Human rights, civil rights

This volume explores the discourse of disaster and women in the existing social settings and state disaster-related affairs in coastal Bangladesh.

This book provides a theoretical framework for explaining the choices made by international decision-makers in terms of what constitutes law.

This book examines the integration of human rights and environmental standards within international investment agreements (IIAs).

This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of capitalist interference with their ecological fate or capacity to change the course of ecological disaster.

Offers the first global examination of the historical relationship between Christianity and human rights in the twentieth century.

This book is an account of the concept of equality from the perspective of both theory and practice, and presents methods of quantifying values.

This volume studies nonviolent movements as instruments of change in contemporary global politics.

State crackdowns on drug cartels often backfire, producing entrenched ''cartel-state conflict''; deterrence approaches have curbed violence but proven fragile.

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

A demonstration of how European Court of Human Rights judgments might better accommodate the concerns of minorities.

Based on the ongoing work of the agenda-setting Future of Minority Studies national research project, Identity Politics Reconsidered reconceptualizes the scholarly and political significance of social identity.

This volume extends debates on the interaction between universal human rights and the political experiences of Iranians, through a conceptual analysis of 'theories of change'.

Covering from 1900 to the present day, this book highlights how female artists, actors, writers, and activists were involved in the fight for women's rights, with a focus on popular culture that includes film, literature, music, television, the news, and online media.

In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) in 1965, a Head Start program that not only gave poor black children access to early childhood education but also provided black women with greater opportunities for political activism during a crucial time in the unfolding of the civil rights movement.

These original essays show how the US government repeatedly aided certain regimes as they planned and then carried out crimes against humanity and genocide.

This book provides an analysis of whether the International Criminal Court can be regarded as an International Criminal World Court, capable of exercising its jurisdiction upon every individual despite the fact that not every State is a Party to the Rome Statute.

Within criminology 'the state' is often ignored as an active participant, or represented as a neutral force.

In the past, violations of human rights were commonly portrayed as atrocities perpetrated by tyrannical dictatorships.

A fascinating history of the international human rights movement as seen by one of its foundersDuring the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in struggles against totalitarian regimes and crimes against humanity.

International crime and justice are powerful ideas, associated with a vivid imagery of heinous atrocities, injured humanity, and an international community seized by the need to act.

Southeast Asia is a vast, populous and diverse region.

Although nomadic peoples are scattered worldwide and have highly heterogeneous lifestyles, they face similar threats to their mobile livelihood and survival.

Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first, and as of 2018, only comprehensive account of the 1955 murder, the trial, and the 2004-2007 FBI investigation into the case and Mississippi grand jury decision.

This book focuses on the balance between protecting human rights and protecting world heritage sites.

Hurricane Katrina of August-September 2005, one of the most destructive natural disasters in U.

Proposing a new view of global justice based on natural law, this book examines the ethics of health as they relate to neglected diseases.

The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war.

The Freedom of Information Law allows any person to request and obtain, without explanation or justification, existing, identifiable, and unpublished governmental records, including documents, data, and video.

This edited volume examines the extent to which the various authorities and actors currently performing border management and expulsion-related tasks are subject to accountability mechanisms capable of delivering effective remedies and justice for abuses suffered by migrants and asylum seekers.

Britain is complicit in the deaths of ten million people.

This book addresses the contemporary aspects of employee voice through theoretical and practical analysis.

This book examines the EU accession to the ECHR from a systemic perspective as well as from the specific perspective of the 2013 draft accession agreement negotiated between the relevant body of the Council of Europe and the EU Commission.

While technological threats to personal privacy have proliferated rapidly, legislation designed to protect privacy has been slow and incremental.

The law of population first laid down in this country by the Rev.

The idea of the Good Life - of what constitutes human thriving, is, implicitly, the foundation and justification of the law.

Establishes links between lack of societal peace, structural causes of human suffering, recurrent patterns of political violence and forced migration in the Global South.

Offers expert comparative analysis of the child''s best interests within the context of Article 3 of the UNCRC.

Democratic 'transitions' in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and South Africa, often studied under the conceptual rubric of 'transitional justice', have involved the formation of public policies toward the past that are multifaceted and often ambitious.

This book draws on the voices of sex workers and their clients to critically assess the criminalization of prostitution in favour of decriminalization.

This edited collection articulates a future direction for research at the nexus of criminology and human rights by bringing together experts from different branches of criminology and criminal justice who, while they may be sceptical about certain aspects of human rights theory or practice, share an interest in realising many of the objectives set out in human rights instruments.

There is a common assumption that the promotion of democracy and economic development are the most effective means of quelling widespread political unrest within a country.

This important anthology provides students and teachers with voices of social and global justice that have been marginalized or forgotten by history.

This book deals with the thorny issue of human rights in different cultures and religions, especially in the light of bioethical issues.

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Fully updated, the sixth edition of International Human Rights examines the ways in which states and other international actors have addressed human rights since the end of World War II.

This book highlights and responds to core questions related to social inclusion of people with disabilities nationally and internationally.

This volume is a collection of some of the key essays by Ramesh Thakur on the origins, implementation and future prospects of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm.

This book describes how a program of values deliberations--sustained group reflections on local values, aspirations, beliefs and experiences, blending with discussions of how to understand and to realize human rights--led to individual and collective empowerment in communities in rural Senegal.