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The article focuses on the arrest of Harry Wu, an activist for human rights in China. Wu was arrested for speaking out against the Soviet invasion of Hungary and criticizing the Chinese Communist Party. In 1960, he was sent to the Laogai and imprisoned in twelve different forced-labor camps around the country and survived beatings, torture, as well as starvation. Wu arrived in U.S. in 1985 and began writing his experiences and document the human rights abuses of the Laogai in 1990s.

Chapter 3 of the book "Afghan Women: Identity & Invasion," is presented. It explores the catastrophic consequences of the bombing campaign of the American and British forces in Afghanistan. It highlights the social condition of the Afghan people and the role of Provisional Reconstruction Teams (PRTs), a mixture of soldiers and civilian aid workers in Afghanistan.

Chapter 16 of the book "Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean" is presented. It focuses on the life and journey of Alaíde Foppa, a human rights activist, a college professor, and founder of "Fem," the first Latin American feminist magazine. It presents several conversations and stories for social justice from the dynamics scholars, and writers. It stated that testimonial is important in maintaining and developing the practice of international human rights.

The article presents information on several people who have contributed in creation of the book "Honour: Crimes, Paradigms and Violence Against Women," is presented. Some of the contributors include human rights activist Nazand Begikhani, Latin American lawyer Juliana Belloque, and Italian lawyer Maria Gabriella Bettiga-Boukerbout.

The article presents a speech by Yuri Kochiyama, a committed activist against injustice, entitled "Consciousness Is Power," presented at the annual Asian American Convocation in Providence, Rhode Island on November 3, 1995, about the history of the Asian-American movement, celebration of their culture and heritage as well as the fight towards racism.

Chapter 8 of the book "The Woman in the Body" is presented. It examines whether women's efforts to resist procedures that they experience as intrusions on their autonomy resemble the efforts of workers. It claims that childbirth activist literature can be seen as guides to self-defense in the hospital, and the methods women have developed are strikingly similar to those that workers have tried in the workplace. It discusses the analogy between workers and women giving birth.

The article provides an assessment of the political rights and civil liberties of the people in East Timor as of 2000. East Timor began 1999 under Indonesian control and ended the year as a non-self-governing territory under a United Nations (UN) Transitional Administration in East Timor, headed by a senior United Nations official, Sergio Vierra de Mello. Beginning on September 4, 1999, when the UN announced the referendum results, militia and soldiers began targeting independence activists and effectively forced journalists, human rights workers, and UN workers to leave East Timor. Following Indonesia's January 1999 decision to hold a referendum on self-determination in East Timor, the militia began a systematic campaign of extrajudicial killings.

A biography of Basma Abdel Aziz, a writer, is presented. She was born in 1976 in Cairo, Egypt and studied at Ein Shams University. She then enrolled at Institute of Arab Research and Studies. It mentions that Basma Abdel Aziz is also a researcher, human rights activist, and writer. Many of her works examine the effects of authoritarian governments and police violence on individuals and society.

A section of part II of the book "Airwaves" is presented. It profiles Napoleon Holmes, a champion and advocate for the poor, the forgotten, the misunderstood, the despised, the friendless, the hurting, the afflicted, and especially those in trouble. He was an advocate giving direction and guidance to civil rights leaders and civil servants.

A profile of Calvin W. Ruck, member of the Canadian senate, is presented. It mentions that Ruck, who served as Commissioner of the Supreme Court in 1971, spent many years as an activist on behalf of minority rights and racial equality in Nova Scotia. It also emphasizes that as member of the Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NSAACP), he organized meetings in 1950 and 1960 to inform the public of their rights.

Information about black and human rights activist Donald Moore is presented.

The article focuses on the arrest of Flora Brovina, an Albanian poet, doctor and women's activist in Pristina, Serbia in April 1999. Brovina was sentenced to twelve-years' imprisonment on charges of alleged links with the Kosovo Liberation Army and was eventually released in November 1, 2000. It states that she was held for her public protests against Serb human rights abuses in Kosovo.

The article focuses on the arrest and imprisonment of Thich Tue Sy, the Vietnamese scholar, philosopher and writer. He was arrested along with 11 other Buddhist monks and nuns in March 1984 after being accused of membership of the illegal organization, National Front for Human Rights. He was sentenced to death in 1988 but was later converted to 20 years of imprisonment. However, he was released from prison in 1998.

The article focuses on the persecution of Sihem Ben Sedrine, journalist and human right activist in Tunisia. It states that Sedrine has suffered persecution for her writing and editing for over many years. Furthermore, she became the founder and editor of the online magazine "Kalima" and the country's spokesperson for the National Freedom Council. It states that Poets, Essayists and Novelists (PEN) mounted an international campaign on her behalf to celebrate International Women's Day in 2005.

A profile of African nationalist John Mensah Sarbah is presented. It explains that Sarbah, who was the son of Gold Coast merchant John Sarbah, helped to organize the Aborigines' Rights Protection Society (ARPS) and was influential on Ghanaian law, politics, and education. Moreover, Sarbah also founded the Dutton Scholarship at Taunton School in Somerset, England for his younger brother and helped revive the Collegiate School in Cape Coast, Ghana.

A brief profile of Rosemary Sadlier, an activist who published two books on the role of Africans in Canadian history, is presented.

Information about public officer Samuel Jackman Prescod is presented. He was born in Barbados in 1805 and became a strong activist of social justice and racial equality. He formed a Liberal Party in the House of Assembly in 1843 and developed "The Liberal" newspaper. He also served as a judge in the Court of Appeal.

Information about human rights and social justice advocator Clement Osbourne Payne is presented. He was born in Trinidad in 1904 and studied at the Bay Street Boys' Elementary School. He worked as a junior clerk in 1927 and became an intense orator. He died in 1941 due to his activism works but despite the incident, he was remembered as one of the individuals who brought changes in modern British West Indies.

A brief profile of Harry Gairey, one of the leading civil rights activists who was born in Jamaica and then immigrated to Canada is presented.

The article profiles writer Roger Smith who taught in junior high school and series consultant Bruce Russett. Smith has journeyed in the Middle East and Central America and has joined in organizations devoted to peace and human rights issues. On the other hand, professor Russett is a dean of political science at Yale University and editor of the "Journal of Conflict Resolution" since 1973. Russett has been appointed president of the International Studies Association.