Human rights, civil rights

Usme, one of the peripheral districts surrounding Bogota, Colombia, is one of the poorest, most populous, and most marginalized outer districts of the city, with a high concentration of indigenous occupants.

The term "e;genocide"e;"e;group killing"e;which first appeared in Raphael Lemkin's 1944 book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, had by 1948 established itself in international law through the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

When the Thai state violently suppressed a massive prodemocracy protest in "e;Black May,"e; 1992, it initiated an unprecedented period in Thailand.

From the University of California, Berkeley, to Middlebury College, institutions of higher learning increasingly find themselves on the front lines of cultural and political battles over free speech.

In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just prior to the outbreak of the war.

The nation state operates on a logic of exclusion: no state can offer citizenship and legal rights to all comers.

Since the 1980s a number of countries have established truth commissions to come to terms with the legacy of past human rights violations, yet little is known about the achievements and shortcomings of this popular transitional justice tool.

Among the world's hotly contested, obsessively controlled, and often dangerous borders, none is deadlier than the Mediterranean Sea.

Signed into law in 2000, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) defined the crime of human trafficking and brought attention to an issue previously unknown to most Americans.

Since the end of World War II and the founding of the United Nations, genocide, crimes against humanity and other war crimesmass atrocitieshave been explicitly illegal.

The unmarked mass graves left by war and acts of terror are lasting traces of violence in communities traumatized by fear, conflict, and unfinished mourning.

In 1991 the Somali state collapsed.

Originally published in 2012, Dignity Rights is the first book to explore the constitutional law of dignity around the world.

This widely acclaimed and highly regarded book, used extensively by students, scholars, policymakers, and activists, now appears in a new third edition.

Human rights language is abstract and ahistorical because advocates intend human rights to be valid at all times and places.

Why have human rights been marginalized in the Arab world?

National human rights institutionsstate agencies charged with protecting and promoting human rights domesticallyhave proliferated dramatically since the 1990s; today more than a hundred countries have NHRIs, with dozens more seeking to join the global trend.

The United Nations adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) constituted a paradigm shift in attitudes and approaches to disability rights, marking the first time in law-making history that persons with disabilities participated as civil society representatives and contributed to the drafting of an international treaty.

What prompts the United Nations Security Council to engage forcefully in some crises at high risk for genocide and ethnic cleansing but not others?

The twentieth century, a time of profound disillusionment with nationalism, was also the great age of internationalism.

Women were historically treated in wartime as property.

In 1991, certain political and military leaders in Somalia, wishing to gain exclusive control over the state, mobilized their followers to use terrorwounding, raping, and killingto expel a vast number of Somalis from the capital city of Mogadishu and south-central and southern Somalia.

For the last thirty years, documented human rights violations have been met with an unprecedented rise in demands for accountability.

The right to dignity is now recognized in most of the world's constitutions, and hardly a new constitution is adopted without it.

How do transitional democracies deal with officials who have been tainted by complicity with prior governments?

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, arguably the founding document of the human rights movement, fully embraces economic, social, and cultural rights, as well as civil and political rights, within its text.

The Khmer Rouge held power in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 and aggressively pursued a policy of radical social reform that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians through mass executions and physical privation.

Young people have been at the forefront of political conflict in many parts of the world, even when it has turned violent.

Over the course of his distinguished career, legal scholar Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im has sought to reconcile his identity as a Muslim with his commitment to universal human rights.

Since the 1990s, sexual violence in conflict zones has received much media attention.

In 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and with it a profusion of norms, processes, and institutions to define, promote, and protect human rights.

An interdisciplinary collection, Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights examines the potential and limitations of the "e;women's rights as human rights"e; framework as a strategy for seeking gender justice.

Since its founding in 1952, the International Commission of Jurists has inspired the international human rights movement with persistent demands that governments obey the rule of law.

Few issues in the relations between China and the West invoke as much passion as human rights.

In Egypt Islamists clash with secularists over religious and national identity, while in Turkey secularist ruling elites have chosen to accommodate Islamists in the name of democracy and reconciliation.

Few names are so closely connected with the cause of human rights as that of Mary Robinson.

Fifteen countries have emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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International human rights pressure has been applied to numerous states with varying results.

Some of the most massive and persistent violations of human rights occur in African nations.

Turkey's mixed human rights record has been highly politicized in the debate surrounding the country's probable ascendance to membership in the European Union.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleCreating Human Rights offers the first systematic study of a pioneering women's refugee movement and its challenge, as an international trigger case, to more conventional paths toward human rights policy development.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleAre the principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights truly universal?

In 1999, the Guatemala truth commission issued its report on human rights violations during Guatemala's thirty-six-year civil war that ended in 1996.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999Born of a shared revulsion against the horrors of the Holocaust, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has become the single most important statement of international ethics.

Human rights violations are perpetrated in all parts of the world, and the universal reaction to such atrocities is overwhelmingly one of horror and sadness.

Issues of universal human rights are critically important topics in education today.

According to Susan Deller Ross, many human rights advocates still do not see women's rights as human rights.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleCreating Human Rights offers the first systematic study of a pioneering women's refugee movement and its challenge, as an international trigger case, to more conventional paths toward human rights policy development.