Human rights, civil rights

Loneliness plagues the West, and members of American Protestant churches are not immune.

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Language and the Right to Fair Hearing in International Criminal Trials explores the influence of the dynamic factor of language on trial fairness in international criminal proceedings.

This book analyses large-scale land investments for agricultural purposes in Africa's least developed countries from a law and economics perspective.

Modern Slavery: A Reference Handbook provides a thorough treatment of the evolving scope, nature, and contexts of modern slavery and a discussion of prevention and abolition efforts in an accessible format for high school and college readers.

Around the world there are a myriad of NGOs using human rights education (HRE) as a tool of community empowerment with the firm belief that it will help people improve their lives.

This book explores the continuing legacy of the Peace Process in the everyday life of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This book examines human rights and penitentiary law in Central Eastern European and Latin American countries from a comparative perspective.

There is a unique constitutional relationship between Aboriginal people and the Canadian state - a relationship that does not exist between other Canadians and the state.

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

For those who study memory, there is a nagging concern that memory studies are inherently backward-looking, and that memory itself hinders efforts to move forward.

Since the terrorist attacks of September 2001, surveillance has been put forward as the essential tool for the 'war on terror,' with new technologies and policies offering police and military operatives enhanced opportunities for monitoring suspect populations.

'Pacy, witty and authoritative' Jonathan Freedland'In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern.

In recent years, the Danish cartoons affair, the Charlie Hebdo murders and the terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris have resulted in increasingly strident anti-Islamic speeches by politicians.

The concept of culture has long been criticized, with many scholars reformulating it or discarding it entirely.

This book assesses the construction, operation and effects of the international protection regime for human rights defenders, which has evolved significantly over the last twenty years in response to the risks people face as they promote and protect human rights.

Drawing on conceptual debates in transitional justice and critical archival studies, as well as empirical cases from various countries around the world, the contributions in this book critically examine how archives are produced by and used in transitional justice processes such as tribunals, truth commissions and remembrance processes.

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Cultural heritage law and its response to human rights principles and practice has gained renewed prominence on the international agenda.

'A landmark piece of non-fiction' Janet Maslin, The New York TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the great untold stories of American history: the migration of black citizens who fled the south and went north in search of a better life From 1915 to 1970, an exodus of almost six million people would change the face of America.

Human rights and the courts and tribunals that protect them are increasingly part of our moral, legal, and political circumstances.

Applying a legal pluralist framework, this study examines the complex interrelationships between religion, law and politics in contemporary Ghana, a professedly secular State characterised by high levels of religiosity.

A comprehensive global account of the past ''century of genocide'', from the Holocaust to Bosnia, and from Stalin to the Rohingyas.

The Crucible of Race, a major reinterpretation of black-white relations in the South, was widely acclaimed on publication and compared favorably to two of the seminal books on Southern history: Wilbur J.

Nominated for the Heritage Toronto Book Award Longlisted for the Toronto Book AwardsA Globe and Mail Book of the YearA CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021From plantation rebellion to prison labour's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property.

This book addresses one of the core challenges in the corporate social responsibility (or business and human rights) debate: how to ensure adequate access to remedy for victims of corporate abuses that infringe upon their human rights.

What does it means to be human?

International human rights have been an important matter for study, policy, and activism since the end of World War II.

This enlightening edited collection shows how migration shapes the lives of faith communities - and vice versa - through diverse prisms including diaspora, generational change, cultural conflict, conceptions of 'ministry' and artistic response.

In recent years, aggrieved groups around the world have routinely portrayed themselves as victims of human rights abuses.

This book develops a theoretical understanding of how truth commissions achieve legitimacy and contribute to peace and stability.

Aging and Loving: Christian Faith and Sexuality in Later Life aims to address the social, ethical, physical, and spiritual issues related to sexuality and aging.

From the rise of far-right regimes to the tumult of the COVID-19 pandemic, recent years have brought global upheaval as well as the sedimentation of longstanding social inequalities.

This edited volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the twentieth century.

The United Nations has established a right to the truth to be enjoyed by victims of gross violations of human rights.

This collection of essays on the current human rights climate in 19 countries includes Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Israel, Poland, the USA, and USSR, and represents a variety of regimes, cultural traditions, and geographical areas.

This book provides a systematic and analytical account of the problems facing transnational criminal justice.

Globalization challenges fundamental principles governing international law, especially with respect to state sovereignty and international relations.

This is the first book on the policy questions raised by two revolutions in recording the police - copwatching and police-worn body cameras.

This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special complexity marked by the beginning-or intensification of-political neoliberalisation throughout the region.

A study of the importance of the language of rights during three crucial periods in American history.

The height of colonial rule on the African continent saw two prominent religious leaders step to the fore: Desmond Tutu in South Africa, and Abel Muzorewa in Zimbabwe.

This book provides unique insight into the relationship of institutions that govern land rights to local and national politics in African countries.

This book explores justice 'on the ground' in Southern African communities, and in particular the roles that women play in these processes.

This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in which writers approach violent conflict and the equally important subject of peace.

There are few issues more urgently in need of intelligent analysis both in the UK and elsewhere than those relating to displacement, asylum, and migration.

This book considers the increasing trend towards a 'culture of control' in democratic countries.

By critically addressing the tension between nationalism and human rights that is presumed in much of the existing literature, the essays in this volume confront the question of how we should construe human rights: as a normative challenge to the excesses of modernity, particularly those associated with the modern nation-state, or as an adjunct of globalization, with its attendant goal of constructing a universal civilization based on neoliberal economic principles and individual liberty.