Human rights, civil rights

We are currently engaged in an existential species war against nonhuman animals.

This book presents a review of historical and emerging legal issues that concern the interpretation of the international crime of genocide.

This book provides a comprehensive and impartial overview of laws and norms regarding free speech and censorship in the United States, with a particular focus on free speech rights and restrictions for individuals, politicians, corporations, and news organizations.

At the end of Liberia's thirteen-year civil war, the devastated population struggled to rebuild their country and come to terms with their experiences of violence.

Peremptory International Legal Norms and the Democratic Rule of Law explores the risks to the democratic State inherent in the attempt to divorce the notion of democratic rule of law from respect for and adherence to peremptory international legal norms which allow for no derogation therefrom such as the prohibition of torture and inhumane treatment or punishment by the State.

Between 1880 and 1930, Southern mobs hanged, burned, and otherwise tortured to death at least 3,300 African Americans.

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This book focuses on China's evolution in the field of human rights protection, highlighting its achievements in various systems of human rights protection, as well as its role in international human rights governance and the healthy development of human rights.

This book explores how the Internet impacts on the protection of fundamental rights, particularly with regard to freedom of speech and privacy.

This volume brings together cutting-edge research from emerging and senior scholars alike representing a variety of disciplines that bears on human preferences for fairness, equity and justice.

This book examines how conflict has affected the rights of youth in Northeast India.

Shows how human rights displaced anti-imperialism as the dominant framework for changing the world in the 1960s and 1970s.

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?

The First World War threw the imperial order into crisis.

Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world.

This is the first book to provide an overview of the processes and practices of transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific region.

From a young age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa.

International Development Law: Rule of Law, Human Rights, and Global Finance provides a tightly interwoven, well-organized, multi-disciplinary approach to the complex legal issues underlying sustainable international development.

The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and repeated in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, recognizes everyone's right to "e;share in scientific advancement and its benefits"e; and to "e;enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications.

Perspectives on the Politics of Abortion examines the abortion issue from ethical, empirical, and legal angles and offers some rather unconventional analyses and surprising conclusions with regard to this familiar issue.

The book covers the trajectories and trends in social change communication, engaging the key theoretical debates on communication and social change.

The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (UNPBC) was established in December 2005 to develop outlines of best practice in post-conflict reconstruction, and to secure the political and material resources necessary to assist states in transition from conflict to peacetime.

Torture and Moral Integrity tackles a concrete moral problem that has been hotly debated by governments, scholars, and the media: the morality of interrogational torture.

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This book examines why press freedom has not become part of the established international human rights debate, despite its centrality to democratic theory.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleAre the principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights truly universal?

Demokratie und Menschenrechte werden im gesellschaftlichen, politischen und teilweise auch im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs nicht selten als Gegensatzpaar dargestellt: Demokratische Entscheidungen können Menschenrechte einschränken oder ihnen schaden, während Menschenrechtspolitik sich negativ auf die demokratische Legitimität auswirken kann.

The Mississippi Freedom Vote in 1963 consisted of an integrated citizens' campaign for civil rights.

This volume considers the most appropriate criminal jurisdiction to prosecute aggravated sex trafficking of the kind associated with northern Albanian crime groups.

Contemporary, practical coverage of the Human Rights Committee''s responses to challenges to civil and political rights around the world.

Across the world, grassroots movements for change are growing in number, skill, and impact on society.

While analyzing the contentious debate over health care reform, this much-needed study also challenges the argument that treating medical patients like shoppers can significantly reduce health expenditures.

This varied and authoritative study of contemporary South Africa focuses thematically on the major political contestants, interest- groups and power-brokers in that country.

Turkey''s hostile approach to the LGBTI community leads Muedini to document the history of LGBTI rights, rights abuses, and activist strategies to secure LGBTI rights in Turkey.

This study reinterprets a crucial period (1870s-1920s) in the history of women's rights, focusing attention on a core contradiction at the heart of early feminist theory.

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

South Africa is a major player in African diplomacy.

Flaherty examines the passage, revision, and implementation of privacy and data protection laws at the national and state levels in Sweden, Canada, France, Germany, and the United States.

This book explores the long history of oppression and resistance in adult and higher education, situated in Mississippi.

A user-friendly, comprehensive, and modern account of international law combining political science and law for students at multiple levels.

This book argues that the international refugee regime and its 'temporary' humanitarian interventions have failed.

In First Among Friends, the first scholarly biography of George Fox (1624-91), H.

During the uprisings of late 2010 and 2011 which took place across the Middle East and North Africa, women made up an important part of the crowds protesting.

This is the first book-length study of Delta Cooperative Farm (1936-42) and its descendant, Providence Farm (1938-56).

The first contemporary overview of the critiques of human rights in Western political thought, from the French Revolution to the present day.

New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650-1800 takes a fresh look at archival and printed sources from England and America, elucidating why women were instrumental to the Quaker movement from its inception to its establishment as a transatlantic religious body.

Evaluates and reconsiders how the human rights of vulnerable migrants are protected through Europe''s supranational courts.

Focuses on the novel issues raised for IP law by 3D printing for the major IP systems around the world.