Book Publication
Der schmale Grat der Hoffnung (The Narrow Line of Hope)
Meine gewonnenen und verlorenen Kämpfe und die, die wir gemeinsam gewinnen werden (My Battles Won and Lost and the Ones We Will Win Together)
Hardback Edition, C. Bertelsmann
Publication: 13 March 2017
For many years, Jean Ziegler has been campaigning on behalf of the United Nations with all his strength for the people Frantz Fanon called the damned of the earth. First as UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, then as Vice-President of the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council, he fights against hunger and malnutrition, for human rights, and for peace.
Jean Ziegler reports on these struggles, his successes – but also his defeats – from direct experience, illuminates the imperial machinations behind the democratic scenes, analyses the strategies of the prey hunters of globalised finance capital. In Victory and Defeat, the unforgiving contemporary witness asks himself in view of the murderous games of the powerful of this world: What can we do so that the vision of a world organisation inspired by Roosevelt and Churchill becomes political practice and the United Nations is enabled to secure peace, human rights and a subsistence level for the peoples of the world.
Last but not least, the unwavering fighter for law and justice sends us a message of hope with this lively, passionate and very personal book.