# On Liberty

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- Book: [On Liberty](https://www.bookquiver.com/shami-chakrabarti/on-liberty) ([On Liberty.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/shami-chakrabarti/on-liberty.md))
- Authors: [Shami Chakrabarti](https://www.bookquiver.com/shami-chakrabarti)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 6 h 10 min
- Narrated by: Shami Chakrabarti
- ISBN: 978-02-4124-382-4
- Published: 2015-10-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 6 h 10 min

## Description

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of On Liberty, written and read by Shami Chakrabarti. On 11 September 2001, our world changed. The West's response to 9/11 has morphed into a period of exception. Governments have decided that the rule of law and human rights are often too costly. In On Liberty , Shami Chakrabarti - who joined Liberty, the UK's leading civil rights organization, on 10 September 2001 - explores why our fundamental rights and freedoms are indispensable. She shows, too, the unprecedented pressures those rights are under today. Drawing on her own work in high-profile campaigns, from privacy laws to anti-terror legislation, Chakrabarti shows the threats to our democratic institutions and why our rights are paramount in upholding democracy.