Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights

By Allen D. Hertzke

Book Overview

With the dawning of the 21st Century a new human rights movement burst unexpectedly onto the global stage. Initially motivated by concern for persecuted Christians around the world, unlikely alliances emerged, and the movement grew to encompass a broader quest for human rights. Now, American evangelicals provide grassroots muscle for causes joined by a wide array of activists-from Jews to Catholics, feminists to Pentecostals, African American leaders to Tibetan Buddhists-in the most important human rights movement since the end of the Cold War.

Given unprecedented insider access, author Allen D. Hertzke charts the rise of this faith-based movement for global human rights and tells the compelling story of the personalities and forces, clashes and compromises, strategies and protests that shape it. In doing so, Hertzke shows that by bringing attention to issues like religious persecution, Sudanese atrocities, North Korean gulags, and sex trafficking, the movement is shaping American foreign policy and international relations in ways unimaginable a decade ago.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742547329
• ISBN13: 9780742547322
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Guess Who Entered the Human Rights Campaign?

Guess Who Entered the Human Rights Campaign? A Review of Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights, by Allen D. Hertzke. TRUE OR FALSE? October, 2000. In support of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Bill Bennett gives a speech in a Senate caucus room and the next speaker reads a supportive statement from Gloria Steinem. One observer notes, "Bill Bennett and Gloria Steinem and Chuck Colson...

Eye-opening to the Possibilities...

of what Christian religious conservatives can accomplish if they choose targets that do not generate widespread popular counter-resistance and are given better advice in terms of political strategy. I particularly enjoyed the passage that describes how the Ethiopian Christian who had endured torture and imprisonment astounded Michael Horowitz with his willingness to forgive and belief that if the dictator of Ethiopia truly...