by Jean Ziegler · Bertelsmann Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783570550199
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«Das Imperium der Schande» is Jean Ziegler's essay, published by Bertelsmann Verlag in paperback (318 pages, in German).
Jean Ziegler, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, denounces that transnational corporations have erected an empire founded on hunger and the debt of the most disadvantaged. The book analyses the structural inequality of the world order and the power mechanisms that perpetuate poverty in the globalised economy.
The work, subtitled «Der Kampf gegen Armut und Unterdrückung», was published in 2007 as a German translation of the French original «L'Empire de la honte».
This work is for readers interested in social criticism, global economy and anti-globalisation movements.
Jean Ziegler is a Swiss former professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris, and former vice-president of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council. He was previously Member of the Swiss Parliament for the Social Democrats from 1981 to 1999. He has also held several positions with the United Nations, especially as Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food from 2000 to 2008, and as a member of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council from 2008 to 2012. Ziegler has authored numerous works, is a lecturer, and is well known for this sentence: "A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child."
