Public international law: human rights

International Development Law: Rule of Law, Human Rights, and Global Finance provides a tightly interwoven, well-organized, multi-disciplinary approach to the complex legal issues underlying sustainable international development.

Society is largely blind-often willfully blind-to the ongoing violations of international human rights law when it comes to the treatment of persons with mental disabilities.

On September 11, 2001 terrorism instantly became the defining issue of our age.

When considering the structures that drive the global diffusion of human rights norms, Brian Greenhill argues that we need to look beyond institutions that are explicitly committed to human rights and instead focus on the dense web of international government organizations (IGOs)-some big, some small; some focused on human rights; some not-that has arisen in the last two generations.

Failings of the International Court of Justice critically examines the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice.

How can children grow to realize their inherent rights and respect the rights of others?

The Sovereignty of Human Rights advances a legal theory of international human rights that defines their nature and purpose in relation to the structure and operation of international law.

The Sovereignty of Human Rights advances a legal theory of international human rights that defines their nature and purpose in relation to the structure and operation of international law.

Fact-finding is at the heart of human rights advocacy, and is often at the center of international controversies about alleged government abuses.

Fact-finding is at the heart of human rights advocacy, and is often at the center of international controversies about alleged government abuses.

One of the most ambitious legacies of the 20th century was the universal commitment to ensure freedom from want as a human right.

Most people believe that the right to privacy is inherently at odds with the right to free speech.

Many years after the United States initiated a military response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, the nation continues to prosecute what it considers an armed conflict against transnational terrorist groups.

Many years after the United States initiated a military response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, the nation continues to prosecute what it considers an armed conflict against transnational terrorist groups.

How can children grow to realize their inherent rights and respect the rights of others?

The role of international law in global politics is as poorly understood as it is important.

Regardless of how the presidency of Donald J.

Regardless of how the presidency of Donald J.

Although the young Edward VI's death in 1553 led to resounding defeat for his Protestant allies, his reign has a significance out of all proportion to its brief six-year span.

THE CASE OF THE POPE delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world.

Children's rights law is a relatively young but rapidly developing discipline.

From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, discover the most significant speeches of the modern era!

Geoffrey Robertson QC, acclaimed author of The Case of the Pope, presents a freshly updated version of his masterwork, Crimes Against HumanityIn this fresh edition of the book that has inspired the global justice movement, Geoffrey Robertson QC explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder - the crimes against humanity that have disfigured the world.

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a peer-review mechanism, reviewing all 193 UN Member States protection and promotion of human rights.

The book examines the nexus between political and religious thought within the Prussian old conservative milieu.

This book focuses on a little-studied yet virulent and devoted fascist faction that was active within Zionist circles during the 1920s and 1930s.

This book explains the original meaning of the two religion clauses of the First Amendment: "e;Congress shall make no law [1] respecting an establishment of religion or [2] prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Trafficking in human beings (THB) has been described as modern slavery.

This book aims to enrich the thinking and discussion in relation to the importance that citizenship, immigration, rights and private laws play in the modern world.

This book contributes to and broadens the field of Border Criminology, by bringing together a collection of chapters from leading scholars engaged in cross-national and comparative conversations on bordered penality and crimmigration practices, with a specific focus on research conducted in places that may be considered peripheral and semi-peripheral jurisdictions.

For 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor?

Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the United States remains unprecedentedly high.

In twentieth-century Canada, mainline Protestants, fundamentalists, liberal nationalists, monarchists, conservative Anglophiles, and left-wing intellectuals had one thing in common: they all subscribed to a centuries-old world view that Catholicism was an authoritarian, regressive, untrustworthy, and foreign force that did not fit into a democratic, British nation like Canada.

From the fearless defense attorney and civil rights lawyer who rose to fame with NetflixsThe Staircasecomes a bracing account of abuses of power and corruption in the criminal justice system.

This book examines the concept of witness protection which is still at an early developmental stage in several African countries including Nigeria, from a legal and institutional perspective.

Outlines how land disputes are entangled with gender, ethnicity and territoriality, shaping public authority and state formation.

This book examines the contemporary and contentious question of the critical connections between business and human rights, and the implementation of socially responsible norms in developing countries, with particular reference to Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.

This book offers a novel study on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on insurance from an international and comparative perspective.

"e;Moral values"e; dominated the post-election headlines in 2004.

Nearly five million Muslims call France home, the vast majority from former French colonies in North Africa.

According to current polls, about 85 percent of Americans identify with some religious faith and more than 40 percent say they attend religious services at least once a week.

People who participate in debates about the causes and cures of poverty often speak from religious conviction.

Though it has been nearly a decade since the attacks of September 11, the threat of terrorism emanating from the Muslim world has not subsided.

This book investigates why the rate of female labor force participation in the Middle East and North Africa is the lowest in the world.

This interdisciplinary book consists of three parts which examine the European Union policies on research and innovation, education and life-long learning, as well as the European Union Pillar on social rights and youth policies.

This edited volume offers solutions on the challenges of religious pluralisation from a European perspective.

Si l'on en croit l'historien Denis Vaugeois, les gens inventent des histoires depuis soixante ans à propos du gouvernement de Maurice Duplessis.

An allegation is made that a war crime was committed by a soldier during a conflict.

An allegation is made that a war crime was committed by a soldier during a conflict.

The Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1981, is the only universal human rights instrument specifically focusing on religious intolerance and discrimination.