by Jean Ziegler · Fayard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213623993
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«L'empire de la honte» is the geopolitics essay by Jean Ziegler, published by Fayard in paperback (323 pages, in French).
Jean Ziegler analyses the refeudalisation of the world: large transcontinental corporations subject the peoples of the Southern hemisphere through debt and hunger. He denounces the privatisation of water, union repression and the imposition of GMOs, and calls for a revolution of consciences and the pursuit of happiness.
The book belongs to Fayard's Documents series and includes bibliographic references. It was published in March 2005.
Readers interested in geopolitics, international economics and human rights will find a critical analysis of North-South relations.
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."
