Human rights, civil rights

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

Fred C.

As a leading country in global refugee resettlement, Canada operates a unique program that allows private groups and individuals to sponsor refugees.

The Honourable Landon Pearson's domestic and global advocacy efforts with, for, and on behalf of children and young people have unfolded over a period of sixty years including thirty years in the Canadian Foreign Service and eleven years in the Senate of Canada.

This book analyzes the contemporary effects of anti-trafficking policies on children trafficked for labour.

This book examines the ever-increasing impact of technology on our lives and explores a range of legal and constitutional questions that this raises.

This book examines the ever-increasing impact of technology on our lives and explores a range of legal and constitutional questions that this raises.

Building on the success of Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clich s, this follow up volume dismantles a further 10 widespread stereotypes and clich s about religion, focusing on clich s that a new generation of students are most familiar with.

Few terms elicit such strong and varied feelings and yet have so little clarity as "e;democracy.

Few terms elicit such strong and varied feelings and yet have so little clarity as "e;democracy.

New Threats to Academic Freedom in Asia examines the increasingly dire state of academic freedom in Asia.

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 explores norm diffusion in non-Western contexts.

This book offers a critical analysis of hate crime law using Italy as a case study.

"e;Mercedes AMG Petronas F1-Team"e;is the official name of the team that has been operated in the Formula 1 competition since the 2010 season by Germany's Daimler AG, one of the world's leading manufacturers of automobiles.

Esta obra aborda los distintos regímenes que integran el sistema de seguridad social de la provincia de Santa Fe con una propuesta pedagógica innovadora, a partir del estudio de las contingencias sociales como objeto de aquélla.

Esta obra analiza la argumentación de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Argentina y otros tribunales argentinos, como así también extranjeros (Corte Suprema de EEUU, la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Chile y del Consejo de Estado Francés), para juzgar la validez de las normas de emergencia sanitaria dictadas durante la pandemia COVID-19, en lo que se refiere a la reglamentación del ejercicio de los derechos a la libertad de tránsito, a la libertad religiosa y a la educación.

This book focuses on the written heritage of Muslims in the Philippines, the historical constitution of chancelleries within the Islamic sultanates, and the production of official letters to conduct local and international diplomacy.

Esta es la historia de una venganza, una sangrienta venganza ocurrida a pocos kilómetros al sur de Santiago durante la dictadura.

The Book 'Human Rights' draws attention to various types of human right issues that exist in Indian context and also the Global context.

The essays in this book examine critically the various issues concerning law enforcement and human rights.

"e;A masterpiece by one of Europe's finest contemporary novelists.

Examines the patchwork evolution of school desegregation policy.

Why it's time to enshrine the right to vote in the ConstitutionThroughout history, too many Americans have been disenfranchised or faced needless barriers to voting.

Inspired by overtly negative coverage by the Western mainstream press of Muslims in particular, and minorities in general, this book asks: Why are negative narratives and depictions of Muslims and other minorities so hard to change?

Inspired by overtly negative coverage by the Western mainstream press of Muslims in particular, and minorities in general, this book asks: Why are negative narratives and depictions of Muslims and other minorities so hard to change?

This book focuses on transnationalism as a key concept to evaluate how Europe experiences, perceives and responds to current cross-border security challenges from a legal and political perspective.

This book discusses a broadly understood phenomenon of protest from several perspectives, including historical, cultural, social, political, environmental and semiotic.

This book focuses on transnationalism as a key concept to evaluate how Europe experiences, perceives and responds to current cross-border security challenges from a legal and political perspective.

Western moral and political theory in the last two centuries has widely held that morality and politics are independent of a divine reality.

Throughout human history people have been driven from their homes by wars, unjust treatment, earthquakes, and hurricanes.

What are human rights?

There is, literally, a world of difference between the statements "e;Everyone should have adequate food,"e; and "e;Everyone has the right to adequate food.

Promoting Islam as a defender of human rights is laden with difficulties.

What are the origins of the idea of human rights and universal human dignity?

As early as the sixteenth century the liberal democratic state has been forced to confront the question of religion in politics.

Powerful personal accounts from migrants crossing the USMexico border provide an understanding of their experiences, as well as the consequences of public policy Migrants, refugees, and deportees live through harrowing situations, yet their personal stories are often ignored.

The major humanitarian crises of recent years are well known: the Shoah, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Rwandan genocide, the massacre in Bosnia, and the tsunami in Southeast Asia, as well as the bloody conflicts in South Sudan, Syria, and Afghanistan.

Before military action, and even before mobilization, the decision on whether to go to war is debated by politicians, pundits, and the public.

In Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam, Lahouari Addi attempts to assess the history and political legacy of radical Arab nationalism to show that it contained the seeds of its own destruction.

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.

On November 10, 2017, Pope Francis became the first pontiff in the nuclear era to take a complete stand against nuclear weapons, even as a form of deterrence.

Salafism, comprised of fundamentalist Islamic movements whose adherents consider themselves the only saved sect of Islam, has been little studied, remains shrouded in misconceptions, and has provoked new interest as Salafists have recently staked a claim to power in some Arab states while spearheading battles against infidel Arab regimes during recent rebellions in the Arab world.

Johannes Morsink argues that the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights movement today are direct descendants of revulsion to the Holocaust and the desire to never let it happen again.

What is driving political extremism in Pakistan?

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 Trump administration's war on asylum and what Congress and the Biden administration can do about itDonald Trumps 2016 campaign centered around immigration issues such as his promise to build a border wall separating the US and Mexico.

A unique interreligious dialogue provides needed context for deeper understanding of interfaith relations, from ancient to modern timesFreedom is far from straightforward as a topic of comparative theology.