Human rights, civil rights

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An authoritative treatment of how Christianity shaped human rights, and how Christianity and human rights challenge each other today.

Black Hands, White House documents and appraises the role enslaved women and men played in building the US, both its physical and its fiscal infrastructure.

Social pathologies are social processes that hinder how individuals exercise their autonomy and freedom.

At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communitiesThe word "e;peacebuilding"e; evokes a story we've all heard over and over: violence breaks out, foreign nations are scandalized, peacekeepers and million-dollar donors come rushing in, warring parties sign a peace agreement and, sadly, within months the situation is back to where it started--sometimes worse.

Recommended by The Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Dame Sara Thornton, in her 2020 report on The Modern Slavery Act 2015 Statutory Defence: A call for evidence "e;Rarely can the talent of so many practitioners be accessed in one convenient resource.

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.

Who gets to decide what it means to live a healthy lifestyle, and how important a healthy lifestyle is to a good life?

An innovative framework for advancing human rights Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve rights for all.

Central American countries have long defined health as a human right.

The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "e;yellow peril"e; to "e;model minorities"e;--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century.

This book explores the role and relevance of non-state actors (NSAs) in the international system by analyzing the ways these actors gain influence in the United Nations (UN).

State takeovers of local governments have garnered national attention of late, particularly following the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

This book is an essential guide on surrogacy, discussing various legal issues that arise in surrogacy cases.

This indexed collection documents the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

In Sending Them Home, Robert Manne tells the stories of individual asylum seekers and finds in their experience the seeds of a devastating critique.

A groundbreaking history of the Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Eras that reveals the importance of biracial coalitions The Reconstruction era marked a huge political leap for African Americans, who rapidly went from the status of slaves to voters and officeholders.

This book examines the conceptual and political history of the right of self-determination of peoples.

During the 2015 and 2016 refugee crisis the EU called on the Member States to engage in protection burden-sharing.

In 1934, at the age of fourteen, Colette Brull-Ulmann knew that she wanted to become a pediatrician.

This book analyzes the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in the context of the conflict in Darfur, using detailed empirical evidence.

This book brings together contributions from some of the leading authorities in the field of EU immigration and asylum law to reflect upon developments since the Amsterdam Treaty and, particularly, the Tampere European Council in 1999.

Singapore's well-documented economic progress since independence owes a big debt to the initial investment that the nation made in raising the nutrition, hygiene, health and education standards of its children.

This book assesses the extent to which an emphasis on national security and prioritization of state interests has dominated governance policy-making in Northeast and Southeast Asia, at the expense of human security, human development, and human rights.

The War Guilt Problem and the Ligue des droits de l'homme is a significant new volume from Norman Ingram, addressing the history of the Ligue des droits de l'homme (LDH), an organisation founded in 1898 at the height of the Dreyfus Affair and which lay at the very centre of French Republican politics in the era of the two world wars.

Gypsies and Travellers have often been overlooked as victims of hate crime and discrimination.

Violence, war and internal conflicts have assumed a new intensity with the decline of the Cold War.

In the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice.

News "e;fixers"e; are locally-based media employees who serve as translators, coordinators, and guides to foreign journalists in unfamiliar terrain.

This book discusses Locke's theory of property from both a critical and an interpretative standpoint.

An accessible but thought-provoking introduction to labour law.

Exploring language rights politics in theoretical, historical and international context, this book brings together debates from law, sociolinguistics, international politics, and the history of ideas.

Die empirische Studie von Inken Heldt verdeutlicht Innovationspotentiale der Menschenrechtsbildung ausgehend von den subjektiven Vorstellungswelten von Schülerinnen und Schülern.

In Strategies of Compliance with the European Court of Human Rights, Andreas von Staden looks at the nature of human rights challenges in two enduring liberal democraciesGermany and the United Kingdom.

Within the already heavily polarised debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, parallels between Israel and apartheid South Africa remain highly contentious.

The Routledge Handbook of International Human Rights Law provides the definitive global survey of the discipline of international human rights law.

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More than ten years after the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, this book critically reviews the achievements, limits and next frontiers of business and human rights following the 'protect, respect, remedy' trichotomy.

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

In light of the third-generation concept of 'inclusive sustainability', the volume explores the architecture of global disability governance and its degree of harmonisation.

Turning Ourselves Inside Out emerges from the Thriving Christian Communities Project started by the authors in 2015, as well as from a Facebook conversation where someone asked, "e;We always hear about the problems in our churches.

This book presents a powerful and thorough investigation into police deviance and sexual misconduct in the US.

This book uncovers how banks, individuals, and companies worked as economic accomplices to the oppressive Argentinian dictatorship.

Economic, social and cultural rights are finally coming of age.

Microaggressions and Modern Racism: Endurance and Evolution explores the causes, manifestations, and consequences of microaggressions, macroaggressions, and modern racism within society.

Uses a comparative analysis of case law in leading common law nations to demonstrate how religious discrimination is culturally determined.

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

In Muslim countries, apostasy and blasphemy laws are defended on the grounds that they are based on Islamic Shari'a and intended to protect religion.