Human rights, civil rights

Plurality within feminist networks and access to the state strengthen feminist''s abilities to face conservative antiabortion attacks.

An exploration of the tension between human rights and patent law, with reference to developing countries'' access to affordable medicines.

Restorative justice is increasingly being applied to settings characterized by large-scale violence and human rights abuses.

This book delves deeply into modern surrogacy arrangements, responding to both practical and ethical critiques by offering a radically new model for surrogate motherhood.

A discussion of Thomasius''s work in public and church law, providing a revealing comparison with the arguments of John Locke.

Mexico Unconquered is an evocative report on the powers of violence and corruption in Mexico and the rebel underdogs who put their lives on the line to build justice from the ground up.

Addresses the position of minorities in democratic societies, with a particular focus on minority rights.

In recent years, the Danish cartoons affair, the Charlie Hebdo murders and the terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris have resulted in increasingly strident anti-Islamic speeches by politicians.

Encyclopaedia of Human Rights covers the vast field of human rights at all levels, i.

In this exemplary work of scholarly synthesis the author traces the course of events from the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr.

This companion volume to The International Law of Human Trafficking presents the first-ever comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the international law of migrant smuggling.

Aboriginal policy and claims negotiation in Canada is seen to be a murky and perplexing world that has become an important public issue and has significant policy implications for government spending.

One of the hallmarks of the present era is the discourse surrounding Human Rights and the need for the law to recognise them.

This book examines the nature of human language and the ideology of linguistic legitimacy - the common set of beliefs about language differences that leads to the rejection of some language varieties and the valorization of others.

Human Trafficking is a growing transnational criminal phenomenon-conservative estimates put the total number of persons trafficked annually at two million.

An analysis of debates and mechanisms of international criminal law in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Myanmar.

The child asylum seeker poses unique challenges for reception and refugee status determination systems, not least because the child is entitled to have his or her rights as a child respected as a matter of international and regional human rights law.

The coasts of todays American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of beachfront property in the Chesapeake, along the Carolina shores, and around the Gulf of Mexico was owned and populated by African Americans.

This book offers a thorough, critical, and accessible analysis of the American Convention on Human Rights which is the main human rights treaty of the Americas.

The term human rights are being increasing used by the people across geographical frontiers.

The Universal Declaration for Human Rights was approved in 1948 and yet more than fifty years later some human rightsespecially the rights of groups such as women, minorities, and indigenous peoplescontinue to be at risk.

Sexuality, Disability, and the Law approaches issues of sexual autonomy and disability from multiple perspectives, including constitutional law, international human rights, therapeutic jurisprudence, history, cognitive psychology, dignity studies, and theories and findings on gender constructs and societal norms.

In addressing democracy, equality, and justice together, the book stimulates discussions that go beyond the sometimes increasingly technical and increasingly discrete literatures that now dominate the study of each concept.

Die vorliegende Untersuchung erschließt mit der evangelischen Gefängnisseelsorge in der SBZ und der frühen DDR ein bislang nicht erforschtes Feld im Schnittbereich von Kirchen- und allgemeiner Geschichte.

This book is a compilation of research papers presented at the two-day UGC sponsored National Seminar organised by the Post-Graduate Department of Political Science, NSS Hindu College, Changanacherry, Kerala.

Los Derechos Humanos y el desarrollo están intrínsecamente vinculados: los Derechos Humanos representan, a la vez, un medio y el objetivo de los procesos de desarrollo.

The international legal framework of human rights presents itself as universal.

Outlines how land disputes are entangled with gender, ethnicity and territoriality, shaping public authority and state formation.

The phenomenon of child trafficking holds a unique position as an issue of significant contemporary relevance, occupying a principal place in debates about human rights today.

This book explores efforts by women to gain the right to sit on juries in the United States.

A provocative new vision of free market capitalism that achieves liberal ends by libertarian meansCan libertarians care about social justice?

This book offers new perspectives and insights into the functioning of mechanisms utilised by global constitutionalism.

'An epic tale of love, dishonour, bravery, cowardice, betrayal and high-treason.

This book provides an introduction to the relationship between environmental protection and human rights, being formalized into law in many legal systems.

Located within wider debates about 'security versus liberty' in our post 9/11 world, the book analyses the new landscape of UK counter terrorism powers and offences and focuses upon the deleterious consequences of the so-called 'war on terror' on freedom of political expression and association.

Rarely in the short history of liberal-democratic government has a primer on basic liberal-democratic values and institutions been more needed than now.

Following the rise of the zemiological movement, the concept of social harm has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention.

The essays in this volume portray the debates concerning freedom of speech in eighteenth-century France and Britain aswell as in Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories.

By what process and mechanisms can the findings of the African Commission be implemented and that implementation monitored?

Following the 1998 peace agreement in Northern Ireland, political violence has dramatically declined and the region has been promoted as a model for peacemaking.

On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States.

This book presents a comprehensive review of cross-border labor mobility from the ancient forms of slavery to the present day.

In Displacement City, outreach worker Greg Cook and street nurse Cathy Crowe present the stories of frontline workers, advocates, and people living without homes during the pandemic.

The Obama presidency represented a major milestone in African American history.

Advancing a bold theory of the relevance of tort law in the fight against human rights abuses, celebrated US law professor George Fletcher here challenges the community of international lawyers to think again about how they can use the Alien Tort Statute.

This book provides an expanded conceptualization of legalization that focuses on implementation of obligation, precision, and delegation at the international and domestic levels of politics.