Human rights, civil rights

Human trafficking has come to be seen as a growing threat, and transnational advocacy networks opposed to human trafficking have succeeded in establishing trafficking as a pressing political problem.

This is the first book devoted entirely to exploring Zizek's peculiar kind of Paulinism.

This book shows how an encounter with everyday nationhood in the northern United Arab Emirates can make us revisit the classics of sociology as continuous analytical world-views.

This book focuses on human rights education (HRE) in higher education, with an emphasis on supporting undergraduate education for social justice and global citizenship at the institutional, classroom, and community levels.

This edited volume examines child exploitation in the Global South.

This book brings together theories of world society with poststructuralist and postcolonial work on modern subjectivity to understand the universalising and particularising processes of globalisation.

This book provides an inclusive and incisive analysis of the experiences of working-class young people in education.

Despite growing popular and policy interest in 'new' slavery, with contemporary abolitionists calling for action to free an estimated 40 million 'modern slaves', interdisciplinary and theoretical dialogue has been largely missing from scholarship on 'modern slavery'.

This book explains why there is a pronounced disjuncture between R2P's habitual invocation and its actual influence, and why it will not make the transformative progress its proponents claim.

The book subjects the largely hidden phenomenon of benefit sanctions in the UK to sustained examination and critique.

Over the last century, international law has sought to keep pace with sweeping changes that have revolutionised the international community.

This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, and in-depth empirical research.

This book addresses the principle of proportionality, which is currently one of the most important instruments of judicial review, from both analytical and theory of law perspectives.

This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present.

This volume brings together innovative work from emerging and leading scholars in international law and political science to critically examine the impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS).

This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West.

Providing an expansive view of the making and meaning of African American conservatism, this volume examines the phenomenon in four spheres: the political realm, the academic world, the black church, and grass-roots activism movements.

This book focuses on anti-discrimination law in order to identify commonalities and best practices across nations.

This book sheds new light on the emergence and fluctuation of Iran's connections with non-state entities in the Middle East.

With existing literature focusing largely on Western perspectives of peace and their applications, a global understanding of peace is much needed.

This book argues that the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) the Libyan people played an important role in the U.

How do ordinary people experience and make sense of the informal justice system?

This book investigates the often-fragmented nature of Ulster Nationalist / Republican / Roman Catholic politics, culture and identity.

This book explores the objects, means and ends of international cultural heritage protection.

This book uses in-depth interview data with victims of conflict in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka to offer a new, sociological conceptualization of everyday life peacebuilding.

This book will challenge the orthodox view that children cannot have the same rights as adults because they are particularly vulnerable.

From sending imams abroad to financing mosques and Islamic associations, home states play a key role in governing Islam in Western Europe.

This book examines the formative relationship between nineteenth century American school architecture and curriculum.

This peer-reviewed book features essays on the Armenian massacres of 1915-1916.

This book provides an analysis of whether the International Criminal Court can be regarded as an International Criminal World Court, capable of exercising its jurisdiction upon every individual despite the fact that not every State is a Party to the Rome Statute.

This book addresses the intersection of various domains of international law (refugee law, human rights law including child rights international law and humanitarian law) in terms of the implications for State obligations to child refugee asylum seekers in particular; both as collectives and as individual persons.

This book examines the management of migratory flows in the Mediterranean within an international security perspective.

This book draws together established and emerging scholars from sociology, law, history, political science and education to examine the global and local issues in the pursuit of gender justice in post-conflict settings.

This innovative volume is focused on the relationship between religion on the one hand and political and judicial rights on the other.

This volume examines the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life in a representative sample of West European countries: newly democratized and long-established democracies, societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and welfare states with different levels and types of state-provided social services.

How have Muslim marriages legally ended around the turn of the 21st century?

This book critically examines the making and persistence of impoverished areas at the margins of Romanian cities since the late 1980s.

One of the main goals in fisheries governance is to promote viability and sustainability in small-scale fishing communities.

During the 2000's, online literature in Arabic language was popular among a larger readership.

The book offers the first systematic account of Iran's foreign policy following the nuclear agreement (JCPOA) of July 14, 2015.

This book offers an in-depth overview of Turkish history and politics essential for understanding contemporary Turkey.

This book analyses whether the design of the institutions of Southern African Development Community (SADC) reflects the community's treaty objectives and principles of democracy and the rule of law.

This book examines why press freedom has not become part of the established international human rights debate, despite its centrality to democratic theory.

This book explores the ways in which democratizing Muslim countries treat their ethnic minorities' requests of inclusiveness and autonomy.

Globalization has increased the number of individuals in criminal proceedings who are unable to understand the language of the courtroom, and as a result the number of court interpreters has also increased.

This book provides an insightful analysis of the looming refugee and mixed migration crisis in the context of four major, contemporary flows: two in west and east Europe, and one each in the Americas and Asia.

As globalization processes and related neoliberal agendas promote privatization through state action, people's struggles for rights to water have intensified.

The book considers some of the solutions proposed by Muslim activists and thinkers in their attempts to renew (tajdid) their ways of life and thought in accord with the demands of the age in which they lived.

This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial dark chamber.

This book focuses on Boko Haram and terrorism in Nigeria, framing the conflict in an international law context.