Human rights, civil rights

It was family separation andkids in cages that drove Sarah Towle to the U.

Activated by injustice, members of over-policed communities lead the current movement for civil rights in the United States.

Human rights are increasingly described as being in crisis.

This book outlines the ways that disabled women experience unwanted touching and intrusive questions when navigating public space.

This book presents a selection of revised and updated papers presented in September 2018 at the International Conference 'Rethinking the Crime of Aggression: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives', which was held in Marburg, Germany, and hosted by the International Research and Documentation Centre for War Crimes Trials (ICWC).

This book explains how the ASEAN regional human rights body (AICHR) was created and why it functioned with a promotional rather than protection mandate.

A wide range of issues besieges women globally, including economic exploitation, sexist oppression, racial, ethnic, and caste oppression, and cultural imperialism.

The Encyclopedia of Human Rights organizes researchers from around the world in human rights and related disciplines and maintains an up-to-date reference work for readers worldwide.

The objective of this work is to provide an analysis of the legislative approaches to counter-terrorism and human rights in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

This edited collection explores how contemporary Latin American cinema has dealt with and represented issues of human rights, moving beyond many of the recurring topics for Latin American films.

This timely study explores how societies have responded to mass inflows of refugees between 1945 and 2000.

UPDATEDFor more than 50 years, Burma has been ruled by a succession of military regimes which rank among the most oppressive dictatorships in the world.

This is the first book to provide an overview of the processes and practices of transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific region.

This contributed volume takes a comprehensive look at factors that impact correctional health care and the related implications for public health and public health policy.

Throughout the history of the United States, the concepts of land and the West have fired the American imagination and fueled controversy.

This book offers a comparison of the differences between the 'public' and 'private' spheres, and questions the need for law enforcement to intrude upon both.

This book formulates a human right to research in Africa based on an in-depth examination of the available international and regional human rights instruments as well as those relevant to the national contexts of African countries.

An engaging introduction to Latin America with a fresh, thematic approach to key political and social issues.

This book focuses on current frontier-related issues such as humanitarian crises, economic crises, discrimination of migrants in certain countries, different typologies of borders such as land, maritime, air, space, and even cyberspace borders, and environmental protection of water resources at borders.

This book includes original and ground breaking research into parliamentary law making and legislative responses to counter-terrorism in Australia.

This book assesses the impact of the work of Chris Brown in the field of International Political Theory.

Explores the fluctuating relationship between human rights and humanitarianism and the changing nature of the politics and practices of humanity.

The chapters in this book constitute a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies: the academy has been called to attend to questions of social justice.

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.

Conflicts in Africa, Asia and Latin America have become a common focus of advocacy by Western celebrities and NGOs.

New waves of land grabbing are working to dispossess peasants in both the Global South and the Global North.

Over the past two decades, book-length analyses of politics in Southeast Asia, like those addressing other parts of the developing world, have focused closely on democratic change, election events, and institution building.

Torture is perhaps the most unequivocally banned practice in the world today.

This book examines the conceptual and political history of the right of self-determination of peoples.

In a democratic polity, protection and promotion of Human Rights is of utmost importance.

Feminist Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice outlines the foundations of feminist foreign policy and the fundamental concepts discussed and utilized by governments, civil society organizations, and those in the academic community as they define, formulate, and implement it.

Artificial intelligence (AI) - both in its current, comparatively limited form and even more so in its potential future forms (such as general and superintelligence) - has raised both concerns and hopes.

Decades of conflicts and persecution have driven millions from their homes in all parts of the northeast African country of Sudan.

Universality Ethics and International Relations introduces students to the key debates about ethics in international relations theory.

In the days of Moses, blasphemy was the mortal offence of failing to respect the divine.

Humanitarian protection has evolved from an act of charity into a legal obligation not to remove certain categories of non-nationals.

Inspired by the works of Professor Marcelo Neves, in this book colleagues come together to explore how their research has been influenced by non-European and post-colonial approaches.

A bold new perspective on the strategic logic of international human rights enforcementWhen a government violates the rights of its citizens, the international community can respond by exerting moral pressure and urging reform.

Argues that treating people and artificial intelligence differently under the law results in unexpected and harmful outcomes for social welfare.

Despite recent progress in civil rights for sexual and gender minorities (SGM), ensuring SGM youth experience fairness, justice, inclusion, safety, and security in their schools and communities remains an ongoing challenge.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an important issue in contemporary business, management and politics, especially since the launch of the United Nations Global Compact in 2000 as an initiative to encourage businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on them.

This book focuses on anti-discrimination law in order to identify commonalities and best practices across nations.

Imagine a future of international law in which artificial intelligence reshapes human rights, trade, and arbitration.

Domination consists in subjection to the will of others and manifests itself both as a personal relation and a structural phenomenon serving as the context for relations of power.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the wide-ranging body of law that applies to public protest activity.

The oppression of minorities has been a theme in the history of Europe.

This edited collection sheds light on an under-researched and often misconceived form of prison life, that of prisoner leadership.