Human rights, civil rights

Every year, thousands of girls and women die at the hands of blood relatives.

The rule of law is becoming a victim of the struggle against terrorism.

Children's rights law is often studied and perceived in isolation from the broader field of human rights law.

The intersections between culture and human rights have engaged some of the most heated and controversial debates across international law and theory.

For decades, framing an issue as a 'human rights' issue carried certain power and effect in politics and international relations, one that has been challenged by the recent rise of populist political forces.

This book examines the complex and under-researched relationship between recruitment experiences and reintegration outcomes for child soldiers.

This edited volume focuses on charting the rise of neo-abolitionism and offering a critique of the idea, its logics and consequences.

The book provides deep insights into heritage politics in Myanmar on the basis of the conservation history of Bagan and its entanglement in national politics.

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How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang regionWithin weeks of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the Chinese government warned that it faced a serious terrorist threat from its Uyghur ethnic minority, who are largely Muslim.

This book explores how public policy advocacy can be used to approach policy issue identification, resolution or, at the least, support the management of wicked policy issues.

Imagine a rope braided out of seven strands of twine, forming a circle so that even the ends of the rope are woven together.

One of the major features of the social landscape of the new states of Eastern Europe and the former USSR is migration, whether voluntary or coerced.

'Free speech' has become central to discussions about racism, and is increasingly weaponised against anti-racist movements.

What motivates states to protect populations threatened by mass atrocities beyond their own borders?

Across the world, 2 billion people experience menstruation, yet menstruation is seen as a mark of shame.

This book offers a unique insight into the moral politics behind human trafficking policy in Australia and the USA, including rare interviews with key political actors, and a critical account of Congressional and Parliamentary hearings.

As the global marketplace grows and becomes more complex, increasing stress is placed upon employees.

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Transforming the Lives of Impoverished Girls in Patriarchal SocietiesSince 2003 a privately funded high school in India has provided desperately needed education for girls from impoverished families in Lucknow, the capital and largest city in Uttar Pradesh.

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.

Welchen Einfluss haben die sozialen Menschenrechte auf den heutigen Sozialstaat?

How should disability justice be conceptualised, not by orthodox human rights or capabilities approaches, but by a legal philosophy that mirrors an African relational community ideal?

This book analyses gender-based offences on the Internet from the perspective of international human rights law, interwoven with rights theories and feminist legal theories.

Illustrates the importance of corporate responsibility by integrating wealth creation and human rights.

This volume examines the important question of whether or not international human rights and Islamic law are compatible.

This book offers a unique insight into the role of human rights lawyers in Chinese law and politics.

This book analyses the legitimacy deficits in democratic welfare work using Habermas' theories of communicative action, law and  morality.

A discussion of the nature of a discrimination directed both against women as individuals and as members of a group, examining the relevance of criteria which are used to justify such discrimination.

How might the entire citizenry of a country make the decisions that affect them?

This book examines companies'' and investors'' moral and legal complicity in human rights violations in the context of globalisation.

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.

This second edition examines judicial independence as an aspect of democratization based on the premise that democracy cannot be consolidated without the rule of law of which judicial independence is an indispensable part.

For the last two decades, refugees, like other immigrants, have been settling in newer locations throughout the US and other countries.

Migrant and seasonal farmworkers are largely Latinx men, women, and children.

This book examines selected legal complexities of the notion of torture and the issue of the proper foundation for legally characterizing certain acts as torture, especially when children are the targeted victims of torture.

The Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is arguably the most historically important clause of the most significant part of the US Constitution.

This book offers a unique intersectional perspective on gender equality, SDG5.

This book discusses the principle of open justice with a focus on the mechanism of video streaming of court proceedings.

This book includes a set of studies and reflections that have emerged since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

Examining the prevalent issue of domestic violence, this book breaks down the reasons behind the ineffectiveness of existing human rights instruments and the gaps in current legal systems failing those in need.

This book provides essential insights into Bhutan's developmental challenges.

We Want Land to Live explores the current boundaries of radical approaches to food sovereignty.

All over the world, there is a growing interest in the relationship between law and aging: How does the law influence the lives of older people?

In the twenty-first century, political conflict and militarization have come to constitute a global social condition rather than a political exception.

Of the over 33 million refugees and internally displaced people in the world today, a disproportionate percentage are found in Africa.

In the early 1960s, thousands of Black activists used nonviolent direct action to challenge segregation at lunch counters, movie theaters, skating rinks, public pools, and churches across the United States, battling for, and winning, social change.

The transformation of patriarchal church culture begins with gender equality in the pulpit.