Minority movements tirelessly continue to engage in the process of social change, trying to promote and enforce minority protection norms and to have their world views, cultural practices, and norms recognized by the state.
Karl-Otto Apel, Jürgen Habermas und Robert Alexy vertreten die Auffassung, dass die Letztbegründung der Menschenrechte als moralische und positive Rechte auf dem Diskurs basiert.
Under a pretext of humanitarian response to people seeking asylum, nation states are increasingly introducing barriers to prevent entry for those seeking safety and security.
Under a pretext of humanitarian response to people seeking asylum, nation states are increasingly introducing barriers to prevent entry for those seeking safety and security.
En América Latina, las disputas en torno a lo secular y lo religioso se han polarizado en las cuestiones sexuales y reproductivas, en el marco de una fuerte movilización política y jurídica de los sectores conservadores.
Religion and Conspiracy Theories: An Introduction is the first accessible volume to systematically examine the relationship between religion and conspiracy theories in the contemporary world in critical and historical perspective.
Spätestens seit den Pegida-Aufmärschen und den Exzessen von Heidenau, Freital und Chemnitz hat sich das Bild von Sachsen über die deutschen Grenzen hinaus verdunkelt.
As public order policing become more prominently widespread so is the need to better explain why some instances of collective action transform into civil disorder.
En una fecha histórica –50 años del golpe militar–, más de cien escritores, intelectuales, periodistas, artistas plásticos, fotógrafos, economistas, sociólogos, sicólogos, antropólogos, músicos y ciudadanos de todas las sensibilidades escriben, diseñan, crean, inventan, sueñan, rememoran, provocan y reflexionan en torno a esa fecha que quedó marcada con sangre en los calendarios del mundo entero.
This book explores the effect of the pandemic on human rights; civil and political rights (CPR); economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR); and freedoms around the world.
Multicultural Citizenship: Legacy and Critique allows the philosopher an opportunity to consider the evolution and transformation of Will Kymlicka's theories from Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights.
Esta publicación es el resultado de las investigaciones realizadas durante el 2020 promovidas por la Cátedra Unesco "Derechos Humanos y violencia: gobierno y gobernanza", de la Universidad Externado de Colombia, que reunió a docentes e investigadores del nivel nacional e internacional quienes presentaron investigaciones sobre el 'Mejoramiento de las condiciones de vida de la población desplazada y los retos de la transición'.
This book investigates what faith means in the actual day-to-day practice of faith-based NGOs working in the development, humanitarian, and advocacy sectors.
In 1969 Greece withdrew from the Council of Europe (CoE), following pressure exercised by various European countries, organisations, social movements and individuals in response to the brutal conduct of the military junta that had taken power by force on 21 April 1967.
When Jennifer Case became pregnant unexpectedly with her second child, she was overwhelmed at the prospect of caring for another child in a society with high expectations and low support for mothers.
When Jennifer Case became pregnant unexpectedly with her second child, she was overwhelmed at the prospect of caring for another child in a society with high expectations and low support for mothers.
In 1969 Greece withdrew from the Council of Europe (CoE), following pressure exercised by various European countries, organisations, social movements and individuals in response to the brutal conduct of the military junta that had taken power by force on 21 April 1967.
Towards A New Christian Political Realism presents a new theoretical approach to understanding the role of religion in international relations, considering the strengths of Christian realism, classical realism, and neorealism, as well as the literature about the relevance of religion for IR.
Als im Sommer 2022 die Wahlrechtskommission des Deutschen Bundestages die Einführung einer Ersatzstimme empfahl, griff sie ein Konzept auf, das ursprünglich nur die negativen Auswirkungen von Sperrklauseln abmildern sollte.
Sports have historically been part of a broader quest of regimes for prestige on the world stage, but also to project hegemony and power in an anarchic international system.
This book explores the effect of the pandemic on human rights; civil and political rights (CPR); economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR); and freedoms around the world.
Die Autorin bildet in ihrer Arbeit einen strafrechtskritischen Maßstab anhand des Verfassungsrechts und unter Zuhilfenahme feministischer Theorie, den sie sodann exemplarisch auf die beiden Strafnormen des Exhibitionismus (§ 183 StGB) und der Genitalverstümmelung (§ 226a StGB) anwendet.
Rights of Man, a book by Thomas Paine, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people.
People in prison are usually (and often exclusively) seen and approached as persons who have committed one or more crimes and who have to pay their debt to society.
This book presents a decolonial and Afrocentric critique of prolonged encampment of refugees, centred on the case study of refugee camps in Kenya, introduced through the author's decades-long experience of forced displacement.
People in prison are usually (and often exclusively) seen and approached as persons who have committed one or more crimes and who have to pay their debt to society.
