Human rights, civil rights

Scholars in law, theology and political theory exchange views on five specific challenges to religious liberty in the twenty-first century.

An assessment of the European Court of Human Rights at the national, European and international levels.

This book provides deep insights into the wide-ranging issues linked to gender, law, and social transformation in India.

This original, scholarly collection of essays investigates the intersections of large-scale international migration and solidarity-building.

This book critically analyzes the criminalization of incitement to terrorism under the fundamental principles of legality, necessity, and proportionality with the aim of striking a fair balance between security and liberty on this complicated issue.

This book is a compilation of some of the lectures on certain aspects of human rights by the author in various fora.

The Sourcebook introduces the theoretical and ideological foundation and methodological basis of Rights-based Direct Practice with Children.

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In recent years immigration and the integration of migrants and minorities have become politicised in public and policy debates in Britain, the rest of Europe and the United States.

Since the prohibition of the threat or use of force and the resurgence of (economic) nationalism, economic warfare has become an increasingly important substitute for actual hostilities between states.

In this book, Flynn stresses the vital role of intercultural dialogue in developing a non-ethnocentric conception of human rights.

This book looks at how citizenship has been imagined and transformed in Latin America through the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from different disciplinary perspectives including anthropology, history, urban planning, geography and political studies.

Around the world, indigenous peoples use international law to make claims for heritage, territory, and economic development.

Confronting the evils of World War II and building on the legacy of the 1776 Declaration of Independence and the 1789 French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a group of world citizens including Eleanor Roosevelt drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The issue of private property and the rights it confers remain almost undiscussed in critiques of globalization and free market economics.

An exploration of the tension between human rights and patent law, with reference to developing countries'' access to affordable medicines.

In “gorgeously wrought” essays, the New York Times-bestselling author of The God of Small Things takes a critical look at India’s political climate (Time Magazine).

This book problematises the socioeconomic and institutional construction of prostitution in Thai contexts, identifying the root causes that propel underprivileged, discriminated and deprived women and girls to enter the sex industry.

Cultural heritage law and its response to human rights principles and practice has gained renewed prominence on the international agenda.

In the last two hundred years, the earth has increasingly become the private property of a few classes, races, transnational corporations, and nations.

A detailed critical evaluation of the Ruggie Framework and the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

With the major goal of building an inclusive international community that promotes peace-related research and action, this volume reflects on local, national and global peace engagement and works towards transdisciplinary understandings of the role of psychology in peace, conflict, and violence.

Of the approximately seven million Palestinian refugees around the world, more than 650,000 are living in camps along the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

This book problematises the socioeconomic and institutional construction of prostitution in Thai contexts, identifying the root causes that propel underprivileged, discriminated and deprived women and girls to enter the sex industry.

Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: A Sociology of Rights puts forward the argument that rights must be understood as part of a social process: a terrain for strategies of inclusion and exclusion but also of contestation and negotiation.

This contributed volume motivates and educates across fields about the major challenges in global health and the interdisciplinary strategies for solving them.

This edited collection explores key human rights themes and situates them in the context of developments on the African continent.

Die EMRK wurde 1950 als Reaktion auf die Untaten des Zweiten Weltkriegs geschaffen.

This book about the art, craft and science of expert midwifery care, while focusing on 'alternative physiological births' that are those 'outside' of guidelines, the contents can be applied to any birthing choices.

While liberal-democratic states like America, Britain and Australia claim to value freedom of expression and the right to dissent, they have always actually criminalized dissent.

Analyzing what is known about violence against women, this book centers on the contrast between the U.

This book investigates the historical evolution of ''humanitarian photography'' - the mobilization of photography in the service of humanitarian initiatives across state boundaries.

This book weaves together two distinct and powerfully related sources of knowledge: the author's journey and transition from a once undocumented immigrant from Guatemala to a hyperdocumented academic, and five years of on-going national research on the identity, education, and agency of undocumented college students.

The EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) was established to provide evidence-based policy advice to EU institutions and Member States.

The first analysis of how victims of crime and human rights abuses access justice in Latin America through private prosecution.

This book examines how many women active in revolutionary movements develop feminist identities and how this identity simultaneously contributes to and conflicts with the struggle for women's emancipation.

The world needs a UN 3.

Dispatches from behind bars.

In Universal Politics, Ilan Kapoor and Zahi Zalloua argue that, in the face of the relentless advance of global capitalism, a universal politics is needed today more than ever.

Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960s.

This book aims to shift the limited and often negative popular understanding of the Middle East's place in the world by chronicling the region's contributions to the international order rather than disorder, and to the development of the international human rights system.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has the most developed jurisprudence on indigenous rights, yet this case law is understudied.

This edited volume demonstrates how an educational linguistics approach to inquiry is well positioned to identify, examine, and theorize the language and literacy dimensions of refugee-background learners' experiences.

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