Human rights, civil rights

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

The margin of appreciation is a judicial doctrine whereby international courts allow states to have a measure of diversity in their interpretation of human rights treaty obligations.

Written by a team of international lawyers from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean,this book analyses some of the most significant aspects of the ongoing armed conflictbetween the Russian Federation and Ukraine.

This book provides a supportive lending hand to researchers of constitutional law worldwide about the constitutional law of Bangladesh.

This book examines the political behavior of Afro-Caribbean immigrants in New York City.

Human rights in Australia have a contested and controversial history, the nature of which informs popular debates to this day.

Tom Bingham (1933-2010) was the 'greatest judge of our time' (The Guardian), a towering figure in modern British public life who championed the rule of law and human rights inside and outside the courtroom.

This Pivot book provides a wide-ranging and diverse commentary on issues of legibility (and illegibility) around poetry, antifascist pacifist activism, environmentalism and the language of protest.

Procedural review is increasingly a means of deciding European fundamental rights cases; this book explores its practical potential and limitations.

Biopolitics and posthumanism have been passe theories in the academy for a while now, standing on the unfashionable side of the fault line between biology and liberal thought.

The book covers frollowing topics: Human Rights, Power and Welfare Conditionality; Capabilities; Human Rights and Economics; Human Rights and Social Development; Globalization and Social Policy; Vulnerable Groups; Human Rights Violations against Sexuality Minorities; Social Work and Rights for Women; Women: Rights of Marriage

This edited textbook covers a range of key operational and strategic aspects of police administration, from experts who have both an academic and practitioner background.

By supporting others and promoting change, helping professionals also enjoy the benefit of personal growth.

This book uncovers how human rights gained meaning and power for Americans in the 1940s, the 1970s and today.

Since its introduction in the late 1980s, DNA analysis has revolutionized the forensic sciences: it has helped to convict the guilty, exonerate the wrongfully convicted, identify victims of mass atrocities, and reunite families whose members have been separated by war and repressive regimes.

This book draws attention to the nonlegal, sociocultural aspects of justice for minorities in China.

Beaudry shows how the social contract fails to take account of the moral status of people with severe intellectual disabilities.

This book traces the development of Oman's inclusive agreements and highlights their importance for international negotiations, dealing with issues most relevant to humanity's own survival today, nuclear weapons or climate change.

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.

This long-awaited book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day.

Silver Gavel Award, Honorable MentionIn the Chicago suburb of Skokie, one out of every six Jewish citizens in the late 1970s was a survivoror was directly related to a survivorof the Holocaust.

This casebook addresses selected precedent-setting rulings of various international human rights and international criminal courts with a focus on the child victims of international crimes and human rights abuses.

A practical analysis of co-regulation, a technique increasingly widely adopted in European regulation.

This book addresses the contemporary aspects of employee voice through theoretical and practical analysis.

Case studies explore how womens rights shape state responses to sex trafficking and show how politically empowering women can help prevent and combat human traffickingHuman trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of victims each year, disproportionately affecting women and girls.

For Frederick Douglass, the iconic nineteenth-century slave and abolitionist, the foundations for his arguments in support of racial equality rested on natural rights and natural law-and the bold proclamation of the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal.

The sequel to the acclaimed Gaza in Crisis from world-famous political analyst Noam Chomsky and Middle East historian Ilan Pappé.

This volume investigates the rise of human rights discourses manifested in the global spectrum of theatre and performance since 1945.

Leading social scientists and historians debate key controversies in the field of modern slavery and human trafficking studies.

Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b.

This book examines how legal systems and mechanisms give shape to the capitalist economic system.

The expanding remit of policing as a fundamental part of the public health continuum is increasingly acknowledged on the international scene.

In the past two decades, '"e;civil society"e; has become a central organizing concept in the social sciences.

While the relevance of ontological commitments for epistemology and methodology in International Relations have been the subject of growing debate for several years, the implications for ethics and political agency of embracing an ontology of entanglement have remained unexplored.

In this pathbreaking study, Pamela Steiner deconstructs the psychological obstacles that have prevented peaceful settlements to longstanding issues.

Case studies explore how womens rights shape state responses to sex trafficking and show how politically empowering women can help prevent and combat human traffickingHuman trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of victims each year, disproportionately affecting women and girls.

Fact-finding is at the heart of human rights advocacy, and is often at the center of international controversies about alleged government abuses.

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In the last decade a new tool has been developed in the global war against official corruption through the introduction of the offense of "e;illicit enrichment"e; in almost every multilateral anti-corruption convention.

The rhetoric of social justice is commonplace but increasingly it means little more than a tag line or a punctuation point.

This book provides a thorough analysis of the evolution of land property rights and transfer mechanism during the transition of the Chinese society from being a traditional self-sustaining agricultural society to a modern commercialized agricultural society.

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion.

Based on research findings and detailed, original cases, this book charts the new innovation imperative, where organizations must deliver on dual goals: an efficient return on current operations, and a burgeoning pipeline of new products.

This book focuses on human trafficking and the anti-trafficking movement, particularly as it is expressed in Southeast Asia.

In this study of exile, Sean Akerman chronicles the ways in which narrative approaches provide opportunities to understand and represent the lives of those who have been displaced after violence.

This book compares African and Afrikaner nationalisms to demonstrate that the transition from apartheid to liberal democracy in South Africa was a neo-colonial settlement that left the economy and the military and security sectors under the control of the white minority, while increasing wide socioeconomic disparities between rich and poor.

In Understanding Social Action, Promoting Human Rights, editors Ryan Goodman, Derek Jinks, and Andrew K.