July 17 marks World Day for International Justice. Genocide, crimes against humanity, war, and other aggressions, are some threatening issues discussed on the day to ensure peace and well-being of the world. Here’s a mix of books that look at both social and legal justice.
📚 On Fire: The Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
📚 Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats by Maya Goodfellow
📚 Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent by Priyamvada Gopal
📚 This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook by Extinction Rebellion
📚 Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor
📚 Rhodes Must Fall: The Struggle to Decolonise the Racist Heart of Empire by editors Roseanne Chantiluke, Brian Kwoba and Athinangamso Nkopo
📚 A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things by Raj Patel
📚 Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
📚 When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors
📚 The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions by Jason Hickel
📚 The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill
📚 Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
📚 Security and Crime: Converging Perspectives on a Complex World by Alison Wakefield
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