In den letzten fünfzig Jahren wurden weltweit mehr Mädchen aus dem einfachen Grund getötet, dass sie das falsche Geschlecht haben, als Männer in allen Kriegen des 20. Jahrhunderts zusammen. Dieses routinierte Abschlachten übertrifft alle Genozide. Die Gleichbehandlung der Geschlechter wird die große moralische Herausforderung des 21. Jahrhunderts sein. Starke Geschichten vom Mut im Kampf gegen das Entsetzliche - unentbehrlicher Lesestoff für jeden Weltbürger.

Zusatztext Khaleid Hosseini! author of The Kite Runner Informationen zum Autor Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Klappentext Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century combined. More girls are killed in this routine 'gendercide' in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth, it was totalitarianism. In the twenty-first, Kristof and WuDunn demonstrate, it will be the struggle for gender equality in the developing world. Fierce, moral, pragmatic, full of amazing stories of courage and inspiration, HALF THE SKY is essential reading for every global citizen. A call to arms against the most pervasive human rights violation of the 21st century: the oppression of women in the developing world. Zusammenfassung A call to arms against the most pervasive human rights violation of the 21st century: the oppression of women in the developing world.

Khaleid Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner

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A call to arms against the most pervasive human rights violation of the 21st century: the oppression of women in the developing world.

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Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century combined. More girls are killed in this routine 'gendercide' in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century.

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth, it was totalitarianism. In the twenty-first, Kristof and WuDunn demonstrate, it will be the struggle for gender equality in the developing world. Fierce, moral, pragmatic, full of amazing stories of courage and inspiration, HALF THE SKY is essential reading for every global citizen.