Human rights, civil rights

In Nursing Civil Rights, Charissa J.

The chapters in this book are reworkings of presentations given during a conference held in 2018 at the German Embassy to the Netherlands in The Hague on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute.

This timely book, newly revised for this edition, addresses the question of human rights in the international context, focusing in particular on the interaction between human rights as a value and norm in international relations and Islam as a constituent of political culture in particular societies.

The refugee crisis that began in 2015 has seen thousands of refugees attempting to reach Europe, principally from Syria.

This book examines the attainment of complete free movement of civil judgments across EU member states from the perspective of its conformity with the fundamental right to a fair trial.

Miteinander und füreinander zu sorgen ist zentrales Anliegen von Seelsorge und Diakonie, von Gemeindearbeit und kirchlicher Praxis - aber auch gesellschaftliche Herausforderung in Zeiten von Digitalisierung und demografischem Wandel.

State crackdowns on drug cartels often backfire, producing entrenched ''cartel-state conflict''; deterrence approaches have curbed violence but proven fragile.

These 35 little known heroes and heroines of American history from across the ethnic spectrum have been virtually ignored in traditional history books.

This topical book shows that racism by skin color is much more embedded and prevalent in the modern world than racism by race.

This book examines the legal and policy issues behind the ambiguity involved with civil rights protections for Jewish students.

This book provides a hypothetical classification of constitutions through international law and human rights values used in any constitution, which draws connections between the inclusive standards of international law and human rights contained in the constitutions.

Critically examines ASEAN''s human rights system in the context of Southeast Asian political-legal developments and the global human rights discourse

Between Advents continues Bruce Taylor's series of sermons for the Common Lectionary (Revised), offering theologically rich, sacramentally reflective, ecumenically compatible, and biblically centered proclamations for the Sundays and major feast days of Year C, from Advent through Eastertide.

This book focuses on socio-economic rights in the context of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.

This book provides the first book-length, English-language account of the political ethics of large-scale, Western-based humanitarian INGOs, such as Oxfam, CARE, and Doctors Without Borders.

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

Madison Powers and Ruth Faden here develop an innovative theory of structural injustice that links human rights norms and fairness norms.

This is the first book-length work to offer a sustained comparison of Roma and African Americans.

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

Around the world lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer individuals are subjected to violence and intimidation based on their real or perceived sexuality, gender identity or expression.

This book develops a philosophical conception of human rights that responds satisfactorily to the challenges raised by cultural and political critics of human rights, who contend that the contemporary human rights movement is promoting an imperialist ideology, and that the humanitarian intervention for protecting human rights is a neo-colonialism.

Human rights are much talked about and much written about, in academic legal literature as well as in political and other social sciences and the general political debate.

This book shows that attempts to repress religion produce the very violent religious extremism that states seek to avoid.

In the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice.

The recognition of women's human rights to migrate and work as sex workers is disregarded and dismissed by anti-trafficking discourses of rescue in the latest United Nation's definition of trafficking.

From public health luminary Nancy Krieger comes a revolutionary way of addressing health justice and the embodied truths of lived experience.

This book explores norm diffusion in non-Western contexts.

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This book honors the diverse and path-breaking work of Michael Adler, a pioneer of socio-legal scholarship in the UK.

This collection brings together legal scholars and Christian theologians for an interdisciplinary conversation responding to the challenges of global migration.

Globalization challenges fundamental principles governing international law, especially with respect to state sovereignty and international relations.

This book provides an in-depth examination of the judicial response at the internationalcriminal tribunals (ICTs) to the violation of procedural standards in thepre-trial phase of proceedings.

Offering 12 interviews with postcolonial thinkers in the social sciences and humanities, this collection features theorists such as Sara Ahmed and Paul Gilroy.

In Politics, Taxes, and the Pulpit, Nina J.

As public order policing become more prominently widespread so is the need to better explain why some instances of collective action transform into civil disorder.

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Fully updated, the sixth edition of International Human Rights examines the ways in which states and other international actors have addressed human rights since the end of World War II.

However unthinkable child-soldiers may be within a generalized conception of childhood, they are not imaginary figures; rather, they are a constant in almost every armed conflict around the world.

This book aims to determine UNESCO's capability to facilitate heritage protection measures pre-conflict, emergency response measures during conflict and reconstruction efforts post-conflict.

Surveying print and digital graphic life narratives about people who become 'othered' within Western contexts, this book investigates how comics and graphic novels witness human rights transgressions in contemporary Anglophone culture and how they can promote social justice.

This book incorporates a wide theoretical, cultural, literary and historical engagement in exploring the tension between dramatic productions and the forms of censorship they encounter from creation to reception.

From the 1950s through the 1990s, antisemitism everywhere seemed to be on the wane.

During the last two decades, the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have attempted to address the numerous human rights abuses that characterized the decades of communist rule.

After 9/11, research on the perceived threat of terrorism moved in several directions.

Based upon global data and following on from Lockdown: Social Harm in the COVID-19 Era, this book discusses the rise of surveillance capitalism and new forms of control and exclusion throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Obama presidency represented a major milestone in African American history.

Topics as diverse as the evolving spectrum of conflict, innovations in weaponry, automated and autonomous attack, the depersonalisation of warfare, detention operations, the influence of modern media and the application of human rights law to the conduct of hostilities are examined in this book to see to what extent existing legal norms are challenged.

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

How would ordinary African Christians interpret the figure and book of Job--the quintessential biblical book on suffering--from contexts of extreme poverty, tropical disease, and rampant suffering?

This volume is comprised of empirical research and theoretical papers within three key areas, namely children's well being, children and youth peer cultures, and the rights of children and youth.