Human rights, civil rights

More than ten years after the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, this book critically reviews the achievements, limits and next frontiers of business and human rights following the 'protect, respect, remedy' trichotomy.

This book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade.

This volume examines the specific gender roles in peace and security.

As globalization processes and related neoliberal agendas promote privatization through state action, people's struggles for rights to water have intensified.

The long-awaited second edition of this seminal text, reconceived as a critical analysis of the world''s leading comparative asylum jurisprudence.

Violence against women is a major problem in all countries, affecting women in every socio-economic group and at every life stage.

Establishes a framework for analyzing and assessing the accountability mechanisms of international organizations, and applies it to three case studies.

The book project strives to establish and interpret the experiences and realities of African migration using African epistemology and philosophy.

This book offers an in-depth overview of Turkish history and politics essential for understanding contemporary Turkey.

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The book presents human rights struggles within and between the United States and the Middle East in the post-September 11th era.

Islam and Human Rights is a probing examination of how the Islamic tradition has been exploited for political ends by regimes and institutions seeking to legitimize policies inimical to human rights.

Economic systems driven by monetary interests have enabled individuals, international institutions, and governments to prioritize financial gain and budget constraints over people.

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The collection aims to inspire readers with new approaches to implementing and monitoring the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, to make rights 'real' in children's lives.

This book explores the jurisprudence from international, regional and national sources on the interpretation and application of human rights concepts.

This is the first book-length study of Delta Cooperative Farm (1936-42) and its descendant, Providence Farm (1938-56).

An interpretative history of human rights in Africa, exploring indigenous rights traditions, anti-slavery, anti-colonialism, post-colonial violations and pro-democracy movements.

A comprehensive look at the toll US government policies took on civil liberties, human rights, and the rule of law in the name of the war on terror.

Over the course of a year, in just one national forest in California, raids on illegal marijuana growing operations yielded 19,710 pounds of infrastructure, 138 ounces of restricted poisons, 4,595 pounds of fertilizer, 12 gallons of common pesticides, 5.

This book is the first to connect global labor history and the history of human rights: By focusing on democratic labor oppositions in Spain and Poland between 1960 and 1990, it shows how workers in authoritarian regimes addressed repression and whether they developed a language of rights in the light of a globally dynamic human rights discourse.

This first-of-its-kind volume revisits current findings on ADHD in terms of classic thinking on developmental neuropsychology for a more rounded concept of brain disorganization.

This book explains why women''s rights are improving more rapidly in post-conflict countries in Africa than elsewhere on the continent.

How can we make sense of human rights in China's authoritarian Party-State system?

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This book tells the real-life horror story of states'' abusing laws and infringing on rights to police women and their pregnancies.

This book offers a historical presentation of how international criminal law has evolved from a national setting to embodying a truly international outlook.

Capitalism is killing the planet, and the preservation of a natural environment favorable to human life requires a radical alternative.

How can international organizations (IOs) like the United Nations (UN) and their implementing partners be held accountable if their actions and policies violate fundamental human rights?

In a time when multinational corporations have become truly globalised, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult to dismiss.

Exiles have long been transformative actors in their homelands: they foment revolution, sustain dissent, and work to create renewed political institutions and identities back home.

This volume compiles lessons learned by field researchers, many of whom have faced demanding situations characterized by violence, distrust and social fragmentation.

This book examines cultural heritage law in both its public and private modalities, focusing on the search for new solutions in national legislations.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the textile industry's workforce underwent a dramatic transformation, as African Americans entered the South's largest industry in growing numbers.

Genocide has emerged as one of the leading problems of the twentieth century.

In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle.

By 2100, the human population may exceed 11 billion.

This book explains the phenomenon of states'' compliance with human rights tribunals'' rulings using theories from international law, human rights, and international relations.

The book provides a systematic examination of the legal, fiscal and institutional frameworks for the commercial development of petroleum and solid mineral resources in Africa.

The collapse of socialist regimes across Southeastern Europe changed the rules of the political game and led to the transformation of these societies.

This collection of ethnographic and interpretive essays fundamentally alters the debate over indigenous land claims in Southeast Asia and beyond.

The significance of identity and psychology in determining moral choiceWhat causes genocide?

This first-hand account tells the story of turbulent civil rights era Atlanta through the eyes of a white upper-class woman who became an outspoken advocate for integration and racial equality As a privileged white woman who grew up in segregated Atlanta, Sara Mitchell Parsons was an unlikely candidate to become a civil rights agitator.

Jack Nusan Porter's writings date back to 1966, during the height of the Vietnam War.

This book shows the push and pull effects between resources, human security and conflicts in Africa.