Public international law: human rights

Law, Economics, and Morality examines the possibility of combining economic methodology and deontological morality through explicit and direct incorporation of moral constraints into economic models.

This book is a first-of-its-kind, five-country empirical study of the causes and consequences of social and economic rights litigation.

Less and less Christian demographically, America is now home to an ever-larger number of people who say they identify with no religion at all.

Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed.

This book addresses the interrelationship between economic and financial crises, the responses thereto, and economic and social rights.

Widely considered the most important Orthodox theologian of the twentieth century, Dumitru Staniloae (1903-1993) contributed significantly to an ecumenical understanding of these themes.

This comparative study deals with the important social phenomenon of sectarianism in four medium-sized cotton towns of northwest England -- Bolton, Preston, Stockport, and Blackburn -- between 1832 and 1870.

The only comprehensive analysis of international refugee rights, anchored in the hard facts of refugee life around the world.

A data-driven explanation of when successful religious parties reduce the civil liberties of their citizens in Muslim-majority countries and when they don't.

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Families of the Missing interrogates the current practice of transitional justice from the viewpoint of the families of those disappeared and missing as a result of conflict and political violence.

This comprehensive investigation into the involvement of ordinary Christians in Church activities and in anti-clerical dissent, explores a phenomenon stretching from Britain and Germany to the Americas and beyond.

Over the last three decades, a number of reforms have taken place in European social policy with an impact on the opportunities for persons with disabilities to be full and active members of society.

After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, those in London and Madrid, and the arrest of the “Toronto 18,” Canadians have changed how they think about terrorism and security.

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In Memory Eternal, Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years.

This book analyses the accountability of European home States for their failure to secure the human rights of victims from host States against transnational enterprises.

This book presents the hitherto unstudied variety of ways that human rights socialisation is attempted in the context of regional organisations, arguing that existing conceptual accounts of this phenomenon need to be expanded to best explain this diversity.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.

The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution pursues a rigorous examination of the various ways in which the protection of housing and property rights can contribute to durable solutions to displacement.

An introductory text to the philosophy of human rights, this book provides an innovative, systematic study of the concepts, ideas, and theories of human rights.

This book considers the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' contribution to international refugee law since the establishment of UNHCR by the United Nations General Assembly in 1951.

The European system of human rights protection faces institutional and political pressures which threaten its very survival.

Rossteuschers Geschichte des Ursprungs der Irvingianerkirche behält trotz des apologetischen Tons ihren Wert.

The word "e;jihad"e; is everywhere in the global media.

The Punta del Este Declaration, and this book dedicated to elaborating upon it, is devoted to exploring the ways that human dignity for everyone everywhere can be a useful tool in helping to address the challenges and strains facing human rights in the world today.

Before military action, and even before mobilization, the decision on whether to go to war is debated by politicians, pundits, and the public.

Indigenous peoples are increasingly making requests for the return of their ancestors' human remains and ancient indigenous deoxyribonucleic acid.

This book is designed to provide specialists, spectators, and students with a brief and engaging exploration of media usage by radical groups and the laws regulating these grey areas of Jihadi propaganda activities.

In 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the International Declaration of Human Rights, a document designed to hold both individuals and nations accountable for their treatment of fellow human beings, regardless of religious or cultural affiliations.

A comparative, whole-of-society approach to the Boko Haram insurgency that offers a more nuanced understanding of the risks, resilience and resolution of violent radicalization in Nigeria and beyond.

Welchen Herausforderungen zum Umgang mit religiöser Vielfalt müssen sich Praktiker*innen in ihrer alltäglichen Arbeit stellen?

This edited collection is the result of the Voices of Individuals: Collectively Exploring Self-determination (VOICES) based at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National University of Ireland Galway.

Is the legal protection that is given to the expression of Abrahamic religious belief adequate or appropriate in the context of English medical law?

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This study examines two important questions regarding terrorism and political violence: which threats to human security constitute root causes for collective violence and which adequate responses for these root causes are available to the international community.

The first comprehensive study of rape – its images and its politics – at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance.

While some feminists seek to use ideas of the 'universal human subject' to include women, others argue that such ideas are intrinsically masculine and exclude the feminine.

James Crossley holds a mirror up to English politics, examining how Christianity is often used to legitimise ideological positions and parties.

They insist they are just a group of friends, yet they funnel millions of dollars through tax-free corporations.

From the trues of nature, man reasons his truths, the sum of which is TRUITY.

The promotion of the rule of law has become an increasingly important element of peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations, particularly in Africa, where there have been numerous internal armed conflicts and missions over the last decade.

The book outlines legal limits to the veto power of UN Security Council permanent members while atrocity crimes are occurring.

Investigating minority and indigenous women's rights in Muslim-majority states, this book critically examines the human rights regime within international law.

This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary courts and legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa.

It highlights shifts over two centuries as the geopolitical context has transitioned from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana.

This book explores the idea of religious pluralism while defending the norms of secular cosmopolitanism, which include liberty, tolerance, civility, and hospitality.

This book presents the welfare regime of China as a liminal space where religious and state authorities struggle for legitimacy as new social forces emerge.

With a renewed emphasis on national and homeland security, the United States is once again seeking to balance the needs of the state with both the rights of its citizens as well as those of other nations.