Human rights, civil rights

As globalization has brought about new concerns and responsibilities for business, particularly in the realm of human rights, many multinational corporations (MNC) operating in Asia have argued that such rights are the responsibility of government.

A comprehensive study offering the first comparative account of the increasing dependence on expertise in the asylum and refugee status determination process.

This book studies the struggle to enforce international human rights law in federal courts.

Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law.

Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.

This book opens a new research field in Balkan contextual theology.

Autonomy, Refusal, and the Black Bloc reinterprets the positioning of critical and radical theory by focusing squarely on the role of class analysis.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the law and procedure of the European Court of Human Rights.

This book breaks new theoretical ground by constructing a framework of 'relational vulnerability' through which it analyses the disadvantaged position of those who undertake unpaid caregiving, or 'dependency-work', in the context of the private family.

Explores how international law deals with detention conducted by non-State armed groups and the motivations behind these practices.

A journey from child bride to global changemaker.

Debates about whether the Wahhabist practice of face-veiling for women should be banned in modern liberal states tend to generate more heat than light.

State Violence and Human Rights addresses how legal practices - rooted in global human rights discourse or local demands - take hold in societies where issues of state violence remain to be resolved.

An account of the spiritual direction of our country from the time the Puritans landed in the new world up to today.

This comprehensive volume examines the nature, causes, and consequences of state religion policy in 183 countries between 1990 and 2014.

Since 9/11 and the global War on Terror, practitioners of Islam in Europe and beyond have been scrutinised and surveyed under suspicion of disloyalty and as potential disrupters of national social cohesion.

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Immigration has long been associated with the urban landscape, from accounts of inner-city racial tension and discrimination during the 1960s and 1970s and studies of minority communities of the 1980s and 1990s, to the increased focus on cities amongst contemporary scholars of migration and diaspora.

This book breaks new ground in understanding urban indigeneity in policy and planning practice.

Building on his successful book, The First Islamist Republic, Abdullahi A.

The Internet's importance for freedom of expression and other rights comes in part from the ability it bestows on users to create and share information, rather than just receive it.

This book takes up Paul Ricoeur's relational idea of the self in order to rethink the basis of human rights.

With contributions from some of the most prominent voices writing on gender, law and religion today, this book illuminates some of the conflicts at the intersection of feminism, theology and law.

This book presents a valuable clarification and defence of human rights by Italy's leading political theorist.

Human Rights Museums presents case studies that trace how calls for historical and social justice, and the commensurate rise of a rights regime have led to the emergence of a new museological genre: the human rights museum.

This new analysis of governing ideas in U.

This book provides a comprehensive and analytical overview of human rights law in Africa.

The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nationOn a Sunday morning in 1966, a group of white evangelicals dedicated a stained glass window to J.

This multidisciplinary volume considers the role of both public health and mental health policies and practices in the prevention of mass atrocity, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

In his address to the nation on September 20, 2001, President Bush declared war on terrorism and set in motion a detention policy unlike any we have ever seen.

Against the recent backdrop of sociopolitical crisis, radical thinking and activism to challenge the oppressive operation of power has increased.

Market society is producing more crime around the world.

From iPhones and clothing to jewelry and food, the products those of us in the developed world consume and enjoy exist only through the labor and suffering of countless others.

This book explores the duality of openness and restriction in approaches to migrants in the Nordic countries.

This book concerns clinical psychology, but it is most concerned with the world outside the clinic.

This book compares the historical struggles of two geographically disparate populations - Indian Dalits and African Americans - to examine prejudice in two leading democracies.

Shows how American Jews developed a liberal political culture that has influenced their political priorities from the founding to today.

In this book, Powell examines the ways that identities are constructed in displacement narratives based on cases of eminent domain, natural disaster, and civil unrest, attending specifically to the rhetorical strategies employed as barriers and boundaries intersect with individual lives.

Explores how two landmark transnational human rights lawsuits operated as transitional justice mechanisms in the former Western bloc.

This book provides an overview of the establishment, dispersion and effects of human rights in Europe during the Cold War.

A book such as this both demonstrates the progress that has been made over recent years, and will also serve to enhance respect for the human rights of persons with intellectual disabilities in the years to come.

In a time when the question of American religious identity underlies much political conversation that fills the public square, Dennis Goldford directs his readers to consider the First Amendment.

The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment governs the relationship between the institutions of the church and those of the state; the Supreme Court, as arbiter of the Constitution, has, since 1947, sought to determine where the line between the two should be drawn.

Emergencies are ubiquitous in 21st-century societal discourses.

To this day, churchgoing Mormons report that they hear from their fellow congregants in Sunday meetings that African-Americans are the accursed descendants of Cain whose spirits--due to their lack of spiritual mettle in a premortal existence--were destined to come to earth with a "e;curse"e; of black skin.

This book analyses a Hindu and an Islamic reform movement - Svadhyaya and Tablighi Jamaat - grounded in ethnographic research.

This is a comprehensive survey of minorities in the Middle East with a special focus on the post Arab Spring era.

Winner of the THESEUS promising award for Research on European Integration 2011.