Human rights, civil rights

This book shows how children's work can take on widely differing forms; and how it can both harm and benefit children.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has run into serious problems with its first big case -- the situation in northern Uganda.

The issue of private property and the rights it confers remain almost undiscussed in critiques of globalization and free market economics.

Across Africa land is being commodified: private ownership is replacing communal and customary tenure; Farms are turned into collateral for rural credit markets.

Koen De Feyter, who has chaired Amnesty International's Working Group on economic, social and cultural rights, shows the many ways in which rampant market economics in today's world leads to violations of human rights.

'We used to talk about development with a human face.

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.

This volume brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organisations working in diverse regions and contexts to combat 'crimes of honour'.

From cleaning to construction, from agriculture to domestic work, every day migrant labourers are exploited and enslaved.

In this pioneering work Siraj Sait and Hilary Lim address Islamic property and land rights, drawing on a range of socio-historical, classical and contemporary resources.

Market society is producing more crime around the world.

Negotiating sovereignty and human rights takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society.

Church, nation and race compares the worldviews and factors that promoted or, indeed, opposed antisemitism amongst Catholics in Germany and England after the First World War.

This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the 'global justice movement'.

This book is about the lives of refugee women in Britain and France.

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license.

What was distinctive about the founding principles and practices of Quakerism?

This book tells the story of the emergence of the concept of crimes against humanity.

Rights were once thought to derive from the God-given nature of man.

A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights.

The term 'War on Terror' (WOT) covers a mass of interlinked topics.

This book tells the story of the emergence of the concept of crimes against humanity.

What was distinctive about the founding principles and practices of Quakerism?

Church, nation and race compares the worldviews and factors that promoted or, indeed, opposed antisemitism amongst Catholics in Germany and England after the First World War.

Negotiating sovereignty and human rights takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society.

This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the 'global justice movement'.

This book is about the lives of refugee women in Britain and France.

Malcolm Lambert investigates the histories of Christianity and Islam to trace the origins and development of crusade and jihad.

Tax havens in offshore lands like Switzerland, the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas were once considered a rarity, the preserve of the super-rich.

Dawkins and Hitchens have convinced many western intellectuals that secularism is the way forward.

While the notion of social harm has long interested critical criminologists it is now being explored as an alternative field of study, which provides more accurate analyses of the vicissitudes of life.

The Secrethas sold millions of copies worldwide.

Advancing a bold theory of the relevance of tort law in the fight against human rights abuses, celebrated US law professor George Fletcher here challenges the community of international lawyers to think again about how they can use the Alien Tort Statute.

Privacy today is much debated as an individual's right against real or feared intrusions by the state, as exemplified by proposed identity cards and surveillance measures in the United Kingdom.

The primary purpose of this book is to demonstrate the scope that already exists for using international human rights law in English courts, regardless of its status as 'incorporated' or 'unincorporated'.

Human Rights and Healthcare looks at medical law from a human rights perspective.

National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs), defined by the UN as bodies established to promote and protect human rights, have increased in number since the General Assembly adopted principles governing their effectiveness in 1993.

Privacy today is much debated as an individual's right against real or feared intrusions by the state, as exemplified by proposed identity cards and surveillance measures in the United Kingdom.

The primary purpose of this book is to demonstrate the scope that already exists for using international human rights law in English courts, regardless of its status as 'incorporated' or 'unincorporated'.

This book brings together contributions from some of the leading authorities in the field of EU immigration and asylum law to reflect upon developments since the Amsterdam Treaty and, particularly, the Tampere European Council in 1999.

Human rights are brought to life by a number of defining principles.

Fourteen years since its establishment,the work of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights has not received the attention that should have been paid to its important contributions towards the promotion and protection of human rights in Africa.

This book outlines and analyses the legislative activity of the Union in an area which is currently experiencing exponential growth in terms of both commercial activity and legal significance.

How the police are policed is no longer just a domestic issue.

Since the 1980s legislators and courts have responded in a variety of ways to the onset of the AIDS pandemic.

Advancing a bold theory of the relevance of tort law in the fight against human rights abuses, celebrated US law professor George Fletcher here challenges the community of international lawyers to think again about how they can use the Alien Tort Statute.

Amnesty laws are political tools used since ancient times by states wishing to quell dissent, introduce reforms, or achieve peaceful relationships with their enemies.

Producers and Consumers in EU E-Commerce Law argues that the European Union is failing adequately to protect consumers' critical interests in the area of e-commerce.

Although relatively new as a distinct field of study, transitional justice has become rapidly established as a vital field of enquiry.

In recent times, the idea of 'victims' rights' has come to feature prominently in political, criminological and legal discourse, as well as being subject to regular media comment.