Human rights, civil rights

An International Bill of the Rights of Man, first published in 1945, is one of the seminal works on international human rights law.

The United Nations adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) constituted a paradigm shift in attitudes and approaches to disability rights, marking the first time in law-making history that persons with disabilities participated as civil society representatives and contributed to the drafting of an international treaty.

Cybersecurity and Human Rights in the Age of Cyberveillance isa collection of articles by distinguished authors from the US and Europe and presents a contemporary perspectives on the limits online of human rights.

A uniquely comprehensive analysis of human rights combining historical, philosophical, and legal perspectives with research from psychology and the cognitive sciences.

Integrates research, theory, and practice in supported decision-making and describes implications for supports provision in the disability field.

This provocative study explores how media coverage of Emmett Till’s murder influences regional reactions and reignited the Civil Rights movement.

Calling for a faith that lives by what it affirms, not just by what it denies, this book outlines a positive, engaging message supported by active spiritual practices, and carried out in action for a better community and planet.

The book focuses on volatile processes at the South African-Zimbabwean border that arise from practices of migration and income generating activities.

Virtually every constitutional order in the common law world contains a provision for executive clemency or pardon in criminal cases.

The Book 'Human Rights' draws attention to various types of human right issues that exist in Indian context and also the Global context.

In the last two hundred years, the earth has increasingly become the private property of a few classes, races, transnational corporations, and nations.

Südkorea und Japan haben es bis heute nicht geschafft, die Kriegs- und Besatzungsvergangenheit (1910-45) aufzuarbeiten.

This book offers readers an accessible and broad-ranging guide to Environmental Public Interest Litigation (EPIL), which has burgeoned in China over the past decade.

This book brings together philosophical approaches to explore the relation of recognition and poverty.

This book represents a significant and timely contribution to the copious literature of the EU as a global actor providing new insights and fresh perspectives into the promotion of human rights and international labour standards in the EU's external trade relations, building on and stimulating further - the already well-engaged - scientific dialogue on this area of research.

This is the first book dedicated to clarifying the concept of "e;foundlings"e; and how to best prevent their statelessness in light of the object and purpose of Article 2 of the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and equivalent nationality law provisions.

This book offers a close look at forced evictions, drawing on empirical studies and conceptual frameworks from both the Global North and South.

The post-Christian West is in decline, revived Islam is on the rise, and Mesopotamia (Syria-Iraq), the cradle of civilization, has become ground zero in a battle for civilization.

Torture is perhaps the most unequivocally banned practice in the world today.

Immigration remains one of the most pressing and polarizing issues in the United States.

Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders - lawyers provided by the government for those who cannot afford private counsel.

This book explores the role human rights law plays in the formation, and protection, of our personal identities.

The Politics of Compassion explores the manifold obstacles that hinder our individual and collective capacity to care for the vulnerable, offering insights from history, religion, ethics, cognitive and social sciences, international relations, public policy, and contemporary politics.

This book examines human rights as political battlefields, spaces that are undergoing constant changes in which political conflicts are expressed by a translation process within networks of interactions.

This book presents the formerly-unpublished manuscript by Wheeler and Cline detailing the landmark, comparative prisons study they conducted in the 1960s which examined fifteen Scandinavian prisons and nearly 2000 inmates across four Nordic countries.

Livingston Armytage explores how justice reform can be made more effective.

This book addresses the relationship between International Refugee Law and International Human Rights Law.

This book embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and elucidates the three foundational aspects of its jurisdiction as laid out in the Rome Statute: the preconditions for exercising jurisdiction (Article 12 ICCRSt), its substantive competence regarding core crimes (Articles 5-8bis ICCRSt), and the principle of complementarity (Article 171(a) ICCRSt).

Named one ofNewsweeks "e;25 Must-Read Fall Fiction and Nonfiction Books to Escape the Chaos of 2020"e;The critically acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rage of a Privileged Class explores one of the most essential rights in Americafree speechand reveals how it is crumbling under the combined weight of polarization, technology, money and systematized lying in this concise yet powerful and timely book.

Saul, Follesdal and Ulfstein examine in detail the interplay between national parliaments and the international human rights judiciary.

Contemporary France has witnessed a rise of new forms of social movement, mobilising around new causes and articulating changing demands.

More than just a legal doctrine, color-blind constitutionalism has emerged as the defining metaphor of the post-Civil Rights era.

Examines human rights in relation to religion and the role of religion in perennial issues of war and peace.

This volume seeks to propose a reinvention of freedom under contemporary conditions of globalization, cross-border mobility, and neo-liberal dominance.

This book theoretically explores intersectionality within human rights norms on violence against women and the derived duties for States.

Menschenrechte im Alltag zu leben und zu sichern, gilt als zentrale Aufgabe der Sozialen Arbeit.

In Nursing Civil Rights, Charissa J.

In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black peoples history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate.

This book provides an overview of theoretical, empirical, and clinical conceptualizations of mental health following exposure to human rights violations (HRV).

This book offers a critical analysis on employing a universal understanding of poverty and suggests ways forward for poverty reduction for developing countries in a post-2015 era.

The book provides new research highlighting perspectives, perceptions, and practices regarding human rights and human rights education in China.

The book examines the political importance of moral opposition to authoritarian rule in Chile, 1973-90, as a challenge to the government's systematic human rights' violations.

This book deals with all the cases that came before the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ) from 1922 to 1946, as well as those that were heard by its successor, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 1946 to 2020 in which interim measures of protection were either indicated or refused.

This book applies the dynamic field of transitional justice to conflict resolution in Israel/Palestine.

What are human rights?

This comprehensive book covers the research, theory, policy and practice context of unusual reproduction using third parties.

Shows how Latin America was the crucible of the global human rights revolution of the 1970s.