Human Rights and Development

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In "Human Rights and Development", award-winning author Peter Uvin extends the examination of development aid and human rights violations that he presented in his book on the Rwandan genocide, "Aiding Violence." Whereas that book is diagnostic, "Human Rights and Development" is prescriptive—a response to requests from development and human rights organizations to help them effect strategies for reducing conflict and improving human rights outcomes.

By advocating a rights-based approach to development, Uvin shows how practitioners can surmount the tough ethical and human rights obstacles encountered in their endeavors. But "Human Rights and Development" is much more than a "how to" book for practitioners. It is also a major scholar's profound, passionate, and clearly written analysis of the need to effect principled social change throughout the global arena that solidifies rather than fragments our common humanity.

Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy
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You can change the world!

This is a must-have book for social change organizers!

Puttin' the Active Back in Activism

Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy
Rinku Sen
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Stir It Up--written by renowned activist and trainer Rinku Sen--identifies the key priorities and strategies that can help advance the mission of any social change group. This groundbreaking book addresses the unique challenges and opportunities the new global economy poses for activist groups and provides concrete guidance for community organizations of all orientations.

Sponsored by the Ms. Foundation, Stir It Up draws on lessons learned from Sen's groundbreaking work with women's groups organizing for economic justice. Throughout the book, Sen walks readers through the steps of building and mobilizing a constituency and implementing key strategies that can effect social change. The book is filled with illustrative case studies that highlight best organizing practices in action and each chapter contains tools that can help groups tailor Sen's model for their own organizational needs. Stir It Up will show your organization how to:

Design and conduct actions that further campaign goals
Develop effective leaders
Build strong alliances and networks
Generate and use solid research
Design an effective media strategy
Put in place a plan for internal political education and consciousness-raising

With the information, tools, and suggestions outlined in this book your organization can use your "good idea" to change the world.

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An indispensible manual for social change today.......2004-01-08

This book, full of anecdotes from successful community organizations, is chockful of helpful advice, whether you're part of an organization seeking social change, or you are an individual interested in how people are effecting change in today's political climate. The worksheets on campaign planning and the chapter on media are particularly helpful. I highly recommend it.

You can change the world!.......2003-06-12

I really found this book both inspiring and realistic. Sen acknowledges the challenges (especially in today's political climate) but lays out what it takes to get the job done. Her practical, real-world guidance walks you through organizing your local community to help achieve change and get results on the issues you care about.

This is a must-have book for social change organizers!.......2003-06-08

Given the critical importance of social change today, it is stunning that most of the recent books on community organizing focus on personal reflections and sociological analyses instead of giving us the whole package. In "Stir It Up," Rinku Sen manages to squeeze a powerful vision, racial and social justice analysis, profiles of organizing groups, a detailed contact list of organizations and networks, and tools for creating real change into two hundred pages. This is a watershed book for the social justice organizing movement, illuminating the principles and practices that ground multi-racial, social justice, racial justice, and direct action organizations that have developed in the past twenty-five years.

If you are serious about systemic change that addresses the root causes of racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, and xenophobia, then this book offers you a framework and process for creating real change. Sections of the book go through the identification and selection of issues using a social justic lens, working with emerging constituencies, running campaigns and taking action, research, and, most critically, framing our struggles and organizations to address systemic oppression. Readers will get a clear sense of the unrelenting human movement toward freedom through profiles of extraordinary groups that continue to win both concrete change and a reordering of power in our society. Kudos to Rinku Sen for taking the time to describe the growth, development, and work of the racial and social justice movement to the world!

Puttin' the Active Back in Activism.......2003-03-11

Passion & pragmatism don't always come together in community organzing -- kudos to Ms. Sen for showing us how to balance the two! I'm so glad that someone has finally written a comprehensive book on the strategy & practice of organizing...considering where our nation is headed, this comes not a moment too soon.

A New Weave of Power, People, and Politics: The Action Guide for Advocacy and Citizen Participation

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A New Weave of Power, People, and Politics: The Action Guide for Advocacy and Citizen Participation
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This book breaks down the boxes separating human rights, rule of law, development, and governance, and creates an integrated approach to rights-based political empowerment. It combines concrete and practical action 'steps' with a sound theoretical foundation to help users understand the process of advocacy planning and implementation.

Building on the authors' fifty years of combined experiences in advocacy, gender, human rights, education, and social change, this “action guide” gathers insights from across the world—including community development, legal rights education, and campaign advocacy. It includes a special training and capacity-building appendix that provides workshop and planning ideas for different users and needs.

Transforming the City: Community Organizing the the Challenge of Political Change (Studies in Government and Public Policy)

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As an avenue for progressive politics in a nation still skeptical of change, community organizing today faces significant challenges. This book assesses that activity within the context of political, cultural, social, and economic changes in cities--from World War II to the present--to show how community-based organizations have responded.

Transforming the City is the first book to examine the current state of community organizing in American cities, analyzing its place in contemporary progressive politics and assessing whether it has changed in response to changes in the political economy. Leading urban scholars--Peter Dreier, Robert Fisher, Clarence N. Stone, Dennis Shirley, and others--have been drawn from a wide range of disciplines to offer original commentaries on the strengths and limitations of community organizing, a form of political and civic engagement that is too often overlooked by those who bemoan the decline in social capital.

While embracing mobilization as a way to cope with the problems afflicting inner cities, these essays acknowledge the challenges inherent in globalization, de-industrialization, the demise of ward-based politics, and the values that shape contemporary American culture. They argue that larger changes in the political economy have reshaped the local ecology of civic engagement, thereby impacting the focus, orientation, and effectiveness of community organizing.

The book features case studies from Chicago to New Orleans to El Paso, and covers community organizations from many of the organizing networks and models, such as ACORN, IAF, PICO, and DART. These cases address key policy areas such as education and housing, and the role of race in these issues and in organizing in general. By the actual practice of this form of democratic politics, they also show the potential of community organizing for addressing concerns about Americans' disengagement from civic and political life.

Whether pursuing longstanding problems about housing or more recent issues such as wages paid by big-box retailers, community organizing continues to have an important role to play as part of a broader progressive movement. As America decides what kind of society it wants to be, these insightful articles illuminate those larger trends in the local ecology that are forcing organizers to alter their strategies, operations, and visions for the future.

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Promised Land: Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform
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Best summary available of the contemporary land reform debate.......2007-02-08

Agrarian reform is back at the center of the rural development debate after being considered taboo for decades. There was a time when peasant actvists would be shot or disappeared if they dared to utter "land reform" or "agrarian reform." But though they contnue to suffer sometimes violent repression, now even the World Bank talks about agrarian reform. And that's the rub, because what the World Bank calls agrarian reform is little more than the privatization of land, while what movements like the Via Campesina call for is real redistribution. This is the basis of the new global debate about land reform, which is wonderfully covered in this volume, which also touches on important issues like gender and land, indigenous peoples and territory, and food sovereignty. This is must read for anyone interested in rural development.

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Educating for a Culture of Peace

Educating for a Culture of Peace
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What could be more timely than a book that advocates we teach the skills and knowledge students need to both live peacefully in the world and promote peace through their actions? After all, children are exposed to violence dozens of times daily, whether in programming targeted to their age groups, evening news carrying the latest casualties of war and murder, or video games that trivialize cruelty.

That's why Riane Eisler and Ron Miller have joined with thirteen other proponents for peace education, including famed children's troubadour Raffi, to present a crucial collection of essays that will help you create instructional practices and lessons that model the tools students need to turn aside culturally conditioned predilections toward domination and violence and, instead, embrace ideals that enable them to transform their relationships through a belief in compassion, caring, respect, and diversity. This vitally important book includes not only a strong rationale for why teaching for peace is utterly necessary, but also specific chapters dealing with issues that teachers encounter every day, including:

using peaceful instead of violent language
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Grounded in today's cultural realities, Educating for a Culture of Peace asks you to think globally, act locally, and fine-tune your practice by instilling every lesson you teach with the basic humane values that lead to greater interpersonal and intercultural understanding. Read Educating for a Culture of Peace and make a concrete contribution to a better world, one peaceful classroom at a time.

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Educating for a Culture of Peace.......2007-05-12

Excellent collection of essays on a timely and revolutionary subject: how overhauling the entire U.S. educational system in order to teach principles of cooperation, equality and justice could lead to worldwide peace.

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Big Pharma's Mea Non Culpa
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Groundbreaking and provocative, A Call to Action reframes the dialogue on healthcare and offers people a way out of the zero-sum, win-or-lose game they now encounter. Distilling more than 30 years of experience in global healthcare, McKinnell provides concrete action steps to build cost-effective, inclusive healthcare that he believes can extend millions of lives and save billions of dollars over the next generation. He addresses:

A new, prevention-based approach to employee healthcare
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McKinnell also assesses the global challenge of infectious disease, particularly the pandemic of HIV. He demonstrates why this pandemic –the worst in human history –is beyond the scope of governments acting alone —and how, even in the face of devastating global catastrophes, public-private partnerships can deliver real hope.

The healthcare crisis can be brought under control. Sick-care systems can be changed to put patiens over payers. In this book, McKinnell offers a compelling case for change, and a plan of action to make healthcare systems work for us and our children.

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Mostly Self-Serving.......2005-12-30

McKinnell, Phizer CEO, begins by pointing out that our healthcare system focuses on sickness - containing, avoiding, and shifting the costs of disease. His suggestion (hardly the first one to do so) is that we instead focus on the costs of disease.

To do this, his suggestions include 1)replacing typical health insurance reimbursement with portable "health savings accounts" where those covered would have financial incentives to improve key lifestyle components - eg. exercise, diet, smoking, etc., 2)mandating the use of electronic medication ordering (minimize drug interactions, transcription and dosage errors), 3)"disease management" programs focused on high-expenditure maladies such as diabetes, and take an overall approach to improvement (eg. include lifestyle changes), and 4)specialization of physicians and facilities ("practice makes perfect"). While again, none of these suggestions are new, they are worth repeating.

McKinnell also suggests increasing the supply of healthcare providers - however, the evidence on this is not encouraging - experts have found that a greater concentration of specialists is associated with greater procedure rates - even after taking into account variations in population. He also blames health insurance for the rapid increase in healthcare costs. However, this conclusion is undermined by the fact that despite much lower dental (vs. healthcare) coverage rates, dental costs there have increased MORE than general healthcare costs.

The bulk of the book, however, is devoted to defending the drug industry in general, and Pfizer in particular, from charges of overcharging. McKinnell points out that prescription drugs comprised about 10% of healthcare costs 40 years ago and today, that major drug advances have occurred in recent decades, and that generic drugs costs LESS in the U.S. than elsewhere. He also defends TV drug ads as helping to improve consume awareness of certain diseases - ignoring the issue of how the information is often seriously biased.

To be fair, however, McKinnell also points out commendable Phizer programs to help African nations and American nations with low incomes to buy drugs. Nonetheless, the overall focus on and bias towards defending drug companies, and the lack of originality (eg. see Leapfrog.org) regarding solutions severely limits the book's value.

"A Call to Action" would be much more valuable if McKinnell had included an idea from his own company's V.P. of Marketing - Dr. Peter Rost. Dr. Rost has concluded that "free market" in the drug industry equates with "free to charge whatever you want," and that this is not appropriate in the drug sector where often there are no alternatives to a patented drug ("60 Minutes, 6/5/05). Thus, Dr. Rost proposes that the U.S. allow "parallel trading" like exists in Europe - moving drugs from low-price areas to high-priced ones.

McKinnell also "forgot" to mention that he will be receiving an estimated $6.5 million/year in retirement, starting in 2008, despite a base pay of "only" $2.3 million in 2005, and a stock price that has declined 46% since he became CEO 5 years ago. (The Amex drug index dropped only 27% in the same period.) This fattest retirement package among all the sitting S&P 500 CEOs just MIGHT have something to do with the high cost of drugs. (BW, 2/6/06)

Big Pharma's Mea Non Culpa.......2005-08-10

If you buy the book "A Call to Action" by Pfizer's CEO, Dr. Hank McKinnell, with the notion that you will learn what this pharma executive believes the industry should do to reform itself, you are in for a big surprise. Notwithstanding an Amazon.com review of the book written by Peter Rost -- Pfizer's whistleblowing, soon-to-be non-head of Pfizer's endocrine care marketing unit and "Pharma's Black Knight" -- in which McKinnell is described as making "an impressive mea culpa," this book is actually a mea non culpa!

I had reason to expect to see suggestions for changes in the way pharma operates because at the very beginning of the book (page 13), McKinnell said that "if Pfizer wanted a seat at the table where important healthcare solutions were being hammered out, we had to earn it by acting differently, partnering differently, and communicating differently." Unfortunately, the rest of the book does NOT carry through on this theme and focuses instead on how consumers, society, employers, managed care, and government need to act differently.

Before getting to the action items, McKinnell tries to answer the most important questions put to the industry by critics and the public. These questions are:

* Why are Prescription Medicines So Expensive?
* Why Does the Industry Do So Much Advertising?
* Why Do Americans Pay More Than Canadians for Drugs?

Unfortunately, McKinnell sticks to the standard pharma industry playbook except on one or two occasions where he seems to offer contrary opinions.

Why are Prescription medicines So Expensive? It turns out, according to McKinell, that drugs are not as expensive as you think (silly you!) and that branded drugs are cheaper than the alternative - the old "an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure" defense.

In essence, his argument is, drugs are not as expensive as you think, cheaper alternatives are soon available, and drug profits are good and well deserved.

I should acknowledge at least one refreshingly contrary view expressed by McKinnell: an admission that it is a "fallacy to suggest that our industry...prices a product to recapture the R&D budget spent in development." He suggests instead that it is "investors' confidence in the risk and rewards" that drives prices.

McKinnell takes exception to critics such as Senator Bill Frist who claim that "increased direct-to-consumer advertising has helped fuel escalating drug costs." McKinell, like PhRMA, insists that "studies show there's no correlation between prices or price increases and DTC advertising."

McKinnell cites a study done in 2001 by The National Institute for Health Care Management entitled "Prescription Drug Expenditures in 2000: The Upward Trend Continues." McKinnell claims that this study shows that the "average price of drugs that are advertised is lower than those that aren't." The report, however, concludes that the increase in prescription drug spending is due, in part, to "more aggressive marketing of prescription drugs to both doctors and consumers."

Why Does the Industry Do So Much Advertising? McKinnell wants us to believe that DTC advertising is really education (he prefers ro call it "DTC education"). This is not a new mantra. Johnson & Johnson Chief Executive William Weldon, for example, said in an address to PhRMA: "Our communication with patients should really be thought of as Direct to Consumer Education."

Why Do Americans Pay More Than Canadians for Drugs? To be honest, I didn't read this chapter. According to Peter Rost, "McKinnell ... admits that drugs from Canadian pharmacies are safe ...[and] that 'perhaps pharmaceuticals represent too low a percentage of total healthcare spending' and he calls for 'price controls to be lifted' around the world, because "It is time for Canadians and others to pay their fair share."

Chapter 13 is the chocolate nugget of the book. In this chapter McKinnell lists 10 actions that he believes should be taken to reform the healthcare system in the U.S. Only one action on the list, Reform Direct-to-Consumer Advertising, is an action item for the drug industry. All the others are the responsibility of individuals, society, employers, managed care, and governments, not the pharmaceutical industry. Coincidentally, at least six actions would either benefit the pharmaceutical industry in general or highlight specific Pfizer initiatives. Rather than focus on these - you can read more about it in the Summer 2005 issue of Pharma Marketing News - I'd like to focus on Mickinnell's suggestions for reforming DTC.

Reform Direct-to-Consumer Advertising
This is the one action item mentioned in the book that applies directly to the pharmaceutical industry and can be said to require a change in the way it does business. Here's what McKinnel recommends for DTC:

* Improve communications about risk
* Provide information about alternative therapies available, including therapies that do not require a medicine
* Promote prevention and wellness, compliance with treatment regimens, and disease awareness
* Promote access to medicines and do a better job communicating about patient assistance programs
* Implement external oversight of DTC, including working with the FDA to get their views on advertisements before they are run

Mckinnell's action plan for DTC reform, however, does not go as far as some other emerging principles do. He does not suggest, for example, a 1-year moratorium on DTC for news drugs or to limit TV ads to the appropriate audience at the appropriate time of day (something that Congress may impose on ED ads). Both of these principles have been adopted by Bristol-Myers Squibb in its Direct-to-Consumer Communications Code. It should be noted, however, that McKinnell has said in another venue "No erectile dysfunction drug ads on television except for 10 pm to 6 am. I'm in favor of that." (Washingtonpost.com Viewpoint interview, 2004).

Needless to say, this book is not going to shake up the pharmaceutical industry nor does it offer much new defense against critics of the industry. It often sounds like an advertorial for Pfizer's programs. A Pfizer spokesman referred a reporter to McKinnell's book as the "best source" for the company's perspective on advertising. I wouldn't recommend it, however, as the best source for an action plan to reform drug advertising in general.

(...)

A catalyst for debate........2005-07-28

Look, there is a lot of misinformation in the media and in public forums about the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare in general. I've read and heard many stories that strike intensely emotional chords where the only purpose is to assign blame or seek out and expose the villainous (whatever moves the print I guess).

The issues in healthcare, both global and domestic, are complex. They are too complex to draw simplistic conclusions about them or apply simplistic solutions toward resolution. To add these issues in affect are intimately personal to almost everyone, almost everywhere.

We need experts who are closely related to the issues on a day-to-day basis to pull apart and reassemble our healthcare system, yes, in a pragmatic way but also with an unprecedented level of objectivity, creativity and compassion.

I believe in this book Dr. McKinnell succeeds in relaying my point above. He also provides the basic building blocks to stimulate thought and he takes us far enough down the path to suggest dramatic changes. I believe we have reached the point of dire necessity. To ignore this would be in my estimation disastrous.

READ THIS BOOK. Take the time to understand and do not draw your conclusions to quickly as some apparently have. I ask that you keep this basic thought in the back of your mind when reading: It takes on average 12 years to bring to market a new drug. Internalize this fact and apply it to your personal situation. Seek out the facts.

These are my own views, take them or leave them.

A Decent Book Raising Legitimate Questions.......2005-07-08

Like it or not, to discuss about the healthcare system this book raised some legitimate questions such as sick-care vs prevention-care, free riding on the global market, malpractice law suits, third party payment system, etc.

There are some industry and Pfizer PR stuffs in the book. Anyway, you cannot expect a current CEO of a company to suggest something that would hurt his company or industry. (By the way, Peter Rost seems to be an interesting exception. When he does this, you need to do some research on history and ask why.) Still Hank McKinnell discussed seriously about the overall structural loopholes and possible reforms of the system.

Don't simply blame the pharmaceutical industry as the only "bad" boy in the game. It's true that not everything the companies do seems "right" under the bright sunshine, but who does in capitalism? That's why the system is designed to have balances and checks, while money chasing is the ultimate incentive in the market and real life.

If you know fair amount of biomedical science, you understand how little we know and how difficult it is to develop a novel and really effective and safe treatment under current knowledge. Healthcare as a whole is a very large and complex system. Because of the sensitivity the system deals with, which is the length and quality of human lives, it is already under the toughest regulations among all industries.

If you are open to new ideas and want to seriously think about the healthcare, you may find this book useful to provide some perspectives.

MEA CULPA BY A BIG PHARMA CEO.......2005-07-05

Pfizer's CEO, Dr. Hank McKinnell has written an astonishing book in which he admits that he doesn't always believe in what he's saying [11], that drugs from Canadian pharmacies are safe [69] and that high US drug prices have nothing to do with past R&D expenses [46]. He also writes that "perhaps pharmaceuticals represent too low a percentage of total healthcare spending" [45] and he calls for "price controls to be lifted" around the world [64], because "It is time for Canadians and others to pay their fair share." [65]. He also calls for a doubling of drug patent life [185] which would result in a drastic reduction of new, low-priced generic drugs.

Dr. McKinnell starts his book with the surprising confession that he doesn't always believe in what he's saying. "They listened to my logic, but I could tell they weren't convinced, and to tell you the truth, I wasn't either." [11]

He also doesn't shy away from embarrassing facts, "Branded drug prices are anywhere from 25-100 percent more expensive in the United States." [50] He even admits, "Drugs from Canadian pharmacies are as safe as drugs from pharmacies in the United States." [69]

But his impressive mea culpa doesn't stop there. He slams everyone who makes a connection between drug prices and R&D. "It's a fallacy to suggest that our industry, or any industry, prices a product to recapture the R&D budget spent in development." [46]

Finally, in an astonishing intellectual somersault, Dr. McKinnell claims that "price controls always make prices higher in the long run." [64] And since he wants to give people lower drug prices, by eliminating price controls, he writes, "Starting with pharmaceuticals, I call for price controls to be lifted in Canada and elsewhere." [64]

Dr. McKinnell ends his book with a wonderful quote by Gandhi, for those who desire change. "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." [193] Dr. McKinnell just doesn't realize that he has become "them."

Dr. Peter Rost is a Vice President of Marketing at Pfizer. The views expressed here are his own opinions.

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Children And Young People Who Sexually Abuse Others: Current Development and Practice Responses

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Children And Young People Who Sexually Abuse Others: Current Development and Practice Responses
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Children and Young People Who Sexually Abuse Others provides a detailed and coherent account and analysis of the current state of research, policy and practice in relation to this service user group, providing an invaluable resource for those new to the field, as well as for those with more experience. This latest edition - which includes both new and revised chapters - addresses context and systems issues, assessment and planning, interventions and practitioner issues. Topics covered include:
· policy, law, organizational contexts and service provision in the UK;
· developing a comprehensive inter-agency system of response;
· the management of sexual behavior problems in schools and in placements;
· assessment issues and resilience based approaches;
· the abuse of information technologies such as mobile phones and the Internet;
· methods of intervention with children and young people and their families;
· unconscious processes in therapeutic workand practitioner support.
Written in a rigorous and accessible manner, Children and Young People Who Sexually Abuse Others addresses key aspects of working with children and young people with sexually harmful behaviors. It will be useful to a wide audience, including students, experienced professionals at front-line and managerial levels, and academics with an interest in this area of work.

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