Human rights, civil rights

The right to a jury trial is a fundamental feature of the American justice system.

This book deals with human rights action planning, as a largely under-researched area, from theoretical, doctrinal, empirical, and practical perspectives, and as such, provides the most comprehensive studies of human rights planning to date.

Argues that legislatures are necessary for securing human rights, and opposes theories that locate that responsibility primarily with courts.

The Encyclopaedia of Social Welfare, Justice and Human Rights gives an overall integrated perspective of the aforementioned subject areas.

Most people believe that the right to privacy is inherently at odds with the right to free speech.

An examination of the violence perpetrated against women in politically conflicted or militarized areas.

This book discusses the immediate and severe threat posed by global climate change and the various obstacles that stand in the way of action.

This book is the third in a four volume series that focuses on research-based teaching and learning practices that promote social justice and equity in higher education.

This book is the first to comprehensively develop the concept of childism to understand, study, and analyze age-based discrimination against children.

A ground-breaking argument about children, racism and how to build the antiracist society of the future - from the author of the million-copy global bestseller How To Be an Antiracist*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'One of the pre-eminent intellectuals on race' OWEN JONESHow do kids think about race?

If the stories they tell about themselves are to be believed, all of the tech giants-Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon-were built from the ground up through hard work, a few good ideas, and the entrepreneurial daring to seize an opportunity when it presented itself.

As the second book in the Explorations in Theological Field Education series, Empower is a toolkit for supervisor-mentors working with beginning ministers.

First published in 1999, this volume represents an empirical model of reproductive rights in developing countries.

War, Conflict and Human Rights is an innovative inter-disciplinary textbook, combining aspects of law, politics and conflict analysis to examine the relationship between human rights and armed conflict.

Freedom of religion is an issue of universal interest and scope.

Die Werke der Reihe "Recht und Neue Medien" zeichnen sich durch kompetente Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis, große Aktualität und eine leicht verständliche Darstellung aus.

We are understandably reluctant to "e;rank"e; moral atrocities.

In 1990, BLOOD IN THE FACE: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, andthe Rise of a New White Culture was the first book to uncover the contours, beliefs, leaders, and wider influence of the American racist far-right movement.

How do science and religion interact?

Examines the fundamental role played by international law in the regulation of State-owned entities from a human rights perspective.

In Egypt Islamists clash with secularists over religious and national identity, while in Turkey secularist ruling elites have chosen to accommodate Islamists in the name of democracy and reconciliation.

This book addresses the obesity epidemic from a political, economic and social perspective.

Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures?

The EU accession process will shape Turkey's future and, in particular, its potential to become a pluralist, democratic state with respect for international human rights.

This volume of essays examines challenges presented by non-state actors, quasi-legal norms, and gaps within normative and institutional frameworks.

This book delves into the complex intersection between artificial intelligence and human rights violations, shedding light on the far-reaching implications within the framework of discrimination and the pivotal role equality bodies play in combatting these issues.

The protection of fundamental rights in the field of transnational criminal inquiries is of great delicateness in the current tangled web of domestic and international legal sources.

Julia Neuhof zeigt, dass Komplexität und Unübersichtlichkeit politisch-rechtlicher Entwicklungen in der modernen Gesellschaft über eine kategorial orientierte politische Bildung vermittelbar sein können.

Worlds Apart tells of a well-meaning foreign policy establishment often deaf to the voices of everyday people.

Atlanta is often cited as a prime example of a progressive New South metropolis in which blacks and whites have forged "e;a city too busy to hate.

Combining conflict studies and feminist perspectives on everyday violence, this book analyses games and push-back which are vectors to migrants' border-crossing attempts and violence that aims to deter their journeys at the Bosnian-Croatian border.

Das Verhältnis von bürgerschaftlichem Engagement und politischer Teilhabe steht im Mittelpunkt des Jahrbuchs für Engagementpolitik 2016.

The book is a response to the dominant discourse of South Africa as unwelcoming to African immigrants.

Failed attempts in Africa to develop, democratise and instil virtues of a just state and society which promote benevolent leadership and advance political and economic rights and freedoms call for a 'new' imagination.

This book explores child vulnerability in various contexts from a cross-country, comparative perspective.

This book provides a comprehensive account of one significantly underreported aspect of violence affecting young refugee girls today, that of forced child marriage.

This is the first attempt to provide an in-depth moral assessment of the heart of the modern human rights enterprise: the system of international legal human rights.

This study examines Western responses to human rights abuses in Cambodia between 1975 and 1980, years which included the murderous rule of the Khmer Rouge regime, a Vietnamese invasion, a civil war, and a famine.

An unprecedented look at secret documents showing the deliberate nature of the Armenian genocideIntroducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects.

While the relevance of ontological commitments for epistemology and methodology in International Relations have been the subject of growing debate for several years, the implications for ethics and political agency of embracing an ontology of entanglement have remained unexplored.

Texas native James Farmer is one of the ';Big Four' of the turbulent 1960s civil rights movement, along with Martin Luther King Jr.

A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2006Traveling alone when she was between 17 and 22, with no institutional affiliation and no financial assistance, the author visited five developing countries and two developed ones on five continents.

This timely edited collection brings together experts in the fields of legal history, criminal justice, human rights and counter-terrorism law to appraise Ireland's Offences Against the State Act on the eightieth anniversary of its enactment.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been intertwined with, and has had a profound influence on, the principles of modern international law.

"e;Can't you hear those little bells tinkling?

The word and concept of victim bear a heavy weight.