Human rights, civil rights

This book studies the questions of how and to what extent the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) can be interpreted and implemented in light of international human rights law, with a sharpened focus on Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

Por generaciones, los defensores de derechos humanos han luchado por el reconocimiento de los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales (DESC) para conseguir su justiciabilidad en las cortes nacionales e internacionales, lucha que ha tenido bastante éxito.

Given the disappointing implementation levels in various countries and across human rights systems, this guide seeks to contribute to the discussion regarding strategies for courts, international decision-makers, and civil society to increase the implementation of ESCR decisions.

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

This important reference work highlights a number of disparate themes relating to the experience of children during the Holocaust, showing their vulnerability and how some heroic people sought to save their lives amid the horrors perpetrated by the Nazi regime.

Gun control is one of the most controversial and emotional issues in many countries, with debate often focusing on whether restrictions on an individual's right to bear arms are a restriction on liberty and whether there is a correlation between guns and crime.

A ground-breaking collection applying Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality to the black diasporic experience in Britain.

The Rise and Fall of Citizenship brings together many of Turner's publications on the topic of citizenship and includes three new chapters reflecting upon conceptions of citizenship today.

Why It's OK to Own a Gun explores the right to self-defense, but also looks beyond it to what gun ownership fundamentally means in American life.

Why It's OK to Own a Gun explores the right to self-defense, but also looks beyond it to what gun ownership fundamentally means in American life.

The Rise and Fall of Citizenship brings together many of Turner's publications on the topic of citizenship and includes three new chapters reflecting upon conceptions of citizenship today.

This text highlights key aspects of the religion/church-state relationship/debate, and related hitherto marginal topics.

This book provides innovative thinking from a variety of perspectives on the important human rights, human security, and national security policy issues of today-and how these issues intersect.

Desert Dreams chronicles seventy-five years of Mexican American efforts to attain educational equality in Arizona, from its territorial period in the nineteenth century to the post-World War II era.

This book offers a comprehensive summary of extant international law scholarship on the topics of self-determination and secession and positions the concepts among present-day theory and relevant practice, illustrated through various ongoing cases and historical examples.

This book critically examines why a human rights framework would improve the wellbeing and status of young people.

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Uncovers judicial approaches to refugee law across the European Union in the cases of refugees fleeing armed conflicts.

George Luther Stearns became John Brown's single most important financial backer.

This book critically examines why a human rights framework would improve the wellbeing and status of young people.

Uncovers judicial approaches to refugee law across the European Union in the cases of refugees fleeing armed conflicts.

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The human right to survive and develop, a fundamental premise of the U.

Examining a series of court decisions made during the 1980s regarding the legal claims of several Native American tribes who attempted to protect ancestrally revered lands from development schemes by the federal government, this book looks at important questions raised about the religious status of land.

Breastfeeding Rights in the United States shows that the right to breastfeed in this country exists only in a negative sense: you can do it unless someone takes you to court.

Facing the threats posed by dedicated suicide bombers who have access to modern technology for mass destruction and who intend to cause maximum human suffering and casualties, democratic governments have hard choices to make.

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.

Russians are suppressing the Chechen; Ibo nationalism may yet tear Nigeria apart.

Since the 1970s, the international community of states has demonstrated increasing willingness to invest UN institutions with politico-ethical authority to act on its behalf in addressing human rights abuses.

Comprehensive and accessible, this one-stop resource examines the history, development, and present state of free speech issues on college campuses, including a range of political perspectives and viewpoints.

For peoples whose legal agreements, treaties, and other accords and conventions with the United States have been violated, multiculturalism as a pedagogical tool often becomes suspect of reinforcing the continued reification and abstraction of their cultures and nations with little if any real meaning for educational and social transformation.

This book provides the first comprehensive, region-wide, long-term, and accessible study of Native Americans in New England.

This edited collection situates the migration of children and young people into Europe within a global framework of analysis and provides a holistic perspective that encompasses cultural media, ethnographic research and policy analysis.

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This study adds to the small but growing literature on Black health history--the rise of hospital care and hospital services provided to Blacks from the antebellum era to the integration era, a period of some 150 years.

Black conservatism is no oxymoron.

Using an innovative history of the constitutional right to privacy, and inspired by Emersonian Justices like Brandeis and Douglas, this book rescues the meaning of privacy from prevalent liberal thinking by proposing a general theory of rights based on a spiritual-ecological jurisprudence tradition at the heart of American law.

The African American struggle for advancement since the late 19th century has had an enormous impact on American society in general.

Jacoby provides a comprehensive social history of the abortion abolition campaign from its beginnings following Roe v.

Van Belle provides the first systematic analysis of the effects that press freedom has on the conduct of international politics.

Without succumbing to utopian fantasies or realistic pessimism, Riemer and his contributors call for strengthening the key institutions of a global human rights regime, developing an effective policy of prudent prevention of genocide, working out a sagacious strategy of keenly targeted sanctions-political, economic, military, judicial-and adopting a guiding philosophy of just humanitarian intervention.

Throughout the nation's history, from before the Civil War through Reconstruction, across the years of lynchings and segregation to the Brown v.

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.

Introduces an analytic model for how archaeologists can work toward social justice In this time of Black Lives Matter, the demands of NAGPRA, and climate crises, the field of American archaeology needs a radical transformation.

You Can Make a Global Impact-One Girl at a TimeIn Strong Girls, Strong World, Dale Hanson Bourke draws on her international leadership and reporting experience to offer personal insights we can all use as a road map to understanding the issues girls face-and the tangible ways we can each make a difference.

Desert Dreams chronicles seventy-five years of Mexican American efforts to attain educational equality in Arizona, from its territorial period in the nineteenth century to the post-World War II era.

This outstanding, comprehensive, and up-to-date encyclopedia on human rights issues from 1945 to 1998 features more than 400 entries on incidents and violations, instruments and initiatives, countries and human rights activists.