Human rights, civil rights

In 2016, the president-elect of the United States openly called for segregation and deportation based on race and religion.

With essays and commentaries by David Levering Lewis, Clayborne Carson, Steven F.

This third edition collection provides a contemporary survey of current international issues in bioethics and human rights for study across social science disciplines.

This book explores the meaning and implementation of international children's rights law, as laid down in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and related international and regional human rights instruments.

This longitudinal study is based on the story of Lola, who was gang raped during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.

This book provides a comprehensive and impartial overview of laws and norms regarding free speech and censorship in the United States, with a particular focus on free speech rights and restrictions for individuals, politicians, corporations, and news organizations.

In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.

From all corners of the world, both inside cities and in the remote countryside, the cry for "e;just peace"e; rings out loud and strong.

The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, established in 1987, was the third regional instrument, after the European and American systems, for the promotion and protection of human rights.

This Element examines the state of rights and their contestations in Southeast Asia through the theoretical lenses of politics of rights.

This book explores two main themes.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleCreating Human Rights offers the first systematic study of a pioneering women's refugee movement and its challenge, as an international trigger case, to more conventional paths toward human rights policy development.

This book examines the multifaceted nature of gender-based violence (GBV) and the many forms it can take.

Based on extensive archival research in South Africa and drawing on the most recent scholarship, this book is an original and lucid exposition of the ideological, political and administrative origins of Apartheid.

Whilst the politics of reproduction have been at the heart of feminist struggles for over a century and a half, their analysis has not yet come to occupy a central place in the interdisciplinary study of citizenship.

Sustainability and food production represent a major challenge to society, with both consumption and supply sides posing practical and ethical dilemmas.

This book explores the legal and ethical implications - both challenges and opportunities - of using big data in health care and research.

This book provides deep insights into the wide-ranging issues linked to gender, law, and social transformation in India.

This book investigates how effective human rights and the inherent dignity of refugees can be secured in situations of protracted exile and encampment.

Humans are created as dreaming creatures and have been interested in the meaning of their dreams for thousands of years.

Mega Cause I was one of the largest in a recent surge of trials in Argentina for human rights violations committed during the dictatorship of 1976-1983.

The practice of using children to participate in conflict has become a defining characteristic of 21st century warfare and is the most recent addition to the canon of international war crimes.

This book is designed to introduce law students, legal actors and human rights activists, particularly participants in human rights dialogues with China, to the process and reality of a newly confident China's participation in the international human rights system, albeit with inherent challenges.

This interdisciplinary volume offers a range of studies spanning the various historical, political, legal, and cultural features of social justice in Iran, and proposes that the present-day realities of life in Iran could not be farther from the promises of the Iranian Revolution.

Originally published in 1968.

Fully updated to cover topics such as climate change, trade and business activities, while retaining the original style and structure.

Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties.

Looking beyond the materialistic boundary of the conventional development paradigm, this book identifies our spiritual underdevelopment which is being reflected as self-centeredness and greed, as the root cause of conventional development's failure to alleviate poverty and inequality, achieve sustainability and deliver happiness to humanity.

A multidisciplinary empirical study of how juvenile justice standards were operationalised by the state and UNICEF in post-genocide Rwanda.

There remains a lack of knowledge and understanding about trans people in the church, and trans people who are religious can experience bias in their faith communities.

In recent years, there has been an upsurge in the number of forced displacements due to natural disasters, armed conflicts, and pandemics, which has favoured an increase in the number of temporary accommodations.

Immigration Reform is an in-depth discussion of immigration reform in America.

This book provides a systematic and analytical account of the problems facing transnational criminal justice.

What role does religion play in the Canadian Forces today?

El estudio y la comprensión de los derechos políticos y de participación: sufragio, referéndum, revocatoria, iniciativa legislativa y otras formas participativas, resulta indispensable para lograr que, cumplido el bicentenario de nuestra independencia, la voluntad expresada por la ciudadanía presida en definitiva la vida de la Nación peruana, prevalezca en los procedimientos democráticos, y destierre las vías de hecho y fuerza utilizadas por los gobernantes de facto que mediante golpes de estado usurparon el poder político y establecieron regímenes dictatoriales para su beneficio particular en gran parte de la historia política pasada.

This handbook explores the concept of 'harm' in criminological scholarship and lays the foundation for a future zemiological agenda.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the law and procedure of the European Court of Human Rights.

This book explores the potential responsibilities to respect, protect and fulfill international human rights law (IHRL) of a particular class of non-state actors: non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

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This book promotes an understanding of ageism, discrimination and mistreatment of older adult workers, incorporating an international human rights perspective.

This book offers new perspectives and insights into the functioning of mechanisms utilised by global constitutionalism.

The Encyclopaedia of Social Welfare, Justice and Human Rights gives an overall integrated perspective of the aforementioned subject areas.

This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in Nigeria.

Decades of military oppression in Burma have led to the systematic destruction of thousands of ethnic minority villages, a standing army with one of the world's highest number of child soldiers, and the displacement of millions of people.

A revealing, comprehensive, and detailed account focusing on the people and personalities behind the Montgomery, Alabama, Bus Boycott in 1955-1956, which became the catalyst for a national civil rights movement.

This book introduces America to the Black Reconstruction politicians who fought valiantly for the civil rights of all people-important individuals who have been ignored by modern historians as well as their contemporaries.

Recently, there has been a major shift in the focus of historical research on World War II towards the study of the involvements of scholars and academic institutions in the crimes of the Third Reich.