Human rights, civil rights

Healthcare chaplains working as part of interdisciplinary teams are frequently involved in contributing to discussions on all aspects of patients' wellbeing.

This book analyses the equal citizenship claims of women and sexual and gender diverse people across several Asian jurisdictions.

Uber das Spannungsverhaltnis zwischen Menschenrechten und modernen Technologien fur die Zeit seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.

This book presents rich empirical analyses of the most important movements in Chile's post-transition era: the Student Movement, the Mapuche Movement, the Labor Movement, the Feminist Movement, and the Environmental Movement.

This book defends the thesis that Kant's normative ethics and his practical ethics of sex and marriage can be valuable resources for people engaged in the contemporary debate over same-sex marriage.

This book asks whether the decision to lock down the world was justified in proportion to the potential harms and risks generated by the Covid-19 virus.

The European Union is a supranational organisation with a set of circumscribed powers.

This book provides an overview of theoretical, empirical, and clinical conceptualizations of mental health following exposure to human rights violations (HRV).

Killing as punishment in the USA, whether ordained by lynch mob or by the courts, reflects a paradox of the American nation: liberal, pluralistic, yet prone to lethal violence.

The collection aims to inspire readers with new approaches to implementing and monitoring the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, to make rights 'real' in children's lives.

How can we guarantee a right to life or a right to health without also guaranteeing a decent environment in which to exercise these rights?

This book, finished in September 2023, addresses the fundamental principles enshrined in Resolution 2625 (XXV): sovereignty, the principle of non-intervention, the prohibition of the use of force, and self-determination.

In the early 1960s, thousands of Black activists used nonviolent direct action to challenge segregation at lunch counters, movie theaters, skating rinks, public pools, and churches across the United States, battling for, and winning, social change.

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

When Hiss ne Habr , the deposed dictator of Chad, was found guilty of crimes against humanity in 2016, it was described as 'a watershed for human rights justice in Africa and beyond'.

Are today's young adults gender rebels or returning to tradition?

This book deals with urgency and human rights.

This book explores the emergent concept of 'human security' within the political context of COVID-19 Chinese politics.

This book provides a comprehensive and analytical overview of human rights law in Africa.

The book is for all readers interested in African institutions and contemporary global challenges of peace, security, human rights, and international law.

This book delves into the history of subjective rights within the context of 19th-century Iran, specifically during the eventful Qajar era.

Since 1980s deregulation and contracting out of governmental functions, services and responsibilities have reverberated around the world under the impact and influence of liberalization, privatization and globalization (LPG).

Speech, Media, and Ethics: The Limits of Free Expression is an interdisciplinary work that employs ethics, liberal philosophy, and legal and media studies to outline the boundaries to freedom of expression and freedom of the press, defined broadly to include the right to demonstrate and to picket, the right to compete in elections, and the right to communicate views via the written and electronic media.

This book examines human rights in the Israeli domestic arena by analyzing the politics and strategies of defending human rights.

Mobility, Space, and Resistance: Transformative Spatiality in Literary and Political Discourse draws from various disciplines-such as geography, sociology, political science, gender studies, and poststructuralist thought-to posit the productive capabilities of literature in political action and at the same time show how literary art can resist the imposition and domination of oppressive systems of our spatial lives.

In 1969 Greece withdrew from the Council of Europe (CoE), following pressure exercised by various European countries, organisations, social movements and individuals in response to the brutal conduct of the military junta that had taken power by force on 21 April 1967.

The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation examines contemporary political violence and atrocity in the context of the crisis of the nation-state.

The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and the ensuing trial of Derek Chauvin for murder a year later has rubbed raw the bloodiest stain on the United States' history and its world reputation.

Human rights have traditionally been framed in a vertical perspective with the duties of States confined to their own citizens or residents.

How military service led black veterans to join the civil rights struggleFighting for Democracy shows how the experiences of African American soldiers during World War II and the Korean War influenced many of them to challenge white supremacy in the South when they returned home.

Water has always been a crucial catalyst for human development.

Finck examines the emergence of blockchains (and other forms of distributed ledger technologies) and the implications for regulation and governance.

Challenging the notion of China as merely a repressive dictatorship, Heurlin shows that policymaking has been surprisingly responsive to protests.

In 2002 a fifteen-year-old Canadian citizen was captured in Afghanistan for allegedly killing an American soldier.

This book covers civil rights and civil liberties politics in the United States from the ratification of the Bill of Rights to more recent controversies, such as the travel ban and proposals to end birthright citizenship.

This book critically examines the relationship between the United Nations Organization and the small states of the Pacific islands.

Too often, all oppressed people in America are lumped together under the moniker "e;people of color,"e; as if each group's experience under the yoke of systemic racism has the same economic and social repercussions.

The Routledge Handbook of International Crime and Justice Studies presents the enduring debates and emerging challenges in crime and justice studies from an international and multi-disciplinary perspective.

The margin of appreciation is a judicial doctrine whereby international courts allow states to have a measure of diversity in their interpretation of human rights treaty obligations.

This book sheds light on the latest trends in environmental law by analyzing some of the main sectors of law, including administrative law, constitutional law, EU law, US Law,  and human rights law.

The book offers a provocative review of thinking about privacy and identity in the years encompassing and disrupted by the two world wars of the first half of the twentieth century - focusing (in particular) on the socio-technological transformations associated with modernism.

This book provides the first scholarly investigation of prosecutorial discretion in the International Criminal Court (ICC) from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Explores protesting as an act of faith .

Why politics and international relations "e;seem"e; to be driven by power/strategies in some conditions but "e;seem"e; to be attached to values/beliefs in other situations?

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This book examines an important socio-political challenge to the ruling party regime in Vietnam.

The United Nations adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) constituted a paradigm shift in attitudes and approaches to disability rights, marking the first time in law-making history that persons with disabilities participated as civil society representatives and contributed to the drafting of an international treaty.

Since the end of the Cold War, increasing numbers of people have been forced to leave their homes as a result of armed conflict, internal strife, and systematic violations of human rights.