Would You Believe...the Helsinki Accords Changed the World?: Human Rights And, for Decades, Security in Europe - Couverture souple

Osnos, Peter L. W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1735996882 ISBN 13 : 9781735996882

Editeur : Platform Books, LLC, 2025

Synopsis

The
fascinating saga of how an underestimated diplomatic accord in 1975 changed
history in the next half-century: highlighting human rights and security in
Europe and leading to the creation of Human Rights Watch, one of the world's
leading NGOs.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Peter L.W.Osnos was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) India on
October 13, 1943. He arrived in Los Angeles by ship with his parents and
brother in February 1944. He was raised in New York and attended high school in
Connecticut, college at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachisetts and
graduate school at Columbia University., He worked as an assistant to the
journalist I.F.Stone and joined The Washington Post in 1966. At the Post,
Osnos served as a correspondent in Vietnam, the Soviet Union and London. He was
also the national and foreign editor. In 1984, Osnos joined Random House as a
senior editor and later associate publisher as well as publisher of the Times
Books imprint. In 1997, he founded PublicAffairs in partnership with the
Perseus Books Group and served as publisher and editor at large until 2020. He
was the founder of the Caravan Project on the development of digital and audio
publishing, author of a weekly media column called Platform which was hosted by
The Century Foundation and appeared on TheAtlantic.com and in 2020, launched
Platform Books LLC with his wife, Susan Sherer Osnos. The first book was
"An Especially Good View: Watching History Happen" released in May,
2021. It is Osnos' memoir, distributed by Two Rivers/Ingram. He is also
the editor of "George Soros: A Life in Full" (Platform Books/Harvard Business
Review Press, 2022). He is the father of two children, Evan Osnos and Katherine
Sanford, and grandfather of five. He and his wife now live in New
York City and Lakeside, Michigan.

Holly Cartner is a graduate of Columbia Law School, director
of Helsinki Watch and Europe and Central Asia Division of Human Rights Watch,
as well as a . consultant to human rights and social justice organizations. She
is Chair of the Advisory Board for Open Society's Human Rights Initiative.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Platform Books, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1735996882
• ISBN 13: 9781735996882
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible