Human rights, civil rights

In the independent states of Africa the human rights situation has never promising.

How do ordinary people experience and make sense of the informal justice system?

This book analyses the equal citizenship claims of women and sexual and gender diverse people across several Asian jurisdictions.

Established in 1969, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is an intergovernmental organization the purpose of which is the strengthening of solidarity among Muslims.

This reference work reflects the growing international concern over human rights.

This book explores the resilience of constitutional government in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, connecting and comparing perspectives from ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa to global trends.

A searing study of how modern reproductive politics shapes women's bodily agency Pregnancy indisputably takes place within a woman's body.

This book provides an important, critical, feminist perspective on desistance theory and practice.

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critically analyze the intersection of gender and human rights laws as applied to individuals of Arab descent.

Encyclopaedia of Social Development, Law, Policy and Security is a unique attempt by the editor to present to its readers the most vital reading materials on issues of social development, social security, social laws and policies, thus fulfilling the requirements for much awaited publication in this area of research.

There exists a dominant narrative that essentially defines the US' relationship with genocide through what the US has failed to do to stop or prevent genocide, rather than through how its actions have contributed to the commission of genocide.

The term women's rights refers to freedoms and entitlements of women and girls of all ages.

Why Human Rights addresses universal human rights as moral mandates - rights to justice that all persons have by virtue of their humanity alone.

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Readers in Western developed countries are most familiar with abuses of political and civil rights, but the international human rights regime also embraces a set of laws regarding economic rights.

This book presents a selection of revised and updated papers presented in September 2018 at the International Conference 'Rethinking the Crime of Aggression: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives', which was held in Marburg, Germany, and hosted by the International Research and Documentation Centre for War Crimes Trials (ICWC).

An indispensable resource for understanding religion's place in American schools and in matters concerning the separation of church and state in the United States.

This is the first socio-legal multi-jurisdictional study on hazing (ragging).

The definitive guide to the life of the first woman to play a major role in Greek political history, this is the first modern biography of Olympias.

In this exceptional dual biography and cultural history, Erik S.

Rejecting fashionable subjectivist and cultural relativist approaches, this important book argues that human beings have universal and objective needs for health and autonomy and a right to their optimal satisfaction.

The Subject of Human Rights is the first book to systematically address the "e;human"e; part of "e;human rights.

This book is a compendium of emergent global Human Rights Scholarship offering current ruminations on justice, indigeneity, gender, security, and human rights.

This book seeks to answer a number of key questions about the relationship between the IMF, developing states and the impact of financial crises on human rights abuses, including: Why do some but not other IMF-assisted developing states experience the joint outbreak of currency and sudden reversal crises under the Fund's program?

Victimology is a relatively new and emerging interdisciplinary area that crosses the fields of criminology, law, sociology, and justice.

The Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights brings together a diverse body of work from around the globe and across a wide range of criminological topics and perspectives, united by its critical application of human rights law and principles.

The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization comprehensively and systematically explores the current understanding, and unchartered research paths, of autocratization.

The percentage of women aged 15-49 in Egypt who have undergone the procedure of female circumcision, or genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) stands at 91%, according to the latest research carried out by UNICEF.

The Political Economy of Human Rights is an important two volume work, co-authored with Edward Herman - also co-author of the classic Manufacturing Consent - which provides a complete dissection of American foreign policy during the 1960s and '70s, looking at the entire sweep of the Cold War during that period, including events in Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Latin America.

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

This book aims to advance the understanding of cultural property in armed conflict, and its significance for anti-terrorism and peace-building strategies.

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

Prompted by an unprecedented rise of litigation since the 1990s, this book examines how the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) system and the Strasbourg Court interact with states and non-governmental actors to influence domestic change.

For the last half century, Latin America has been plagued by civil wars, dictatorships, torture, legacies of colonialism and racism, and other evils.

The book focuses on the interactions between international legal regimes related to biodiversity governance.

This Volume of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law explores emerging trends and key developments in international economic law.

Inside one of the nation's most important works on raceTwo Societies: The Rioting of 1967 and the Writing of the Kerner Report studies the 150 riots that occurred throughout the country in 1967 and how this infamous report was written in only seven months and unanimously adopted by both Republicans and Democrats.

This original collection of jurisprudential essays furthers our understanding of the nature of rights.

In diesem Buch werden unkonventionelle Formen der Partizipation sowie deren soziale und politische Potenziale in der Demokratie theoretisch erörtert und anhand ausgewählter Fallbeispiele empirisch untersucht.

Contemporary theoretical discussions of exploitation are dominated by thinkers in the liberal and Marxian traditions.

This book demonstrates synergies and distils hard-earned lessons of human and forest rights struggles to inform the ongoing debates on environmental human rights.

Evidence for the negative effects of segregation and concentrated poverty in America's cities now exists in abundance; poor and underrepresented communities in segregated urban housing markets suffer diminished outcomes in education, economic mobility, political participation, and physical and psychological health.

Raises the novel legal question of animals during warfare, highlighting deficiencies in current practice and suggesting new readings and reforms.

This book probes the depths of libertarian philosophy and highlights the need for laws that protect all individuals in society.

This book outlines social and moral guidelines to combat violent, hateful, and illegal activity on the Internet.

The untold story of how American Jews reinvented modern humanitarianism during the Great War and rebuilt Jewish life in Jewish homelands.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to international human rights -- international human rights law, why international human rights have increasingly risen to world prominence, what is being done about violations of human rights, and what might be done to further promote the cause of international human rights so that everyone may one day have their rights respected regardless of who they are or where they live.

The first comprehensive study of the challenges faced by children in establishing entitlement to refugee protection.