail, so it was wonderful to be introduced to so many awesome people from so many different groups.
- The resources at the end of the book were so cool!