The cases analysed involve litigation concerning a disparate range of contemporary US culture wars including equity in access to public services unrestricted by religious bias, resistance to the teaching of historical facts relating to racial tensions in America including the so-called 'critical race theory' debate, the right of schoolchildren to exposure concerning a diversity of views, current USSC litigation about US university admissions policy that considers 'race' (ethnicity) as one factor amongst many in admission, contemporary cases concerning the constitutionality of US abortion law grounded on Roe v Wade and the scope of State and indigenous sovereign powers These contemporary culture war US landmark cases are then compared to similar cases in non-US jurisdictions and courts to consider in more depth the underlying core issues in these cases.
This book provides a comprehensive contemporary and timely account of the protection of indigenous knowledge in Africa by examining issues such as the nature of indigenous knowledge as part of indigenous property and as the fulcrum of indigenous communities in Africa.
"Renaissance, Niedergang, Transformation, Deinstitutionalisierung, Entprivatisierung, Bricolage - die Erwartungen an das Schicksal der Religion in der modernen Zivilisation sind vielfältig.
A new framework for penal and prison policies in Europe has been progressively established by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the Council of Europe (CoE) and the European Union (EU) to protect the human rights of detainees in Europe.
Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties.
"e;Transgender sex workers” is a scarcely explored area in academic discourses, garnering widespread interest amongst gender and sexuality scholars around the world.
"e;Transgender sex workers” is a scarcely explored area in academic discourses, garnering widespread interest amongst gender and sexuality scholars around the world.
Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties.
Menschenrechte – auf diesen Begriff stößt man überall, in den Re-den von Politikern ebenso wie in den Kommentaren der Journalisten und in den Forderungen prominenter Kirchenvertreter.
Harmful Practices and Human Rights examines different forms of harmful practices, globally, which constitute human rights violations as guaranteed in international and regional human rights instruments.
This book analyses the nature, causes, logic, and culture of prison victimisation in an English young offender institution for young men aged 18-21 years old.
BelarusFaces of Resistancepreserves the memory of the Belarusian protests of 2020 by documentinga series of transnational collaborative events which took place on Chicagos South Side in 20192023.
Freedom of Religion protected in America for two hundred years by the Bill of Rights has become more a source of divisiveness than the binding force it used to be in American life.
Der universale Geltungsanspruch der Menschenrechte und der humanitäre Anspruch des Christentums konvergieren in der Erwartung, die Menschenrechte auch innerkirchlich anzuerkennen und umzusetzen.
