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Deborah Diesen is the author of many children’s picture books, including the New York Times bestselling The Pout-Pout Fish and Equality’s Call. She loves playing with words and rhymes and rhythms.

She has worked as a bookseller, a bookkeeper, and a reference librarian. She and her family live in Michigan.5/5(3). What Putnam gave us with this book was the idea of social capital. When I was head of the Commission for Racial Equality [now merged into the Equality and Human Rights Commission] I always put it that the two great challenges that face humankind are how we live with the planet and how we live together.

In From Here to Equality, William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen confront these injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery. After opening the book with a stark assessment of the intergenerational effects of white supremacy on black economic well-being, Darity and Mullen look to both the past and the present to measure the 5/5(6).

Equality is about ensuring that every individual has an equal opportunity to make the most of their lives and talents. It is also the belief that no one should have poorer life chances because of the way they were born, where they come from, what they believe, or whether they have a disability.

The Equal Rights Amendment is a constitutional amendment that will guarantee legal gender equality for women and men.

This website is dedicated to educating and inspiring citizens to ratify the ERA, which was written by equal rights activist Alice Paul in   In this updated version of the book, Beard revisits gender equality in the wake of the #metoo movement, talks about how women have consistently been denied the.

Get this from a library. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms: equality rights. [Katharine Dunkley; Canada. Library of Parliament. Research Branch.].

There is one striking absence in this book about human rights and neoliberalism, and that is the subject of property rights.

To be sure, most advocates for human rights and global justice do not have property rights in mind, but the right to property is a rights claim that has had a very different fate from the other set of economic, social, and cultural rights that Moyn discusses.

This right of freedom belongs to each member of the commonwealth as a human being, in so far as each is a being capable of possessing rights. Man’s equality as a subject might be formulated as follows.

Each member of the commonwealth has rights of coercion in relation to all the others, except in relation to the head of state.

What’s on your list of go-to books for talking about human rights and social justice issues with your children. Let’s keep the list growing in the comments section below. **These books should be easily searchable, and I’ve created a book list on at this link with all the books mentioned in this post.

The Right to Equality. With the leadership of women such as Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, and Gloria Steinem, the Equal Rights Amendment was pushed through Congress inbut by it fell short of ratification.

While Title IX of the Education Amendments of prohibited discrimination based on sex, the Roe v. Martin, Malcolm and the Fight for Equality. immensely valuable new book, the rise of people of color in all parts of the world could be connected to the battle for civil rights in America.

An in-depth study of American social movements after the Civil War and their lessons for today by a prizewinning historian.

The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality—in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women’s rights activists, farmhands, and factory workers all engaged in the pursuit of the meaning of equality in America.

The Equality Conundrum. lunatics,” all with different legal rights. In a book based on those lectures, “One Another’s Equals: The Basis of Human Equality,” Waldron points out that Author: Joshua Rothman. Browse Books, Diversity and Diversity and Equality content selected by the Human Resources Today community.

A groundbreaking book about the direct relationship between a woman's rights and freedoms and the economic prosperity of her country. "The authors speak to hearts as well as minds."Maud de Boer Buquicchio, UN Special Rapporteur.

Explore our list of Sexism, Feminism & Gender Equality - Fiction Books at Barnes & Noble®. Receive FREE shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership. Due to COVID, orders may be delayed. Equality Rights: Section 15 Every individual is equal before and under the law.

Every individual has the right to equal protection and benefit of the law. These rights are to be applied equally and without discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex.

This outspoken tribute to suffrage alternates between a contemporary school where voting rights is the topic at hand, and vignettes that portray the signing of the U.S.

Constitution and then forward t. The best books on Gender Equality recommended by Nicola Jones. The ODI research fellow discusses gender equality in the developing world and says that the authority to insist on safe sex and access to medical care is vital to establishing the most basic forms of gender equality.

Equality, Generally, an ideal of uniformity in treatment or status by those in a position to affect ledgment of the right to equality often must be coerced from the advantaged by the disadvantaged. Equality of opportunity was the founding creed of U.S.

society, but equality among all peoples and between the sexes has proved easier to legislate than to achieve in practice.The UN Secretary-General, Mr.

António Guterres has stated that achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls is the unfinished business of our time, and the greatest human rights.If you would like to find out more or share your views regarding equality in Guernsey, please contact us at: [email protected] or call: Guest Worker Rights in Guernsey This short survey has been put together by Citizens Advice Guernsey and the Equality Working Group in preparation for a series of workshops on equalities this spring.