Throwing Stones at the Moon
Throwing Stones at the Moon

Author: Sibylla Brodzinsky

Publisher: McSweeney's

Published: 2012-09-12

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 193636591X

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For nearly five decades, Colombia has been embroiled in internal armed conflict among guerrilla groups, paramilitary militias, and the country’s own military. Civilians in Colombia have to make their lives despite the threat of torture, kidnapping, and large-scale massacres—and more than four million have had to flee their homes. The oral histories in Throwing Stones at the Moon describe the most widespread of Colombia’s human rights crises: forced displacement. Speakers recount life before displacement, the reasons for their flight, and their struggle to rebuild their lives. Among the narrators: JULIA, a hospital union leader whose fight against corruption led to a brutal attempt on her life. In 2009, assassins tracked her to her home and stabbed her seven times in the face and chest. Since the attack, Julia has undergone eight facial reconstructive surgeries, and continues to live in hiding. DANNY, who at eighteen joined a right-wing paramilitary’s enormous training camp in the Eastern Plains of Colombia. Initially lured by the promise of quick money, Danny soon realized his mistake and escaped to Ecuador. He describes his harrowing escape and his struggle to survive as a refugee with two young children to support.

Crisis In Colombia
Crisis In Colombia

Author: Bryan Marlowe

Publisher: Memoirs Publishing

Published: 2013-09-01

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 186151087X

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Mac is back! Following on from Bryan Marlowe’s thrilling Recalled to Arms and Leaving Mercy to Heaven, Eli (Mac) Murray, an embittered ex-SAS captain and his wife Sarah Shahar, a former Israeli Army captain attached to Mossad (Israel’s Secret Service), who first joined forces to fight a fanatical terrorist group in North Africa and the Middle East, are thrust back into the world of international intrigue, abduction and murder, when actors and technicians from the Omega Film Company are abducted and held for ransom in Colombia by junta overlord, Diego Contrero Moretta. With the deadline for payment fast approaching and Moretta not known for showing mercy, the race is on for Mac and Sarah to save the innocent abductees. Bryan Marlowe’s novels are fiction, but he makes no bones about drawing on his experiences with the Royal Air Force, the Diplomatic Service, the Police, his work as a newspaper columnist, his voluntary service with Victim and Witness Support and his travels to some very unlikely places to take a holiday.

War Without Quarter
War Without Quarter

Author: Human Rights Watch (Organization)

Publisher: Human Rights Watch

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9781564321879

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The laws of war and Colombia

Immigration and Asylum [3 volumes]
Immigration and Asylum [3 volumes]

Author: Matthew J. Gibney

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2005-06-21

Total Pages: 1124

ISBN-13: 1576077977

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A comprehensive and timely examination of the history and current status of immigrants and refugees—their stories, the events that led to their movement, and the place of these movements in contemporary history and politics. Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present is an accessible and up-to-date introduction to the key concepts, terms, personalities, and real-world issues associated with the surge of immigration from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. It focuses on the United States, but is also the first encyclopedic work on the subject that reflects a truly global perspective. With contributions from the world's foremost authorities on the subject, Immigration and Asylum offers nearly 200 entries organized around four themes: immigration and asylum; the major migrating groups around the world; expulsions and other forced population movements; and the politics of migration. In addition to basic entries, the work includes in-depth essays on important trends, events, and current conditions. There is no better resource for exploring just how profoundly the voluntary and forced movement of asylum seekers and refugees has transformed the world—and what that transformation means to us today.

Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy, Interpersonal/Humanistic/Existential
Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy, Interpersonal/Humanistic/Existential

Author: Florence W. Kaslow

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2004-01-30

Total Pages: 768

ISBN-13: 0471214396

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Now available in paperback. In this volume, theoretical frames, modalities, and applicationsare examined for Interpersonal/Humanistic/Existentialpsychotherapy. Topics range from "Culturally SensitivePsychotherapy with Children" to "Spiritually Sensitive Therapy" and"Existential Treatment with HIV/AIDS clients."

Even Silence Has an End
Even Silence Has an End

Author: Ingrid Betancourt

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-09-21

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 1101442913

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"Betancourt's riveting account...is an unforgettable epic of moral courage and human endurance." -Los Angeles Times In the midst of her campaign for the Colombian presidency in 2002, Ingrid Betancourt traveled into a military-controlled region, where she was abducted by the FARC, a brutal terrorist guerrilla organization in conflict with the government. She would spend the next six and a half years captive in the depths of the Colombian jungle. Even Silence Has an End is her deeply moving and personal account of that time. The facts of her story are astounding, but it is Betancourt's indomitable spirit that drives this very special narrative-an intensely intelligent, thoughtful, and compassionate reflection on what it really means to be human.