Human rights, civil rights

This book explores the right to democracy in international law and contemporary democratic theory, asking whether international law encompasses a substantive or procedural understanding of the notion.

The persecution of people in Africa on the basis of their assumed or perceived homosexual orientation has received considerable coverage in the popular media in recent years.

This outstanding, comprehensive, and up-to-date encyclopedia on human rights issues from 1945 to 1998 features more than 400 entries on incidents and violations, instruments and initiatives, countries and human rights activists.

What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide?

Millions of American Christians see U.

A compelling history of atheism in American public lifeA much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God.

In this study of exile, Sean Akerman chronicles the ways in which narrative approaches provide opportunities to understand and represent the lives of those who have been displaced after violence.

The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion.

Shows how the UN regime on human rights has transformed national and international society in accordance with liberal values.

This handbook takes a comprehensive approach to studying and understanding modern slavery, particularly forced labour and human trafficking.

In this ground-breaking and much-needed book, Stellan Vinthagen provides the first major systematic attempt to develop a theory of nonviolent action since Gene Sharp's seminal The Politics of Nonviolent Action in 1973.

This book stems from the CyberBRICS project, which is the first major attempt to produce a comparative analysis of Internet regulations in the BRICS countries - namely, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

Contrary to popular claims, religion played a critical role in Barack Obama's 2008 election as president of the United States.

To date, most constructivist international relations studies have characterized the influence of transnationalism on domestic forms of activism as uniformly positive.

Modern ideas about the protection of free speech in the United States did not originate in twentieth-century Supreme Court cases, as many have thought.

An interdisciplinary approach to humanitarian intervention by experts in law, politics, and ethics.

Few issues in the relations between China and the West invoke as much passion as human rights.

This timely book on social work and antisemitism fills an important gap in social work education and in the profession.

A sizeable minority of people with no particular connection to Eastern religions now believe in reincarnation.

This book asks what are the roles of human rights and democracy in determining the states'' ability to participate in international organisations?

This volume is a collection of essays on medieval Spain, written by leading scholars on three continents, that celebrates the career of Thomas F.

Law lies at the roots of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

This book examines the challenges posed to contemporary international law by the shifting role of the border, which has recently re-emerged as a central issue in international relations.

Unaccompanied child asylum seekers are amongst the world's most vulnerable populations, and their numbers are increasing.

This book is a unique collection of alternative Muslim voices, predominantly from Europe, who come from a variety of backgrounds - academia, theology, acting, activism - and who make a transformational contribution to the debate of the future of Islam and Muslims in the West.

While human rights have been enjoying unprecedented salience, the concept of the citizen has been significantly challenged.

Nineteenth-century Istanbul was an intellectual hub of rich discussions about Islam, in which leading reformists had a significant role.

This book examines how the Russian Orthodox Church developed during the period of Gorbachev's rule in the Soviet Union, a period characterised by perestroika (reform) and glasnost (openness).

What can populism and fundamentalism possibly have in common?

This book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era.

Dieses Buch behandelt sexuelle und geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt (SGBV) gegen Frauen aus völkerrechtlicher Sicht.

Murdering Animals confronts the speciesism underlying the disparate social censures of homicide and "e;theriocide"e; (the killing of animals by humans), and as such, is a plea to take animal rights seriously.

Learn to think deeply about the relationship between church and state in a way that goes beyond mere policy debates and current campaigns.

Headcase is a groundbreaking collection of personal reflections and artistic representations illustrating the intersection of mental wellness, mental illness, and LGBTQ identity, as well as the lasting impact of historical views equating queer and trans identity with mental illness.

Welchen Einfluss haben die sozialen Menschenrechte auf den heutigen Sozialstaat?

Addresses the global turn toward human rights-based litigation to push governments and corporations to ambitiously address the climate emergency.

This book sheds an interdisciplinary light on 'transforming bodies': bodies that have been subjected to, contributed to, or have resisted social transformations within religious or secular contexts in contemporary Europe.

The economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the unrest in the US following the unlawful death of George Floyd, and other sources of social unrest and insecurity, have brought to a head something that has been brewing in Western societies since the Great Recession of 2008: the disillusionment with liberal democracy as it evolved after World War II.

This book explores the political trajectories of various countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, tracing the shifts in party systems and regime transitions along a model-like trajectory that spans from revolutionism to authoritarianism and electoral Islamism.

This book's discussion of skin bleaching, lightening and toning in Black Atlantic zones disengages with the usual tropes of Black Nationalism and global white supremacy such as 'the desire to be white', 'low self-esteem' and 'self-hatred' and instead engages with the global multi-billion dollar market in lighter skins with products from local cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies and entrepreneurs.

The United States' use of torture and harsh interrogation techniques during the "e;War on Terror"e; has sparked fervent debate among citizens and scholars surrounding the human rights of war criminals.

This book seeks to understand the obligation of the international community to implement the principles of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).

Should grandparents have rights in relation to their grandchildren?

This book bridges the fields of critical youth studies, community psychology, and sociology to offer a transdisciplinary analysis of youth voice, participation, and activism, as well as of creative and inclusive knowledge-making practices.