The Woman They Could Not Silence
Kate Moore
Published 2021
560 pages
The most popular human rights books of 2021
Human rights books are about the rights every person holds and the struggle to defend them. The law and its history are explained, alongside reports from the front lines and the stories of campaigners. Read them to understand what is at stake and what has been won. This list shows the ones first published in 2021.
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People Love Dead Jews Reports from a Haunted Present
Dara Horn
2021 · 2022 edition
168 pages
The Transgender Issue An Argument for Justice
Shon Faye
Published 2021
291 pages
We Are Bellingcat Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
Eliot Higgins
Published 2021
272 pages
Black Birds in the Sky The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Brandy Colbert
Published 2021
216 pages
Everybody A Book about Freedom
Olivia Laing
Published 2021
272 pages
Made in China A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods
Amelia Pang
Published 2021
288 pages
Carry on Reflections for a New Generation
Andrew Young, John Lewis, Kabir Sehgal
Published 2021
220 pages
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry
Paula Yoo
2021 · 2023 edition
392 pages
The Perfect Police State An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
Geoffrey Cain
Published 2021
289 pages
Mala's Cat A Memoir of Survival in World War II
Mala Kacenberg
2021 · 2022 edition
288 pages
Carved in Ebony Lessons from the Black Women who Shape Us
Jasmine L. Holmes
Published 2021
192 pages
Power of Women
Denis Mukwege
2021 · 2022 edition
320 pages
What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans And/Or Nonbinary
Juno Dawson
2021 · 2022 edition
336 pages
The Wake Up
Michelle MiJung Kim
Published 2021
256 pages
Languages of Truth
Salman Rushdie
Published 2021
416 pages
The Other Talk Reckoning with Our White Privilege
Brendan Kiely
Published 2021
253 pages
Don't Forget Us Here
Mansoor Adayfi
Published 2021
1 page
The Inevitable Dispatches on the Right to Die
Katie Engelhart
Published 2021
352 pages
In the Camps China's High-tech Penal Colony
Darren Byler
Published 2021
159 pages
The Chief Witness Escape from China's Modern-day Concentration Camps
Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius
Published 2021
308 pages
Central America's Forgotten History Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
Aviva Chomsky
2021 · 2022 edition
304 pages
Controlling Women What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom
Kathryn Kolbert, Julie F. Kay
Published 2021
296 pages
Proof of Life Twenty Days on the Hunt for a Missing Person in the Middle East
Daniel Levin
Published 2021
288 pages