Human rights, civil rights

This book examines the legal and policy issues behind the ambiguity involved with civil rights protections for Jewish students.

The notion of a 'politics of religion' refers to the increasing role that religion plays in the politics of the contemporary world.

In 1964, Brazil's democratically elected, left-wing government was ousted in a coup and replaced by a military junta.

Across the world, 2 billion people experience menstruation, yet menstruation is seen as a mark of shame.

The South has always been one of the most distinctive regions of the United States, with its own set of traditions and a turbulent history.

Over the course of a career of more than forty years, Jonathan Z.

Christine Evans assesses the right to reparation for victims of armed conflict in international law and in national practice.

There is a growing realization that religion plays a major role in development, particularly in the Global South.

This book offers a unique combination of quantitative and qualitative research arguing for the persistent power of human rights norms.

This book offers a fully up-to-date and comprehensive guide to religion in Britain since 1945.

In Sending Them Home, Robert Manne tells the stories of individual asylum seekers and finds in their experience the seeds of a devastating critique.

This book examines major conceptual challenges confronting freedom of religion or belief in contemporary settings.

The American attitude toward human rights is deemed inconsistent, even hypocritical: while the United States is characterized (or self-characterized) as a global leader in promoting human rights, the nation has consistently restrained broader interpretations of human rights and held international enforcement mechanisms at arm's length.

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This book shows how international organizations have a greater capacity to violate human rights, but also take on responsibility to avert such harm.

The Treaty of Lisbon has endowed the EU with a normative human rights framework that confirms recognition as a fully-fledged regional mechanism for the protection of human rights.

United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 17 Goals blends the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental.

This book examines recent forms of secularisation to demonstrate that we are now witnessing a "e;fourth secularisation"e;: the autonomy of lifestyles.

This is the first book length study of war in the thought of one of the twentieth-century's most important and original political thinkers.

This edited collection brings together scholars from Canadian and international institutions to discuss educationalization, a trend in modern societies that involves transferring social responsibilities onto the school system.

Analyzing media coverage in cases where cultural heritage sites have been destroyed during conflict, occupation, and war, this book highlights the important role media play in the preservation of cultural heritage when states or other combatants engage in human rights violations.

This volume studies the representation of religion in South Asian Anglophone literature of the twentieth and twenty-first century.

Do countries keep their promises to the international community?

This book discusses the multilayered legal structures concerning the regulation of crimes under international law.

This thoroughly annotated document collection gives students and researchers an authoritative source for understanding the evolving political and legal relationship between church and state from colonial times to the present day.

This book explores the way religious orientations and beliefs affect Americans'' incomes, savings and net worth.

Republic to restoration cuts across artificial divides between periods and disciplines,often imposed for reasons of convenience rather than reality.

'The refugee problem' is a term that it has become almost impossible to escape.

John Owen was one of the most significant figures in Reformed Orthodox theology during the Seventeenth Century, exerting considerable religious and political influence in the context of the British Civil War and Interregnum.

Support for international human rights has become an entrenched part of Canada's national mythology.

Bollinger provides a masterful critique of the major theories of freedom of expression, finding these theories persuasive but inadequate.

It is said that the famous ninth century Chinese Buddhist monk Linji Yixuan told his disciples, "e;If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

For over a decade, Global Health Watch has been the definitive source for alternative analysis on health.

This book is intended to promote discussion and understanding of customary law and to explore its continued relevance in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Asia-Pacific is known for having the least developed regional mechanisms for protecting human rights.

This book employs the theoretical framework of 'speech act theory' to analyse current legislative frameworks and cases pertaining to sedition or the advocacy of violence and the issue of freedom of speech.

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The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religionIn The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in nineteenth-century America promoted a secular religion of humanity centered on the deistic revolutionary Thomas Paine (1737-1809) and how their descendants eventually became embroiled in the culture wars of the late twentieth century.

This book provides new insights on the lives of children in street situations by providing analyses from a qualitative perspective on the sociology of childhood.

The Treaty of Lisbon has endowed the EU with a normative human rights framework that confirms recognition as a fully-fledged regional mechanism for the protection of human rights.

"e;Euchner's carefully researched and cogently argued study of morality politics in Europe adds an outstanding piece of research to the ever growing literature on religion and politics.

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More than a hundred years of trouble followed the land grant of half a million acres along the St.

An interpretative history of human rights in Africa, exploring indigenous rights traditions, anti-slavery, anti-colonialism, post-colonial violations and pro-democracy movements.

The rise of popular social movements throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and North America in 2011 challenged two hegemonic discourses of the post-Cold War era: Francis Fukuyama's 'The End of History' and Samuel Huntington's 'The Clash of Civilizations.

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Engaging with a Legacy shows how Nehemia Levtzion shaped our understanding of Islam in Africa and influenced successive scholarly generations in their approach to Islamization, conversion and fundamentalism.