Human rights, civil rights

If we are becoming increasingly disconnected from our local communities, are there implications for health, well being and happiness, particularly for people on low incomes?

After a long time of neglect, migration has entered the arena of international politics with a force.

Between the world of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Christianity there appears to be the widest difference.

The book is about the role of religious leadership in settling disputes of a legal nature within religious communities and the effects of this process on immigrant integration in Canada and the USA.

The helping professions and social scientists traditionally seek concepts and paradigms that can be used in shaping research and services focused on marginalized populations in the United States.

Notwithstanding the widespread and persistent affirmation of the indivisibility and equal worth of all human rights, socio-economic rights continue to be treated as the "e;Cinderella"e; of the human rights corpus.

A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights.

This book examines the justice gap and trial process for sexual assault against both adults and children in two jurisdictions: England and Wales and New South Wales, Australia.

"e;Uses a combination of great stories and thoughtful analysis to suggest that we must find a way to change the purpose of our corporations if we are to build a society that works for all of us.

The concentrations camps that existed in the colonised world at the turn of the 20th Century are a vivid reminder of the atrocities committed by imperial powers on indigenous populations.

An interdisciplinary approach to the study of the EU in UN human rights and environmental governance which addresses the legal and political science dimensions.

In Romans 7:14-25, Paul declares, "e;For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want, is what I do"e; (KJV).

What is a right?

Autoethnography is a unique discipline which steps inside and outside the self to experience, embody and express social and cultural meaning.

This book discusses the nature of the challenges that have confronted European democracies in recent years.

This book draws together established and emerging scholars from sociology, law, history, political science and education to examine the global and local issues in the pursuit of gender justice in post-conflict settings.

This book advances practical protection of human rights, and challenge claims of western monopoly of human rights discourse.

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Accounting for Violence offers bold new perspectives on the politics of memory in Latin America.

Freedom of speech is central to the liberal democratic tradition.

This book provides a space for victims' testimonies and memories, engages with their experiences, reflects upon the redress movement, and evaluates policies related to Korean comfort women as victims and survivors from the international, domestic, and bilateral realms.

This book explores controversies surrounding free speech and open inquiry (FSOI) in various regions of the Anglophone world.

A systematic examination of emotions and world politics, showing how emotions underpin political agency and collective action after trauma.

Explores the complex European regulatory landscape for multi-territorial access to and licensing of copyrighted works such as music and audiovisual works.

Censorship took many forms in Imperial Russia.

Who has what and why in our societies is a pressing issue that has prompted explanation and exposition by philosophers, politicians and jurists for as long as societies and intellectuals have existed.

This book considers the international law applicable to maritime interception operations (MIO) conducted on the high seas and within the context of international peace and security, MIO being a much-used naval operational activity employed within the entire spectrum of today's conflicts.

This book explores the US and UK''s panic-related counter-terrorist detention policies and assesses human rights law''s resilience to such panic.

This study examines and compares the important work on global human rights advocacy done by religious NGOs and by secular NGOs.

This book critically analyses diverse international criminal law (ICL) issues in light of recent developments in the international criminal justice system following the pursuit of accountability in Africa and around the world.

Explores the complex relationships between privacy, governance, and the production and sharing of knowledge.

Der Blickwinkel "Hass im Netz" dominiert die Debatte über Gespräche im Internet.

This book focuses on the socio-political problems that emanate from Western states' harsh deterrence policies in their responses to refugee crises.

The law governing the relationship between speech and core international crimes a key component in atrocity prevention is broken.

What is more paradoxically democratic than a people exercising their vote against the harbingers of the rule of law and democracy?

At a moment when both think tanks and experts are being questioned, significant policy and technology disruptions have called into question the value and efficacy of policy advice.

The relationship between human rights and justice is significant, deep, and ultimately contested.

Uncovers judicial approaches to refugee law across the European Union in the cases of refugees fleeing armed conflicts.

This book analyses whether the design of the institutions of Southern African Development Community (SADC) reflects the community's treaty objectives and principles of democracy and the rule of law.

Copts and the Security State combines political, anthropological, and social history to analyze the practices of the Egyptian state and the political acts of the Egyptian Coptic minority.

This book addresses contemporary debates on civil disobedience in Islam within the rich Sunni tradition, especially during the height of the non-violent people revolution in various Arab countries, popularly known as the Arab Spring.

This book shows the push and pull effects between resources, human security and conflicts in Africa.

This book seeks to understand how to internationalize curriculum without imperializing or imposing the old, colonial, and so-called first-world conceptualizations of education, teaching, and learning.

This book offers a novel perspective on consultation with indigenous peoples in projects of natural resource exploitation.

The central thesis of this book is that Western culture, and American culture in particular, needs an immediate change with regard to food and eating.

An all-in-one resource for understanding the issue of torture and enhanced interrogations, including their history as an instrument of state power and warfare, debates over the morality of their use in different contexts, and efforts by human rights organizations and nations to end torture and enhanced interrogation techniques worldwide.