Human rights, civil rights

This book tells the story of the emergence of the concept of crimes against humanity.

An analysis of rights-based activism in South Korea, including case studies of women, workers, disabled persons, migrants, and sexual minorities.

Are today's young adults gender rebels or returning to tradition?

This edited book provides an interdisciplinary overview of recent scholarship in the field of genocide studies.

Take the next step to confronting racism in relationships and in everyday life.

This book traces the development of religious comedy and leverages that history to justify today's uses of religious humor in all of its manifestations, including irreverent jokes.

The first volume of its kind to take a comprehensive view of social justice issues and interventions for young people from a global perspective.

Examines how race, money, and institution-building shape fights over the Bible and Christianity in US public life.

This book examines the history of refugees in order to explore their place in international politics.

Our culture is full of popular stereotypes about religion, both positive and negative.

Teaching Human Rights in Primary Schools delves into the important issue of Human Rights Education (HRE) implementation, exploring the nature and extent of HRE in education policy and practice in English primary schooling, and seeking to understand the reasons for deficiencies in practice in this area.

In The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Time, Jared Genser and Irwin Cotler provide a comprehensive overview on how this contemporary principle of international law has developed and analyze how best to apply it to current and future humanitarian crises.

Bestselling author Rosemary Ellen Guiley's easy-to-use, practical guide for opening to angelic guidance and wisdom, focusing on how to communicate with angels and how you know when you've got an answer.

Religiös beeinflusste, häufig gewaltsame Auseinandersetzungen prägen das Bild unserer Tage - Tendenz steigend!

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.

Pursuing Justice in Africa focuses on the many actors pursuing many visions of justice across the African continenttheir aspirations, divergent practices, and articulations of international and vernacular idioms of justice.

This book explores the jurisprudence from international, regional and national sources on the interpretation and application of human rights concepts.

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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby sets out a radical vision for 21st century Britain in this updated paperback edition.

Analysing the convergence of law and regulation with rapidly evolving communications technologies, this interdisciplinary work navigates the intricate balancing act between human rights protection and technological innovation in a digital age, and illuminates the comprehensive potential of human rights to frame our intelligent use of technology.

A generation ago, most people did not know how ubiquitous and grave human trafficking was.

Surrounded by steep escarpments to the north, south and east, Ethiopia has always been geographically and culturally set apart.

THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO EASTERN CHRISTIANITY Consistently highly readable and engrossing.

The Obama presidency represented a major milestone in African American history.

An Equal Place is a monumental study of the role of lawyers in the movement to challenge economic inequality in one of America's most unequal cities: Los Angeles.

This book investigates the imaginative capacities of literature, art and culture as sites for reimagining human rights, addressing deep historical and structural forms of belonging and unbelonging; the rise of xenophobia, neoliberal governance, and securitization that result in the purposeful precaritization of marginalized populations; ecological damage that threatens us all, yet the burdens of which are distributed unequally; and the possibility of decolonial and posthuman approaches to rights discourses.

Since the 2000 presidential election, debate over the role of religion in public life has followed a narrow course as pundits and politicians alike have focused on the influence wielded by conservative Christians.

This book demonstrates how discussions of Political Theology have been a constant feature throughout philosophical modernity and that they continue to impact contemporary political debates.

Patricia Illingworth's short, powerful and passionate book argues that "e;social capital"e; should be an essential ethical concept guiding our actions, and explains how one might go about implementing this idea in a positive way.

To talk about religion is to talk about politics, identity, terrorism, migration, gender, and a host of other aspects of society.

Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community.

Is the government ever justified in restricting offensive speech?

The concept of culture has long been criticized, with many scholars reformulating it or discarding it entirely.

Presents an empirically and theoretically rich sociological study of two Chinese diaspora protest movements: Falun Gong and the Chinese democracy movement.

Almost nowhere are politics and history so intimately bound up as in Ireland.

The growth of international law in the post-World War II era stemmed partly from the belief that universal norms would make life for the entire world's population safer, more equitable, and more conducive to each person's acquisition of basic material needs.

Communication Strategies for Engaging Climate Skeptics examines the intersection of climate skepticism and Christianity and proposes strategies for engaging climate skeptics in productive conversations.

Today more than 200 million Christians around the world suffer imprisonment, abuse and even death because of their faith.

This book analyses how religion is entangled in people's lives in Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia.

A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition.

This book analyses the current legal situation and protection of vulnerable groups in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland.

The world continues to be threatened by non-state, religiously-rationalized violence.

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Police detention is the place where suspects are taken whilst their case is investigated and a case disposal decision is reached.

How should constitutional design respond to the opportunities and challenges raised by ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural differences, and do so in ways that promote democracy, social justice, peace and stability?

The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is one of the most important and debated sociopolitical documents of the twentieth century.

Radical Orthodoxy remains an important movement within Christian theology, but does it relate effectively with an increasingly pluralist and secular Western society?