Human rights, civil rights

The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern stateCoping with Defeat presents a historical panorama of the Islamic and Catholic political-religious empires and exposes striking parallels in their relationship with the modern state.

The enormous amount of literature on the Scopes Trial focuses on the religious elements of the trial.

This book considers the impact of post 9/11 counter-terrorism laws outside of the counter-terrorism context, a process described here as 'contagion'.

Spanning various regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, the authors of this volume come together to explore the complex relationship between religion and democracy in contemporary Africa.

This book offers a reading of Bhimrao Ambedkar's engagement with the idea and practice of socialism in India by linking it to his lifelong political and philosophical concerns: the annihilation of the caste system, untouchability and the moral and philosophical systems that justify either.

Sick of the total BS of rampant PC?

Western society has become saturated with scientific and technological modes of thinking that impact our lives and our relationships.

A commitment to free speech is a fundamental precept of all liberal democracies.

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The first comprehensive examination of the Catholic Churchs role in the genocide against the Tutsi and its attempts at reconciliationFrom April to July 1994, more than a million people were killed during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

The Aporia of Rights is an exploration of the perplexities of human rights, and their inevitable and important intersection with the idea of citizenship.

The prominence of religion in recent debates around politics, identity formation, and international terrorism has led to an increased demand on those studying religion to help clarify and contextualise religious belief and practice in the public sphere.

The present collection brings together a set of essays which shed light on recent research into non-religion, secularity and atheism-topics which have been emerging as important areas of current research in a number of different disciplines.

This ground-breaking book is designed to raise awareness of human rights implications in psychology, and provide knowledge and tools enabling psychologists to put a human rights perspective into practice.

This book examines what the justification of political power and the character of a liberal political community in the conditions of pluralism should look like, with the aim of equal respect for all.

First published in 1994, this volume brings together essays from the celebrated scholar of African history, Nehemia Levtzion.

This book analyses the European border at Lampedusa as a metaphor for visible and invisible powers that impinge on relations between Europe and Africa/Asia.

Why does religion sometimes increase support for democracy and sometimes do just the opposite?

This book provides a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of identity in politics, featuring for the first time the question of individual emancipation.

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Following the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 2020, and the creation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, there is increased interest in and a need to develop national human rights' bodies for children's rights.

Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.

Constitutional 'losers' represent a thorny and longstanding problem in American constitutional law.

This book presents the only contemporary legal analysis of refugee detention at Guantánamo Bay under the US Migrant Interdiction Program.

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This volume explores the paramount importance of family to jihadism in France, Spain and in Europe more generally.

Like other countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Moroccans were inspired by the events in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011.

Can the concept of ''human security'' help to address the multiple challenges facing non-citizens in a new global era?

This is the first book that explores whether there are any rules in international law applicable to unilateral sanctions and if so, what they are.

Highlights the shifting terrain in literary studies of slavery and challenges the notion of what constitutes slavery and its representation.

Human rights organizations have grown exponentially across the globe, particularly in the global South, and the term human rights is now common parlance among politicians and civil society activists.

We are an astonishing species.

This book demonstrates the importance of a duty-based approach to morality.

This book explores the extent to which the varied political status of Latinos is changing the meaning of citizenship and belonging in the United States.

Migrant and seasonal farmworkers are largely Latinx men, women, and children.

Defining the Others, "e;them"e;, in relation to one's own reference group, "e;us"e;, has been an essential phase in the formation of collective identities in any given country or region.

A transformative model for community social work rooted in basic social and economic rights is the basis of this timely Brief.

Politics, while always an integral part of the daily life in the South, took on a new level of importance after the Civil War.

This book chronologically analyzes thirteen key US Presidents, from Washington to Trump, to highlight how religion has informed or influence their politics and policies.

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In diesem Sammelband werden die historischen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Facetten der politischen Systeme der einzelnen Länder des Mittleren Ostens analysiert.

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies rapidly progress, questions about the ethics of AI, in both the near-future and the long-term, become more pressing than ever.

During the nineteenth century, white Americans sought the cultural transformation and physical displacement of Native people.

Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled-ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated-throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred.

New understandings of the middle order and of the post-1688 English Parliament have shifted the focus from Westminster to the constituencies in the study of eighteenth-century politics.

European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact.

Introduces the idea of a flexible approach to the human rights movement that returns to basics in an increasingly diverse and multipolar world.

The book focuses on the modus operandi of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee), the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) monitoring body, and its main tasks, namely monitoring functions and interpreting the CRPD provisions.

An assessment of the European Court of Human Rights at the national, European and international levels.