Human rights, civil rights

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A Christian response to global realities of human inequality, poverty, violence and ecological destruction in the twenty-first century.

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 explores the causal relationship between the deregulation of international economic interests and the forms of violence that prevail in a large part of the Global South.

This book brings together a collection of essays about the untenable political status quo in Bangladesh under Sheikh Hasina.

This study exposes the forgotten history of human rights in East Germany.

This book makes a significant contribution to the comprehension of the law and practice of provisional measures issued by international courts and tribunals, including international commercial arbitration.

An analysis of rights-based activism in South Korea, including case studies of women, workers, disabled persons, migrants, and sexual minorities.

Since September 11, Western governments have legitimized and empowered "e;nonviolent Islamists"e; as representatives of Islam for all Muslims in the West, an approach that has worried Muslim moderates.

The landmark-but largely unsung-career of a civil rights pioneerMatthew J.

In The Costs of War, Richard Falk brings together some of his recent essays, published and unpublished, examining the impact that the Iraq War has had and will have on international law, human rights, and democracy.

This book analyses the principle of equality from three perspectives: public international law, private international law and EU law.

Since the 1970s, the international community of states has demonstrated increasing willingness to invest UN institutions with politico-ethical authority to act on its behalf in addressing human rights abuses.

Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe’s cities?

This book offers an extensive research work to explore the accessibility of women with disabilities and financial insolvency to social safety net program in rural Bangladesh.

This book examines whether a global consensus is emerging on climate change and human mobility and presents evidence of a slow-moving but dynamic, step-by-step process of international policy development on climate-related mobility.

When the regime led by Slobodan Miloevi came to an end in October 2000, expectations for social transformation in Serbia and the rest of the Balkans were high.

Der gerechte Frieden stellt mit seiner Maxime Si vis pacem para pacem (Wenn du den Frieden willst, bereite den Frieden vor) einen Perspektivenwechsel in der christlichen Friedensethik dar.

Fully revised and updated throughout, this fourth edition of Lena Dominelli's influential book retains its reputation as the go-to text on anti-racist social work practice.

The connection of Judaism to music has been a lively discourse topic in recent years, and the musical awakening in religious circles is one expression of it.

This book critically looks at the tensions between the promise to transform education through the use of digital technology and the tendency to utilize digital technology in instrumental and technical ways.

A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkers.

The Sourcebook introduces the theoretical and ideological foundation and methodological basis of Rights-based Direct Practice with Children.

The fissures that have split the United Kingdom in the last decades have run through Northern Ireland.

Much of social and political thought over the last three centuries has been concerned with transgression and change, with progress and a focus on creating something 'better' than we have now.

In popular, legal, and academic discourses, the term "e;human rights"e; is now almost always discussed in relation to its opposite: human rights abuses.

Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book delves into the thriving industry of religious infrastructure in Romania, where 4,000 Orthodox churches and cathedrals have been built in three decades.

This book explores why democratization processes in Sub-Saharan Africa have made so little progress despite more than two decades of multi-party politics on the subcontinent.

This book provides a textured understanding of intimate violence across the unlimited stretch of human relationships, institutions, and social structures.

Following over twenty years of war, Sri Lanka's longest cease-fire (2002-2006) provided a final opportunity for an inclusive peace settlement between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

In this innovative volume, experts from international relations, anthropology, sociology, global public health, postcolonial African literature, and gender studies, take up Ngugi wa Thiong'o's challenge to see how Africa gives to the west instead of the reverse.

Si l'on en croit l'historien Denis Vaugeois, les gens inventent des histoires depuis soixante ans à propos du gouvernement de Maurice Duplessis.

This book addresses the legal issues raised by the interaction between human rights and development in contemporary international law.

This book offers perspectives from the ground on human rights and peace in Timor-Leste.

While there have been many biographies of Dwight D.

The promise of America has always been creative potential: enterprise, industry, optimism, idealism, and hope.

The main theme of this volume of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Lawis the development and interpretation of international humanitarian law (IHL).

Research shows that non-responsive patients benefit significantly from spiritual and pastoral care.

Relive through reminiscing and remembering, a Maine pastor's recollections of boyhood experiences that turned into a minister's messages in old age.

Silver Gavel Award, Honorable MentionIn the Chicago suburb of Skokie, one out of every six Jewish citizens in the late 1970s was a survivoror was directly related to a survivorof the Holocaust.

Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europes cities?

Does the CNN Effect exist?

This book critically examines transitional justice in Mexico.

In a profound revelation of what truly undergirds modern political rhetoric, Morgan Marietta shows that the language of America's leaders often relies on deep, even sacred, ideals.

During times of injustice, some individuals or groups courageously resist maltreatment of all people, regardless of backgrounds.

La necesidad, urgencia y pertinencia de continuar avanzando en los estudios sobre violaciones de los derechos humanos, memoria social y violencia en América Latina, se hace explícita en este libro, pese a las adversidades provenientes de los discursos de banalización o descrédito y de las operaciones de consumo masivo que, sobre estas cuestiones, han desplegado ciertos lenguajes políticos e industrias culturales en el presente.