Human rights, civil rights

This book delves into the intertwined narratives of Poland and Germany's post-war experiences, shedding light on their shared trauma from World War II and subsequent confrontations with communism.

Tax havens in offshore lands like Switzerland, the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas were once considered a rarity, the preserve of the super-rich.

This book constitutes the first comprehensive publication on the duty of care of internationalorganizations towards their civilian personnel sent on missions and assignments outsideof their normal place of activity.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has the most developed jurisprudence on indigenous rights, yet this case law is understudied.

Notwithstanding the widespread and persistent affirmation of the indivisibility and equal worth of all human rights, socio-economic rights continue to be treated as the "e;Cinderella"e; of the human rights corpus.

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published.

This volume explores the various challenges faced by ?

Despite growing popular and policy interest in 'new' slavery, with contemporary abolitionists calling for action to free an estimated 40 million 'modern slaves', interdisciplinary and theoretical dialogue has been largely missing from scholarship on 'modern slavery'.

In the past, violations of human rights were commonly portrayed as atrocities perpetrated by tyrannical dictatorships.

The ministry is difficult.

This is the first scholarly book to examine the UN Sustainable Development Goals from an indigenous perspective and, specifically, with reference to the right to self-determination.

This book explores the human rights principle of participation and the human right to participation.

This volume offers a nuanced understanding of female agency in political violence by reviewing and analyzing the political construction of motherhood as a form of social agency against political violence committed by both state and non-state actors in different parts of the world.

The Freedom of Information Act is vital for democratic accountability.

In this much anticipated sequel to the legal bestseller, The Future of Law, Susskind lays down a challenge to all lawyers to ask themselves, with their hands on their hearts, what elements of their current workload could be undertaken differently - more quickly, cheaply, efficiently, or to a higher quality - using alternative methods of working.

Written by a lawyer who works at the intersection between legal education and practice in access to justice and human rights, this book locates, describes and defines a collective identity for social justice lawyering in the UK.

Contemporary theoretical discussions of exploitation are dominated by thinkers in the liberal and Marxian traditions.

In the final years of his political career, President John Quincy Adams was well known for his objections to slavery, with rival Henry Wise going so far as to label him "e;the acutest, the astutest, the archest enemy of southern slavery that ever existed.

This book presents a comprehensive review of fundamental rights issues that are currently in the spotlight.

This book examines the ability of citizens across ten European countries to exercise their democratic rights to access their personal data.

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

Never in history have crises surrounding free speech raged with greater ferocity than we are witnessing today.

This book examines the relationship between immigration, crime, police and politics in the city of Buenos Aires during the Cambiemos ("e;Let's Change"e;) administration, which took place in Argentina between 2015 and 2019.

The very concept of human rights implies governmental accountability.

This interdisciplinary study applies human rights theory to the problems of rural poverty in the Third World.

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'A deeply immersive portrait of daily life in Israel and the West Bank' The Best Books to Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Financial Times'Brims over with just the sort of compassion and understanding that is needed at a time like this a book that speaks with deep and authentic truth of ordinary lives trapped in the jaws of history' ObserverA gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collisionMilad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy awaits: his bus is involved in a horrific accident.

The aims of child rights education are to make children and their primary duty-bearers aware of child rights so that they both can be empowered to together advocate for and apply them at their family, school and community levels.

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.

This book integrates legal, historical, and philosophical materials to illuminate the migration topic and to provide a novel theory of human rights.

Original scholarship on economic and social human rights from cutting-edge scholars in the fields of economics, law, political science, sociology and anthropology.

Humanitarian Invasion provides a history of international development and humanitarianism in Cold War Afghanistan.

The Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from "e;abridging the freedom of speech,"e; but does not define what that freedom entails.

Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the womens section of a rural North Carolina jail.

This book offers a brand-new perspective on human trafficking as an illegal business.

This book is a compilation of some of the lectures on certain aspects of human rights by the author in various fora.

This book explores the complex relationship between social security and economic development, arguing that social security contributes positively to economic development by promoting social investments that not only foster economic growth but enhance social welfare for all.

This book offers a compact but general introduction to international human rights law.

This important new book introduces and discusses the underpinning of psychodynamic psychotherapy for torture survivors in a clinical setting and incorporates concepts from analytical psychology and other theoretical bases in order to provide readers with a deeper understanding of this complex trauma.

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

A demonstration of how European Court of Human Rights judgments might better accommodate the concerns of minorities.

The Scalping of the Great Sioux Nation recalls Davis' early upbringing and education on two Indian reservations.

In light of the ongoing war against terrorism, can the United States maintain its dedication to protecting civil liberties without compromising security?

In recent years, the saliency of conflicts pitting different ethnic, racial and religious groups against one another has increased dramatically.