An account of a trial that polarized a small city a mentally incompetent snitch who derailed a popular mayor defense attorneys and prosecutors who together supported a mythical murder with no grounding in evidence white power rallies that never happened and a local and national media that joined forces with an out of control prosecution and made a circus of the trial.
"e;I NEVER STOPPED BELIEVING"e; is the remarkable story of Walter Hubbard, a Black Catholic who as a member of "e;the greatest generation"e; fought the Nazis on European battlefields and came home to the United States to battle discrimination, bigotry, hatred.
Nomadic people, have over the years, been subject to prejudice and negative thinking by sedentarised societies as well as by political and legislative systems.
The South's system of Jim Crow racial oppression is usually understood in terms of legal segregation that mandated the separation of white and black Americans.
Intergovernmental agencies, governments, and non-governmental organizations are now using Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to collect, organize, and disseminate information on peoples' rights, the promotion of human rights, and the protection of individuals and communities at risk.
As governments across the world increasingly adopt information and communication technology to improve their efficiency and effectiveness, they are gradually providing opportunities for citizen participation and engagement online.
El presente trabajo representa una crtica a la postura del Poder Judicial Federal, respecto a la manera en que se ha integrado la jurisprudencia en materia de derecho familiar, al no considerar aspectos trascendentales para decidir la filiacin en un caso controvertido, donde se invoca la utilizacin de la prueba gentica de ADN.
In 1792, the same year as the appearance of Mary Wollstonecraft's "e;A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,"e; an anonymous treatise was published in German using Enlightenment principles to argue for equal rights for women in the domestic, political and religious spheres.
This is a book about religious rhetoric, its cultural foundations, and its role in articulating sociocultural change and facilitating psychosocial adaptation to the demands of a new environment.
In December 1989, Vaclav Havel and a relatively small group of intellectuals and students brought about the collapse of the communist regime of Czechoslovakia in what is now known as the Velvet Revolution.
Human Trafficking is a growing transnational criminal phenomenon_conservative estimates put the total number of persons trafficked annually at two million.
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017What are the limits of Canadian democracy and how are they being expanded by a revolution in participatory democracy?
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017What are the limits of Canadian democracy and how are they being expanded by a revolution in participatory democracy?
The purpose of the book is to revive the spirit of real Christianity in the United States, stand against our Adversary and turn from our collective moral drift.
"e;Fascinating profiles"e; of remarkable nuns, from an eighty-three-year-old Ironman champion to a crusader against human trafficking (Daily News [New York]).
"e;The early days of the civil-rights movement come to life as never before"e; in this history from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Wall Street Journal).
Why religion must be separated from politics if democracy is to thrive around the worldFor eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide.
An account of the 1962 Ole Miss riots, sparked by one man's stance against segregation in the American South-by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of A Night to Remember.
An indispensable guide to Islamic political thought from Muhammad to the twenty-first centuryThe first encyclopedia of Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, this comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference provides the context needed for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond.
Why the pursuit of state recognition by seemingly marginal religious groups in Egypt and elsewhere is a devotional practiceOver the past decade alone, religious communities around the world have demanded state recognition, exemption, accommodation, or protection.
The voluntary sector was central to the COVID-19 response: fulfilling basic needs, highlighting new and existing inequalities and coordinating action where the state had been slow to respond.
