The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement by Laber, Jeri
The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement by Laber, Jeri

The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement

After Jeri Laber earned a Master's degree in Russian studies at Columbia University, she became a part-time...
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Author: Jeri Laber
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The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement by Laber, Jeri

The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement

CHF 30.43
The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement by Laber, Jeri

The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement

CHF 30.43
Author: Jeri Laber
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
After Jeri Laber earned a Master's degree in Russian studies at Columbia University, she became a part-time writer and editor and a full-time wife and mother. Then one day in 1973 she read an article about torture that altered her life and subsequently the lives of countless others around the world.

The Courage of Strangers tells how Laber became a founder and the executive director of Helsinki Watch, which grew to be Human Rights Watch, one of the world's most influential organizations. She describes her secret trips to unwelcoming countries, where she met with some of the great political activists of the time. She also recalls what it was like to come of age professionally in an era when women were supposed to follow rather than lead; how she struggled to balance work and family; and how her fight for human rights informed her own intellectual, spiritual and emotional development.

This story of the birth of the human rights movement is also a sweeping history of dissent and triumph in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Elegantly written, full of passion, humor and political wisdom, it is exciting history as well as a moving, entertaining, inspiring story of a woman's life.


Author: Jeri Laber
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 02/16/2005
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.08w x 1.04d
ISBN: 9781586482886

About the Author
Jeri Laber's articles have appeared in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times and many other newspapers and magazines. She is the co-author of A Nation is Dying: Afghanistan Under the Soviets. In recognition of her human rights work, she was awarded the Order of Merit by President Vaclav Havel on behalf of the Czech Republic. She is also the recipient of a Research and Writing Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Laber lives in New York City and in Walton, New York.
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