You're history : how people make the difference - Brown, Michelle (Michelle P.); Kelly, Richard (London : Continuum, 2005)
A poet's response : De Rong radio / Benjamin Zephaniah -- Foreword : from Live Aid to Live 8 / Bob Geldof -- Preface : the UN Millennium Campaign / Salil Shetty -- Introduction : history in the making / Michelle P. Brown -- Making poverty history / Richard Curtis -- The UN Declaration of Human Rights, printed with comments by Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary Robinson and Irene Khan -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- 'It's positively medieval' : challenging some preconceptions of history / Michelle P. Brown -- Inequality : a modest proposal? / Richard J. Kelly -- The other, man-made tsunami / John Pilger -- Africa, the crisis continent? / Richard Dowden -- How the modern-day missionaries called 'human rights activists' help wreak havoc in Africa / Robin Philpot -- Twenty years with AIDS / Marie-Roger Biloa -- Reviving democracy / Martin Bell -- Celebrating the heroes of democracy / Dan Plesch -- Cinema in control and conscience : moviemakers from 'Double V' to McCarthysim / Evan Heimlich -- Time to make war history as well / Scilla Elworthy and Carolyn Hayman -- Islam : clash or dialogue of civilizations? / Akbar Ahmed -- Conflict and personal liberty / Terry Waite -- What price imprisonment? / David Ramsbotham -- 'Places without a future' : the Jarrow March and the Great Depression / William Frame -- Reports on the line : risk taking and conscience in the former Soviet Union / Bruce Clark -- The media's fault? / John Simpson -- Genocide : the violence and the silence / Ciaran Quinn -- Change - and North Korea : is aid really making a difference? / Kathi Zellweger -- The dregs in the pot of gold : the Irish experience of exchanging dignity for racism / Alan Titley -- Silent suffering, stoic resistance : human rights abuses of women and children in Latin America / Kari Lydersen -- Pious aspiration or a tool for change? : the significance of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child / Gerison Lansdown -- The politics of sexuality : faith - the final frontier? / Stephen Bates -- Surviving ourselves : environment, society and the future of our civilization / Ricardo Navarro -- Greenbacks in the Garden of Eden : an essay on how not to save the rainforests / Simon Counsell -- Ourselves and other animals : the ethics of farming / Joyce d'Silva -- The human race - a marathon, not a sprint : the millennium development goals and their ethos / Edmund Newell and Sabina Alkire.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Responsibility; Social justice