Human rights, civil rights

What is the state of current European governance on new and emerging technologies, and where is it going?

An innovative textbook setting out a systematic approach to business and human rights.

This book is about good government-especially ethical and fair government.

This book uncovers how women's movements in the Global South are changing the face of transnational activism in their mobilisations against militarism and conflict-related gender violence.

This study argues that the decriminalization of sex work in China can contribute to HIV prevention and human rights protection.

Innovatively linking actual implementation to ratification of International Labour Office (ILO) Core Conventions, the author develops a new method and uses unexploited data from the ILO's supervisory system to rate the achievement of basic human rights in the world of work - freedom of association and freedom from forced labour, child labour and discrimination - for 159 countries during the period 1985-2003.

This book explores the potential of international human rights law to resolve one of the gravest human rights violations to have surfaced post 9/11: extraordinary rendition.

This book analyzes the contemporary politics of immigration from the asylum crisis to Islamophobia, multiculturalism, and post-colonialism.

Catalysts for Change examines the strengths and weaknesses of one of the United Nations' most important human rights mechanisms the collection of independent experts known as special procedures as they negotiate the rocky terrain where rights meet reality.

This book presents the findings of the first comprehensive study on the most recent and most unique and innovative method of monitoring international human rights law at the United Nations.

In an era defined by political polarization, both major U.

The Treaty of Lisbon has endowed the EU with a normative human rights framework that confirms recognition as a fully-fledged regional mechanism for the protection of human rights.

This book advances an approach that combines the individual and the structural, systemic dimensions of data protection.

Bodies of Truth offers an intimate account of how apartheid victims deal with the long-term effects of violence, focusing on the intertwined themes of embodiment, injury, victimhood, and memory.

Globalization has increased the number of individuals in criminal proceedings who are unable to understand the language of the courtroom, and as a result the number of court interpreters has also increased.

One of the greatest crises facing the church is the crisis of racial injustice that has so long marred the body of Christ in America.

The American attitude toward human rights is deemed inconsistent, even hypocritical: while the United States is characterized (or self-characterized) as a global leader in promoting human rights, the nation has consistently restrained broader interpretations of human rights and held international enforcement mechanisms at arm's length.

Thirty years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made a fateful decision: to allow newspapers, magazines, television, and radio stations to compete in the marketplace instead of being financed exclusively by the government.

The third edition of Ethics & International Affairs provides a fresh selection of classroom resources, ideal for courses in international relations, ethics, foreign policy, and related fields.

This brilliant study shows the pivotal role the Quakers played in the origins and development of America's family ideology.

The book describes in a retrospective way how dignity and human rights evolved.

The Title Human Rights Acts, Statutes and Constitutional Provisions, Vol.

The US has declined to approve most human rights treaties, despite widespread support for such treaties among other Western democracies.

The book examines whether small jurisdictions (states) are confronted with specific issues providing social security and how to deal with these issues.

A study of how states can lawfully react to malicious cyber conduct, taking into account the problem of timely attribution.

Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations examines a series of related crises in human civilization growing out of conflicts between powerful states or empires and indigenous or stateless peoples.

In 2009 Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill became a top global news story.

Health rights are a common but controversial legal phenomenon.

This book brings to life the experiences of children affected by maternal imprisonment, and provides unique, in-depth analysis of judicial thinking on this issue.

Activists and politicians have long recognized the power of a good story to move people to action.

This book seeks to persuade policy-makers and legislators of the need for legislative reform of the ombudsman sector, and to evidence the ways in which such reformative legislation can be designed.

Examines the debate over digital copyright and the new tools of political communication involved in the advocacy around the issue.

Civilization and culture have traditionally been regarded as mutually exclusive concepts.

This book makes an original conceptual and empirical contribution to debates on the role of student activism in enhancing social justice within education in the Global South, using South Africa as a case study.

Gives voice to the conscripts who are forced to serve indefinitely without remuneration under the ENS in a powerful critical survey of its effect from the Liberation Struggle to today.

Global Governance Futures addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements.

Homeland security is rarely just a matter of the homeland; it involves the circulation and multiplication of policing practices across borders.

The first comprehensive collection of its kind, this handbook addresses the problem of knowledge production in criminology, redressing the global imbalance with an original focus on the Global South.

Since 1996, when new, harsher deportation laws went into effect, the United States has deported millions of noncitizens back to their countries of origin.

Moral injury is a profound violation of a human being's core moral identity through experiences of violence or trauma.

This book is a valuable work of reference for the study of sea power, especially in China.

The book analyses the Indian Supreme Court's jurisprudence on homosexuality, its current approach and how its position has evolved in the past ten years.

Around the world, policymakers and civil society are debating how economic and trade policies shape public health.

This book focuses on the right to privacy in the digital age with a view to see how it is implemented across the globe in different jurisdictions.

The European Court of Human Rights is one of the main players in interpreting international human rights law where issues of general international law arise.

Women around the world face substantial barriers to reporting their victimization, and in some contexts, the classical criminal justice response to violence can be muted, corrupted, or even inappropriate.

Written specifically for legal practitioners and students, this book examines the concerns, laws and regulations involved in Electronic Commerce.

The Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's post-2011 political transition.

LGBT, faith, and academic thought-leaders explore prospects for laws protecting each community''s core interests and possible resolutions for culture-war conflicts.