Human rights, civil rights

Provides a roadmap for understanding the relationship between technology and human rights law and practice.

Society is largely blind-often willfully blind-to the ongoing violations of international human rights law when it comes to the treatment of persons with mental disabilities.

Encyclopaedia of Human Rights covers the vast field of human rights at all levels, i.

The leader of Burma's democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi, has joined Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr.

Human Rights: An Introduction is an important text that provides a comprehensive overview of human rights and related issues from a social science perspective.

This volume analyses democratic governance, the rule of law and development in Africa.

Inspired by a 1988 trip to El Salvador, Michael J.

In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible.

This book analyses the legal aspects of international claims by indigenous peoples for the repatriation of their cultural property, and explores what legal norms and normative orders would be appropriate for resolving these claims.

An analysis of international human rights law''s applicability and effectiveness in geographic areas where the State has lost territorial control.

Despite recent progress in civil rights for sexual and gender minorities (SGM), ensuring SGM youth experience fairness, justice, inclusion, safety, and security in their schools and communities remains an ongoing challenge.

In this book, Brian Lund builds on contemporary housing crisis narratives, which tend to focus on the growth of a younger 'generation rent,' to include the differential effects of class, age, gender, ethnicity and place, across the United Kingdom.

The Infuriating Tale Of A Young Palestinian Punished For Exercising His Freedom Of Speech.

Amidst ongoing allegations of inappropriate behavior and trafficking during UN peacekeeping missions, this volume takes a step back to analyze the post-war and peacekeeping contexts in which prostitution flourishes.

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

Recent events such as 'Iran's Green Revolution' and the 'Arab Uprisings' have exploded notions that human rights are irrelevant to Middle Eastern and North African politics.

The riveting biography of an heiress, equestrienne, spy-hunter, and patron of ecologyBelle W.

Pimp-controlled sex workers, exploited migrants, domestic servants, and sex trafficking of runaway and homeless youth are just a few of the many forms of sex trafficking and labor trafficking going on all around the world-including in the United States.

How do people evaluate in daily life?

This book examines how digital communications technologies have transformed modern societies, with profound effects both for everyday life, and for everyday crimes.

This volume compiles lessons learned by field researchers, many of whom have faced demanding situations characterized by violence, distrust and social fragmentation.

Uber die NS-Prozesse in Osteuropa in den 1960er Jahren und den Stellenwert des Holocaust darin.

Curating Human Rights conceptualizes the human rights museum as a dynamic cultural-political genre that interacts with multiple social activist, state and corporate stakeholders.

In the last six decades, one of the most striking developments in international law is the emergence of a massive body of legal norms and procedures aimed at protecting human rights.

Is the US really exceptional in terms of its willingness to take universal human rights seriously?

The UN human rights agenda has reached the mature age of 70 years and many UN mechanisms created to implement this agenda are themselves in their middle-age, yet human rights violations are still a daily occurrence around the globe.

In three parts, this volume in the AP-LS series explores the phenomena of captivity and risk management, guided and informed by the theory, method, and policy of psychological jurisprudence.

During the uprisings of late 2010 and 2011 which took place across the Middle East and North Africa, women made up an important part of the crowds protesting.

Current processes of globalization are challenging Human Rights and the attempts to institutionalize them in many ways.

Zimbabwe's severe crisis - and a possible way out of it with a transitional government, and the new era for which it prepares the ground - demands a coherent scholarly response.

En nuestro país existen problemas que necesitan soluciones serias y estructurales, es por eso que las instituciones nacionales requieren realizar reflexiones críticas sobre temas sociales, en general y temas constitucionales, en particular; así como también proponer una serie de soluciones urgentes.

Erudite and timely, this book is a key contribution to the renewal of radical theory and politics.

Remzi N.

In 1990, Supreme Court Justice Bertha Wilson proclaimed that the Canadian Charter of Rights 'is and must continue to be a vital force in molding the lives of Canadians.

A comparison of French and American approaches to freedom of expression, with reference to the historical, social and philosophical contexts.

In this novel approach to law and literature, Robert Barsky delves into the canon of so-called Great Books, and discovers that many beloved characters therein encounter obstacles similar to those faced by contemporary refugees and undocumented persons.

This book embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and elucidates the three foundational aspects of its jurisdiction as laid out in the Rome Statute: the preconditions for exercising jurisdiction (Article 12 ICCRSt), its substantive competence regarding core crimes (Articles 5-8bis ICCRSt), and the principle of complementarity (Article 171(a) ICCRSt).

This book analyzes civil wars over the past twenty years and examines what motivates some rebel groups to abide by international law.

Since the 1980s a number of countries have established truth commissions to come to terms with the legacy of past human rights violations, yet little is known about the achievements and shortcomings of this popular transitional justice tool.

This insightful book analyzes the political engagement and marginalization of three of Milan's migrant groups, Filipinos, Egyptians and Ecuadorians.

Exiles have long been transformative actors in their homelands: they foment revolution, sustain dissent, and work to create renewed political institutions and identities back home.

Barack Obama's presidential victory demonstrated unprecedented racial progress on a national level.

Few studies look at the treatment of those inside America's prisons.

As is well known the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) is a constitutionalinnovation,but can its scheme deliver?

This book examines an important socio-political challenge to the ruling party regime in Vietnam.

Are universal rights bound to colonialism?

Public mistrust of those in authority and failings of public organisations frame disputes over attribution of responsibility between individuals and systems.