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The workers themselves have begun demanding better labor conditions and claiming their legal entitlements. No longer as docile as they were in the past, they are emerging as an active force increasingly willing to confront employers.

Long considered objects of pity and welfare assistance, people with disabilities in South Korea and Japan are increasingly treated as rights-bearers. Through activism, litigation, and involvement in international treaty negotiations, Koreans and Japanese with disabilities spurred reforms that created new anti-discrimination protections and obligations to provide reasonable accommodations, access, employment, and social supports. These policy changes also signal a notably more legalistic approach to governance, particularly in South Korea, because they include more detailed rules and formal rights, more enforcement mechanisms like fines, and better recourse to judicial or other dispute resolution bodies.

"For a century, the American Civil Liberties Union has fought to keep Americans in touch with the founding values of the Constitution. As its centennial approached, the organization invited Ellis Cose to become its first ever writer-in-residence, serving as an "embedded journalist" with complete editorial independence. The result is Cose's groundbreaking Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLU's 100-Year Fight for Rights in America, the most authoritative account ever of America's premier defender of civil liberties. A vivid work of history and journalism, Democracy, If We Can Keep It is not just the definitive story of the ACLU but also an essential account of America's rediscovery of rights it had granted but long denied. Cose's narrative begins with World War I and brings us to today, chronicling the ACLU's role through the horrors of 9/11, the saga of Edward Snowden, and the phenomenon of Donald Trump. A chronicle of America's most difficult ethical quandaries from the Red Scare, the Scottsboro Boys' trials, Japanese American internment, McCarthyism, and Vietnam, Democracy, If We Can Keep It weaves these accounts into a deeper story of American freedom-one that is profoundly relevant to our present moment"--

By positioning the subjects of the political action in the center of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), we aim to return to the Arendtian perplexities of human rights to name a scene in which undocumented migrants dispute the meanings of citizenship and subjectivity of rights in the United States. The article was divided in three movements: the impacts of DACA in the context of being undocumented in the country; the perplexities of human rights; and mobilizing such critique in four framings of citizenship presented by Nicholls to interpret the arrangements in our scenes. We conclude on the multiple and paradoxical effects of this policy, a legal-political temporary fix and an opening for the dispute of meanings.

Dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos de Cultura, Literatura e Línguas Modernas apresentada à Faculdade de Letras ; Black Lives Matter é um movimento de protesto que surgiu em 2013, despoletado pela morte de Trayvon Martin, um adolescente negro alvejado por um agente da polícia branco. O agente, George Zimmerman, foi absolvido o que suscitou o protesto da comunidade afro-americana. Este não foi o primeiro nem o último caso do uso de brutalidade policial desnecessária contra afro-americanos, uma vez que a supremacia branca e o racismo ainda estão muito presentes nos E.U.A. Muitos artistas afro-americanos começaram a usar a sua arte (música, literatura, cinema, etc.) como uma forma de protesto contra as injustas mortes de adolescentes negros. Numa longa tradição de protesto desde os tempos da escravatura, Angie Thomas, Nic Stone e Jay Coles, são três jovens escritores afro-americanos que escreveram romances infanto-juvenis que denunciam a identificação por perfil racial e a violência policial. The Hate U Give (2017), Dear Martin (2017) e Tyler Johnson Was Here (2018) são, respetivamente, os romances selecionados como exemplos do papel que a ficção infanto-juvenil pode ter como instrumento político para promover a auto-consciência, a auto-estima e a capacitação de adolescentes negros. Este objetivo exigiu uma contextualização numa experiência afro-americana mais vasta, na questão do racismo nos Estados Unidos e também na luta dos afro-americanos por um lugar no cânone literário. Com esta dissertação o meu objetivo é sensibilizar as pessoas para a violência contra os negros existente nos Estados Unidos da América. ; Black Lives Matter is a protest movement that began in 2013 triggered by the shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager who was murdered by a white police officer. The police officer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted from his crimes which raised the protest within the African-American community. This was neither the first nor the last case of unnecessary police brutality against African-Americans since white supremacy and racism are still very present in the U.S.A. Many African-American artists started using their art (music, literature, cinema, etc.) as a form of protest against the unjust deaths of black teenagers. Following a long tradition of protest since slavery times, Angie Thomas, Nic Stone and Jay Coles, three young African-American writers wrote Young Adult novels as a way of denouncing racial profiling and state violence and raising social awareness among young people (black and white). The Hate U Give (2017), Dear Martin (2017) and Tyler Johnson Was Here (2018) are, respectively, the novels I selected as examples of the role YAF may have as a political tool for African-American teenagers' self-awareness, self-esteem and empowerment. This demanded a contextualization in a larger African-American experience, American racism and the struggle of African Americans to conquer a space in the American literary canon that was majorly white. With this dissertation my aim is to raise awareness to the ongoing violence against black people in the United States of America.

Este texto busca reconstruir la dinámica del poder y la organización sindical de los estibadores brasileros en un recorte temporal que abarca los años 1950 a 1963. Además, nos proponemos comprender las relaciones políticas que establecieron tanto con el universo sindical como con los órganos públicos gubernamentales. Buscaremos, de esa forma, comprender cómo los estibadores organizaron sus demandas nacionales con res-pecto a las condiciones de trabajo en un contexto de avances y retrocesos políticos que marcaron este tenso momento de la historia brasileña. Partimos de la hipótesis central que señala que una federación unificada fue condición sine qua non para articular las demandas de los diferentes sindicatos de estibadores del país y, así, comenzar una lucha por la conquista de derechos de manera coherente. Para realizar nuestra investigación hemos consultado diferentes fuentes sobre el tema propuesto. ; This text seeks to reconstruct the dynamics of power and the trade union organization of the Brazilian stevedoring category. As a temporary cut, we list as a framework the years 1950 to 1963. In addition, we challenge ourselves to understand their established political relations with both the trade union universe and with government public bodies. We will seek, in this way, to understand how the stowage category organized its national demands regarding working conditions and in a context of political advances and setbacks that marked this tense Brazilian moment. We start from the central hypothesis that unity in a federation was a sine qua non condition to articulate the demands of the different stowage unions in the country and, thus, begin a struggle for the conquest of rights in a consistent manner. Why we carry out this analysis, our research, different sources to reflect on the proposed topic. ; Fil: Ávila Gandra, Edgar. Universidade do Porto. Universidade Federal de PelotasCentro de Investigação Transdisciplinar Cultura, Espaço e Memória. Brasil ; Fil: Cedrez da Silva, Thiago. Universidade Federal de ...

The fight for women's rights has been going on for as long as the United States has been a nation. From the earliest colonial days, when women had virtually no rights, to the present day, where women are corporate executives and presidential candidates, females have struggled for equal rights and equal opportunities in society. It is a battle that has been fought by many strong and dedicated women. The fight will continue as women strive to reach their personal and professional goals, learning from the past, and refusing to accept limitations. Empower your students to take action for themselves and their friends through this essential book.