Book Notes

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Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights: Towards Best Practice

Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights: Towards Best Practice
Edited by Dr. Purna Sen

London, UK: Commonwealth Secretariat. 2009. 138pp.

Coca's Gone: Of Might and Right in the Huallaga Post-Boom

Coca's Gone: Of Might and Right in the Huallaga Post-Boom
By Richard Kernaghan

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2009. 308pp.

Muslims in Global Politics: Identities, Interests, and Human Rights

Muslims in Global Politics: Identities, Interests, and Human Rights
By Mahmood Monshipouri

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2009. 325pp.
Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa

Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa
By Robert Paarlberg

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2008. 235pp.
Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward

Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward
Edited by Laura Reichenbach & Mindy Jane Roseman

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2009. 292pp.
Defining Civil and Political Rights: The Jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee

Defining Civil and Political Rights: The Jurisprudence of the
United Nations Human Rights Committee
By Alex Conte & Richard Burchill

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. 2009. 359pp.

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