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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The Right to Sex
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The Right to Sex

Amia Srinivasan

2021 · 2022 edition

276 pages

Rifqa
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Rifqa

Mohammed El-Kurd

Published 2021

100 pages

Everybody
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Everybody

Olivia Laing

Published 2021

368 pages

Putin's Russia
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Putin's Russia

Darryl Cunningham

2021 · 2022 edition

164 pages

Black and Blue
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Black and Blue

Veronica Gorrie

Published 2021

240 pages

The Inevitable
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The Inevitable

Katie Engelhart

Published 2021

352 pages

Profit and Punishment
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Profit and Punishment

Tony Messenger, 托尼·梅森格

2021 · 2024 edition

272 pages

The Wake Up
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The Wake Up

Michelle MiJung Kim

Published 2021

288 pages

The Burning
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The Burning

Tim Madigan

Published 2021

320 pages

(M)otherhood
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(M)otherhood

Pragya Agarwal

2021 · 2022 edition

384 pages

On Property
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On Property

Rinaldo Walcott

Published 2021

96 pages

Controlling Women
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Controlling Women

Kathryn Kolbert, Julie F. Kay

Published 2021

304 pages