Human rights, civil rights

This edited volume brings closer two contemporary science education research areas:  Nature of Science (NOS) and Social Justice (SJ).

The first global and comparative study of litigation in which refugees seek protection from a place of ostensible ''refuge''.

This exciting new textbook provides an accessible and lively introduction to international relations for students encountering the subject for the first time.

Although its beginnings can be traced back to the late 19th century, the interfaith movement has only recently begun to attract mainstream attention, with governments, religious leaders and grassroots activists around the world increasingly turning to interfaith dialogue and collective action to address the challenges posed and explore the opportunities presented by religious diversity in a globalising world.

Presenting an overview of an emerging field in the study of contemporary religion, this book, together with a complementary volume Religion in the Neoliberal Age, explores issues of religion, neoliberalism and consumer society.

During the Allies invasion of Italy in the thick of World War II, American soldier James Kutcher was hit by a German mortar shell and lost both of his legs.

This book addresses the issue of corruption as a socio-economic rights concern at a national level.

In many ways, we seem to be living in wintry times at present in the Western world.

As the world focuses on the conflict in Iraq, the most important political players in that country today are not the Sunni insurgents.

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.

Theologisches Denken und geistliches Leben gehören zusammen.

Should people in the way lose out as new reservoirs, mines, plantations, or superhighways displace them from their homes and livelihoods?

Technik von gestern - Herausforderung für heute - Chance für morgen!

This book presents commentaries by a leading international group of peace education scholars and practitioners concerning Reardon's peace education theory and intellectual legacy.

Must religious voices keep quiet in public places?

Exploring the relations between the concepts of peace and violence with aesthetics, nature, the body, and environmental issues, The Poesis of Peace applies a multidisciplinary approach to case studies in both Western and non-Western contexts including Islam, Chinese philosophy, Buddhist and Hindu traditions.

This book investigates Turkey's departure from a 'flawed democracy' under Kemalist secularism, and its transitioning into Islamist authoritarian Erdoganism, through the lenses of informal law, legal pluralism, and legal hybridity.

Citizenship is a central concept in political philosophy, bridging theory and practice and marking out those who belong and who share a common civic status.

For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia.

This book exposes the anxieties of loss of control and missed opportunities for freedom of expression resulting from changes in technologies and geopolitics.

The teaching of history has long been the subject of partisan warfare.

This volume engages human rights, domestic immigration law, refugee policy in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and scholarship to examine forced migration, refugee resettlement, asylum seeker experiences, policies and programs for refugee well-being in North America and Europe.

Why do powerful states like the U.

In Trump, White Evangelical Christians, and American Politics, political scientists Anand Edward Sokhey and Paul A.

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

The Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, California, was pivotal in shaping 1960s America.

This book shows that attempts to repress religion produce the very violent religious extremism that states seek to avoid.

This book explores developments in international law regarding the relationship between human rights law and international humanitarian law and their coapplicability in armed conflict situations.

During the Iraq War, thousands of young Baghdadis worked as interpreters for US troops, becoming the front line of the so-called War on Terror.

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This book discusses the critical legal issues raised by the US responses to the terrorist threat, analyzing the actions taken by the Bush administration during the so-called "e;War on Terrorism"e; and their compliance with international law.

The book uses Athens as a case study to identify the key features of urban anti-poverty policies in Greece and to discuss them in relation to policy developments in the crisis-ridden countries of Southern Europe.

Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b.

This book examines the underlying theoretical issues concerning the nature of political freedom.

Clearing up the confusion about religion, re-visioning the core elements of spiritual traditions, and transcending the fault line of secular-versus-religious.

This book explores the elective affinity of religion and post-secularism with neoliberalism.

Erudite and timely, this book is a key contribution to the renewal of radical theory and politics.

A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient RomePublic bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports.

The Enhancing Resources and Increasing Capacities of Poor Households Towards Elimination of their Poverty (the ENRICH) programme is being implemented by Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), which is a government-established Foundation and implements its programmes through Partner NGOs.

This volume provides a wide spectrum description analysis of the contemporary and well established child protection systems in a range of countries, such as Australia, Canada, Netherlands and Spain.

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status.

This book unpacks the history of British-Israelism in the UK.

The human rights regime is one of modernity's great civilizing triumphs.

Ana reported being blindfolded, doused in cold water.

The role of religious identity in social communities has gained importance in the past few years, as many questions about individual and collective identity have been brought up in the fields of science and everyday life.

A sourcebook for understanding an uprising that continues to incite historical debateIn the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of Charleston joined forces to strike down their white owners and march en masse toward Spanish Florida and freedom.

Written from a global perspective, The Institutions of Human Rights examines international human rights institutions and procedures, as well as weighty issues such as the protection of refugee and labor laws.