Human rights, civil rights

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.

This book contains the full research papers presented at  the 20th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, held in 2017 at Wageningen University &  Research  in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

This book offers vivid insights into policies of religious education in schools since the series of wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990's.

This book is based on the Life Design paradigm and discusses the efforts made to overcome the matching paradigm between individuals and their work contexts, in order to guarantee the adoption of an active role for future career planning.

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.

This book deals with the sudden demise of Islamists in Egypt and prospects for democratization.

This book defends the thesis that Kant's normative ethics and his practical ethics of sex and marriage can be valuable resources for people engaged in the contemporary debate over same-sex marriage.

The book analyses the Indian Supreme Court's jurisprudence on homosexuality, its current approach and how its position has evolved in the past ten years.

This volume investigates the nature and changing roles of the non-state armed groups in the Middle East with a special focus on Kurdish, Shia and Islamic State groups.

This book provides a global and social examination of how disabilities are played out and experienced around the world.

This book reports on a research program designed to construct the basics of a new type of literacy that teaches pupils social problem-solving at individual and collective levels.

In June 2014, FAO member-states endorsed the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF Guidelines).

This book analyses current developments in Europe and Latin America towards the greater involvement of the parties in the administration of criminal justice.

This book poses a radical challenge to the legend of Socrates bequeathed by Plato and echoed by scholars through the ages: that Socrates was an innocent sage convicted and sentenced to death by the democratic mob, for merely questioning the political and religious ideas of his time.

This volume counters one-sided dominant discursive representations of gender in human rights and transitional justice, and women's place in the transformations of neoliberal human rights, and contributes a more balanced examination of how transitional justice and human rights institutions, and political institutions impact the lives and experiences of women.

This book examines the interconnectedness between religion, education, and human rights from an international perspective using an interdisciplinary approach.

This book analyses Chile's "e;truth and justice"e; policies implemented between 1990 and 2013.

This volume looks at how courts and the police handle racial discrimination in Europe.

This book discusses the immediate and severe threat posed by global climate change and the various obstacles that stand in the way of action.

This book explores the human right to housing, presenting the findings of a global discourse analysis to analyse the right to housing from the perspective of theories on land policy and social citizenship.

This edited work collates novel contributions on contemporary topics that are related to human rights.

This book is an examination of how the law understands human identity and the whole notion of 'human being'.

This book traces the connections between diverging postwar European integration policies and intra-Christian divisions to argue that supranational integration originates from Roman Catholic internationalism, and that resistance to integration, conversely, is based in Protestantism.

This book provides a roadmap for how police services can address incivility in the workplace and become more inclusive from the inside out.

This book examines the issue of irregular transit migration to the EU by presenting the case of the Afghans.

This book is a theoretically and historically informed exploration of 'secularism' in Muslim contexts.

Using legal arguments consistent with international law, this book explores whether and under which circumstances a State (or States) may establish and militarily enforce safe zones in countries that produce large-scale refugee outflows so as to protect its (or their) own interests by averting said outflows, as well as to alleviate human suffering in today's world of civil and internal warfare.

This book addresses the question: "e;What should be the appropriate limits to free speech?

This book investigates why the rate of female labor force participation in the Middle East and North Africa is the lowest in the world.

This book shows how the introduction of  intermediation is relevant in studying political and public policy processes, as they are increasingly accompanied by grey spaces in public and non-public arenas that cannot be categorized as purely representative or purely participative.

This book offers a systematic analysis of how the interaction between language of security and language of rights produces policies which not only affect everyday functioning of democracy, but also redefine the understanding of sovereignty.

This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in Nigeria.

This volume collects essays from academics and practitioners from a diversity of areas and perspectives in order to discuss water security at various levels and to illuminate the central idea of water security: its focus on the individual.

One of the hallmarks of the present era is the discourse surrounding Human Rights and the need for the law to recognise them.

This study analyses male-female violence in comparison to state-citizen violence.

In this book I argue for an approach that conceives human rights as both moral and legal rights.

This book provides a unique perspective on addressing issues of various forms of violence against children from scholars within their own country.

This book examines the ability of citizens across ten European countries to exercise their democratic rights to access their personal data.

This volume examines the impact of and interplay between human rights and insurance.

This book traces the development of Oman's inclusive agreements and highlights their importance for international negotiations, dealing with issues most relevant to humanity's own survival today, nuclear weapons or climate change.

This book describes the nature of trafficking in persons in West Africa, focusing on labor and sexual exploitation in the region, and recommends tailor-made solutions established by the Catholic Church in light of governmental authorities' failure to effectively combat this scourge of humanity.

This book focuses specifically on the experience and protection of indigenous, and particularly Sami sacred sites in the Arctic.

This book challenges readers to imagine social entrepreneurship as an innovative, creative model for building justice and sustainability.

This book provides essential insights into Bhutan's developmental challenges.

This clear-sighted reference examines the public health dimensions of labor and sex trafficking in the United States, the scope of the crisis, and possibilities for solutions.

High levels of police corruption have been a persistent historical tendency in police services throughout the world.

This volume is a new chapter in the future history of law.

This book examines the ability of citizens across ten European countries to exercise their democratic rights to access their personal data.

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.

This book analyses the rights of crime victims within a human rights paradigm, and describes the inconsistencies resulting from attempts to introduce the procedural rights of victims within a criminal justice system that views crime as a matter between the state and the offender, and not as one involving the victim.