Human rights, civil rights

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

The book provides a critical analysis of electronic alternatives to documents used in the international sale of goods carried by sea, including invoices, bills of lading, certificates of insurance, as well as other documentation required under documentary credits, and payment processing arrangements.

This collection of essays explores the evolution of anti-discrimination law in European civil law jurisdictions.

This book offers a synthesis of the main achievements and pending challenges during the thirty years of transitional justice in Chile after Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

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

Empowerment of women through Entrepreneurship is a collection of 31 papers, which presents a new and fundamental way of bringing empowerment through different entrepreneurial activities.

Advances in our understanding of the brain and rapid advances in the medical practice of neurology are creating questions and concerns from an ethical and legal perspective.

This book addresses the question: "e;What should be the appropriate limits to free speech?

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

In the intercessions, the assembly asks God to respond to the needs of the whole world.

This book draws on the legacy of race and racism in the USA to argue that rights are products of social recognition.

This book examines the gender context of HIV and critiques the global policy response.

Turkish accession to the European Union is an important but controversial item on the agenda of the European Union.

For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, public officials in cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have criminalized uprisings as portending Black thugs throwing rocks at police and plundering private property to undermine complaints of police violence.

This thought-provoking collection brings together academics from a range of disciplines to examine modern slavery.

Human Rights and Healthcare looks at medical law from a human rights perspective.

The concept of 'human rights' as a universal goal is at the centre of the international stage.

Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes?

"e;This excellent, lively study examines the 'raucous debate' sparked by the Code over the morals and ideals of American movies.

This book examines violence against women in Africa and criminal justice from the perspective of African scholars, practitioners and experts.

This book includes a set of studies and reflections that have emerged since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

"e;A must-read for anyone interested in solutions to America's housing crisis.

This clear-sighted reference examines the public health dimensions of labor and sex trafficking in the United States, the scope of the crisis, and possibilities for solutions.

Is it possible to achieve cybersecurity while safeguarding the fundamental rights to privacy and data protection?

This book offers a legal and socio-political analysis of the Brazilian Program for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders.

The Second Edition of An Introduction to Transitional Justice provides a comprehensive overview of transitional justice judicial and non-judicial measures implemented by societies to redress legacies of massive human rights abuse.

The First Amendment is the principle guarantor of speech rights in the United States.

Modern Slavery: A Reference Handbook provides a thorough treatment of the evolving scope, nature, and contexts of modern slavery and a discussion of prevention and abolition efforts in an accessible format for high school and college readers.

The freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, from which stem the tenets of pluralism, tolerance, and open-mindedness, are some of the most basic freedoms of a democratic society.

A vigorous, innovative, compelling introduction to Quakers, fully global in reach, and utilizing the best Quaker scholars from every continent.

Whilst paying lip service to the importance of public access to court proceedings and its corollary of unfettered media reporting,a trawl through common law jurisdictions reveals that judges and legislators have been responsible for substantial inroads into the ideal of open justice.

In the aftermath of World War Two, approximately three million Sudeten-Germans were expelled from their homes in the former Czechoslovakia because of their part in the dismemberment of the Czechoslovak Republic by Nazi Germany in 1938-39.

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This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries.

Taken together, Chomsky's essays present a powerful counter-narrative to official accounts of the major political events of the past four years: the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; the U.

This book explores fundamental topics concerning the functioning of the judiciary.

This book provides the first comprehensive, region-wide, long-term, and accessible study of Native Americans in New England.

In this book I argue for an approach that conceives human rights as both moral and legal rights.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the legal questions that arise for the legislative branch when implementing the crime of aggression into domestic law.

With the passage into law of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, rights took on new legal, political, and social significance in Canada.

Offering a unique set of case studies that invites readers to question and reimagine the concept of community engagement, this collected work provides an overview and analysis of numerous, creative participatory research methods designed to improve well-being at both the individual and societal level.

The book applies an interdisciplinary analytical framework, based on social psychology theories of inclusion and exclusion, to a discussion of legal discourse and the development of legal frameworks in Europe concerning migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, and European citizens.

State of Rebellion recounts the volatile course of Reconstruction in the state that experienced the longest, largest, and most dynamic federal presence in the years immediately following the Civil War.

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

This book analyses the key issues affecting same-sex families in Ireland and beyond today: marriage; formalised and non-formalised same-sex relationships outside of marriage; parental rights for same-sex couples with donor-conceived or surrogate-born children; and the protections afforded to same-sex families under European human rights law.

The principles of freedom of expression have been developed over centuries.

Should offence to religions be punishable by law, or does freedom of expression extend even to blasphemy?

This book provides a comparative analysis of how judgments from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) affect political participation and electoral justice at the national level.

Michel Foucault identified sexuality as one of the defining biopolitical technologies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.