Human rights, civil rights

La libertad de expresión, valor fundamental de una sociedad democrática, se enfrenta hoy a nuevos desafíos.

How everyday forms of surveillance threaten undocumented immigrantsbut also offer them hope for societal inclusionSome eleven million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States, carving out lives amid a growing web of surveillance that threatens their and their families' societal presence.

In the steamy summer of 1787, as America's founding fathers fashioned their Constitution, they told the most powerful institution in their new nation what it must not do: "e;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.

Big Brother gets up close and personal.

En los últimos años se ha desarrollado un creciente movimiento económico impulsado por el auge del comercio electrónico y la utilización de las nuevas tecnologías, basado en la realización de transacciones económicas a través de plataformas virtuales y aplicaciones para dispositivos inteligentes (apps).

A provocative look at the central role of slavery in Augustine's religious, ethical, and political thoughtAugustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context.

En su libro El precariado.

El nuestro es el tiempo de los derechos humanos.

'Jesús y John Wayne' es una amplia historia revisionista de los últimos setenta y cinco años del evangelismo blanco que revela cómo los evangélicos han trabajado para sustituir al Jesús de los Evangelios por un ídolo de la masculinidad ruda y el nacionalismo cristiano, o en palabras de un capellán moderno, por "un malote espiritual".

«Este libro reúne textos de Joseph Ratzinger/Benedicto XVI en torno a un hilo conductor: su gran apuesta —a los creyentes y a los no creyentes— de vivir y organizar nuestra convivencia 'como si Dios existiera'.

Ranging from chattel slavery, through the New Deal to the Covid pandemic, a groundbreaking work thatinvestigateshow pivotal decisions have established and perpetuated discriminatory practices, even as the rise of disinformation and other modern advertising techniques have plunged democracy into an ever-deepening crisis.

Indien, eine bewundernswerte Demokratie?

Vor dem Internationalen Strafgerichtshof in Den Haag werden Kriegsverbrechen und schwerste Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit verhandelt.

"e;Mercedes AMG Petronas F1-Team"e;is the official name of the team that has been operated in the Formula 1 competition since the 2010 season by Germany's Daimler AG, one of the world's leading manufacturers of automobiles.

Esta obra aborda los distintos regímenes que integran el sistema de seguridad social de la provincia de Santa Fe con una propuesta pedagógica innovadora, a partir del estudio de las contingencias sociales como objeto de aquélla.

Esta obra analiza la argumentación de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Argentina y otros tribunales argentinos, como así también extranjeros (Corte Suprema de EEUU, la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Chile y del Consejo de Estado Francés), para juzgar la validez de las normas de emergencia sanitaria dictadas durante la pandemia COVID-19, en lo que se refiere a la reglamentación del ejercicio de los derechos a la libertad de tránsito, a la libertad religiosa y a la educación.

Esta es la historia de una venganza, una sangrienta venganza ocurrida a pocos kilómetros al sur de Santiago durante la dictadura.

Die Saison ist vorbei, die Gäste abgereist, im Bergdorf kehrt Ruhe ein.

Este libro es uno de los resultados del proyecto de investigación "Derechos humanos y migración internacional: análisis del marco legal, identificación de buenas prácticas comparadas y formulación de propuestas de acción para la mejora de la tutela de los derechos de migrantes en situación de vulnerabilidad social", desarrollado en colaboración entre la Universidad Católica de Córdoba y la Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid.

Die Corona-Pandemie ist eine Herausforderung für Christinnen und Christen weltweit.

Have you ever felt implicit pressure to 'go along' with something you believe not to be true?

In 1956 Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr.

Big Brother gets up close and personal.

Sick of the total BS of rampant PC?

Nonie Darwish lived for thirty years in a majority Muslim nation.

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An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learningNew York City's Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent decades, yet every morning in the big room of the city's oldest yeshiva, students still gather to study the Talmud beneath the great arched windows facing out onto East Broadway.

In the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice.

One of Argentinas 30,000 disappeared, Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed.

The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religionIn The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in nineteenth-century America promoted a secular religion of humanity centered on the deistic revolutionary Thomas Paine (1737-1809) and how their descendants eventually became embroiled in the culture wars of the late twentieth century.

Should a liberal democratic state permit religious schools?

Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others.

The religious and political winds are changing.

Unlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War.

What did the founders of America think about religion?

A political history of the most famous desegregation crisis in AmericaThe desegregation crisis in Little Rock is a landmark of American history: on September 4, 1957, after the Supreme Court struck down racial segregation in public schools, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called up the National Guard to surround Little Rock Central High School, preventing black students from going in.

Where did affirmative action in employment come from?

An in-depth look at the historic and strategic deployment of rights in political conflicts throughout the worldRights are usually viewed as defensive concepts representing mankind's highest aspirations to protect the vulnerable and uplift the downtrodden.

A powerful portrait of the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time, from the director of Human FlowIn the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his collaborators interviewed more than 600 refugees, aid workers, politicians, activists, doctors, and local authorities in twenty-three countries around the world.

A look at the duty of nations to protect human rights beyond borders, why it has failed in practice, and what can be done about itThe idea that states share a responsibility to shield people everywhere from atrocities is presently under threat.

Emilio Gentile, an internationally renowned authority on fascism and totalitarianism, argues that politics over the past two centuries has often taken on the features of religion, claiming as its own the prerogative of defining the fundamental purpose and meaning of human life.

Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring.

How racism and discrimination have been central to democracies from the classical period to todayAs right-wing nationalism and authoritarian populism gain momentum across the world, liberals, and even some conservatives, worry that democratic principles are under threat.

Religion and liberty are often thought to be mutual enemies: if religion has a natural ally, it is authoritarianism--not republicanism or democracy.

From South Africa in the nineteenth century to Hong Kong today, nations around the world, including the United States, have turned to guestworker programs to manage migration.

Against Massacre looks at the rise of humanitarian intervention in the nineteenth century, from the fall of Napoleon to the First World War.

Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none.

Why the pursuit of state recognition by seemingly marginal religious groups in Egypt and elsewhere is a devotional practiceOver the past decade alone, religious communities around the world have demanded state recognition, exemption, accommodation, or protection.

More than ever, politics seem to be driven by discord.

We can heal our communities--one friendship at a time.