Human rights, civil rights

There is a clear overlap between securing socio-economic human rights for all persons and arranging adequate access to essential public services across society.

In the book author has tried to explain the dynamics of human rights in India.

Critical Perspectives on Human Rights provides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary perspectives on rights, ethics and global justice.

At present, the entire world, including India, is facing a precarious situation.

This book deals with human rights action planning, as a largely under-researched area, from theoretical, doctrinal, empirical, and practical perspectives, and as such, provides the most comprehensive studies of human rights planning to date.

Since the global financial crisis of 2008, Greece has shouldered a heavy burden struggling with internal political and financial insecurity as well as hosting enormous numbers of migrants and asylum seekers who arrive by land and sea.

The Internet is having an increasing influence on our lives, but what implications does it hold for human rights?

Kirsty Carpenter puts a human face on the victims of revolutionary legislation.

This book investigates whether treaty interpretation at the ECtHR and WTO, which are sometimes perceived as promoting 'self-contained' regimes, could constitute a means for unifying international law, or, conversely, might exacerbate the fragmentation of international law.

Shveta Dhaliwal teaches at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, Patiala, India.

Consociations are power-sharing arrangements, increasingly used to manage ethno-nationalist, ethno-linguistic, and ethno-religious conflicts.

Explains why lawyers seeking gender progress from primary legal materials should start with the common law.

Through different legal and criminological angles and perspectives, this book addresses the controversial question of whether prisoners should have the right to vote, as well as the optimal modalities for such a vote.

Drawing from multiple scholarly fields, Kenyon examines free speech''s positive dimensions of enablement and how they can be pursued.

This third edition of Human Rights: Between Idealism and Realism presents human rights in action, focusing on their effectiveness as legal tools designed to benefit human beings.

This book is about a just future for Indians in Canada.

Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled-ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated-throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred.

Human Rights, Power and Civic Action examines the interrelationship between struggles for human rights and the dynamics of power, focusing on situations of poverty and oppression in developing countries.

During the transition to democracy, states have used various mechanisms to address previous human rights abuses including trials, truth and reconciliation commissions and internationalized tribunals.

This unique book, formed as a series of essays in honour of the memory of Paul Heim CMG, the founder of Lincoln's Inn European Group, focusses on the building of bridges between individuals and institutions in European, international, and human rights law.

The smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organise, and participate in politics like never before.

There was a time when humanity looked in the mirror and saw something precious, worth protecting and fighting forindeed, worth liberating.

This book brings together in a systematic manner three discrete areas of interest pertaining to refugees.

Freedom of speech is central to the liberal democratic tradition.

This book examines law and religion from the perspective of its case law.

In referendums on fundamental constitutional issues, do the people come together to make decisions instead of representatives?

Nonviolent Political Economy offers a set of theoretical solutions and practical guidelines to build an economy of nonviolence which implies a social state of peacefulness, involving minimal violence and minimal destruction of nature.

This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in which writers approach violent conflict and the equally important subject of peace.

Powerful tools for spreading peace in your communityUnfounded beliefs and hateful political and social divisions that can cascade into violence are threatening to pull the world apart.

This book is the first study of multilateral LGBT human rights diplomacy viewed from the perspective of its practitioners: diplomats, LGBT activists, human rights experts and multilateral specialists.

Islam is a growing presence practically everywhere in Europe.

In this innovative study, Patrick Ismond provides an analysis of the issue of racism within British sport.

This book provides a space for victims' testimonies and memories, engages with their experiences, reflects upon the redress movement, and evaluates policies related to Korean comfort women as victims and survivors from the international, domestic, and bilateral realms.

This book reveals why the UN is more successful than unilateral great powers in protecting civilians from violence, and focuses on the discourse, development and consequences of UN peacekeeping.

This text highlights key aspects of the religion/church-state relationship/debate, and related hitherto marginal topics.

This book provides a unique analysis of prisons and the violence at work inside them.

The essays in this book examine critically the various issues concerning law enforcement and human rights.

A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crimeThe environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies has been a target and instrument of war for centuries, resulting in famine and disease, displaced populations, and the devastation of people's livelihoods and ways of life.

This book provides an overview of the progress and continuing disparities faced by people with disabilities around the world.

Lineages of European Citizenship provides an historical analysis of the development of citizenship from the nineteenth to the Twentieth-century in Europe and the USA.

In the late twentieth century, nothing united union members, progressive students, Black and Chicano activists, Native Americans, feminists, and members of the LGBTQ+ community quite as well as Coors beer.

Torture is the most widespread human rights crime in the modern world, practiced in more than one hundred countries, including the United States.

This edited book focuses on the most controversial aspects of assistance benefits as mandated by the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 - and the challenges that have merged since the approval, in 1993, of the Federal Act 8.

This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the 'global justice movement'.

This book offers an analysis of values in Hungary.

Kinderrechte im Blickpunkt Wie ist die aktuelle Situation von Kindern in Deutschland – gerade in Zeiten der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise?

The book discusses discrimination based on sexual orientation in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Constitutional Court of Korea.

Dieses Buch befasst sich aus menschenrechtlicher Perspektive mit einer Vielzahl von Bräuchen und Riten, die als soziale Phänomene unter dem Begriff der "schädlichen traditionellen und kulturellen Praktiken" zusammengefasst werden können.