Human rights, civil rights

Millions of people around the world are forced to work without pay and under threat of violence.

This unique book examines the conceptual development of human rights in North Korea from historical, political and cultural perspectives.

In Human Rights and Participatory Politics in Southeast Asia, Catherine Renshaw recounts an extraordinary period of human rights institution-building in Southeast Asia.

This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of transitional justice as an unfinished agenda in Indonesia's democracy.

Written largely by Canadian scholars for Canadian readers, this overview of contemporary human rights concerns introduces the human rights instruments—provincial, national, and international—which protect Canadians.

Since the coup of 2013 ended Egypt's brief democratic experiment and retired army chief, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, became president of Egypt, his regime has unleashed mass repression and severe restrictions on an unprecedented scale.

Reports on a new generation of Internet controls that establish a new normative terrain in which surveillance and censorship are routine.

This pioneering book demonstrates how different traditions of sociological thought can contribute to an understanding of the theory and practice of rights.

An interdisciplinary collection, Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights examines the potential and limitations of the "e;women's rights as human rights"e; framework as a strategy for seeking gender justice.

This volume offers an empirical perspective on the so-called first generation of human rights.

Collecting authoritative contributions, Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial, and Human Rights Perspectives on Enforced Disappearance combines the life experience of victims with the expertise of scholars and practitioners of human rights, psychoanalysis, and artists to compose a picture that renders the complexity of this crime in its legal, psychological, and social aspects.

Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of litigation at the international and domestic levels concerning consular access for foreign nationals charged with a criminal offence.

This book proposes an interdisciplinary methodology for developing an intercultural use of law so as to include cultural differences and their protection within legal discourse; this is based on an analysis of the sensory grammar tacitly included in categorizations.

This book looks into four areas of our world's international security crisis: the growing threat of America's homegrown jihadists, the continuing rise of terrorism, the causes of gross violations of human rights, and the pervasiveness of civil war.

This book explores when, why, and how regional organizations adopt and design institutions to promote and protect fundamental standards of democracy, human rights, and rule of law in their member states.

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This collection of imaginative essays traces notions of hospitality across a sequence of theoretical permutations, not only as an urgent challenge for our conflicted present, but also as foundational for ethics and resonant within the play of language.

Rethinking Human Rights brings together a team of authors from fields as diverse as political theory, peace studies, international law and media studies - concerned with a new international agenda of human rights promotion.

Why should Christians care about animals?

A New Statesman 'most anticipated title of the year'Compelling.

Child migration and child movement cases are now more frequent and increasingly complex.

This unique volume addresses the financial mechanisms that enable human trafficking - its actors, structures, and logistics.

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This book examines the failure of 'development' in Central America, where despite billions of dollars of development funding and positive indicators of economic growth, poverty remains entrenched and violence endemic.

This book deals with the prosecution of core crimes and constitutes the first comprehensive analysis of the horizontal and vertical systems of enforcement of international criminal law and of their inter-relationship.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of and multidisciplinary insights into the latest trends in biodiversity laws, policies and science in Europe, the United States, and China.

For three hundred years the Society of Friends, or Quakers, has been forwarding to governments recommendations on foreign policy, and it has often been in the vanguard of thought in its social and political views.

This book analyses and compares how the USA's liberal allies responded to the use of torture against their citizens after 9/11.

This yearbook is a compilation of thematically arranged essays that critically analyse emerging developments, issues, and perspectives in the field of comparative law.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has run into serious problems with its first big case -- the situation in northern Uganda.

Cyberhate is defined as racist, discriminatory, negationist and violent statements made on social network platforms, text platforms, comment pages, and more.

From the streets of Calais to the borders of Melilla, Evros and the United States, the slogan 'No borders!

George Polk Award Winner: This account of American book banning and the battles against it is "a tour de force to fascinate lawyers and laymen alike” (The New York Times Book Review).

Geoffrey Robertson QC, acclaimed author of The Case of the Pope, presents a freshly updated version of his masterwork, Crimes Against HumanityIn this fresh edition of the book that has inspired the global justice movement, Geoffrey Robertson QC explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder - the crimes against humanity that have disfigured the world.

This book investigates why some societies defer transitional justice issues after successful democratic consolidation.

Support for international human rights has become an entrenched part of Canada's national mythology.

Challenging recent trends both in historical scholarship and in Supreme Court decisions on civil rights, J.

This collection of essays analyses how diversity in human identity and disadvantage affects the articulation, realisation, violation and enforcement of human rights.

Victimology is a relatively new and emerging interdisciplinary area that crosses the fields of criminology, law, sociology, and justice.

This book looks at responsible government under the Australian Constitution.

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.

New York Times Best Seller2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition2015 Lillian Smith Book Award2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title When Strong Inside was first published ten years ago, no one could have predicted the impact the book would have on Vanderbilt University, Nashville, and communities across the nation.

Revolutionizing Motherhood examines one of the most astonishing human rights movements of recent years.

By exploring the "e;China factor"e; in the North Korean human rights debate, this book evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of applying the Chinese development-based approach to human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

This interesting and unusual work examines the events, concepts, and interpretations that led to the emergence of the idea of freedom of the press in the United States and to the recognition of the concept of a free press in more than one hundred other countries.

This book looks at the changing continuum that links individuals, communities and society.

This book depicts the challenges associated with the emergence of a new global order in which patterns of conflict and the role of traditional military power are in the process of radical flux.

Natural resources and their effective management are necessary for securing the realisation of human rights.