Human rights, civil rights

First published between 1913 and 1994, this 6 volume set examines the history of Islam in a variety of regions across the world.

Traces the history of innovation and trust, demonstrating how the Internet offers new ways to rehabilitate and strengthen trust.

Firmly rooted on Roman and canon law, Italian legal culture has had an impressive influence on the civil law tradition from the Middle Ages to present day, and it is rightly regarded as "e;the cradle of the European legal culture.

In the late twentieth century, nothing united union members, progressive students, Black and Chicano activists, Native Americans, feminists, and members of the LGBTQ+ community quite as well as Coors beer.

The story of activist youth in America is usually framed around the Vietnam War, the counterculture, and college campuses, focusing primarily on college students in the 1960s and 1970s.

This book contains a systematic assessment of the content and scope of obligations to prevent gross human rights violations.

This provocative and original book challenges the commonplace that contemporary international interactions are best understood as struggles for power.

Today, a billion-dollar-a-year polling industry floods the media with information.

The main theme of this volume of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law is weapons law.

On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States.

The Second Edition of An Introduction to Transitional Justice provides a comprehensive overview of transitional justice judicial and non-judicial measures implemented by societies to redress legacies of massive human rights abuse.

Deification in Russian Religious Thought considers the reception of the Eastern Christian (Orthodox) doctrine of deification by Russian religious thinkers of the immediate pre-revolutionary period.

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Award-winning investigative journalist Heather Brooke exposes the shocking and farcical lack of transparency at all levels of government.

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

Immigration and race are contentious issues in North America.

A study of how and why amnesties for human rights violations remain a prevalent feature of peace processes in Asia.

Orthodox Christianity is one of the world's major religions, and the Russian Orthodox Church is by far its largest denomination.

"Menschenrechte im Ausnahmezustand" lautet das Schwerpunktthema der neuen Ausgabe der zeitschrift für menschenrechte (zfmr).

Freedom of religious belief is guaranteed under the constitution of the People's Republic of China, but the degree to which this freedom is able to be exercised remains a highly controversial issue.

Gender Inclusive offers a challenging and unconventional reinterpretation of gender and mass violence.

From the squares of Spain to indigenous land in Canada, protest camps are a tactic used around the world.

This is the second volume of the book series Human Rights - Looking Towards the Future, edited by the Human Rights Centre of Central South University.

Indigenous Peoples and the Law provides an historical, comparative and contextual analysis of various legal and policy issues affecting Indigenous peoples.

This book examines the impact and implications of the relationship between risk and criminal justice in advanced liberal democracies, in the context of the 'revolt against uncertainty' which has underpinned the rise of populist politics across these societies in recent years.

This book analyses faith-based development action in the Philippines by studying Catholic social movements and development studies in Southeast Asia.

Based on country reports and practical input from researchers and activists in the field, this book is an up-to-date account of the issues surrounding women's reproductive rights across Europe.

Rival understandings of the meaning and practice of the religious and the secular lead to rival public perspectives about religion and religious freedom in North America.

';Fascinating profiles' of remarkable nuns, from an eighty-three-year-old Ironman champion to a crusader against human trafficking (Daily News [New York]).

Over the last few years, Orthodox Jewish private schools, also known as yeshivas, have been under fire by a group of activists known as Young Advocates for Fair Education, run by several yeshiva graduates, who have criticized them for providing an inadequate secular education.

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

With a combination of essay-length and short entries written by a team of leading religious experts, the two-volume Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodoxy offers the most comprehensive guide to the cultural and intellectual world of Eastern Orthodox Christianity available in English today.

This book offers the first comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the provisions of the 'Malabo Protocol'-the amendment protocol to the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights-adopted by the African Union at its 2014 Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

The book relates three years of history of social movements from Asia and Europe who work on social justice, as a rough overview.

Traditional understandings of the genesis of the separation of church and state rest on assumptions about "e;Enlightenment"e; and the republican ethos of citizenship.

This book examines the interpretation and application of the right to freedom of religion and belief of new minorities formed by recent migration by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC).

Since the 1990s, most African economies and public spheres have been liberalised, and new civil society actors have emerged.

The national security and civil liberties tensions of the World War II mass incarceration link 9/11 and the 2015 Paris-San Bernardino attacks to the Trump era in America - an era darkened by accelerating discrimination against and intimidation of those asserting rights of freedom of religion, association and speech, and an era marked by increasingly volatile protests.

How should Christians respond to terrorism and terrorists in their midst?

This book examines the failure of Islamic politics in becoming a hegemonic force in Indonesia and the far-reaching consequences for current practices of democracy and of Islam itself.

This book draws on key theories and methods from the social sciences to develop a framework for the systematic study of human rights problems.

"e;Conceptually and empirically, this is the most thoughtful analysis of the role of EU's peace missions I have read so far.