David Hollenbach - Refugee Rights: Ethics, Advocacy, And Africa

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Washington, Georgetown University Press. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 9781589012028) Soft Cover. First printing. 264 pp. Of the over 33 million refugees and internally displaced people in the world today, a disproportionate percentage are found in Africa. Most have been driven from their homes by armed strife, displacing people into settings that fail to meet standards for even basic human dignity. Protection of the human rights of these people is highly uncertain and unpredictable. Refugee Rights: Ethics, Advocacy, and Africa draws upon David Hollenbach, SJ's work as founder and director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College to provide an analytical framework for vigorous advocacy on behalf of refugees and internally displaced people. Representing both religious and secular perspectives, the contributors are scholars, practitioners, and refugee advocates--all of whom have spent time on the ground" in Africa. As New.