{"product_id":"the-noble-banner-of-human-rights-essays-in-memory-of-tom-lantos-9789004376953","title":"The Noble Banner of Human Rights: Essays in Memory of Tom Lantos","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom Lantos was a Hungarian-born U.S. Congressman remembered for raising awareness and respect for human rights around the world. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1980 becoming the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in the Congress. In 1983 he co-founded and chaired the Congressional Human Rights Caucus renamed in his honour as the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. With articles authored by leading academics this Festschrift remembers Tom Lantos’s extensive human rights activism on the human rights themes he was passionately involved with around the world. The essays offer new insights on a range of topical human rights issues, such as human rights education, religious freedom, post-conflict justice, minority rights and identity politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTribute   Joe Biden  Preface   Katrina Lantos Swett  Foreword   Anna-Mária Bíró  Notes on Contributors    1 The Human Rights Legacy of Congressman Tom Lantos   Robert R. King   Photo Section   2 Religious Freedom in Iran and the Middle East: The Case of the Baháʾís in Selected Countries   Geoffrey Cameron and Nazila Ghanea  3 Friends in High Places? The Externalisation of Hungarian Minority Rights Claims   Myra A. Waterbury  4 Dealing with the Past in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Truth, Memory and Identity after Atrocity   Edin Hodžić  5 Human Rights Education and Training: Global Standards and Efforts Underway in China   Gudmundur Alfredsson and Zhang Wei  6 Minority Rights in Myanmar: Negotiating Identity Politics and Human Rights   Andrew Fagan  7 Sudan: A Country of Many Identities Subdued to One   Rania El Rajji  8 Contemporary Forms of the Oldest Hatred: Modern Antisemitism in the Visegrád Countries   Ildikó Barna, Anikó Félix, Grigorij Mesežnikov, Rafal Pankowski and Veronika Šternová","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210757202263,"sku":"9789004376953","price":208.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-noble-banner-of-human-rights-essays-in-memory-of-tom-lantos-9789004376953","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}