Human rights, civil rights

The Catholic Church faces the challenge of maintaining its relevance in an increasingly secularized society.

Free to Believe investigates the protection for freedom of conscience and religion – the first of the “fundamental freedoms” listed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms – and its interpretation in the courts.

By exploring the "e;China factor"e; in the North Korean human rights debate, this book evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of applying the Chinese development-based approach to human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Until deep into the 20th century, empire remained a source of pride for European states and their politicians.

How can international organizations (IOs) like the United Nations (UN) and their implementing partners be held accountable if their actions and policies violate fundamental human rights?

There are twenty-nine Islamic law states (ILS) in the world today, and their Muslim population is over 900 million.

This original collection of jurisprudential essays furthers our understanding of the nature of rights.

Shamanism, Racism and Hip Hop Culture is a groundbreaking collection of essays exploring the five hundred year history of white Christian hegemony that has so profoundly shaped American society.

Catholic political identity and engagement defy categorization.

What happens when your body doesn't look how it's supposed to look, or feel how it's supposed to feel, or do what it's supposed to do?

The concept of well-being has emerged as a key category of social and political thought, especially in the fields of moral and political philosophy, development studies and economics.

Provides broad and deep insight in the core concepts and principles of the European Convention on Human Rights.

In this 2001 book, Shachar offers a ''joint governance'' legal-institutional solution to the ''paradox of multicultural violation''.

This book explores the recent trend toward the transformation of religious symbols and practices into culture in Western democracies.

Islam in International Relations: Politics and Paradigms analyses the interaction between Islam and IR.

This book investigates the ways in which the humanitarian system is secular and understands religious beliefs and practices when responding to disasters.

The Church of England still seemed an essential part of Englishness, and even of the British state, when Mrs Thatcher was elected in 1979.

Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960s.

La dignidad humana es el valor maximo en las constituciones democraticas.

This book analyses and evaluates the international efforts to ensure the fair and human treatment of persons in police custody.

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

Gender and Human Rights in a Global, Mobile Era delves into feminist debates surrounding the relationship between gender and human rights through engaging feminist perspectives on the multifaceted issue of human trafficking.

This monograph could not be more timely, as discourses relating to refugees' access to territory, rescue at sea, push-back, and push-back by proxy dominate political debate.

The first resource of its kind, International Religious Freedom Advocacy equips activists and policymakers with an intimate knowledge of the governmental institutions, NGOs, and laws that work to safeguard religious liberties across the world.

Written by leading authorities from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America, this groundbreaking volume offers the first truly global and critical perspective on human security in the post 9/11 world.

The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of-and indeed reactions to-the central event of that history: emancipation.

The visible increase in religious practice among young European-born Muslims has provoked public anxiety.

Adopting a post-structuralist approach in analyzing the Euromosaic data about European minority language groups, Glyn Williams argues that different states construct minority language groups and speakers in different ways.

The third edition of The Human Rights Reader presents a variety of new primary documents and readings and elaborates the exploration of rights in the areas of race, gender, refugees, climate, Artificial Intelligence, drones and cyber security, and nationalism and Internationalism.

This book examines the history, theological beliefs and current contextual practices of faith-based NGOs who work in the area of human trafficking that involves the sex industry.

How can we guarantee a right to life or a right to health without also guaranteeing a decent environment in which to exercise these rights?

Hinduism is the largest religion in India, encompassing roughly 80 percent of the population, while 14 percent of the population practices Islam and the remaining 6 percent adheres to other religions.

A rich and gripping account of the challenges of transnational legal mobilization against an authoritarian regime engaged in state violence.

For much of its modern history, a combination of deep nervousness and profound lack of interest seemed to inhibit or even prevent regular political conversations in the Arab World.

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The authors explore the outlook of Rwanda in the context of development of East Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Constitutional Torts and the War on Terror examines the judicial response to human rights claims arising from the Bush Administration's war on terror.

This is the first study to bring space into conversation with religious competition, conflict and violence in the contemporary world.

In Trump, White Evangelical Christians, and American Politics, political scientists Anand Edward Sokhey and Paul A.

Examines Israeli identity by exploring its historical narratives, such as crusader and Canaanite challenges, and proposes a new meta-narrative - Mediterraneanism.

The United States remains a deeply religious country and religion plays an inextricably critical role in American politics.

This study exposes the forgotten history of human rights in East Germany.

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Sayyid Qutb is widely considered the guiding intellectual of radical Islam, with a direct line connecting him to Osama bin Laden.

How does the Qur'an depict the religious Other?

More than merely describing the evolution of human rights and civil liberties law, this classic textbook provides students with detailed and thought-provoking coverage of the most crucial developments in the field, clearly explaining the law in context and practice.

This edited textbook covers a range of key operational and strategic aspects of police administration, from experts who have both an academic and practitioner background.

This book offers a critical analysis of the European colonial heritage in the Arab countries and highlights the way this legacy is still with us today, informing the current state of relations between Europe and the formerly colonized states.

This edited book analyses the issues of state-building, the rule of law and good governance, and human rights in the post-Soviet space after 30 years from the USSR dissolution.