Human rights, civil rights

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This is a study assessing black civic participation after the civil rights movement.

Exemptions from legal requirements, especially religious exemptions, have been a major topic of political debate in recent years.

Torture is not as universally condemned as it once was.

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.

Jack Nusan Porter's writings date back to 1966, during the height of the Vietnam War.

This book focuses on securitization and authoritarianism in Turkey with research on the country's Islamist populist ruling party's (AKP) oppression of different socio-political, ethnic and religious groups.

Greater Freedom offers a groundbreaking long-term community study of Wilson County, North Carolina.

This edited collection showcases innovative, up and coming researchers' work in the field of sex work studies across labour/work and relationships.

The book provides a holistic examination of the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

In Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: A Fresh Interpretation, Mohammad Kamali considers problems associated with and proposals for reform of the hudud punishments prescribed by Islamic criminal law, and other topics related to crime and punishment in Shariah.

This book aims to prospectively conjecture about what the coming decades may hold for human rights.

Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law.

The Encyclopaedia of Social Welfare, Justice and Human Rights gives an overall integrated perspective of the aforementioned subject areas.

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The first monograph analysing all legal regimes applicable to the use of less-lethal weapons.

Although there has been a lot written about how counter-terrorism laws impact on human rights and civil liberties, most of this work has focussed on the most obvious or egregious kinds of human rights abrogation, such as extended detention, torture, and extraordinary rendition.

The Great Game of Genocide addresses the origins, development and aftermath of the Armenian genocide in a wide-ranging reappraisal based on primary and secondary sources from all the major parties involved.

This book introduces undergraduates and computing industry professionals to basic legal principles and the peculiarities of legal issues in cyberspace.

Do Human Rights truly serve the people?

Sayyid Qutb is widely considered the guiding intellectual of radical Islam, with a direct line connecting him to Osama bin Laden.

This edited volume offers a critical, thorough, and interdisciplinary examination of arguments for eliminating the minimum democratic voting age.

This book analyzes the contemporary politics of the Hajj in countries of Africa, the Near East, and Southeast Asia.

This book examines why the religion-science skirmishes known as the Evolution Wars have persisted into the 21st century.

In international law, as in any other legal system, respect and protection of human rights can be guaranteed only by the availability of effective judicial remedies.

Human rights are thought to guarantee pluralism by protecting individual liberty from imposed religious conceptions of virtue.

La constante crisis política que nuestro país ha sufrido en los últimos años ha hecho que muchos empiecen a observar cuidadosamente la Constitución como herramienta para la búsqueda de salidas institucionales.

In The Religious Left and Church-State Relations, noted constitutional law scholar Steven Shiffrin argues that the religious left, not the secular left, is best equipped to lead the battle against the religious right on questions of church and state in America today.

This book focuses on human rights education (HRE) in higher education, with an emphasis on supporting undergraduate education for social justice and global citizenship at the institutional, classroom, and community levels.

In Earnestly Contending, Dickson Bruce examines the ways in which religious denominations and movements in antebellum America coped with the ideals of freedom and pluralism that exerted such a strong influence on the larger, national culture.

Within the Middle East there are a wide range of minority groups outside the mainstream religious and ethnic culture.

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This international work provides information on and analysis of anti-terrorism law and policy by top experts in the field.

Focusing on the case of disability, this book examines what happens when previously marginalised individuals obtain the legal recognition of their equal citizenship rights but cannot fully enjoy these rights because of structural inequality.

Criminologists are increasingly turning their attention to the many points of intersection between immigration and crime control.

This book puts forward a new epistemological framework for a theory of religion and gender's role in the public sphere.

This edited collection showcases innovative, up and coming researchers' work in the field of sex work studies across labour/work and relationships.

What is globalization anyway?

This edited volume focuses on charting the rise of neo-abolitionism and offering a critique of the idea, its logics and consequences.

Is knowledge discovered, or just invented?

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.

J Krishnamurti (1896-1986) was one of the most important spiritual leaders of his time.

»Verax« – unter diesem Namen kontaktierte ein geheimnisvoller Informant Barton Gellman.

This in-depth examination of the life, history, and influence of Muhammad as discussed by leading scholars provides a wide-ranging look at the prophet's legacy unlike any other in the field of Islamic and culture studies.

Die Erkenntnisse und Überlegungen, die in diesem Buch dargestellt werden, sind das Ergebnis von zwanzig Jahren klinischer Arbeit und individueller Forschung.