Human rights, civil rights

This book argues that omitting the component of narrative creates an irresolvable antinomy concerning the identity of the subject: between the subject and identical copies of itself in different situations, or between it and the identical subject as a substantial illusion, the elimination of which reveals the pure multitude of desires, emotions, and perceptions.

Written by leading critical race theorists Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, this volume succinctly explores a host of issues presented by hate speech, including legal theories for regulating it, the harms it causes, and policy arguments, pro and con, suppressing it.

Human rights can be understood as moral or political.

At the dawn of a new era, this book brings together leading activists, policy-makers and critics to reflect upon fifty years of attempts to improve respect for human rights.

Although Americans tend to take the concept and protection of free expression for granted, free press and free speech are at best only tentatively established in some nations of the world.

Since the Second World War, States have increasingly relied upon economic sanctions programs, in lieu of military action, to exert pressure and generally to fill the awkward gap between verbal denunciation and action.

European regional organisations have spent significant amount of time, energy and money in supporting Russia's transition towards the western liberal-democratic model since the end of the cold war.

This book examines the intersection between Indian cinema (across geographic regions, languages and formats) and human rights.

This book offers unparalleled insight into the ways in which hate crime affects individuals and communities across the world.

When privatization of public services swept the developing world in the 1990s, it was part of a seemingly unstoppable tide of neoliberal reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state and reorienting economies toward market-led policymaking.

Winner: Langum Prize Before 1954, both law and custom mandated strict racial segregation throughout much of the nation.

This book considers contested responsibilities between the public and private sectors over the use of online data, detailing exactly how digital human rights evolved in specific European states and gradually became a part of the European Union framework of legal protections.

The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male).

This book examines in detail both historical and current legal concepts of 'religious cultural heritage' within the context of the European continent.

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The introduction of FOI in Ireland was a watershed moment in Irish democracy.

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This book provides a critical and comprehensive analysis of the reconceptualization of preventive warfare in the 21st century.

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When Fred Shuttlesworth suffered only a bump on the head in the 1956 bombing of his home, members of his church called it a miracle.

Social exclusion of minority groups is an intractable problem in many diverse nations.

From Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today s NGOs, this interdisciplinary collection explores the entangled histories of humanitarianism and media.

Transnational Perspectives on Democracy, Citizenship, Human Rights, and Peace Education considers ways in which national systems of education could work together, across borders, to determine the meaning and significance of the principles of democracy, human rights and peace education, in ways that are comparative and relational.

Fifteen countries have emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union.

This volume comprises national reports on migration and migration law from 17 countries representing all continents.

First published in 1999, this volume represents an empirical model of reproductive rights in developing countries.

Following the fatal shooting in broad daylight of unarmed African American Michael Brown by a white cop in August 2014, Ferguson, Missouri became the scene of protests that pitted law enforcement against locals and Black Lives matter activists.

In the decades following the triumphant proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the UN General Assembly was transformed by the arrival of newly independent states from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

This book concentrates on the crisis perpetrated by the Boko Haram group in Nigeria, which since 2009 has made a definitive impact on both the domestic and international criminal landscape.

This book describes the potential and challenges of cosmopolitanism from a philosophical and historical point of view.

This book examines the integration of human rights and environmental standards within international investment agreements (IIAs).

This book studies the experiences of face veil wearers in Europe and examines the ramifications of the empirical findings for legislative agendas.

A comprehensive and systematic guide to environmental rights and their relationship with standards of protection globally, nationally and locally.

This yearbook is a compilation of thematically arranged essays that critically analyseemerging developments, issues, and perspectives across different branches of law.

This book takes a critical and comparative approach to the analysis of the governance of police stops across Europe.

International crime and justice are powerful ideas, associated with a vivid imagery of heinous atrocities, injured humanity, and an international community seized by the need to act.

The Needs of Others is set at the UN in 1994, where diplomats learn of violence in Rwanda.

Humanitarian aid workers increasingly remain present in contexts of violence and are injured, kidnapped, and killed as a result.

During the 1970s human rights took the front stage in international relations; fuelling political debates, social activism and a reconceptualising of both East-West and North-South relations.

The antibureaucratic revolution was the most crucial episode of Yugoslav conflicts after Tito.

This is the first study of anti-discrimination law as it applies to housing law in Europe.

Taking as a starting point that hunger results from social exclusion and distributional inequities and that lasting, sustainable and just solutions are to be found in changing the structures that underlie our food systems, this book examines how law shapes global food systems and their ongoing transformations.

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion.

South Africa's 1994 election was widely hailed around the world as miraculous.

This book examines the historical genealogy of the torture taboo.