Subtitle: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing our World
Author: Kerry Kennedy
With Author's Inscription
Publisher: David Philip (2008)
ISBN-10: 0864867298
ISBN-13: 9780864867292
Condition: Very good, minor edge-wear to the covers, minor dents to the corners, else the contents is bright clean and well-bound.
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 260
Dimensions: 22.8 x 18 x 1.5 cm
+++
by Kerry Kennedy (With Author's Inscription)
+++
Speak Truth to Power presents an inspiring rainbow of heroes from more than thirty-five countries and five continents. In searing and uplifting interviews, veteran human rights defender Kerry Kennedy Cuomo examines the quality of courage with women and men who are dramatically changing the course of events in their communities and countries.
Imprisoned, tortured, and threatened with death, they speak with compelling eloquence on subjects to which they have devoted their lives and for which they have been willing to sacrifice -- from free expression to the rule of law, from women's rights to religious liberty, from environmental defense to eradicating slavery, from access to capitol to the right to due process.
Accompanying the interviews are a powerful series of portraits by world-renowned photographer Eddie Adams. This is his first book, representing two years of crisscrossing the globe to make these deeply felt and insightful images of courageous individuals, including the internationally celebrated, such as Vaclav Havel, Baltasar Garzn, Helen Prejean, Marian Wright Edelman, and Nobel Prize Laureates the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Oscar Arias Snchez, Rigoberta Mench Tum, Jos Ramos-Horta, and Bobby Muller. But the vast majority of the defenders are unknown and (as yet) unsung beyond their national boundaries, such as former sex slave and leading abolitionist Juliana Dogbadzi of Ghana, domestic violence activist Marina Pisklakova of Russia, mental disability rights advocate Gabor Gombos of Hungary, and more than thirty others.
Click on the image to see the inscription.
