Human rights, civil rights

This collection of essays addresses the glaring gap between policy commitments and actual investments in gender equality, ranging across sectors and focusing on development aid, peace-building and climate funds.

America in the Philippines, 1899-1902: The First Torture Scandal analyzes the US army's use of the 'water cure' torture in the Philippine War and the ensuing political scandal that resulted.

This book shows how the overall impact of the penal policy agenda of the Coalition Government 2010-2015 has not led to the intended 'rehabilitation revolution', but austerity, outsourcing and punishment, designated here as 'punitive managerialism'.

This revised and updated 2nd edition of Freedman's hard-hitting study aims to remedy the current lack of gender-specific analyses of asylum and refugee issues.

What are the implications of colonialism for a theory of global justice today?

The collapse of socialist regimes across Southeastern Europe changed the rules of the political game and led to the transformation of these societies.

This ground-breaking collection examines the erosion of the legal boundaries traditionally dividing civil detention from criminal punishment.

This unique volume unpacks the concept and practice of naming and shaming by examining how governments, NGOs and international organisations attempt to change the behaviour of targeted actors through public exposure of violations of normative standards and legal commitments.

In recent years the death penalty has sharply declined across Africa, but this trend belies actual public opinion and the retributivist sentiments held by political elites.

The concentrations camps that existed in the colonised world at the turn of the 20th Century are a vivid reminder of the atrocities committed by imperial powers on indigenous populations.

Lewicki examines how current salient discourses of citizenship conceptualize democratic relations and frame the 'Muslim question' in Germany and Great Britain.

Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century is one of the first books to tackle the big five technological threats all in one place: nanotech, robotics, cyberwar, human enhancement, and, non-lethal weapons, weaving a historical, legal, and sociopolitical fabric into a discussion of their development, deployment, and, potential regulation.

This book invites readers to think about future directions in social development.

Through a unique collection of essays drawn from rich case studies, Authoritarianism in the Middle East provides important insights into the ongoing instabilities of the Middle East, and the authoritarianism and democratisation processes that have led to dramatic socio-political transformations.

The United States' use of torture and harsh interrogation techniques during the "e;War on Terror"e; has sparked fervent debate among citizens and scholars surrounding the human rights of war criminals.

This book provides a short, comprehensive, critical analysis of trafficking in human beings.

The increased targeting of civilians by militants raises serious and profound questions for policy-makers.

Drawing on participatory action research conducted in Sierra Leone, Kosovo and the Philippines, Human Rights in Prisons analyses encounters between rights-based non-governmental organisations and prisons.

Judging Free Speech contains nine original essays by political scientists and law professors, each providing a comprehensive, yet concise and accessible overview of the free speech jurisprudence of a United States Supreme Court Justice.

This book uniquely applies securitization theory to the mass sexual violence atrocities committed during the Bosnia war and the Rwandan genocide.

In an EU increasingly worried about the security of its citizens and its territory, how should the European Parliament make policy decisions in these areas?

In the aftermath of the Edward Snowden leaks, the Obama administration has been hard pressed to yield to greater transparency and openness to constructive change.

We are understandably reluctant to "e;rank"e; moral atrocities.

This book focuses on decision-making by non-state justice institutions at the interface of traditional, religious, and state laws.

This book offers a comparative exploration of how journalists across different newsrooms around the world access and interpret statistics when producing stories related to crime.

In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices of disabled artists in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia who re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the stereotyping they are subject to in the very public spaces and places where this stereotyping typically plays out.

The author assesses the politics of different humanitarian interventions in the Mexico-US border region developing a unique perspective on the significance of people, places and things to contemporary border struggles.

This book examines how and why liberalism and human rights have proven insufficient to protect immigrants.

This volume explores the conditions under which regional organizations engage in governance transfer in and to areas of limited statehood.

Manohar Pawar discusses the relevance and importance of social policy for water issues.

The economy's struggles to overcome the lingering effects of the Great Recession presented unique but essential questions.

This book uses the concept of political conflict to examine the effects of globalization on tobacco control policies.

With original and engaging contributions, this Handbook confirms feminist scholarship in development studies as a vibrant research field.

Offering a theology of migration, Cruz reflects on the Christian vision of 'one bread, one body, one people' in view of the gifts and challenges of contemporary migration to Christian spirituality, mission, and inculturation and the need for reform of migration policies based on the experience of refugees, migrant women, and others.

Research about children and young people's participation and involvement in research is an emerging area of academic inquiry.

Mega Cause I was one of the largest in a recent surge of trials in Argentina for human rights violations committed during the dictatorship of 1976-1983.

Was the Bush administration was successful in legitimating its preferences with habeas corpus, torture, and extraordinary rendition?

The European Union clearly matters for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).

A comprehensive and stimulating examination of how the migration of women affects attitudes in receiving countries, among the women themselves, and how changing women's attitudes shapes their relations with men and between generations within ethnic groups.

This study argues that the decriminalization of sex work in China can contribute to HIV prevention and human rights protection.

This volume investigates the rise of human rights discourses manifested in the global spectrum of theatre and performance since 1945.

This book examines the right to conscientious objection in international human rights law.

Clearly presenting the case-law concerning Article 9 of the European Convention of Human Rights, this is a lively and accessible analysis of a key issue in contemporary society: whether there is a human right to wear a religious symbol and how far any such right extends.

Are universal rights bound to colonialism?

Examining the complex nature of state apologies for past injustices, this probes the various functions they fulfil within contemporary democracies.

Through compelling and insightful analysis of the Russian case, this book explores the role that social welfare plays in regime transitions.

Migrant Capital covers a broad range of case studies and, by bringing together leading and emerging researchers, presents state-of-the-art empirical, theoretical and methodological perspectives on migration, networks, social and cultural capital, exploring the ways in which these bodies of literature can inform and strengthen each other.

This book reviews the key controversies surrounding the police power to stop and search members of the public.

This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life of migrant live-in domestic and care workers in Argentina, Canada, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Norway, the Philippines, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America, and Ukraine.

This book examines the justice gap and trial process for sexual assault against both adults and children in two jurisdictions: England and Wales and New South Wales, Australia.