Human rights, civil rights

Explores how and why NGOs became the primary conduits of popular compassion for the global poor and how this shaped the West''s relationship with the post-colonial world.

The expanding remit of policing as a fundamental part of the public health continuum is increasingly acknowledged on the international scene.

Through penetrating analysis of twentieth-century historical fiction from Central America this book asks: why do so many literary texts in the region address historical issues?

Examines the history of the rise and fall of the twentieth century''s last major attempt to decolonize international law.

The Internet's importance for freedom of expression and other rights comes in part from the ability it bestows on users to create and share information, rather than just receive it.

Completely revised and updated, this textbook continues to offer the most comprehensive resource available.

This book offers a distinctive approach to the right not to be subjected to enforced disappearance.

The end of the Cold War has ushered a restructuring of the institutions of the European Community, culminating into its enlargement to Eastern Europe, under the aegis of economic integration, democracy and human rights.

Since the publication of its first edition in 2005, Advocacy Practice for Social Justice has served as a clear, comprehensive, and practical resource for social work courses in advocacy, community practice, and macro practice.

This book examines the employment arrangements of professional athletes in the Premier League football competition, the National Basketball Association competition and rugby union played at an international level.

Communications giants like Google, Comcast, and AT&T enjoy increasingly unchecked control over speech.

David Bray lives in Chicago in a Christian community called Jesus People USA.

This book brings together leading authorities from the fields of international human rights law, criminology, legal medicine, and political science with international human rights judges and UN experts to analyze the current situation of detainees in Europe, the Americas and Africa.

This work examines the philosophical foundations of information ethics and their potential for application to contemporary problems in U.

This edited volume offers a critical, thorough, and interdisciplinary examination of arguments for eliminating the minimum democratic voting age.

Approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child affirms that children in all countries have fundamental rights, including rights to education.

The third edition of The Human Rights Reader presents a variety of new primary documents and readings and elaborates the exploration of rights in the areas of race, gender, refugees, climate, Artificial Intelligence, drones and cyber security, and nationalism and Internationalism.

This book examines one of the most contested issues facing feminists, human rights activists and governments around the globe - the international sex trade.

This work is the first to address the living conditions of the mentally ill from the standpoint of social justice.

Offers historical, philosophical, legal, and political insights into the First Amendment, religious liberty, and church-state relations.

Violence affects the lives of millions of women world-wide, in all socio-economic and educational classes.

Few transformations in American politics have been as important as the integration of African Americans into the Democratic Party and the Republican embrace of racial policy conservatism.

The field of comparative constitutional law has grown immensely over the past couple of decades.

This book presents various forms of human trafficking, a growing trend in the exploitation of large numbers of people with concurrent public health, socio-cultural, and economic costs to countries burdened with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Focusing on the case of disability, this book examines what happens when previously marginalised individuals obtain the legal recognition of their equal citizenship rights but cannot fully enjoy these rights because of structural inequality.

Imagine a future of international law in which artificial intelligence reshapes human rights, trade, and arbitration.

In recent years the agenda of how to 'deal with the past' has become a central dimension of the quality of contemporary democracies.

Flaherty examines the passage, revision, and implementation of privacy and data protection laws at the national and state levels in Sweden, Canada, France, Germany, and the United States.

"e;How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is one of those paradigm-shifting, life-changing texts that has not lost its currency or relevance even after three decades.

This book considers the effectiveness and fairness of using international cooperation to obtain confession evidence or evidence of a suspect or accused person's silence across borders.

This is a comparative study of prisoners' human rights in England, Wales and the Netherlands.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

This book challenges the traditional approach to international law by concentrating on international hThis book challenges the traditional approach to international law by concentrating on international humanitarian law and placing the focus beyond States: it reflects on current legal, policy and practical issues that concern non-State actors in and around situations of armed conflict.

This book evaluates the experience of official torture of France in Algeria, as well as recently, the United States since 9/11, Israel against Palestinians, and Argentina during its "e;Dirty War"e; from 1972 to 1983.

The reach of free movement within the EU Internal Market and what constitutes a restriction are the topics of this book.

This book argues for the utility of human rights in the practice of ocean governance.

A timely, historical look at Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, covering more than two centuries of search-and-seizure law, from landmark judicial decisions to enduring controversies.

Since Somalia, the international community has found itself changing its view of humanitarian intervention.

This is the first study to demonstrate the role of cultural change in the global rise of freedoms.

This book brings together a range of theoretical perspectives to consider fundamental questions of health law and the place of the body within it.

This book uses in-depth interview data with victims of conflict in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka to offer a new, sociological conceptualization of everyday life peacebuilding.

A timely defense of religious diversity and its centrality to American identityAmerica is the most religiously diverse nation on the planet.

This book studies how the arms trade has continued to receive generous state subsidies, along with less direct forms of financial and intellectual support from academia in the UK.

Human rights based budget analysis projects have emerged at a time when the United Nations has asserted the indivisibility of all human rights and attention is increasingly focused on the role of non-judicial bodies in promoting and protecting human rights.

This book provides an expanded conceptualization of legalization that focuses on implementation of obligation, precision, and delegation at the international and domestic levels of politics.

Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents pursues a reflection upon the institutional orders designed to ensure respect for the rule of law, human rights, and social justice.

This book provides a critical analysis of how the "e;war on terror"e; affected the civilian population in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This book examines how legal causation inference and epidemiological causal inference can be harmonized within the realm of jurisprudence, exploring why legal causation and epidemiological causation differ from each other and defining related problems.