Human rights, civil rights

This collection of essays interrogates how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in relation to legal pluralism, ie, the co-existence of more than one regulatory order in a same social field.

This collection of essays interrogates how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in relation to legal pluralism, ie, the co-existence of more than one regulatory order in a same social field.

A Lambda Literary Award finalist, Captive Genders is a powerful tool against the prison industrial complex and for queer liberation.

Suggest to the average leftist that animals should be part of broader liberation struggles andonce they stop laughingyoull find yourself casually dismissed.

This book analyzes the governance of illegal immigrants in ethnic areas along China's southwest border.

There is a saying in Arabic, me and my brother against my cousin, and me and my cousin against the outsider.

Policing Sexuality explores the regulation of sexual behaviour and identity by nation states, and questions how and why states have sought to influence and control the sexuality of its citizens.

Economic Policy and Human Rights presents a powerful critique of three decades of neoliberal economic policies, assessed from the perspective of human rights norms.

Economic Policy and Human Rights presents a powerful critique of three decades of neoliberal economic policies, assessed from the perspective of human rights norms.

This book shows how children's work can take on widely differing forms; and how it can both harm and benefit children.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has run into serious problems with its first big case -- the situation in northern Uganda.

Around the world, policymakers and civil society are debating how economic and trade policies shape public health.

Development practice is full of examples of the importance of religion in the lives of people in developing countries.

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

Rarely has such a contentious and complex issue emerged in twenty-first century development as that of water.

Across Africa land is being commodified: private ownership is replacing communal and customary tenure; Farms are turned into collateral for rural credit markets.

In this pioneering work Siraj Sait and Hilary Lim address Islamic property and land rights, drawing on a range of socio-historical, classical and contemporary resources.

This book links contemporary debates on land reform with wider discourses on sustainable development within Africa.

From cleaning to construction, from agriculture to domestic work, every day migrant labourers are exploited and enslaved.

In a time when multinational corporations have become truly globalised, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult to dismiss.

In a time when multinational corporations have become truly globalised, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult to dismiss.

Koen De Feyter, who has chaired Amnesty International's Working Group on economic, social and cultural rights, shows the many ways in which rampant market economics in today's world leads to violations of human rights.

This volume brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organisations working in diverse regions and contexts to combat 'crimes of honour'.

Religious fundamentalism is a powerful force not only in American domestic politics but also in the way America acts abroad.

'We used to talk about development with a human face.

Market society is producing more crime around the world.

This book is a critical exploration of Israel's curfew-closure policy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories through the eyes of CheckpointWatch, an organization of Israeli women monitoring human rights abuses.

Policing Sexuality explores the regulation of sexual behaviour and identity by nation states, and questions how and why states have sought to influence and control the sexuality of its citizens.

In this highly controversial and original work, Damien Short systematically rethinks how genocide is and should be defined.

No one in 1980 could have guessed that Zimbabwe would become a failed state on such a monumental and tragic scale.

Forced Marriage: Introducing a social justice and human rights perspective brings together leading practitioners and researchers from the disciplines of criminology, sociology and law.

Development practice is full of examples of the importance of religion in the lives of people in developing countries.

Religious fundamentalism is a powerful force not only in American domestic politics but also in the way America acts abroad.

Rarely has such a contentious and complex issue emerged in twenty-first century development as that of water.

This book links contemporary debates on land reform with wider discourses on sustainable development within Africa.

There is a saying in Arabic, me and my brother against my cousin, and me and my cousin against the outsider.

Around the world, policymakers and civil society are debating how economic and trade policies shape public health.

This book shows how children's work can take on widely differing forms; and how it can both harm and benefit children.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has run into serious problems with its first big case -- the situation in northern Uganda.

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

Across Africa land is being commodified: private ownership is replacing communal and customary tenure; Farms are turned into collateral for rural credit markets.

Koen De Feyter, who has chaired Amnesty International's Working Group on economic, social and cultural rights, shows the many ways in which rampant market economics in today's world leads to violations of human rights.

'We used to talk about development with a human face.

This book is a critical exploration of Israel's curfew-closure policy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories through the eyes of CheckpointWatch, an organization of Israeli women monitoring human rights abuses.

This volume brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organisations working in diverse regions and contexts to combat 'crimes of honour'.

From cleaning to construction, from agriculture to domestic work, every day migrant labourers are exploited and enslaved.

In this pioneering work Siraj Sait and Hilary Lim address Islamic property and land rights, drawing on a range of socio-historical, classical and contemporary resources.

Market society is producing more crime around the world.

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Malcolm Lambert investigates the histories of Christianity and Islam to trace the origins and development of crusade and jihad.