human rights workers

Profiles ten significant figures in the world-wide struggle for human rights, including Mother Teresa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Joan Baez, Jimmy Carter, and Fang Lizhi.

Presents a series a informational and biographical sketches on world leaders, past and present, that have made an impact on the fight for human rights, worldwide. Includes essays, interviews, and speeches with contributions from Nelson Mandela and Mohandas Gandhi.

Discusses human rights and activism, covering reasons to fight oppression and inequality by joining with groups that struggle for the rights of women, children, and anybody whose voice is suppressed, and includes information on famous activists.

A biography of Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, tracing her childhood and youth as a coffee picker and maid in Guatemala, and discussing her efforts to secure rights and better living conditions for the Quiche-Mayan people.

Describes the friendship that began between twenty-year-old John Prendergast and seven-year-old Michael Mattocks, a boy who was living out of plastic bags and moving from one homeless shelter to the next, and explains how their relationship continued through the struggles they faced over the next twenty-five years.

Paul Rusesabagina recounts the story of his life, describing what it was like to grow up on a small farm in Rwanda, how he became the first Rwandan general manager of a Belgian-owned hotel, and how he helped his fellow countrymen during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.