Human rights, civil rights

During the 1970s human rights took the front stage in international relations; fuelling political debates, social activism and a reconceptualising of both East-West and North-South relations.

The concept of restitutional surgery aims at surgery that restores natural function.

Interdisciplinary exploration of Asian understandings of human dignity and human rights in courts, religion, and socio-political changes.

High levels of police corruption have been a persistent historical tendency in police services throughout the world.

Persistent international conflicts, increasing inequality in many regions or the world, and acute environmental and climate-related threats to humanity call for a better understanding of the processes, actors and tools available to face the challenges of achieving global justice.

Demonstrates how ''carceral animal law'' strategies put animal protection efforts at war with general anti-oppression and civil rights efforts.

Just four months after Richard Nixon's resignation, New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh unearthed a new case of government abuse of power: the CIA had launched a domestic spying program of Orwellian proportions against American dissidents during the Vietnam War.

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

The threats to human rights posed by non-state actors are of increasing concern.

To what extent is the global human rights regime able to provide protection against abuses at the local level?

This searing memoir shares the trauma and triumphs of Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir's time inside America's most notorious prison.

This book introduces readers to the major human rights institutions, courts, and tribunals and critically assesses their legacy as well as the promise they hold for realizing human rights globally, and the challenges they face in doing so.

This book chronicles the presidency of George W.

Captures the essence of the multi-layered subject of human rights law in a way that is authoritative, critical and scholarly.

This volume offers a critical examination of how counterterrorism measures influence democratic processes, with a specific focus on the case study of post-2011 Tunisia.

This book presents a study of the rise of American neoliberalism in the aftermath of the modern Civil Rights movement, paying particular attention to the traumatic impact of the neoliberal age on countless African Americans.

Para poder comprender debidamente el actual marco jurídico internacional de protección de derechos humanos, debemos realizar el análisis de porqué, a través de la idea de humanidad y justicia, la verdad como premisa de convivencia ética ha sido el presupuesto para la construcción de una ulterior categoría jurídica, precisamente reflejado en el título de este libro: Derecho a la verdad y derecho internacional de los derechos humanos en relación con graves violaciones de derechos humanos, de Jorge Rodríguez Rodríguez, que la Biblioteca Derechos Humanos de Berg Institute tiene la oportunidad y responsabilidad de publicar, por la importancia de su contenido y la necesidad de reivindicar los presupuestos jurídicos que se exponen en este trabajo.

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 edited volume examines inclusive education and disability in the global South.

The Bill of Rights-the first 10 amendments to the U.

From June 12, 2020, until the passage of the state law making the occupation a felony two months later, peaceful protesters set up camp at Nashvilles Legislative Plaza and renamed it for Ida B.

Beyond the River brings to brilliant life the dramatic story of the forgotten heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad.

This book argues that homophobia plays a fundamental role in disputes for hegemony between antagonists during political transitions.

Johannes Morsink argues that the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights movement today are direct descendants of revulsion to the Holocaust and the desire to never let it happen again.

For over a thousand years, Muslim scholars worked to ensure that Islamic law was always fresh and vibrant, that it responded to the needs of an evolving Muslim community and served as a moral and spiritual compass.

This book provides an innovative outlook of the various challenges of international law in the Asian region.

This second volume on the constitutional dimension of contract law explores this increasingly relevant subject in jurisdictions that are usually overlooked by mainstream scholarship in the English-speaking world.

Citizenship presents two faces.

Written by a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2003-4), this book has been fully updated for a second edition and continues to provide a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the foundational human rights ideas of our times and shows that every government is under international obligation to respect and uphold universal human rights.

If Christians follow the Prince of Peace, why do they often behave so violently?

Terrorism will always be frontpage news - counterterrorism is often discussed as an afterthought, yet it is vitally important to understand what is done in the name of our safety.

This book critically examines why a human rights framework would improve the wellbeing and status of young people.

As the governor of South Carolina during the height of the civil rights movement, Robert E.

This book describes how human rights have given rise to a vision of benevolent governance that, if fully realised, would be antithetical to individual freedom.

What role does law play in post-communist societies?

This book explores the right to democracy in international law and contemporary democratic theory, asking whether international law encompasses a substantive or procedural understanding of the notion.

This book is a compendium of emergent global Human Rights Scholarship offering current ruminations on justice, indigeneity, gender, security, and human rights.

This book reflects on the centennial of women's suffrage in the Nordic region and beyond, by exploring its relevance to political gender equality today and the conditions for feminist institutional change.

The unmatched technological achievements in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, computer science, and related fields over the last few decades can be considered a success story.

This groundbreaking Brief brings a rights-based perspective to social work as opposed to the charity- and needs-based formats traditional to the field.

In this ground-breaking and much-needed book, Stellan Vinthagen provides the first major systematic attempt to develop a theory of nonviolent action since Gene Sharp's seminal The Politics of Nonviolent Action in 1973.

Human rights abuses and violations in Saudi Arabia attract international condemnation.

This volume is comprised of over 2,300 annotations on a wide array of issues and topics germane to the subject of preventing the atrocities of genocide and managing these conflicts when they do arise.

Africa throughout its postcolonial history has been plagued by human rights abuses ranging from intolerance of political dissent to heinous crimes such as genocide.

The rule of law is becoming a victim of the struggle against terrorism.

Julie Mertus' highly acclaimed text continues to be the only completely up-to-date comprehensive yet succinct guide to the United Nations human rights system.

The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights.

Taking the shifting global drug policy terrain as a starting point, this collection moves beyond debates about whether to reform drug policies to a focus on delivering 'drug policy justice' - repairing the damage caused by the war on drugs as a component of reform efforts and safeguarding against future harms in legal markets.