Human rights, civil rights

Rarely has such a contentious and complex issue emerged in twenty-first century development as that of water.

Violent conflict, climate change, and poverty present distinct threats to women worldwide.

A human rights analysis of international efforts to confiscate wealth in grand corruption cases that focuses on protections for property.

Human Rights in India has been the pre-occupation of upper caste Hindus, lawyers and urban elitist scholars who are concerned with civil liberties.

Intelligence agencies provide critical information to national security and foreign policy decision makers, but spying also poses inherent dilemmas for liberty, privacy, human rights, and diplomacy.

This volume of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law explores the many faces of populism, and the different manifestations of the relationship between populism and international law.

Now in a revised and updated edition with added original chapters, this acclaimed book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex links between revolutionary struggles and human rights discourses and practices.

This book offers a unique Australian perspective on the global crisis in refugee protection.

This collection of essays by well known specialists in e-commerce and Internet law, drawn from both academe and practice, analyses recent crucial legislation which has created, for the first time, a legal regime governing European electronic commerce.

In most Caribbean countries homosexuality is still illegal and many outside of the region are unaware of how difficult life can be for gay men and lesbians.

The global movement of culture and religion has brought about a serious challenge to traditional constitutional secularism.

ON RAGE is Germaine Greer's timeless essay about Aboriginal dispossession.

Dieses Buch befasst sich mit der Frage, ob es sich bei dem verfassungsmäßigen Grundrecht und dem völkerrechtlich gewährleisteten Menschenrecht der Religionsfreiheit nach philosophisch gerechtfertigten Maßstäben tatsächlich um ein Menschenrecht handelt oder ob es sich eher um ein - vor allem geschichtlich zu erklärendes - Toleranzgebot handelt.

Ethnic minority communities make claims for cultural rights from states in different ways depending on how governments include them in policies and practices of accommodation or assimilation.

This book explores the diverse immigrant experiences in urban West Africa, where some groups integrate seamlessly while others face exclusion and violence.

This book examines the position of 'contextual elements' as a constitutive element of the legal definition of the crime of genocide, and determines the extent to which an individual genocidaire is required to act within a particular genocidal context.

Without citizenship from any country, more than 10 million people worldwide are unable to enjoy the rights, freedoms, and protections that citizens of a state take for granted.

This extensive study suggests that, despite being one of the largest slaveholders in Virginia, Jefferson was consistent in his advocacy of human rights.

Do anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions affect human rights?

Citizenship is a core concept for the social sciences, and citizenship is also frequently interpreted, challenged and contested in different political arenas.

This handbook is an international, comprehensive, reference tool in the field of trafficking in people and slavery.

At a time when a global consensus on human rights standards seems to be emerging, this rich study steps back to explore how the idea of human rights is actually employed by activists and human rights professionals.

In The Ethics of Migration: An Introduction, Adam Hosein systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding the concept of immigration.

In order to gain access to the EU, nations must be seen to implement formal instruments that protect the rights of minorities.

For centuries, the Islamic world has been represented as the 'other' within European identity constructions - an 'other' perceived to be increasingly at odds with European forms of modernity and culture.

Social Media and Electronic Commerce Law investigates the challenges facing legal practitioners and commercial parties in this dynamic field.

Leading academics and practitioners examine how the Human Rights Act influences private law cases in theory and practice.

The first comprehensive look at the human rights dimensions of the work of the only UN body capable of compelling action by its member states.

New Horizon in Male-Female Relationships attempts to break new ground in the discourse on gender equality, love, happiness, and marriage.

Jan Oster develops a coherent theoretical and doctrinal framework for the scope, content and limitations of media freedom.

What is the role of religion(s) in a human rights culture and in human rights education?

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This book discusses the increasing use of contract labour in India that has accompanied attempts to liberalise the economy.

This book contains the full research papers presented at  the 20th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, held in 2017 at Wageningen University &  Research  in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

This book provides a socio-historical analysis of the 2002 massacre at Bellavista-Bojaya-Choco, Colombia.

This book investigates the relationship between the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and national constitutional courts by providing a more general assessment as seen from the former's perspective.

Why colleges and universities live or die by free speechFree speech is under attack at colleges and universities today, as critics on and off campus challenge the value of freewheeling debate.

The Sourcebook-IV provides training modules for rights-based integrated child protection service delivery systems at the secondary and tertiary prevention levels.

This book uncovers how human rights gained meaning and power for Americans in the 1940s, the 1970s and today.

Shaping Race Policy investigates one of the most serious policy challenges facing the United States today: the stubborn persistence of racial inequality in the post-civil rights era.

This book offers a materialist critique of mainstream human rights discourse in the period following 9/11, examining literary works, critical histories, international declarations, government statutes, NGO manifestos, and a documentary film.

This book presents new perspectives on gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa.

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.

This book advances conceptualisations and empirical understanding of the prison cell.

Inspired by the works of Professor Marcelo Neves, in this book colleagues come together to explore how their research has been influenced by non-European and post-colonial approaches.