From Cambodia to Israel-Palestine, nine stories from individuals standing up for their rights.

How do people keep going against all the odds in their efforts to change the world? How do they retain their faith in the future even in the most desperate conditions?

Youk Chhang: who has dedicated his life to laying bare the atrocities of Cambodia's Khemer Rouge.

Malalai Joya: one of the first women elected to Afghanistan's parliament, now banned for denouncing her warlord fellow MPs.

Harry Wu: survivor of and campaigner against China's laogai labor camps.

Chaeli Mycroft: a teenage girl with cerebral palsy whose campaign for a disability rights has lit up Africa.

Sompop Jantraka: Thai campaigner who has rescued thousands of girls and women from the sex trade.

Oscar Arias: Nobel Peace Prize winner and Preseident of Costa Rica, which has no army.

Monireh Baradaran: who survived years of imprisonment and torture under Iran's theocratic regime.

Bassam Aramin: Palestinian peace campaigner whose daughter was shot by Israeli troops.

Rami Elhanan: Israeli peace campaigner whose daughter was killed in a suicide bombing.

Meet nine remarkable individuals, who tell their own inspiring life stories and are blazing trails for others to follow.

Publisher: World Changing / New Internationalist
Author: Peter Braaksma
ISBN:1906523266
EAN:9781906523268
Publish Date: 2009-09-30
Binding: Paperback
280 pages