Human rights, civil rights

For the Souls of Black Folks examines the impact of black religious culture in shaping the ethical values and sociopolitical condition of U.

Provides students with an introduction to legal philosophy, using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to reflect on human rights.

Boat arrivals have defined and divided 21st-century Australia.

Memories fade, witnesses pass away, and the stories of how social change took place are often lost.

The EU seeks to define a role for itself in power politics while remaining firm in its rejection of power politics.

This book seeks to break new ground in the way in which adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse is understood.

Americans have a deeply ambivalent relationship to guns.

This book, a follow-up publication to the 2016 volume Foreign Fighters under International Law and Beyond, zooms in on the responses that the international community and individual States are implementing in response to (prospective and actual) returning foreign fighters (FFs) and their families, focusing on returnees from Syria and Iraq to European countries.

In one of the lengthiest, noisiest, and hottest legal debates in U.

This book explores the EU's approach to peacebuilding and questions the EU global role as crisis manager and capacity builder.

How does one revitalize democracy in times of crisis?

Mit der Untersuchung des Menschenhandels zur Ausbeutung der Arbeitskraft (§§ 232, 232b StGB) greift die Studie einen hochaktuellen und praxisrelevanten Ausschnitt der europäischen Kriminalpolitik auf.

Minority rights is an important issue in all modern states, but for those countries hoping to join the European Union the protection of minorities is a key condition for success in the accession process.

The fight against corruption is now a core part of development policy and practice.

This exciting new textbook provides an accessible and lively introduction to international relations for students encountering the subject for the first time.

Museums and Mass Violence examines the varied ways in which museums around the world address - or fail to address - the problem of mass violence and severe human rights abuses.

This book, first published in 2002, considers why states often use transboundary resources inefficiently, looking ahead to potential resolutions.

This volume takes a fresh look at the land question in India.

The year 1988 marked the fortieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly as "e;a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations.

In a troubled world where millions die at the hands of their own governments and societies, some states risk their citizens' lives, considerable portions of their national budgets, and repercussions from opposing states to protect helpless foreigners.

Written by the recognised world authority on the subject, this title remains the definitive work on British nationality law.

Discusses human trafficking out of the Russian Federation since the collapse of the Soviet state, and labour migration into and within Russia.

No professional group in the United States benefited more from World War II than the scientific community.

'This fascinating and refreshing book is more necessary than ever.

These studies examine the ways in which succeeding democratic regimes have dealt with, or have ignored (and in several cases sugar-coated) an authoritarian or totalitarian past from 1943 to the present.

Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert die mögliche Funktions- und Wirkungsweise von Folter in politischen Systemen und geht vor dem Hintergrund des de facto Verbots der Folter im Völkerrecht der Frage nach, welchen Zweck die Folter im 21.

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

This handbook makes a major contribution to the growing international research and policy interest in children's experienced well-being or quality of life in childhood, linking it to ongoing research on children's risk and vulnerability.

A bold critique of US policies towards terror suspects after 9/11, which will interest all those who value human rights and humanitarian law.

Must reading for anyone feeling too busy or too stressed and seeking to simplify their lifeto listen to the longings of their heart.

This book is a tribute to the work of Professor Terry Gill, offered to him by friends and colleagues who are also academics and/or practitioners in the field of International Law of Military Operations (ILMO).

In the aftermath of a civil war, former enemies are left living side by sideand often the enemy is a son-in-law, a godfather, an old schoolmate, or the community that lies just across the valley.

This book contributes to current debates about "e;queer outsides"e; and "e;queer outsiders"e; that emerge from tensions in legal reforms aimed at improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer people in the United Kingdom.

An in-depth review of the challenges of neoliberal models and policies for realizing the right to health.

The year 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment giving many women in the United States the right to vote.

This book examines the simultaneous protection of fundamental rights by various norms and jurisdictional organs, focussing on the multilevel protection of the principle of legality in Criminal Law.

This book retraces the evolution of crimes against humanity and their application in terms of both historic legal analysis and subject-matter content.

Recently, there has been a major shift in the focus of historical research on World War II towards the study of the involvements of scholars and academic institutions in the crimes of the Third Reich.

This book critically examines the relationship between the United Nations Organization and the small states of the Pacific islands.

Provides a more complete account of the human rights project that factors in the contribution of cosmopolitan Catholicism.

This completely revised edition of Global Think Tanks: Policy Networks and Governance provides a clear description of, and context for, the global proliferation of think tanks.

With the strengthening focus worldwide on human rights, there has been a rapid increase in recent years in the number of countries that have completely abolished the death penalty.

This book refutes the long held view of the Israeli left as adhering to a humanistic, democratic and even socialist tradition, attributed to the historic Zionist Labor movement.

The book explores the right to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) - a highly controversial right.

With Ghana's colonial and postcolonial politics as a backdrop, this book explores the ways in which historically marginalized communities have defined and redefined themselves to protect their interests and compete politically and economically with neighbouring ethnic groups.

Esta obra trae propuestas sistemáticas para buscar lograr, a través del razonamiento y la argumentación jurídica, un adecuado equilibrio entre una teoría de la autoridad y una teoría de la justicia, entre la democracia y el constitucionalismo.

This Briefs is the first national study on female-to-male (FtM) transgender people's experiences in Australia.