Human rights, civil rights

This book explores the principles, practice and challenges in determining justice system responses to serious offending by children globally.

While social work theory tends to emphasise helping individuals and challenging social injustice, the reality of practice is characterised by challenge and conflict.

A deep dive into the mechanics of national human rights institutions and the forces that make or break their success.

The coast of East Africa was considered a strategically invaluable region for the establishment of trading ports, both for Arab and Persian merchants, long prior to invasion and conquest by Europeans.

In this highly original book, Obert Bernard Mlambo offers a comparative and critical examination of the relationship between military veterans and land expropriation in the client-army of the first-century BC Roman Republic and veterans of the Zimbabwean liberation war.

This is the first book length study of war in the thought of one of the twentieth-century's most important and original political thinkers.

Lea David exposes the dangers and pitfalls of mandating memory in the name of human rights in conflict and post-conflict settings.

Traces social, political, and economic changes among Sahrawi refugees in North AfricaSovereignty in Exile explores sovereignty and state power through the case of a liberation movement that set out to make itself into a state.

This book delves into the complexities of genocide as a legal concept, offering a fresh perspective by exploring the rights of groups to exist under international criminal law.

The UN human rights agenda has reached the mature age of 70 years and many UN mechanisms created to implement this agenda are themselves in their middle-age, yet human rights violations are still a daily occurrence around the globe.

Disability and Disaster adds disaster research to the expanding area of disability studies.

This book asks what are the roles of human rights and democracy in determining the states'' ability to participate in international organisations?

When privatization of public services swept the developing world in the 1990s, it was part of a seemingly unstoppable tide of neoliberal reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state and reorienting economies toward market-led policymaking.

Stephen Gardbaum proposes and examines a new way of protecting rights in a democracy.

The book is a comprehensive compendium on child rights in India from a child development perspective.

Winner of the THESEUS promising award for Research on European Integration 2011.

This book evaluates the global status and prospects of democracy, with an emphasis on the quality of democratic institutions and the effectiveness of governance as key conditions for stable democracy.

Since the global financial crisis of 2008, Greece has shouldered a heavy burden struggling with internal political and financial insecurity as well as hosting enormous numbers of migrants and asylum seekers who arrive by land and sea.

Nicholls, Montgomery, and Knowles on The Law of Extradition and Mutual Assistance is a leading work in this complex and growing area of law.

This book asks the question: what is the role of memory during a political transition?

During the 2000's, online literature in Arabic language was popular among a larger readership.

This book addresses the phenomenon of children as the particular targets of extreme cruelty and genocide during armed conflict.

This key resource for anyone interested in the United Nations, global issues, or world politics provides accessible and comprehensive coverage of the history, growth, and development of ideas and institutions governing the globe.

We live in a time when the most appalling social injustices and unjust human sufferings no longer seem to generate the moral indignation and the political will needed both to combat them effectively and to create a more just and fair society.

The world contains over 6000 languages and less than 200 states to accommodate them.

Fourteen leading scholars explore the lives of seven of the most famous Jewish lawyers in the history of international law.

The Treatment is the story of one tragedy of medical research that stretched over eleven years and affected the lives of hundreds of people in an Ohio city.

This book analyses legal orders, actors and democracy in contemporary India, with a particular focus on the everyday contexts and dynamics of human rights, citizenship and socio-economic rights and laws.

This book is the first study of multilateral LGBT human rights diplomacy viewed from the perspective of its practitioners: diplomats, LGBT activists, human rights experts and multilateral specialists.

This book contributes to the discourse on disability in Africa as an issue of systemic exclusion characterized by the discrimination and often complete segregation of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in various African countries.

As China is transformed, relations between society, the state, and the city have become central.

This book analyses post-deportation outcomes and focuses on what happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers after deportation.

This book examines the increasing retention and use of previous criminal record information, within and beyond the criminal justice system.

The Bill of Rights-the first 10 amendments to the U.

Emergencies are ubiquitous in 21st-century societal discourses.

This book focuses on the tension between the protection of human rights recognised as jus cogens (peremptory) norms, on the one hand, and the bestowal of immunity on the state and its representatives, on the other, to ascertain how these immunities can be eroded, if not fully abolished, to maintain full protection of jus cogens human rights under international law.

Demonstrates how activists worked together during the post-war decades to transform public attitudes towards violations of human rights.

This book considers refugee protection mandates and addresses how legal scholarship can articulate a comprehensive and humane response to the contemporary refugee problem.

Writing Constitutions intends to serve as a practical manual for those writing constitutions or interested in their design.

The term human rights are being increasing used by the people across geographical frontiers.

This edited collection offers a fresh perspective on how a quiet digital revolution from below spreads throughout the world.

This book reports the result of research carried out in a busy London police station on the role and impact of closed-circuit television (CCTV) in the management and surveillance of suspects - the most thorough example of the use of CCTV by the police in the world.

Though the ordination of women has been hotly debated in a number of churches (and in particular in the world-wide Anglican Communion) there has been a strange silence on the subject from academic theologians.

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

Devolution, Regionalism and Regional Development provides an overview and critical perspective on the impact of devolution on regionalism in the UK since 1999, taking a research-based look at issues central to the development of regionalism: politics, governance and planning.

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A compelling framework for understanding the importance of the 1970s for America and the worldThe 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large.

The story of three courageous Syrian women entrepreneurs uplifting the Za''atari refugee camp, and of the global refugee entrepreneurship phenomenon they represent.

This book analyses current developments in Europe and Latin America towards the greater involvement of the parties in the administration of criminal justice.