San Antonio College Library

Two troubled women flee a past that haunts them. The daughter of a murdered Black Panther revolutionary gives shelter to a suicidal young woman. Their differences bring a new vision of themselves, as survivors and heroes. Together they move towards a new horizon.

"Creating Human Rights offers the first systematic study of a pioneering women's refugee movement and its challenge, as an international trigger case, to more conventional paths toward human rights policy development. Lisa S. Alfredson argues that such cases, which unfold in the context of a specific country and have profound impacts on international human rights efforts, have been neglected in research and pose a challenge to recent theorizing on...