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Courage of Strangers Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement

Author/creator	Laber, Jeri Author
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	New York : PublicAffairs New York : Perseus Books Group [Distributor]
Description	416 p. ill 08.250 x 05.500 in.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Women Social Reformers

Summary	Annotation <div>After Jeri Laber earned a Master's degree in Russian studies at Columbia University, she became a part-time writer and editor and a full-time wife and mother. Then one day in 1973 she read an article about torture that altered her life and subsequently the lives of countless others around the world.<br /><br /><i>The Courage of Strangers</i> tells how Laber became a founder and the executive director of Helsinki Watch, which grew to be Human Rights Watch, one of the world's most influential organizations. She describes her secret trips to unwelcoming countries, where she met with some of the great political activists of the time. She also recalls what it was like to come of age professionally in an era when women were supposed to follow rather than lead; how she struggled to balance work and family; and how her fight for human rights informed her own intellectual, spiritual and emotional development.<br /><br />This story of the birth of the human rights movement is also a sweeping history of dissent and triumph in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Elegantly written, full of passion, humor and political wisdom, it is exciting history as well as a moving, entertaining, inspiring story of a woman's life.<br /></div>
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
ISBN	9781586482886
ISBN	1586482882 (Trade Paper) Active Record
Standard identifier#	9781586482886
Stock number	00137407

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