Human rights, civil rights

This volume presents and critiques the distorted effects of the international human rights movement''s focus on the fight against impunity.

This fifth volume in the book series on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law focuses on various legal aspects regarding nuclear security and nuclear deterrence.

Since the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996, the public has grappled with the relationship between Islamic education and radical Islam.

How, and to what extent, can religion be included within commitments to multiculturalism?

The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped life across the world, placing people at risk as our responses to it alter not only health and wellbeing but also governance, economies, social relations, and our interaction with the natural environment.

Since the beginning of modern Indology in the 19th century, the relationship between the early Indian religions of Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism has been predicated on a perceived dichotomy between two meta-historical identities: "e;the Brahmans"e; (purveyors of the ancient Vedic texts and associated ritual system) and the newer "e;non-Brahmanical"e; sramana movements from which the Buddhists and Jains emerged.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, nation building and identity construction in the post-socialist region have been the subject of extensive academic research.

Asylum seeking and the global city are two major contemporary subjects of analysis to emerge both in the literature and in public and official discourses on human rights, urban socioeconomic change and national security.

Shaping Race Policy investigates one of the most serious policy challenges facing the United States today: the stubborn persistence of racial inequality in the post-civil rights era.

In the data economy, childhood is a lucrative commodity.

Letters to Young Scholars is designed primarily for college students, advanced high school students, and church and parachurch study groups on spiritual development.

The world's poorest people are struggling to access quality, affordable health care.

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

International courts and other actors are increasingly taking into account pre-existing social structures and inequalities when addressing and redressing human rights violations, in particular discrimination against specific groups.

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.

Deeper Waters is a sermon collection--but also a manifesto.

The Honourable Landon Pearson's domestic and global advocacy efforts with, for, and on behalf of children and young people have unfolded over a period of sixty years including thirty years in the Canadian Foreign Service and eleven years in the Senate of Canada.

Berg Institute presenta esta obra innovadora y necesaria por su rigor, temática y trascendencia profesional, escrita por Ángel García Navarro, doctor en Derecho e inspector del Cuerpo Nacional de Policía de España, quien presenta un análisis del nuevo código deontológico de dicha policía inspirado en la observancia de los Derechos Humanos y el fortalecimiento del Estado de derecho.

For the past two years Pope Francis has enchanted and bewildered the world in equal measure with his compassion and his contradictions.

This compelling and timely book explores the relationship between classical Islamic theology and the contemporary radicalization of Islam.

This brief introduction surveys Christian thinking on an array of topics related to security and peace from a just war perspective.

In 2011 the U.

In the early 1970s, while living at home with her conservative middle-class family and studying at the University of Sao Paulo, Gabriela Leite decided to become a sex worker.

After the reelection of George W.

The smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organise, and participate in politics like never before.

Without an appropriate spiritual care model, it can be difficult to discuss existential questions about death and dying with people who are confronted with life-threatening or incurable diseases.

This volume explores agricultural commercialization from a gender equality and right to food perspective.

Explores the ICC''s regime of victim redress, including both its reparations regime and the work of the ICC Trust Fund.

Focusing on Malawi, Johnson proposes a shift in emphasis to gender justice as an alternative to human and women''s rights.

Is it possible to both love and hate the church at one and the same time?

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many people in America had long assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever morally permissible?

This book provides a key analysis of the development of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, and considers the challenges it faces in contemporary times.

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This book explores the interplay and dialogue between faith communities and the humanitarian-development community.

Positioning race front and centre, this book theorizes that political violence, in the form of a socio-political process that differentiates between human and less-than-human populations, is used by the state of Israel in racializing and ruling the citizens of occupied Palestine.

This book investigates the relation between Durkheim's sociology, Critical Theory, and the philosophy of social sciences.

Sunni Islam has played an ambivalent role in Turkey's Kurdish conflict--both as a conflict resolution tool and as a tool of resistance.

This book investigates Twitter activism in authoritarian regimes, with particular attention to Iran.

This book argues that the international refugee regime and its 'temporary' humanitarian interventions have failed.

On March 27, 1933, representatives from across the American religious spectrum came to Madison Square Garden, united in a shared purpose to speak out against the rise of fascism in Germany and Adolph Hitler's seizure of power.

Dieser Band ist den psychologischen und theologischen Grundlagen der Seelsorge, der Erörterung ihrer therapeutischen und religiösen Dimension sowie der Entfaltung einer interdisziplinären Praxis gewidmet.

Das Buch untersucht mit der Margin of Appreciation eine der bekanntesten und doch umstrittensten Rechtsfiguren der Rechtsprechung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte.

This book develops a post-secular, post-sectarian political theology, taking that burgeoning field in a new direction.

Written by a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2003-4), this book has been fully updated for a second edition and continues to provide a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the foundational human rights ideas of our times and shows that every government is under international obligation to respect and uphold universal human rights.

This book examines violence against women in Africa and criminal justice from the perspective of African scholars, practitioners and experts.

Civil war and conflict within countries is the most prevalent threat to peace and security in the opening decades of the twenty-first century.

Seit 2014 errichtete die chinesische Regierung in Xinjiang ein riesiges Netz von Straflagern für ethnische Minderheiten, vorwiegend muslimische Uiguren und Kasachen.