Human rights, civil rights

The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of-and indeed reactions to-the central event of that history: emancipation.

This edited volume examines child exploitation in the Global South.

»Menschenrechte« sind zu einem zentralen Thema des Religionsunterrichts geworden, aber bislang fehlte eine fundierte didaktische Grundlegung.

This book applies libertarian property rights theory to a vexing controversy, abortion.

This book explores and discusses emerging perspectives of Ubuntu from the vantage point of "e;ordinary"e; people and connects it to human rights and decolonizing discourses.

Without citizenship from any country, more than 10 million people worldwide are unable to enjoy the rights, freedoms, and protections that citizens of a state take for granted.

This exploration of local and global conflicts over access to water provides a socio-legal perspective on transnational governance.

Using legal arguments consistent with international law, this book explores whether and under which circumstances a State (or States) may establish and militarily enforce safe zones in countries that produce large-scale refugee outflows so as to protect its (or their) own interests by averting said outflows, as well as to alleviate human suffering in today's world of civil and internal warfare.

After World War II dozens of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) emerged on the global scene, committed to improving the lives of the world's most vulnerable people.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of a fundamental human freedom and a cornerstone of democracy: the Freedom of Religions or Beliefs (FoRB).

How racism and discrimination have been central to democracies from the classical period to todayAs right-wing nationalism and authoritarian populism gain momentum across the world, liberals, and even some conservatives, worry that democratic principles are under threat.

The book describes in a retrospective way how dignity and human rights evolved.

The Cunning of Gender Violence focuses on how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs.

This book is an empirically grounded, critical engagement with the politics of immigration detention and deportation.

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Was man mit Gerichten und beauftragten Personen alles erleben kann, wenn vorübergehende gesundheitliche Gründe eine Betreuung erforderlich machen und man aus dieser Spirale wieder raus will, um ein selbst bestimmtes Leben zu führen.

Presents the emerging principle of Common Concern of Humankind as legal response and to serious collective action crises.

A systematic analysis of extraterritorial obligations and state responsibility for private actors under international refugee law.

This volume offers a systematic overview of the different tools through which the human rights accountability of transnational corporations may be improved.

Police detention is the place where suspects are taken whilst their case is investigated and a case disposal decision is reached.

Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany - these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts.

Against all odds, the seeds of social change found purchase in mid-twentieth century South Carolina.

On April 28, 2004, 60 Minutes II broadcast the now-infamous photos of prisoner abuse by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib.

David Schnasa Jacobsen draws together the strengths of two exegetical approaches to the Gospel of Mark in this volume of the Fortress Biblical Preaching Commentaries series.

This book examines political responses to the problem of human trafficking, including proposals, actions (legislative and executive), and statements made by politicians, government agencies, and civil society organizations to solve or mitigate the crime of human trafficking.

This book deals with the intellectual foundation of the sociopolitical, economic and legal systems of developing countries, using a methodological approach.

This book provides a transdisciplinary assessment of multiple countries' legal and policy frameworks vis-a-vis the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication, adopted in 2014 by the Committee on Fisheries of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

High levels of police corruption have been a persistent historical tendency in police services throughout the world.

Employing law and philosophy of economics, this book explores how copyright shapes ownership of ideas in the social media age.

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

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

Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960s.

This thesis explores the physics of non-equilibrium quantum dynamics in homogeneous two-dimensional (2D) quantum gases.

Over the past few years, increased 'unauthorised' migrations into the territories of Europe have resulted in one of the most severe crises in the history of the European Union.

This book places Frederick Douglass in a variety of geographical, political, social, cultural, and literary contexts of his time.

This book examines the impact and implications of the relationship between risk and criminal justice in advanced liberal democracies, in the context of the 'revolt against uncertainty' which has underpinned the rise of populist politics across these societies in recent years.

The relationship between the church and the scriptures of Israel is fraught with complexities, particularly in regard to how the first Christians read scripture in light of the gospel of Christ.

This book argues that political leaders are likely to permit religious freedoms if they enhance power or economic well-being.

The 2017 "e;Summer of Hate"e; in Charlottesville became a worldwide media event, putting at center stage the resurgence of emboldened and empowered white supremacy and "e;alt-right"e; extremism, as well as the antiracist movement opposing it.

Contemporary terrorism is a global phenomenon requiring a globalized response.

This book examines transnational civil society-based democracy-promoting resistance activities in Asia in a global era, focusing on the cases of Myanmar and Palestine.

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

Christians have an increasingly complex and often conflicted relationship with technology.

Is a strong cosmopolitan stance irretrievably arrogant?

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In this new work, Dutton examines the ICC and whether and how its enforcement mechanism influences state membership and the court's ability to realize treaty goals, examining questions such as: Why did states decide to create the ICC and design the institution with this uniquely strong enforcement mechanism?

This book rethinks the body in global politics and the particular roles bodies play in our international system, foregrounding processes and practices involved in the continually contested (re/dis)embodiment of both human bodies and collective bodies politic.

Lifelong liberal Kirsten Powers blasts the Left's forced march towards conformity in an expose of the illiberal war on free speech.