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When Sorry Isn't Enough : the Controversy over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice.
""How much compensation ought to be paid to a woman who was raped 7,500 times? What would the members of the Commission want for their daughters if their daughters had been raped even once?""--Karen Parker, speaking before the U.N. Commission on Human Rights Seemingly every week,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | ""How much compensation ought to be paid to a woman who was raped 7,500 times? What would the members of the Commission want for their daughters if their daughters had been raped even once?""--Karen Parker, speaking before the U.N. Commission on Human Rights Seemingly every week, a new question arises relative to the current worldwide ferment over human injustices. Why does the U.S. offer 20,000 atonement money to Japanese Americans relocated to concentration camps during World War II, while not even apologizing to African Americans for 250 years of human bondage and another century of instit. |
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| Notas: | ""Chapter 39: How the Indians Are Victimized by Government Agents and Soldiers"" |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (557 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780814739471 0814739474 |