Human rights, civil rights

In recent decades there has been increasing attention to mass atrocities such as genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other gross human rights violations.

What was distinctive about the founding principles and practices of Quakerism?

More than sixty million people have been victims of genocide in the twentieth century alone, including recent casualties in Bosnia and Rwanda.

Eine anschauliche Einführung in die RechtsgeschichteWarum brauchen wir Gesetze?

In the West, the varied body of texts and traditions known as Tantra for more than two centuries has had the capacity to scandalize and shock.

This is a fully revised and updated new edition of the classic work first published in 1985.

Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties.

Following the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict.

This book studies the politics of Pentecostal conversion and anti-Christian violence in India.

This book explores the role of gender in the recognition of an individual's legal capacity.

Written from a global perspective, The Institutions of Human Rights examines international human rights institutions and procedures, as well as weighty issues such as the protection of refugee and labor laws.

The issue of private property and the rights it confers remain almost undiscussed in critiques of globalization and free market economics.

This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes.

Gershon Baskin's memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his family.

As Northern Ireland moves from conflict to tentative peace, ongoing violence and unrest underline that the province remains a turbulent and troubled society.

Israel is a Jewish state.

East Asia, until recently the scene of widespread blood-letting, has achieved relative peace.

This book examines the role of messianism in Zionist ideology, from the birth of the Zionist movement through to the present.

In 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the International Declaration of Human Rights, a document designed to hold both individuals and nations accountable for their treatment of fellow human beings, regardless of religious or cultural affiliations.

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

This book evaluates the protection of traditional cultural expressions in Africa using South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana as case study examples in the light of regional and international approaches in this respect.

This book develops theoretical intersections between theatre and human rights and provides methodologies to investigate human rights questions from within the perspective of theatre as a complex set of disciplines.

Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life?

Comprehensive and accessible, this one-stop resource examines the history, development, and present state of free speech issues on college campuses, including a range of political perspectives and viewpoints.

Once described by Trygve Lie as the "e;most impossible job on earth,"e; the position of UN Secretary-General is as frustratingly constrained as it is prestigious.

This book surveys royal marriage cases to explore how popes dealt with the marriage problems of kings, especially dissolutions and dispensations.

The riveting biography of an heiress, equestrienne, spy-hunter, and patron of ecologyBelle W.

The idea of transitions in Indian history emerged early when the term 'transition' denoted shifts from one period to another.

This book analyzes the impacts on peoples' lives of the largest antipoverty social program in the world: the Brazilian Bolsa Familia Program.

The Iranian #MeToo movement was a crucial form of resistance, with ordinary Iranian women sharing their experiences of sexual harassment and assault in the public sphere of digital media.

A compelling account of South Africa's post-Apartheid democracyAt a time when many democracies are under strain around the world, Until We Have Won Our Liberty shines new light on the signal achievements of one of the contemporary era's most closely watched transitions away from minority rule.

In the United States and Europe, an increasing emphasis on equality has pitted rights claims against each other, raising profound philosophical, moral, legal, and political questions about the meaning and reach of religious liberty.

This book offers a systematic and comparative analysis of the intersections of religion and gender in times of populism across the EU-Mediterranean.

This book presents a comprehensive review of cross-border labor mobility from the ancient forms of slavery to the present day.

Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes?

International Human Rights Law primarily aims at protecting individuals and groups from abusive action by states and state agents.

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.

Despite its safety and efficacy, emergency contraception (EC) continues to spark political controversy worldwide.

The untold story of how concessionaires, financiers and hidden private legal devices, implement and shape Indigenous peoples'' rights to land.

This book critically examines the civil, political, socioeconomic, and group rights protected under the African Charter and its Protocol on women's rights.

Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties.

Whether America was founded as a Christian nation or as a secular republic is one of the most fiercely debated questions in American history.

George Luther Stearns became John Brown's single most important financial backer.

This revised and expanded edition of A World History of Ancient Political Thought examines the political thought of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Iran, India, China, Greece, Rome and early Christianity, from prehistory to c.

The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the oldest and most influential Islamist movements.

First published in 2005, this timely volume challenges those who see faith schools as contributing positively to the well-being of society and responding to parent choice to think through the implications of September 11 for our multi-ethnic and multi-faith society without taking a position on the ultimate necessity of faith schools.

In this viscerally intense, ethnographically based work, Claudia Seymour relates the heart-wrenching stories of young people in the Democratic Republic of Congoyoung people who live on the front lines of conflict, in neighborhoods and villages destroyed by war, and on the streets in conditions of poverty and destitution.

Drawing insight from W.