Human rights, civil rights

This book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies.

War, Conflict and Human Rights is an innovative inter-disciplinary textbook, combining aspects of law, politics and conflict analysis to examine the relationship between human rights and armed conflict.

This book explores how the religious nationalist ideology of American Religious Exceptionalism (ARE) contributes to the American public''s self-promoting, exclusionary, and sometimes illiberal attitudes.

In Barred by Congress: How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office Robert M.

A sceptical appraisal of the claim that freedom of expression is a human right.

Das Grundrecht auf Glaubensfreiheit gilt auch hinter Gittern.

This work reviews the progress of children's rights 25 years since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Formal justice systems have not served the human rights of native and aboriginal groups well and have led to growing natural and international pressure for equal treatment and increased political and legal autonomy.

Angels, Spirits, principalities, powers, gods, Satanthese, along with all other spiritual realities, are the unmentionables of our culture.

This book offers a critical analysis of the European colonial heritage in the Arab countries and highlights the way this legacy is still with us today, informing the current state of relations between Europe and the formerly colonized states.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONA New Yorker Best Book of 2024 * An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024 * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard First Book Prize'Reads like a legal thriller' ESQUIRE'As propulsive and affecting as it is infuriating' VANITY FAIRA powerful work of reportage and American history that braids together the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the 1990s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land more than a century later.

The claim that 'LGBT rights are human rights' encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used resistance to 'LGBT rights' to cast themselves as defenders of traditional values against neo-colonial interference and western decadence.

This book presents a snapshot of a major challenge, and shares subjective views on various areas of conflict in Africa and the diverse - theoretical and practical - efforts to achieve peace.

The European Union is a supranational organisation with a set of circumscribed powers.

Mental Health, Crime and Justice brings together original and state of the art contributions from theoretical, empirical, and policy-related scholarship concerned with the ways people with mental health illnesses are understood, 'managed', 'controlled' and responded to.

The contested creation of free movementfor people and goodsin the Schengen area of EuropeEurope is a place of free movement among nationsor is it?

The book shows how state-enforced religious laws impact human rights, and what people do to advance their rights from within.

From Quaker to Upper Canadian is the first scholarly work to examine the transformation of this important religious community from a self-insulated group to integration within Upper Canadian society.

This interdisciplinary volume illuminates housing''s impact on both wealth and community, and examines legal and policy responses to current challenges.

At the heart of the biblical myth of chosenness is the idea that God has blessed a people to be a blessing to others.

In the West we frequently pay lip service to universal notions of human rights.

For years, scholars hypothesized about what Islamists might do if they ever came to power.

This book examines the practice of transitional justice in the Solomon Islands from the period of the 'The Tensions' to the present.

The "e;highly addictive"e; international bestseller, "e;an amazing true-life thriller, one of the most suspenseful books written in recent years"e; (Jeffrey Gettleman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author).

Crime, Criminal Justice and Religion: A Critical Appraisal seeks to bridge a gap in the examination of crime and criminal justice by taking both a historical and a contemporary lens to explore the influence of religion.

This comprehensive collection addresses the important question of political parties in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

The relationship between the states and the national government is among the most contested issues in the United States.

This book explores how the recent development of Muslim countries as a group has fallen far short of non-Muslim countries, which, some have concluded, may be a result of Islamic teachings.

How can international organizations (IOs) like the United Nations (UN) and their implementing partners be held accountable if their actions and policies violate fundamental human rights?

The word and concept of victim bear a heavy weight.

Freemasonry was a major cultural and social phenomenon and a key element of the Enlightenment.

What rights to privacy do we have on the internet, and how can we make them real?

This book provides a wide-ranging, global exploration of policies and practices which have sought to undermine dissent during recent and less recent social, political, economic and health 'crises'.

A new and comprehensive account of the South African Constitutional Court''s social rights decisions.

This book develops a philosophical conception of human rights that responds satisfactorily to the challenges raised by cultural and political critics of human rights, who contend that the contemporary human rights movement is promoting an imperialist ideology, and that the humanitarian intervention for protecting human rights is a neo-colonialism.

Examines the literary output of four influential American Indian intellectuals who challenged conceptions of identity at the turn of the twentieth century.

This book provides a novel exploration of time and temporality in relation to punishment and criminal sanctioning.

This book explores the unfolding of world history in a remote corner of Central Asia: the region of Badakhshan.

Terrorism, black poverty, and economic exploitation produced a condition of collective trauma and social suffering for thousands of black Deltans in the Twentieth Century.

Across the world, grassroots movements for change are growing in number, skill, and impact on society.

The twenty-first century has seen violence thunder back onto the stage of history.

Documents the global expansion of genocide in the early modern and modern eras as imperialism and settler colonialism spread across five continents.

The essays in Theology and the Political-written by some of the world's foremost theologians, philosophers, and literary critics-analyze the ethics and consequences of human action.

This book provides an introduction to the vision of an economic system based completely on the Holy Qur'an-a system defined as a collection of institutions, representing rules of behavior, prescribed by Allah for humans, and the traditions of the Messenger.

The Quakers were by far the most successful of the radical religious groups to emerge from the turbulence of the mid-seventeenth century--and their survival into the present day was largely facilitated by the transformation of the movement during its first fifty years.

This collection evaluates the crisis of confidence in human rights which underpins understandings of just decision making and liberal democracy.