Human rights, civil rights

Positioning race front and centre, this book theorizes that political violence, in the form of a socio-political process that differentiates between human and less-than-human populations, is used by the state of Israel in racializing and ruling the citizens of occupied Palestine.

Positioning race front and centre, this book theorizes that political violence, in the form of a socio-political process that differentiates between human and less-than-human populations, is used by the state of Israel in racializing and ruling the citizens of occupied Palestine.

How do religious groups, operating as NGOs, engage in the most important global institution for world peace?

How do religious groups, operating as NGOs, engage in the most important global institution for world peace?

In the West, human bondage remains synonymous with the Atlantic slave trade.

This book examines one of the most contested issues facing feminists, human rights activists and governments around the globe - the international sex trade.

This book explores the power music has to address health inequalities and the social determinants of health and wellbeing.

This innovative volume gathers some of the world's best scholars to analyse the world's collective international efforts to address globalised threats through global security governance.

This book offers a unique exploration of the current state of freedom of speech as a basic right available to everyone.

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Beginning with the 1954 Brown v.

This book tells the story of the women's suffrage movement in Britain beginning with John Stuart Mill's proposal of a women's suffrage amendment to a reform bill.

This book examines racial and ethnic discrimination in the labour markets and workplaces of western Europe.

The Soviet collapse of 1991 - the Great August liberation - demonstrated the total exhaustion of Marxist-Leninist agitation and propaganda.

One of the major features of the social landscape of the new states of Eastern Europe and the former USSR is migration, whether voluntary or coerced.

A fascinating account of the Intifada (struggle) by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories against Israeli governments, the first part of which was a mass civil disobedience movement of 'stone against bullets', which Israeli security forces contained only with great difficulty, resorting to doubtful methods that included detention without trial, kidnapping and assassinations.

The Chinese are among Europe's oldest immigrant communities, and are now, in several countries, among the biggest and, economically, the most powerful, drawing increasing interest from other ethnic minorities, governments, and researchers.

Socialism, Social Ownership and Social Justice is concerned with the emergence in Europe over the centuries of dreams and aspirations amongst the poor and weak for new societies of justice and equality based on common ownership and common sharing.

There is a powerful and enduring economic tradition which holds that a paramount concern for economists should be the promotion of social justice.

Dani, Joly brings together theoretical and empirical research on ethnic minorities in Eastern and Western Europe showing that their positions and the increased prejudices they encounter share many similarities throughout Europe.

Robin Haines has analysed the origins, occupations, literacy, and mobilization of emigrants recruited in the UK on behalf of colonial legislatures.

This book briefly delineates the history of the Haitian diaspora in the United States in the nineteenth century, but it primarily concerns itself with the contemporary period and more specifically with the diasporic enclave in New York City.

In recent years, the saliency of conflicts pitting different ethnic, racial and religious groups against one another has increased dramatically.

This is an important critical assessment of Labour's periods of renewal and modernisation.

In 49 out of 50 crimes in Britain the criminals go free.

This book investigates different notions of communitarianism and citizenship, and their application within a number of fields, in particular education, politics and social welfare.

First World Hunger examines hunger and the politics of food security, and welfare reform (1980-95) in five 'liberal' welfare states (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA).

This study examines Western responses to human rights abuses in Cambodia between 1975 and 1980, years which included the murderous rule of the Khmer Rouge regime, a Vietnamese invasion, a civil war, and a famine.

Riots and Pogroms presents comparative studies of riots and pogroms in the twentieth century in Russia, Germany, Israel, India, and the United States, with a comparative, historical, and analytical introduction by the editor.

Naomi Carmon has brought together a group of distinguished scholars from post-industrial countries to discuss changes in immigration flows, their impact on the receiving countries, and alternative policy responses.

Contrary general perceptions concerning Russia during this era, Jewish political activities continued beyond 1907, and given the political limits of Tsarist Russia, transformed and modernized Jewish society to the fullest extent possible.

With the end of the Cold War, the UN has shown a new dynamism, reflecting a qualitative change in attitudes and perceptions of the international community.

Citizenship, Europe and Change is about the implications of the evolution of the European Union and the emergence of European supra-citizenship for the people of Europe.

The UN Charter establishes six 'principal organs'.

This edited collection of essays describes the main broad streams of Asian migration and their wide geographical spread, both in terms of migrants' origins and their destinations.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary thought about rights.

In this exemplary work of scholarly synthesis the author traces the course of events from the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr.

All over Europe, asylum-seekers, immigrants and minorities are increasingly finding themselves under violent attack.

How many people have migrated from central and Eastern Europe since the 1989 revolutions?

The book is concerned with social issues and problems that effect women throughout the world, the policies and practices that impinge on their human rights, and the programmes around the globe that are successfully changing their conditions.

Violence, war and internal conflicts have assumed a new intensity with the decline of the Cold War.

The book presents an informed and wide-ranging examination of issues surrounding the development and future prospects of civil society in Eastern Europe.

This book explores two main themes.

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.

Who is entitled to be a citizen?

During the 1980s, poverty became a major issue of debate in the countries of the E.

This book provides a unique perspective, at once scholarly and fully engaged, on the political violence in South Africa during 'The Time of the Comrades' in the mid-1980s.

This collection of papers presents an argument in support of action for human rights in the Third World, emphasizing not economic or historical determinism but rather the importance of political choice by elites in deciding which rights to violate or respect.