Human rights, civil rights

Contemporary, practical coverage of the Human Rights Committee''s responses to challenges to civil and political rights around the world.

Provides an international comparative study of the implementation of disability rights law and policy focused on the emerging principles of self-determination and personalisation.

When the Supreme Court in 2003 struck down a Texas law prohibiting homosexual sodomy, it cited the right to privacy based on the guarantee of "e;substantive due process"e; embodied by the Constitution.

The Montgomery bus boycott was a formative moment in twentieth-century history: a harbinger of the African American freedom movement, a springboard for the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr.

An innovative textbook setting out a systematic approach to business and human rights.

Richard F.

What is this thing called Global Justice?

The book offers a provocative review of thinking about privacy and identity in the years encompassing and disrupted by the two world wars of the first half of the twentieth century - focusing (in particular) on the socio-technological transformations associated with modernism.

This book examines the multifaceted nature of gender-based violence (GBV) and the many forms it can take.

This book studies the reactions by external actors, including the European Union, to the events unfolding in the Arab world beginning in December 2010.

Border Shifts develops a more complex and multifaceted understanding of global borders, analysing internal and external EU borders from the Mediterranean region to the US-Mexico border, and exploring a range of issues including securitization, irregular migration, race, gender and human trafficking.

This textbook provides a greater understanding of the lived effect that social policies have on service users and carers.

Justifies a two-track approach that includes individual and systemic remedies in both domestic and international human rights law.

An assessment of the transitional processes aimed at creating a stable and just society in South Africa.

This book explores the little-known world of scrappers and metal thieves.

The ability to forget the violent twentieth-century past was long seen as a virtue in Spain, even a duty.

In the years following Brown v.

The story of activist youth in America is usually framed around the Vietnam War, the counterculture, and college campuses, focusing primarily on college students in the 1960s and 1970s.

A powerful remembrance of the lessons and legacy of Jan Karski, who risked his life to share the truth with the worldand a cautionary tale for our times.

The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable.

This book examines whether a global consensus is emerging on climate change and human mobility and presents evidence of a slow-moving but dynamic, step-by-step process of international policy development on climate-related mobility.

Many human rights advocates agree that conventional advocacy tools- reporting abuses to international tribunals or shaming the perpetrators of human rights violations-have proven ineffective.

Analyses access to justice in Asia and other non-Western jurisdictions, including programmes of mandatory public interest activities.

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status.

Real conversations about racism need to start now Let's Talk Race confronts why white people struggle to talk about race, why we need to own this problem, and how we can learn to do the work ourselves and stop expecting Black people to do it for us.

This book provides the major economic, social, and psychological impacts associated with the siting of noxious facilities and their significance in mobilizing the African American community.

This timely anthology brings into sharp relief the extent of violence against women.

The book uses Chicago as a case study to examine the cultural politics surrounding neoliberal education policy in general and the concomitant alterations to democratic practice in particular.

The book explores the various and sometimes unexpected ways in which states, human rights, and private actors intersect.

More than merely describing the evolution of human rights and civil liberties law, this classic textbook provides students with detailed and thought-provoking coverage of the most crucial developments in the field, clearly explaining the law in context and practice.

Flaherty examines the passage, revision, and implementation of privacy and data protection laws at the national and state levels in Sweden, Canada, France, Germany, and the United States.

This unifying proposal for understanding distributive justice discourse across cultures sheds light on how best to understand political philosophy.

This book deals with urgency and human rights.

Is the Internet erasing national borders?

Biblical texts have been one of the most potent sources in the Western political imagination.

What can be done to warn about and organize political action to prevent genocide and mass atrocities?

This comprehensive collection addresses the important question of political parties in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

This book offers a unique exploration of the current state of freedom of speech as a basic right available to everyone.

Jack Straw reviews recent reforms to the system of British justice and suggests key areas where further reform is needed.

Through narrating the politics and everyday life in ex-British Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), Porcupine in a Python's Throatmakes an invaluable contribution to understanding the choices and constraints facing both Southern Cameroons' (Ambazonia) people, and the people of Republique du Cameroun.

Essential Interviewing Skills for the Helping Professions reaches beyond most other essential skills for clinical interviewing books with its emphasis on social justice, attention to the role of microaggressions in clinical practice, and the upmost importance of practitioner wellness as integral to longevity in the helping professions.

Drawing on case studies from the global South, this book explores the politics of mediated citizenship in which citizens are represented to the state through third party intermediaries.

Contributors examine the ethical issues surrounding microfinance, including questions about exploitation, human rights, and efforts to promote global justice.

This edited volume analyzes recent key developments in EU border management.

Some of the most hotly contested international women's rights issues today arise from the movement of peoples from one country to another and the practices they purportedly bring with them.

This edited volume analyzes participatory practices in art and cultural heritage in order to determine what can be learned through and from collaboration across disciplinary borders.

This book examines the origins and evolution of refugee protection over the past four centuries.

In this book, Brian Lund builds on contemporary housing crisis narratives, which tend to focus on the growth of a younger 'generation rent,' to include the differential effects of class, age, gender, ethnicity and place, across the United Kingdom.