Human rights, civil rights

This book explores the human right to housing, presenting the findings of a global discourse analysis to analyse the right to housing from the perspective of theories on land policy and social citizenship.

This edited work collates novel contributions on contemporary topics that are related to human rights.

This book is an examination of how the law understands human identity and the whole notion of 'human being'.

This book traces the connections between diverging postwar European integration policies and intra-Christian divisions to argue that supranational integration originates from Roman Catholic internationalism, and that resistance to integration, conversely, is based in Protestantism.

This book provides a roadmap for how police services can address incivility in the workplace and become more inclusive from the inside out.

This book examines the issue of irregular transit migration to the EU by presenting the case of the Afghans.

This book presents a comprehensive study of the influence of Immanuel Kant's Critical Philosophy in the Russian Empire, spanning the period from the late 19th century to the Bolshevik Revolution.

This book explores the increasing political and social prominence of Islamist groups across the Middle East in recent years.

This book is a theoretically and historically informed exploration of 'secularism' in Muslim contexts.

Using legal arguments consistent with international law, this book explores whether and under which circumstances a State (or States) may establish and militarily enforce safe zones in countries that produce large-scale refugee outflows so as to protect its (or their) own interests by averting said outflows, as well as to alleviate human suffering in today's world of civil and internal warfare.

This book addresses the question: "e;What should be the appropriate limits to free speech?

This book investigates why the rate of female labor force participation in the Middle East and North Africa is the lowest in the world.

This book shows how the introduction of  intermediation is relevant in studying political and public policy processes, as they are increasingly accompanied by grey spaces in public and non-public arenas that cannot be categorized as purely representative or purely participative.

This book offers a systematic analysis of how the interaction between language of security and language of rights produces policies which not only affect everyday functioning of democracy, but also redefine the understanding of sovereignty.

This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in Nigeria.

This volume collects essays from academics and practitioners from a diversity of areas and perspectives in order to discuss water security at various levels and to illuminate the central idea of water security: its focus on the individual.

This book examines the manner in which the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount has been appropriated by both Palestinians and Israelis as a nationalist symbol legitimizing respective claims to the land.

One of the hallmarks of the present era is the discourse surrounding Human Rights and the need for the law to recognise them.

This study analyses male-female violence in comparison to state-citizen violence.

In this book I argue for an approach that conceives human rights as both moral and legal rights.

This book provides a unique perspective on addressing issues of various forms of violence against children from scholars within their own country.

This book examines the ability of citizens across ten European countries to exercise their democratic rights to access their personal data.

This volume examines the impact of and interplay between human rights and insurance.

This book traces the development of Oman's inclusive agreements and highlights their importance for international negotiations, dealing with issues most relevant to humanity's own survival today, nuclear weapons or climate change.

This book describes the nature of trafficking in persons in West Africa, focusing on labor and sexual exploitation in the region, and recommends tailor-made solutions established by the Catholic Church in light of governmental authorities' failure to effectively combat this scourge of humanity.

This book focuses specifically on the experience and protection of indigenous, and particularly Sami sacred sites in the Arctic.

This book challenges readers to imagine social entrepreneurship as an innovative, creative model for building justice and sustainability.

This book provides essential insights into Bhutan's developmental challenges.

This clear-sighted reference examines the public health dimensions of labor and sex trafficking in the United States, the scope of the crisis, and possibilities for solutions.

High levels of police corruption have been a persistent historical tendency in police services throughout the world.

This volume is a new chapter in the future history of law.

This book examines the ability of citizens across ten European countries to exercise their democratic rights to access their personal data.

With the major goal of building an inclusive international community that promotes peace-related research and action, this volume reflects on local, national and global peace engagement and works towards transdisciplinary understandings of the role of psychology in peace, conflict, and violence.

This book analyses the rights of crime victims within a human rights paradigm, and describes the inconsistencies resulting from attempts to introduce the procedural rights of victims within a criminal justice system that views crime as a matter between the state and the offender, and not as one involving the victim.

This book analyses efforts to advance the rights of Indigenous People within peace-building frameworks: Section I critically explores key issues concerning Indigenous Peoples' Rights (struggles for land, human, cultural, civil, legal and constitutional rights) in connection with key approaches in peace-building (such as nonviolence, non-violent strategic action, peace education, sustainability, gender equality, cultures of peace, and environmental protection).

This book outlines a new model for global social justice movements that is based on Freud and Lacan's central insights regarding the unconscious, repetition, drives, and transference.

This interdisciplinary volume offers a range of studies spanning the various historical, political, legal, and cultural features of social justice in Iran, and proposes that the present-day realities of life in Iran could not be farther from the promises of the Iranian Revolution.

This book provides a theoretical framework for explaining the choices made by international decision-makers in terms of what constitutes law.

This book provides a conceptual framework for children's rights as well as specific strategies and opportunities for social workers to apply in their work.

This Commentary provides the first comprehensive legal article-by-article analysis of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

The first volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy includes an important discussion on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals that are the basis for the post-2015 development agenda up to the year 2030; the Yearbook focuses in particular on Goal 15, which includes achieving a "e;land degradation-neutral world.

This book offers the first book-length explanation of the UN's politics of selective humanitarian intervention.

This book investigates the modern privatisation of war.

This book considers the effectiveness and fairness of using international cooperation to obtain confession evidence or evidence of a suspect or accused person's silence across borders.

This book is an innovative and critical contribution to the study of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people in the context of Europe.

This volume combines rigorous empirical and theoretical analyses with political engagement to look beyond reductive short-hands that ignore the historical evolution and varieties of Islamic doctrine and that deny the complexities of Muslim societies' encounters with modernity itself.

This book explores the philosophical, and in particular ethical, issues concerning the conceptualization, design and implementation of poverty alleviation measures from the local to the global level.

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This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum screening, an area of immigration that is often overlooked and remains under-researched.

The discourse on the human right to water presents deliberations on the concept, content and rationale for the right, with little attention to the practical question of translating the right into reality.