Human rights, civil rights

This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in Nigeria.

This work is an interdisciplinary study that investigates the nature and effectiveness of the mobilization of law by domestic nongovernment organizations to enforce human rights.

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

Analysing the convergence of law and regulation with rapidly evolving communications technologies, this interdisciplinary work navigates the intricate balancing act between human rights protection and technological innovation in a digital age, and illuminates the comprehensive potential of human rights to frame our intelligent use of technology.

Explores how crucial cultural politics is to the realization of human rights ideals.

This book studies the struggle to enforce international human rights law in federal courts.

This book discusses egalitarianism in Scandinavian countries through historically oriented and empirically based studies on social and political change.

This book contains a global comparative study of implementation and monitoring mechanisms for national disability strategies.

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.

A practical guide to carrying out ethical research with children and young people, this practical handbook examines the ethical questions that arise at each stage of research, from first plans to dissemination and impact.

In the 13th century, a group of heretics in southwest France, the Cathars, became a serious threat to the Catholic church.

Following the vexed codification attempts of the International Law Commission and the relevant jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice, this book addresses the permissibility of the practice of diplomatic asylum under general international law.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 is one of the most highly ratified human rights treaties in the world, with 192 states currently signed up to it.

A groundbreaking interpretation of the intellectual origins of the United NationsNo Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today.

Human rights and conflict resolution have been traditionally perceived as two separate fields, sometimes in competition or in tension and occasionally with contradictory approaches towards achieving a lasting peace.

This compelling book tells the inspirational stories of men and women who fought for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights throughout the twentieth century.

Presenting detailed portraits by leading authorities of the politics of human rights across the major regions of the globe, A Force Profonde: The Power, Politics, and Promise of Human Rights reveals human rights to be a force as powerful as capitalist markets and technological innovation in shaping global governance.

This book argues that vegetarian and vegan people should be guaranteed the right to eat according to their beliefs.

After retirement from the Army in 1978 I worked for about a decade in the Middle East on various project management assignments.

Scholarship on the right to water has proliferated in interesting and unexpected ways in recent years.

Explores the experiences of irregular migrants and refugees crossing borders as they resist global migration controls.

The problem of enforcing a money judgment exists in every legal system in the world, but the methods and orientation vary significantly.

From the perspective of a number of different social science disciplines, this book explores the ways in which the election of politicians can be made more fair and credible by adopting a human rights approach to elections.

Migrant women across Asia disproportionately work in precarious, insecure, and informal employment sectors that are subject to few regulations, pay low wages, and expose women to harm, of which domestic work is among the most prevalent.

This book addresses the challenges within teaching Criminology and Criminal Justice, for students studying and academics involved in designing and delivering courses at an undergraduate and postgraduate level.

This book uses comparisons of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil to reveal patterns about race, nation, state and class dynamics.

Personal narratives have become one of the most potent vehicles for advancing human rights claims across the world.

A rare look at the brute-force mechanics of deportation in the United States.

This book presents an in-depth account of nine Black British women's experiences of violence and abuse.

This book investigates why some societies defer transitional justice issues after successful democratic consolidation.

In Free Expression in the Age of the Internet, Jeremy Lipschultz investigates the Internet and its potential for profound change, analyzing the use of its technology from social, political, and economic perspectives.

This book discusses how UNIDROIT principles are viewed and interpreted in different countries, presenting various perspectives and practical lessons learned.

Usme, one of the peripheral districts surrounding Bogota, Colombia, is one of the poorest, most populous, and most marginalized outer districts of the city, with a high concentration of indigenous occupants.

This book debunks one of the greatest myths ever told in Caribbean history: that the indigenous peoples who encountered a very lost Christopher Columbus are 'extinct.

For far too long the discipline of International Relations has failed to engage with the study of genocide.

The Encyclopaedia of Social Welfare, Justice and Human Rights gives an overall integrated perspective of the aforementioned subject areas.

The book provides new research highlighting perspectives, perceptions, and practices regarding human rights and human rights education in China.

An analysis of the history of transitional justice from the fifth century BC to the present, first published in 2004.

The Quakers were by far the most successful of the radical religious groups to emerge from the turbulence of the mid-seventeenth century--and their survival into the present day was largely facilitated by the transformation of the movement during its first fifty years.

This book provides a comprehensive human rights analysis of key areas of law affecting older persons, including legal capacity; elder abuse; accommodation and aged care; healthcare; employment; financial security, retirement, and estate planning; and social and cultural participation.

Are the political ideals of liberty and equality compatible?

Religion, Law, and Freedom: A Global Perspective introduces readers to diverse perspectives on the interplay of religion, law, and communications freedom in different cultures around the world.

The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century brings together a wide range of geographical, cultural, historical, and conceptual perspectives in a single volume of new essays that facilitate a deeper understanding of the field of art activism as it stands today and as it looks towards the future.

Demonstrates how the Reagan administration and members of Congress shaped US human rights policy in the late Cold War.

Parasites and infectious diseases are everywhere and represent some of the most potent forces shaping the natural world.

Do Member States of the EU have a free hand in drafting Accession Treaties, or are there legal constraints on their primary law-making powers in this regard?

Unlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War.

Gershon Baskin's memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his family.

Human rights advocacy in the West is changing.

A revealing, comprehensive, and detailed account focusing on the people and personalities behind the Montgomery, Alabama, Bus Boycott in 1955-1956, which became the catalyst for a national civil rights movement.