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UNINA9910787746703321 |
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Autore |
Leggott Michele J |
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Mirabile dictu / / Michele Leggott |
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Auckland, N.Z. : , : Auckland University Press, , 2009 |
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©2009 |
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1-77558-594-8 |
1-86940-619-2 |
1-77558-124-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (260 p.) |
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New Zealand poetry - Women authors |
New Zealand poetry - 21st century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Poems, some previously published in journals and anthologies. |
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Cover; Title Page; Dedication; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of Contents; work for the living; poppies and plane trees; mirabile dictu; te matau / the hook; great readers; te ahi tapu rākau / jacob's fire song; tell your mama; gala apples; taking it seriously; nice feijoas; slow reader; elevador; the liberty of parrots; recombination; the darwin lecture; teatro della limonaia; il mantello / the cloak; rangehoo; nonpareil; te hākari / the feast; tricky attractions; ascensore; passaggiata; primavera; redentore; tessuti; calypso; smoke tree; everywhere instantly; opening the tomb; untitled figure |
molly and friendsshore space; la chaloupe / the boat; bad economic news; heart of the rio grande; a civilian widow; vernacular serenade; letter to dulcie jackson; gulielmus igitur; te hāhi / the connexion; their osseous remains; the year of the elephant; language and event; dear stormbird; town and country; family sightings on the mainland; one for murray; grand moonlight excursion and dance; timaru march 30 1901; keep this book clean; reading the world; peri poietikes; wonderful to relate; winter 1928; more like wellington every day; Copyright |
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In 2008 Michele Leggott wrote a poem a week to record her term as the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate. In her collection of poems Mirabile Dictu (amazing to say), she relates the wonders of those 12 |
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months, which took her to Matahiwi Marae in Hawke's Bay to receive her brilliant sky-blue, specially carved tokotoko, Te Kikorangi; through a time of mourning for and celebration of former poet laureate Hone Tuwhare; to Florence, across a ?poetic bridge'; and to Wellington ?hand to hand' with four other laureates. With her is Te Kikorangi as guide and companion ? ?almost as good as the blu |
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UNINA9910969159303321 |
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Autore |
Smith-Cannoy Heather M |
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Insincere commitments : human rights treaties, abusive states, and citizen activism / / Heather M. Smith-Cannoy |
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Washington D.C., : Georgetown University Press, 2012 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (221 p.) |
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Human rights - International cooperation |
Human rights - Government policy |
Human rights monitoring |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- A new approach to commitment and compliance -- Patterns of commitment -- Causes of commitment -- Individual petitions in Eastern Europe: racial discrimination in Slovakia -- Hungary and the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women -- The Human Rights Committee in Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan -- The causes and consequences of commitment reconsidered. |
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Paradoxically, many governments that persistently violate human rights have also ratified international human rights treaties that empower their citizens to file grievances against them at the United Nations. Therefore, citizens in rights-repressing regimes find themselves with the potentially invaluable opportunity to challenge their government's |
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abuses. Why would rights-violating governments ratify these treaties and thus afford their citizens this right? Can the mechanisms provided in these treaties actually help promote positive changes in human rights?Insincere Commitments uses both quant |
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