Human rights, civil rights

This Commentary provides the first comprehensive legal article-by-article analysis of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

Deportation has again taken a prominent place within the immigration policies of nation-states.

This book delves into the theory and praxis of human security in South Asia.

Based on extensive archival work, private paper collections, and oral history, this book includes eight of John Kirk's essays, two of which have never been published before.

The plethora of literature produced over the past decade in response to the perceived failure of the human rights project to deliver results for billions of people living in 'adverse' environments has usually focused on international legal standards and mechanisms, with little regard for the root structural realities that constrain their implementation.

This new work surveys how rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in social, cultural, political and economic domains impact on sexuality, health and human rights.

It's a common complaint: the United States is overrun by rules and procedures that shackle professional judgment, have no valid purpose, and serve only to appease courts and lawyers.

This book offers a ground-breaking analysis of how women's movements have been remaking citizenship in multicultural Europe.

Gibbs and Bankhead examine the history and current situation in California as it struggles to deal with the ethnic and racial change that will make it the first American state to have a non-white majority in the first decade of the 21st century.

This book examines the continuing devastation in the Darfur region of Sudan, from the perspective of a multiplicity of conflicts of distinct types.

The book provides a holistic examination of the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Global political actors, from states and NGOs to activist groups and individuals, exert influence in societies beyond their own in myriad ways--including via public criticism, consumer boycotts, divestment campaigns, sanctions, and forceful intervention.

This brief resource sets out a rights-based framework forpolicy analysis that allows social workers to enhance their long-term vision aswell as their current practice.

Rethinking Children's Rights explores attitudes towards and experiences of children's rights.

This book presents a model for reforming and developing Indigenous related legislation and policy, not only in Australia, but also in other jurisdictions.

Rights were once thought to derive from the God-given nature of man.

Now in a comprehensively updated edition, this indispensable handbook analyzes how international humanitarian law has evolved in the face of these many new challenges.

This book aims to bolster the burgeoning discourse of health and human rights.

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

This volume of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law takes a close look at the role of so-called "e;expert manuals"e; in the interpretation and development of the international law of armed conflict and connected branches of international law relating to military operations.

This collection explores and illustrates issues arising from 'political' approaches to human rights in contrast to the more traditional 'moral' approaches.

In an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censorship--or reflexive name-calling--the terms "e;liberal"e; and "e;politically correct,"e; are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right as "e;reactionary"e; and "e;fascist"e; are by the left--Stanley Fish would seem an unlikely lightning rod for controversy.

This book is about the lives of refugee women in Britain and France.

Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward critically reflects on the past fifteen years of international efforts aimed at improving health, alleviating poverty, diminishing gender inequality, and promoting human rights.

This book explores the relationship between truth and freedom in the free press.

This book addresses questions in connection with the international legal regime on demands for secession, which have arisen in various States.

Uncovers judicial approaches to refugee law across the European Union in the cases of refugees fleeing armed conflicts.

This book explores the potential responsibilities to respect, protect and fulfill international human rights law (IHRL) of a particular class of non-state actors: non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

This book explores rurality and education in sub-Saharan Africa through a lens of social justice.

Die Autorin analysiert und vergleicht die verfassungsrechtlichen und einfachgesetzlichen materiell-rechtlichen und verfahrensrechtlichen Vorgaben zur Familienzusammenführung in Deutschland und den USA.

This book examines the contribution social theory can make to understanding different human rights which operate in a variety of settings.

Winner of the Saltire Society First Book Award 2016An Economist Book of the Year 2016A Spectator Book of the Year 2016In 2011, Isabel Buchanan, a twenty-three-year-old Scottish lawyer, moved to Pakistan to work in a new legal chambers in Lahore.

International organizations (IOs) that focus on refugees are finding themselves spread increasingly thin.

Political Campaigning in the U.

Mass Protests in Iran: From Resistance to Overthrow explores the various waves of protests in Iran over the past 44 years, surveying their causes, consequences, and outcomes.

The book analyses the position of the ECtHR which has been more and more confronted with criticism coming from the national sphere, including the judiciary.

This book discusses human rights law, focusing on Chinese contributions to international human rights viewed from a perspective of global governance.

Do countries keep their promises to the international community?

What is the life of a Palestinian worth to intellectuals in Canadian universities and news media?

Do nation-states act to facilitate or limit immigration and integration, how and why?

A history of the battles over US immigrants' rights since 1965-and how these conflicts reshaped access to education, employment, civil liberties, and moreThe 1965 Hart-Celler Act transformed the American immigration system by abolishing national quotas in favor of a seemingly egalitarian approach.

This volume takes stock of the seminal contribution of Charles Beitz to the so-called "e;political turn"e; in the philosophy of human rights, whose origins are in the work of the late Rawls.

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.

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the complicated power relations surrounding the recognition and implementation of Indigenous Peoples' rights at multiple scales.

This book mainly seeks to explain, define and update the recurring forms of populism in the 21st century.