The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has inspired advocates and policy makers across the globe, injecting children's rights terminology into various public and private arenas.
Be inspired by this grassroots civil rights lawyer's quest for democracy, equality, and justice Born in 1947 and raised in rural South Carolina, Lewis Pitts grew up oblivious to the civil rights revolution underway across the country.
Combining socio-legal and ethnohistorical studies, this book presents the history of doodem, or clan identification markings, left by Anishinaabe on treaties and other legal documents from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.
Das Werk fuhrt ein neues Verstandnis fur das wenig untersuchte Genre der Verfassungspraambeln ein und betrachtet sie als moderne Beispiele fur Schopfungsmythen.
Many human rights advocates agree that conventional advocacy tools- reporting abuses to international tribunals or shaming the perpetrators of human rights violations-have proven ineffective.
Economic interaction has enlarged the international trade in goods and services, but the safe and humane flow of persons across international borders remains a challenge in a State-based model of territorial jurisdictions.
Bisher nicht abschließend geklärt ist die praxisrelevante Frage, ob auch schon vor rechtskräftiger Entscheidung der Gerichte ein Mehrfachverfolgungsverbot wegen derselben Sache zum Schutz des Beschuldigten besteht und wie sich ein solches Parallelverfolgungsverbot im deutschen Recht herleiten lässt.
In this deeply researched and powerfully written expose, Mike Steve Collins pulls back the curtain on the networks of power and influence that are pulling the strings to undo progress toward a more just and equitable society.
This is an edited volume of essays that examines the ideas of speech and silence - particularly their circumstances of use and contexts - in American law.
Anonymous Speech: Literature, Law and Politics discusses the different contexts in which people write anonymously or with the use of a pseudonym: novels and literary reviews, newspapers and political periodicals, graffiti, and now on the Internet.
This supplemental volume expands upon the seven-volume edition of Constitutional Documents of the United States of America 1776-1860, which was published from 2006 to 2009.
This collection examines the role and value of rights in divided and post-conflict societies, approaching the subject from a comparative and theoretical perspective.
This volume considers whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that recognize the histories and values of different countries.
The Legal Aid Society's mission is to advance, defend, and enforce the legal rights of low-income and otherwise vulnerable people in order to secure for them the basic necessities of life.
This work provides an authoritative survey of America's long and turbulent history of rebellion, sedition, and treason against government authority and institutions.
A dynamic account of the practice of Islamic law, this book focuses on the actions of a particular legal official, the muhtasib, whose vast jurisdiction included all public behavior.
All states are challenged by the need to protect national security while maintaining the rule of law, but the issue is particularly complex in the China Hong Kong context.
The European Union and Human Rights: Analysis, Cases, and Materials maps and critiques the EU's commitment to human rights in both internal and external affairs.
Das Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration des Instituts für Europäische Politik (Berlin) dokumentiert und bilanziert seit 1980 zeitnah und detailliert den europäischen Integrationsprozess.
Argues that North American settler colonialism included episodes of genocide of Indigenous peoples as defined by the United Nations Genocide Convention.
Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaneyidealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South.