Human rights, civil rights

Facing the threats posed by dedicated suicide bombers who have access to modern technology for mass destruction and who intend to cause maximum human suffering and casualties, democratic governments have hard choices to make.

This three-volume set is a rich resource for readers in any discipline interested in understanding the global, regional, and domestic experiences of LGB people.

Russians are suppressing the Chechen; Ibo nationalism may yet tear Nigeria apart.

Since the 1970s, the international community of states has demonstrated increasing willingness to invest UN institutions with politico-ethical authority to act on its behalf in addressing human rights abuses.

Das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil hat in Erinnerung gerufen, wie groß die Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen orthodoxer und katholischer Kirche sind.

Comprehensive and accessible, this one-stop resource examines the history, development, and present state of free speech issues on college campuses, including a range of political perspectives and viewpoints.

For peoples whose legal agreements, treaties, and other accords and conventions with the United States have been violated, multiculturalism as a pedagogical tool often becomes suspect of reinforcing the continued reification and abstraction of their cultures and nations with little if any real meaning for educational and social transformation.

This book provides the first comprehensive, region-wide, long-term, and accessible study of Native Americans in New England.

This edited collection situates the migration of children and young people into Europe within a global framework of analysis and provides a holistic perspective that encompasses cultural media, ethnographic research and policy analysis.

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This study adds to the small but growing literature on Black health history--the rise of hospital care and hospital services provided to Blacks from the antebellum era to the integration era, a period of some 150 years.

Black conservatism is no oxymoron.

Using an innovative history of the constitutional right to privacy, and inspired by Emersonian Justices like Brandeis and Douglas, this book rescues the meaning of privacy from prevalent liberal thinking by proposing a general theory of rights based on a spiritual-ecological jurisprudence tradition at the heart of American law.

The African American struggle for advancement since the late 19th century has had an enormous impact on American society in general.

Jacoby provides a comprehensive social history of the abortion abolition campaign from its beginnings following Roe v.

Van Belle provides the first systematic analysis of the effects that press freedom has on the conduct of international politics.

Without succumbing to utopian fantasies or realistic pessimism, Riemer and his contributors call for strengthening the key institutions of a global human rights regime, developing an effective policy of prudent prevention of genocide, working out a sagacious strategy of keenly targeted sanctions-political, economic, military, judicial-and adopting a guiding philosophy of just humanitarian intervention.

Throughout the nation's history, from before the Civil War through Reconstruction, across the years of lynchings and segregation to the Brown v.

A steel town daughter's search for truth and beauty in Birmingham, Alabama "e;As Birmingham goes, so goes the nation,"e; Fred Shuttlesworth observed when he invited Martin Luther King Jr.

You Can Make a Global Impact-One Girl at a TimeIn Strong Girls, Strong World, Dale Hanson Bourke draws on her international leadership and reporting experience to offer personal insights we can all use as a road map to understanding the issues girls face-and the tangible ways we can each make a difference.

Desert Dreams chronicles seventy-five years of Mexican American efforts to attain educational equality in Arizona, from its territorial period in the nineteenth century to the post-World War II era.

This outstanding, comprehensive, and up-to-date encyclopedia on human rights issues from 1945 to 1998 features more than 400 entries on incidents and violations, instruments and initiatives, countries and human rights activists.

Between 1937 and 1949, Joseph Stalin deported more than two million people of 13 nationalities from their homelands to remote areas of the U.

In one of the lengthiest, noisiest, and hottest legal debates in U.

An innovative narrative approach combines history, politics, and legal doctrine to explore the origin and evolution of Americans' constitutional right to free speech.

A survey of the evolution of property rights in the United States-from constitutional protections and due process to private property rights and government-takings doctrines.

This book examines how contemporary militant democracies persist in the face of authoritarian abuses occurring during times of crisis.

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.

This book provides innovative thinking from a variety of perspectives on the important human rights, human security, and national security policy issues of today-and how these issues intersect.

This book introduces America to the Black Reconstruction politicians who fought valiantly for the civil rights of all people-important individuals who have been ignored by modern historians as well as their contemporaries.

The Routledge Handbook of Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights is the first book to explore in depth the topic of mega-sporting events (MSEs) and human rights, offering accounts of adverse human rights impacts linked to MSEs while considering the potential for promoting human rights in and through the framework of these events.

This book focuses on religious tolerance and intolerance in terms of practices, institutions, and intellectual habits.

Through sections containing overview essays and reference entries related to particular religions, this resource explores the rise of religious violence, hate crime, and persecution around the world.

This book focuses on religious tolerance and intolerance in terms of practices, institutions, and intellectual habits.

This book tells the story of the Lebanese Shi'a and their development from a marginalized, discriminated minority to a highly politicized community that has given birth to Hezbollah, one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the contemporary Middle East.

This edited collection situates the migration of children and young people into Europe within a global framework of analysis and provides a holistic perspective that encompasses cultural media, ethnographic research and policy analysis.

This book explores the judiciary's role in achieving substantive equality utilising statutory discrimination law.

American Heresy uncovers the complex legacy of America's founding principles, demonstrating how the very same values have produced both good fruit and the bitter harvest of white Christian nationalism.

This book explores the judiciary's role in achieving substantive equality utilising statutory discrimination law.

An eye-opening reckoning with the care economy, from its roots in racial capitalism to its exponential growth as a new site of profit and extraction.

There has always been an intricate relationship between religion and politics.

With respect to the countries of the world, this work addresses two basic questions: "e;How does religion affect politics in this country?

The major purpose of this book is to critically examine the applicability of manifestations and factors of secularization in Britain to Malawi.

This text highlights key aspects of the religion/church-state relationship/debate, and related hitherto marginal topics.

Viaje al país de los profetas es el libro más desconocido de uno de los escritores más conocidos de Chile.

Faith in Rights explores why and how Christian nongovernmental organizations conduct human rights work at the United Nations.

Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia examines the conditions facilitating democracy, women's rights, and inclusive citizenship in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim-majority country and the third largest democracy in the world.

Accommodation of population diversity is a vital issue for any multinational society.

The height of colonial rule on the African continent saw two prominent religious leaders step to the fore: Desmond Tutu in South Africa, and Abel Muzorewa in Zimbabwe.