Human rights, civil rights

This book offers a detailed analysis of the Islamic Republic of Iran's approach towards human rights in the media.

This edited volume examines the development and challenges of governance, democracy, and human rights in Africa.

Thousands of women are murdered every year by close relatives for allegedly violating an unwritten social code or rebelling against the patriarchal order.

It is one thing to craft superb human rights tenets in a constitution and another to enforce such policies in practice.

This book offers an original and insightful analysis of the human rights inadequacies that arise in the practice of UN territorial administration by analysing and assessing the practice of UNMIK.

This book examines human rights and penitentiary law in Central Eastern European and Latin American countries from a comparative perspective.

With organized crime estimated to generate billions of dollars every year through illegal activities such as money laundering, smuggling of people and goods, extortion, robbery, fraud and insider trading, authorities are increasingly working together to combat this increasing threat to international security and stability.

How do we understand and justify the particular partialities that discrimination law tries to protect against?

How does an idea that forms in the minds of a few activists in one part of the world become a global norm that nearly all states obey?

This book offers a unique look into prisons in Iran and the lives of the prisoners and their families.

'If I had the power to do so, I would make this book compulsory reading for all who exercise political power in our world today!

Dieses Buch beleuchtet das traditionsreiche Rechtsinstitut der Enteignung aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven in systematischer Absicht.

In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible.

Questions over the compatibility of Islam and Human Rights have become a key area of debate in the perceived tensions between 'Islam and the West'.

This volume foregrounds the dynamics of displacement and the experiences of internal refugees uprooted by conflict and violence in Indonesia.

No one in 1980 could have guessed that Zimbabwe would become a failed state on such a monumental and tragic scale.

One of the core aspects of the Palestinian refugee question is that of compensation or reparations for Palestinian refugees forcibly displaced by the establishment of Israel.

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Der Bürgerkommentar bietet verständliche und zeitgemäße Erläuterungen zu den Regelungen der nordrheinwestfälischenLandesverfassung.

An empirically rich and conceptually informed study of the politics of transitional justice in post-communist Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

From the terrorist attacks of 9/11 to the assassination of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh to the London transportation bombings, dramatic events of recent years have generated security concerns about Muslim communities in the West.

The fifth edition of this highly praised study charts and explains the progress that continues to be made towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty.

 Deaf Walls Speak presents an insider's view of artmaking in Guantanamo, the world's most notorious prison, as self-expression and protest, and to stage a fundamental human rights claim that has been denied by law and politics: the right to be recognized as human.

The Unfree Exercise of Religion shows that most of the 597 religious minorities in 177 countries experience rising levels of religious discrimination.

This edited volume examines inclusive education and disability in the global South.

This book examines current debates about how international human rights law regulates national authorities and international institutions during emergencies.

This book discusses the multilayered legal structures concerning the regulation of crimes under international law.

This book explores the fluid, mutable and contingent ways in which transgender men in Malaysia construct their subjectivities.

A comprehensive biography of a dedicated civil rights activist and distinguished South CarolinianCivil rights activist, writer, theologian, preacher, and educator, Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894-1984) was one of the most distinguished South Carolinians of the twentieth century.

Evil, death, demons, reanimation, and resurrection.

An examination of US public policymaking and securing rights for people with disabilities.

This book offers a meticulous empirical examination of Chinese democracy and its myriad discourses.

In Women Reshaping Human Rights ,ordinary yet extraordinary women tell their stories, in their own words.

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

This edited collection about good practice for mental health chaplains and other related professionals looks at how spirituality is viewed across mental health fields.

In 2014, after a decade of political turmoil, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) carried out Thailand's 13th coup since the country's transformation from absolute to constitutional monarchy in 1932.

An original theory and set of essays on negotiating transitional justice, drawing on the authors'' first-hand experience of Colombia''s peace talks.

Although widely viewed as the beginning of the legal struggle to end segregation, the U.

Marrying legal doctrine from five pioneering and conversant jurisdictions with contemporary political philosophy, this book provides a general theory of discrimination law.

In the past two decades, feminist politics on prostitution has become more polarised and ideological.

This book looks at how the ideas of freedom, property, and order are expressed in modern social contract theories (SCTs).

This book seeks to press the wisdom of Proverbs into active duty in the trenches of everyday life and put the principles of character formation in working clothes.

This volume demonstrates that migration- and diversity-related concepts are always contested, and provides a reflexive critical awareness and better comprehension of the complex questions driving migration studies.

Menschenrechte und Feminismus stehen in einem wechselseitigen und zugleich produktiven Spannungsverhältnis.

The book applies an interdisciplinary analytical framework, based on social psychology theories of inclusion and exclusion, to a discussion of legal discourse and the development of legal frameworks in Europe concerning migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, and European citizens.