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A small group founded Amnesty International in 1961 to translate human rights principles into action. Diplomacy of Conscience provides a rich account of how the organization pioneered a combination of popular pressure and expert knowledge to advance global human rights. To an extent unmatched by predecessors and copied by successors, Amnesty International has employed worldwide publicity campaigns based on fact-finding and moral pressure to urge governments to improve human rights practices. Less well known is Amnesty International's significant impact on international law. It has helped forge the international community's repertoire of official responses to the most severe human rights violations, supplementing moral concern with expertise and conceptual vision. Diplomacy of Conscience traces Amnesty International's efforts to strengthen both popular human rights awareness and international law against torture, disappearances, and political killings. Drawing on primary interviews and archival research, Ann Marie Clark posits that Amnesty International's strenuously cultivated objectivity gave the group political independence and allowed it to be critical of all governments violating human rights. Its capacity to investigate abuses and interpret them according to international standards helped it foster consistency and coherence in new human rights law. Generalizing from this study, Clark builds a theory of the autonomous role of nongovernmental actors in the emergence of international norms pitting moral imperatives against state sovereignty. Her work is of substantial historical and theoretical relevance to those interested in how norms take shape in international society, as well as anyone studying the increasing visibility of nongovernmental organizations on the international scene.

History --- Human rights --- Social organizations --- Amnesty International --- Human rights. --- Droits de l'homme (Droit international) --- Amnesty International. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Law and legislation --- AI (Amnesty International) --- Amnistía Internacional --- Diethnēs Amnēstia --- A.I. (Amnesty International) --- Kuo chi tʻe she yüan chu tsu chih --- Amunesuti Intānashonaru --- Jinken o Mamoru Kokusai Kyūen Kikō --- Amnesty (Organization) --- Ėmnisti (Organization) --- Ėmnisti internėshnl --- Kukche Samyŏn Wiwŏnhoe --- Uluslararası Af Örgütü --- Anistia Internacional --- Mezhdunarodnai︠a︡ Amnistii︠a︡ --- Amnesṭi inṭernashyonal --- منظمة العفو الدولية --- アムネスティ・インターナショナル --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions

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Demands of Justice draws on original interviews and archival research to show how global appeals for human rights began in the 1970s to expand the boundaries of the global neighbourhood and disseminate new arguments about humane concern and law in direct opposition to human rights violations. Turning a justice lens on human rights practice, Clark argues that human rights practice offers tools that enrich three facets of global justice: transnational expressions of simple concern, the political realization of justice through politics and law, and new but still incomplete approaches to social justice. A key case study explores the origins of Amnesty International's well-known Urgent Action alerts for individuals, as well as temporal change in the use of law in such appeals. A second case study, of Oxfam's adoption of rights language, demonstrates the spread of human rights as a primary way of expressing calls for justice in the world.

Human rights. --- International relations. --- World politics. --- Amnesty International. --- Political science --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- International relations --- Colonialism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Law and legislation

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Wake up. Go to work. Prepare for war.A tyrannical and irrational boss, job insecurity, unreasonable demands, stress from juggling home and family-these are just a few of the all-too-common grievances in the workplace today. Employees often live with resentment, frustration, and feelings of impending doom. They may not know what will happen next and lack a sense of control in their work lives. No wonder a workplace characterized by unanswered complaints is reminiscent of a combat zone.Workplace Warfare discusses the high costs of stress and anger in the workplace. Written in a conversational style from the employee perspective, this practical guide goes beyond merely showing you how to make the best of a bad situation: its focus is on empowering you to understand the different kinds of situations you might face and to take control of your own responses to frustrating situations, especially when dealing with bosses.Learn how to redesign your job to get what you want from work every day. Based on actual case histories, providing professional psychological and employment advice, Workplace Warfare offers readers higher levels of comfort and productivity on the job.

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Focuses on behavioral and pharmacologic interventions for depression, treatments of late-life insomnia, behavior interventions in nursing homes, interventions for incontinence, and home modification interventions. For clinicians and researchers.

Geriatrics. --- Gerontology. --- Aging. --- Age --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Developmental biology --- Gerontology --- Longevity --- Age factors in disease --- Social sciences --- Geriatrics --- Older people --- Medicine --- Physiological effect --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene