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Maria Elena Moyano and Her Fight for Women’s Rights in Peru
Amal Clooney: Barrister and Advocate for Justice and Human Rights
Free Election
“IT’S TIME TO COME TOGETHER”: CROWDSOURCING A CITIZEN RESPONSE TO HURRICANE SANDY
The Soviet education system and 1990s reform efforts
Gender inequality and challenges for advocacy in Pakistan
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE BYSTANDERS? INSPIRING THE CROWD TO TACKLE THE WORLD’S BULLYING EPIDEMIC
NARGES MOHAMADI: THE EMBODIMENT OF A CONTINUAL PURSUIT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
A Manual for Launching and Building Dialogue between Nonbelievers and Believers, Majid Mohammadi
Prisoners’ Rights, 33
Salahuddin Gomshadzehi
Dialogue for Difficult Subjects by Lisa Schirch & David Campt
Hosein Zaman; People’s Artist
Education,Dialogue and Tolerance
Trial of Hamid Nouri, Nayereh Ansari
Iranian Overseas Achievements
Overseas Achievements
“Let My People Go!”: Natan Sharansky and the Movement to Save Soviet Jews
Abbas Daris, a protester who was sentenced to death
Kamran Samimi, a Bahai who was executed
Aziz Ghasemzadeh, a teacher activist
Neighbor
Doctors and revolution
Guide for Iranian Asylum Seekers in Turkey, by Kouhyar Goudarzi
Mohammad Nourizad: “a Mother’s Sorrow”
John Gray: “the Violent Visions of Slavoj Žižek”
United Nations: “the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health”
Hassan Yousefi Eshkevari: “No! This is No Longer My God!”
Dr. Rachel Pruchno: “What to Do When Someone is Suicidal”
Behnam Ebrahimzadeh’s Letter to His Son From Prison
Roya Hakakian’s Interview on Popular Resistance to Antisemitism in Iran
Elham Asghari, Iranian Female Swimmer’s Message “I Will Not Submit to Bullying!”
Malala Yousafzai’s Speech at the United Nations
Gohar Eshgi’s Message on Her Son, Slain Blogger Sattar Beheshti
Farzad Kamangar’s unpublished Letter to his beloved
Jila Baniyaghoob’s Story “Three Years have Passed”
Zia Nabavi’s Excruciating Story
Mohammad Nourizad’s Message “We have killed People”
Mohammad Nourizad’s Message “Mohammad, you weren’t there to see”
Massoud Bastani’s Farewell Before Returning to Prison
Majid Tavakoli’s letter from prison “For Change”
Sattar Beheshti’s final post “they tell us not to talk or they will shut our mouths”
Iranian Student Union’s 2012 message to Khamenei
US Holocaust Museum: “the Path to Nazi Genocide”
Majid Tavakoli’s Memento of Resilience and Resistance
Malala Yousafzai’s Nobel Press Conference
Kamran Rahimian’s Letter From Prison to Mohammad Nourizad
Iranian Student’s Statement “repeal Gender Discrimination in Higher Education”
Mir Hossein Mousavi’s Daughter: “they Slapped Us in the Face and Wanted Us to Strip Naked”
Massoud Kordpour’s Letter to Rouhani From Prison
Mehdi Karroubi’s Critique of Iranian Ruling Elite’s Repression and Corruption
Gohar Eshghi to Rouhani “we Expect You to Keep Your Oath”
Jafar Panahi to Hassan Rouhani “Do Not Try to Establish a New System of Censorship!”
Emma Watson: “Gender Equality is Your Issue Too”
Title Display: Saeed Sabzian: “Biopower” Disability and Social Change in Iran
Hossein Mirdamadi’s Letter to His Nephew, the Supreme Leader
Mohammed Nazari’s Open Letter From Prison
Xu Zhiyong’s Closing Statement at Court “for Freedom, Justice, and Love”
Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova’s Open Letter “why I Have Gone on Hunger Strike”
Mohammad Maleki’s Letter on His Imprisonment and Torture
Majid Tavakoli’s Letter From Prison “let’s Remain on the Side of the People”
Writers’ Association of Iran: “December 4th, a day to say no to Censorship and Yes to Freedom of Speech”
Narges Mohammadi: the only thing I demand of You, Mr. President, is that Civil Society be realized
Peyman Aref’s letter to Rouhani “I Voted for you to keep Universities from turning into barracks”
Bahareh Hedayat’s Prison Interrogation Letter
Atena Daemi & Golrokh Iraee’s open letter from Evin Prison
Hashem Khastar: “Resign for Your Own Sake, Mr. Khamenei”
Assassins Turquoise
Democracy
Teaching Democracy
Malaysia1870-1963: The Transition of the Colonial Vassals of Pax Britannica to the Stable Rock of Federal Constitutional Monarchy during the Cold War
Mirage years
Unveiling Iran
British Constitution
Democratization of classes
Restorative Justice
Japan: 1853-1952 The Centennial Struggle Between Militarism and the Transition to Liberal Constitutionalism
Iranians Turn Away From the Islamic Republic
people killed in November 2019 Iran protests
Islamic fundamentalists and the murder of dissidents abroad, Parviz Dastmalchi
Today The Somalis, Tomorrow …. and 200 .VS 20,000,000
Why We Must Be Grateful?
the right to Historical Truth
How Does the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Propaganda Machine works?
Nobel Prize
Virginia bill of rights by George mason
Tennis’ Ace Card: Billie Jean King and the Battle for Women’s Equality
برگ برنده تنیس: بیلی جین کینگ و نبرد برای حقوق برابر زنان
Uniao Nacional dos Estudantes: Generations of Student Struggle for Brazilian Rights
Through the Eye of the Needle: Frances Perkins and the Seamstresses’ Rebellion
The Rose Revolution: When Georgia said “Enough!”
Nirbhaya – Fearless One: Ending Gender-Based Violence in India with Institutional and Cultural Changes
The Abolitionist Movement in the United States
Women Organizing for Change: Indonesia’s Law on the Elimination of Domestic Violence
The Singing Revolution and Estonia’s Non-Violent Independence Movement
The Americans With Disabilities Act
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
The Fight Against Air Pollution in China
Ahead of Their Time: The U.S. Women’s Suffrage Movement
The First Nobel and the Last Girl: Nadia Murad’s Quest for Justice
It’s Time! The Orange Revolution and Ukraine’s Struggle for Democracy
Women’s Day Off: Organizing for Equal Pay in Iceland
TENNIS’ ACE CARD: BILLIE JEAN KING AND THE BATTLE FOR WOMEN’S EQUALITY
Liberal education for Iran
Trial of wei jingsheng
In Good Faith
Democracy In America
Address to the American Missionary Association
bread and freedom by Sidney hook
What Does the Political Scientist Know?
Appeal To Deng Xiaoping
Open Letter to Citizen Mobutu Sese Seko
The fifth modernization
The answer and declaration
Massachusetts Slave Petition
Speech at the Constitutional Convention
Human Right in China
what I like and what I do not
The universality of basic rights
The Religion and Human Right
Rejecting Hatred
constitution democracy
The Reburial of Imre Nagy
The May 19 Petition
why must we be grateful
Speech at Peoria
Massachusetts Body of Liberties
Trauma Healing
Presidential election advertisements
Guidelines during elections
Disability Etiquette
Dissent from n .v Plessy
Romania: The Grim Island of South-Eastern Europe
A Star in my street
On the bill of rights
First Inaugural Address
Farewell Address
sex and democracy
Evolution of women’s rights in contemporary Iran
new Year’s Address to the nation
Cause Without a Rebel: Silent Spring and the Rise of Environmentalism
THE “DEAF PRESIDENT NOW” MOVEMENT AT GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY
Bristol of Sheriffs the to Letter
THE HELSINKI PROCESS AND THE FALL OF COMMUNIST REGIMES IN EUROPE
England Your ,England
Abigail and Jane Addams’ correspondence about women’s rights
Enemies of the Nation: Fighting for Garment Workers’ Rights in Bangladesh
Mzalendo: Keeping an Eye on Kenya’s Parliament
Taking Back Egypt’s Streets: The HarassMap Campaign to End Sexual Harassment
Federalist Papers
prison in Iran
Transition Management
Dead deep breath
Election in Iran
Democracy and Education: A Handbook for Linking Democracy and Childhood
About democracy and development in Iran
A Legacy of Religious Tolerance in India
The Russian Movement Against Putin: Imagining a Different Russia
Asma Jahangir: Human Rights for All
Danchurchaid: “the ABCs of Advocacy”
John Ehrenberg: “Civil Society: the Critical History of an Idea”
Hossein Bastani: “Citizen Journalism Manual”
The Race to Protect the Middle East’s Past and Safeguard Its Future
Enemies Of the Nation: Fighting For Garment Worker’s Right In Bangladesh
in transition, awkward, chaotic and trapped; Iranian society: 1357-1397, by Majid Mohammadi
Lech Walesa Nobel Peace Prize Speech
Poets, Peace, and Perseverance: Veiled Threats to Afghanistan’s Domestic Violence
Constitutions and Democratic Transitions
From Polarization to Consensus: The Story of Chile’s Long Democratic Transition
The Spanish Transition to Democracy
Mohammed Arkoun: “From Ijtihad to the Critique of Islamic Reason”
Andrew Carnegie: “the Gospel of Wealth”
Kant: “Idea for a Universal History With a Cosmopolitan Intent”
Kant: “Perpetual Peace: a Philosophical Sketch”
Charlotte Bunch: “Transforming Human Rights From a Feminist Perspective”
Guide for Iranian Asylum Seekers in Turkey
Saeed Sabzian: “on Sorrow and Repression in Iranian Music”
Majid Mohammedi: “a Look at the Institutions and Decision Making of the Judiciary in the Islamic Republic of Iran”
Hossein Raeesi “Children’s Justice Manual”
Mehrangiz Kar: “Children of Addiction”
Iron Curtain The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944 1956
Kazem Alamdari: “Civil Society: Theories, Contexts, and Experiences”
Mohammad Nourizad, Pioneering Defender of the Rights of Baha’is
Cyrus the Great and Religious Tolerance
Middle Eastern and North African Heroes of the Holocaust
Hitler’s Pet Canary Revolts: Denmark’s Living Wall of Resistance
Saviours of the Last Ark: How Two Communities United to Save a City’s Last Synagogue
Breaking Tradition: Ending Female Genital Cutting in West Africa
Biopower Disability and Social Change in Iran
After the Arab Spring: Building Consensus and a Democratic Future in Tunisia
Elie Wiesel: “the Perils of Indifference”
Anne Applebaum: “Iron Curtain”
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
Jaron Lanier: “You are not a Gadget”
Civitas/center for Civic Ed: “foundations of Democracy”
Selected Tavaana Democracy and Human Rights Case Studies
Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Address on Women’s Rights to the Legislature of New York
“We Shall Overcome” & “O Freedom”
National Democratic Institute: “Civic Participation Glossary”
Steve Crenshaw & John Jackson: “Small Acts of Resistance”
Mancur Olson: “Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development”
Samuel P. Huntington: “Democracy’s Third Wave”
Adam Przeworski: “Minimalist Conception of Democracy: a Defense”
Anne Phillips: “the Representation of Women”
David Held: “the Transformation of Political Community: Rethinking Democracy in the Context of Globalization”
Bruce Russet: “Democracy and Peace”
Isaiah Berlin: “two Concepts of Liberty”
Montesquieu: “The Spirit of the Laws”
Adam Przeworski et. al: “what Makes Democracies Endure?”
Philippe C. Schmitter & Terry Lynn Karl: “what Democracy is…and is Not”
Martin Luther King Jr: “I Have a Dream”
Woodrow Wilson’s Campaign Speeches “The New Freedom”
Technology Case Studies
Democracy and Human Rights Case Studies
Hossein Raeesi: “Protecting Children’s Rights”
Arash Naraghi: “Philosophy of Law”
Amartya Sen: “Democracy as a Universal Value”
Harry S. Truman’s Inaugural Address
Henry David Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience”
Campaign Security
An introduction to digital security
William Lloyd Garrison’s Prospectus for the Liberator
John F. Kennedy’s “Ich bin ein Berliner” Speech
Health of Standard Attainable Highest the to Right The
Common Sense
A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia
role of the citizen
War and Holocaust
Witness: “Video for Change”
John Adams “Liberty and Knowledge”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “Women and Economics”
Henry David Thoreau: “Walden”
Civitas: “The Nature of the State”
Nasr Abu Zaid: “Innovation, Prohibition, and Hermeneutics”
Cause Without a Rebel: Silent Spring and the Rise of Environmentalism
Sojourner Truth Address s’ to the Ohio Women’s right
Betty Friedan: “The Feminine Mystique”
Center for Civic Ed: “Elements of Democracy”
Emma Lazarus: “The New Colossus”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “the Solitude of Self”
Democracy as a Universal Value
Susan B. Anthony’s Speech “women’s Right to Vote”
Adam Michnik’s Letters From Prison
Margaret Sanger: “the Right to One’s Body”
Andrew Hamilton “Defense of Freedom of the Press”
Letters on Religious Toleration, by John Locke
Reagan’s Speech at Moscow State University
Freedom House & Shanker Institute: “Democracy Web”
John Stuart Mill: “On Liberty”
The Seneca Falls Convention’s Declaration of Sentiments
Daryoush Ashouri: “modernity and Us” an Interview
The Liberator
Education For Democracy
International Idea: “State of Local Democracy Assessment Framework”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn “Live Not by Lies”
Gudula Geuther and Mathias Metzener: “Fundamental Rights”
Nasr Abu Zayd: “Reformation of Islamic Thought”
Vladimir Tismăneanu: “the Devil in History”
Hannah Arendt: “Men in Dark Times”
Tony Judt: “Postwar: a History of Europe Since 1945”
How to Build a Good Small NGO
Benjamin Constant: “the Liberty of the Ancients Compared With That of the Moderns”
Adel Daher: “a Philosophical Critique of Islamism”
Lynn Hunt: “Inventing Human Rights: a History”
Ann Elizabeth Mayer: “Islam and Human Rights”
Progressio: “Capacity Building for Local NGOs: a Guidance Manual for Good Practice”
Eleanor Roosevelt: “The Struggle for Human Rights”
Center for Civic Ed: “Teaching Civic Education: a User Manual”
The Violent Visions of Slavoj Zizek
Thomas Jefferson: “Notes on the State of Virginia – Religion”
Andrei Sakharov: “Peace, Progress, and Human Rights”
Maryam Amouzegar: “teaching Students with Autism”
Rebecca Mackinnon: “Consent of the Networked”
Frederick Douglass’ Independence Day Speech at Rochester
How the Women of Liberia Fought for Peace and Won
Mehdi Jami: “Blogging, Web Publishing, and Creative Activism with Network Security”
Teaching students with autism
Empowering Nairobi’s Slums: The Map Kibera Project
Protesting Terror in Colombia: One Million Voices Against FARC
Creating an Underground Press: Samizdat in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc
It Gets Better: Messages of Hope for LGBT Youth
Nawaat: Capturing the Core of the People’s Dream for Democracy in Tunisia
The Fight Against SOPA and PIPA: The Power of Online Civic Organizing
“We Are All Majid!”: International Solidarity for Iran
Center for Civic Education: Foundations of Democracy
Joseph Schumpeter: “Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy”
Carole Pateman: “Participation and Democratic Theory”
Robert D. Putnam: “Democracy”
Larry Diamond: “Liberation Technology”
South Africa’s Negotiated Transition, by Courtney Jung and Ian Shapiro
Inglehart & Baker: “modernization, Cultural Change, and the Persistence of Traditional Values”
Poverty, human rights and global justice
Mehrangiz Kar: “protecting Women’s Rights in Iran”
Nima Rashedan: “Advanced Digital Safety”
THE PEOPLE POWER REVOLUTION IN THE PHILIPPINES: I SAW NO ONE YIELD TO FEAR
Martin Luther King, Jr: Fighting for Equal Rights in America
Al Masry Al Youm: Transforming the Egyptian Press
Cuidemos el Voto: Promoting Civic Engagement in Mexico
Moudawana: A Peaceful Revolution for Moroccan Women
A Struggle from the Ground Up: The Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa
Age 10 and Divorced: Nujood Ali and the Fight Against Child Brides in Yemen
In Pursuit of Truth: Undercover Journalism and the Democratic Voice of Burma
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines: How One Woman’s Vision Created an International Network
The Ladies in White: Marching for Change in Cuba
The Velvet Revolution: A Peaceful End to Communism in Czechoslovakia
The Year Life Won in Serbia: The Otpor Movement Against Milosevic
Ushahidi: From Crisis Mapping Kenya to Mapping the Globe
Blogger Wael Abbas: Exposing Corruption in Egypt
Bringing People Hope: Harvey Milk and the Gay Rights Movement in America
Charter 08: Calling for Democracy in China
Days of Anger: The Egyptian People’s Revolution for Bread, Freedom, and Human Dignity
Fighting for Farm Workers’ Rights: Cesar Chavez, the Delano Grape Strike and Boycott
The Cedar Revolution in Lebanon
One Million Signatures: The Battle for Gender Equality in Iran
Reclaiming Sicily from the Mafia: Rita Borsellino and the Addiopizzo Movement
Sisters in Islam: Protecting Women’s Rights in Malaysia
Solidarity, Pope John Paul II, and the Orange Alternative: Bringing Down Communism in Poland
The Tree Mother of Africa and Her Green Belt Movement
The 1960s-70s American Feminist Movement: Breaking Down Barriers for Women
Women’s Rights Case Studies