How domestic courts in newly democratized states become willing and able to enforce international human rights lawWhen do domestic courts protect international human rights?
This book sheds light on the practice, challenges, and prospects of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) amidst wide contestation, backlash, operational challenges, and expectation gaps associated with the theory and practice of the RtoP.
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.
From the organizers of the Palestine Festival of Literature, this anthology of essays connects Palestinian resistance with global freedom struggles against settler colonialism and calls on us to think more concretely about the practice of solidarity.
"e;The splendor of values"e;In a world that is often characterized by hectic and superficiality, the doors open to a collection of short stories that focus on the splendor of true values.
Der Band versammelt die Beiträge eines Kolloquiums aus dem Jahr 2018, das am Ende der neunjährigen interdisziplinären Forschung des Graduiertenkollegs "Die christlichen Kirchen vor der Herausforderung 'Europa'" stand.
Nach dem Militärputsch in Argentinien 1976 wurde das Verschwindenlassen von Regimegegner*innen durch geheime Militär- und Polizeieinheiten zu einer massiv angewandten Repressionspraxis.
Exploring the subject through many different theoretical frameworks and epistemological traditions, this book confronts the history of Haiti's three major practicing religious faiths: Vodou, Roman Catholicism, and Protestant Evangelicalism.
Exploring the subject through many different theoretical frameworks and epistemological traditions, this book confronts the history of Haiti's three major practicing religious faiths: Vodou, Roman Catholicism, and Protestant Evangelicalism.
Cases of ex-Muslims in Europe being punished by their former fellow Muslims constitute an unacceptable practice from the standpoint of democratic societies in which human rights are respected and individuals have the freedom to choose their religion, or none at all.
Cases of ex-Muslims in Europe being punished by their former fellow Muslims constitute an unacceptable practice from the standpoint of democratic societies in which human rights are respected and individuals have the freedom to choose their religion, or none at all.
This book provides a broad geopolitical and legal analysis of the longer-term dispute between the Belarusian regime and the European Union, played out through conflict on the PolishBelarusian border, which started in 2021.
This book provides a broad geopolitical and legal analysis of the longer-term dispute between the Belarusian regime and the European Union, played out through conflict on the PolishBelarusian border, which started in 2021.
End of Days is both a meditation on Jewish morality in the age of Israeli Jewish power, and a cri du coeur by an Orthodox Israeli Jew, a former combat officer in the IDF, for Israelis to look into the Jewish religious ethical tradition for an alternative to the secular and religious Zionism that sanctifies power, statehood, and sovereignty.
Allzu oft hat die Ausbildung in kultureller Kompetenz zu einer unbeabsichtigten Ausgrenzung einiger Personen und Gruppen und zur Verstärkung bestehender Stereotypen geführt.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Migration presents the story of religion and migration predominantly through the experiences of Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists, considering intersectional issues including race, ethnicity, class, gender and generation throughout.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Migration presents the story of religion and migration predominantly through the experiences of Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists, considering intersectional issues including race, ethnicity, class, gender and generation throughout.
A revelatory and wide-ranging series of interviews with award-winning writer Arundhati Roy, touching on US empire, Indian nationalism, a writer's work, and more.
En la noche del 20 de septiembre de 1984, a menos de un año del retorno de la democracia en la Argentina, la Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (Conadep) entregó al presidente Alfonsín el informe de su investigación.
This book provides the first systematic assessment from a human rights law perspective of the landmark contributions of the renowned legal anthropologist, Sally Engle Merry.
The Iranian #MeToo movement was a crucial form of resistance, with ordinary Iranian women sharing their experiences of sexual harassment and assault in the public sphere of digital media.
This book provides the first systematic assessment from a human rights law perspective of the landmark contributions of the renowned legal anthropologist, Sally Engle Merry.
The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles.
This book is the first to connect global labor history and the history of human rights: By focusing on democratic labor oppositions in Spain and Poland between 1960 and 1990, it shows how workers in authoritarian regimes addressed repression and whether they developed a language of rights in the light of a globally dynamic human rights discourse.
This edited collection articulates a future direction for research at the nexus of criminology and human rights by bringing together experts from different branches of criminology and criminal justice who, while they may be sceptical about certain aspects of human rights theory or practice, share an interest in realising many of the objectives set out in human rights instruments.
The case studies in this volume examine the activities of faith-based institutions in a representative sample of African and Latin American countries, including societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and states with different levels and types of government-provided social services.
En 1550 comenzó un espectáculo insólito para el mundo: por primera vez en la historia, un emperador paraliza la expansión de su imperio para suscitar un debate: ¿es conforme a la justicia la civilización y conversión de los indios del Nuevo Mundo?
Illuminating a classic case from the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s, two of Americas foremost legal historiansKermit Hall and Melvin Urofskyprovide a compact and highly readable updating of one of the most memorable decisions in the Supreme Courts canon.
