Human rights, civil rights

The Rise and Fall of Human Rights provides a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of the Palestinian human rights world-its NGOs, activists, and "e;victims,"e; as well as their politics, training, and discourse-since 1979.

Political Torture in Popular Culture argues that the literary, filmic, and popular cultural representation of political torture has been one of the defining dimensions of the torture debate that has taken place in the course of the post-9/11 global war on terrorism.

This book explores how non-governmental organizations (NGOs), with their sphere of influence within the State and beyond, enrich the international community by working on critical areas affecting people's lives and expectations, to facilitate a more humanising international law.

This engaging textbook provides a critical analysis of the legitimacy and effectiveness of the European Convention on Human Rights and its practical operation.

A history of colonial legacies in United Nations peacekeeping operations in the aftermath of the Second World War.

In the middle of the Mississippi Delta lies rural, black-majority Sunflower County.

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the role played by the European Convention on Human Rights during the conflict in Northern Ireland from 1968.

The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the settlement of World War II.

This book asks whether sovereignty can guarantee international equality by exploring the discourses of sovereignty and their reliance on the notions of civilisation and savagery in two historical colonial encounters: the French explorations of Canada in the 16th century and the domestic troubles linked to the Wars of Religion.

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.

Japan and the United States are under global and domestic pressures to simultaneously expand and to restrict immigration.

This book offers a systematic, sociological and penological exploration of the most up-to-date uses of electronic tagging (also known as electronic monitoring).

In tracing the origins of the modern human-rights movement, historians typically point to two periods: the 1940s, in which decade the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was ratified by the United Nations General Assembly; and the 1970s, during which numerous human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), most notably Amnesty International and Medecins Sans Frontieres, came into existence.

Vaccination programmes now represent a major part of the effort devoted to improving the health of children in developing countries.

This book examines the continuing devastation in the Darfur region of Sudan, from the perspective of a multiplicity of conflicts of distinct types.

Greater Freedom offers a groundbreaking long-term community study of Wilson County, North Carolina.

This edited volume critically examines the widely supported doctrine of the 'Responsibility to Protect', and investigates the claim that it embodies progressive values in international politics.

This book shows how children's work can take on widely differing forms; and how it can both harm and benefit children.

This is a completely revised and updated second edition of Rights Before Courts (2005, paper edition 2008).

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.

Political Campaigning in the U.

This is an innovative contribution to the philosophy of human rights.

Argues that European human rights law must acknowledge that autonomy is dependent on the existence of trusting and caring relationships.

This book explores whether individual attitudes and behaviors are swayed by global developments in a world increasingly populated by organizations, treaties, and other institutions that focus on environmentalism and human rights.

This book is about harmful traditional practices: damaging and often violent acts which include female genital mutilation, forced marriage, honour killings and abuse, breast ironing, witchcraft and faith-based abuse.

This book investigates the road map or the transitional justice mechanisms that theEthiopian government chose to confront the gross human rights violations perpetratedunder the 17 years' rule of the Derg, the dictatorial regime that controlled state powerfrom 1974 to 1991.

This book critically examines contemporary educational practices with a children's rights lens.

A potent symbol of black power and radical inspiration, the Black Panthers still evoke strong emotions.

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

This Brief introduces a novel research approach to investigate freedom of the press in Hong Kong.

This book examines the practice of transitional justice in the Solomon Islands from the period of the 'The Tensions' to the present.

This book concentrates on the crisis perpetrated by the Boko Haram group in Nigeria, which since 2009 has made a definitive impact on both the domestic and international criminal landscape.

The Right to Development in International Law rigorously explores the right to development (RTD) from the perspectives of international law as well as the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights and the Islamic concept of social justice in Pakistan.

The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male).

Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mississippi Freedom Schools in 1964.

This book about the art, craft and science of expert midwifery care, while focusing on 'alternative physiological births' that are those 'outside' of guidelines, the contents can be applied to any birthing choices.

How should disability justice be conceptualised, not by orthodox human rights or capabilities approaches, but by a legal philosophy that mirrors an African relational community ideal?

An extensive analysis of the norms and legal institutions of the African Union and their relevance to Africa''s quest for peace.

The first comprehensive study of the challenges faced by children in establishing entitlement to refugee protection.

Art is continuously subjected to insidious forms of censorship.

After 1989 human rights have expanded into a vernacular touching every aspect of social life.

For many years the severe under-representation of women in the institutions that forge Canadian public policy has been the subject of widespread discussion and debate, as have the various manifestations of inequality on the laws and policies themselves.

This indispensable, one-stop resource examines where Democrats and Republicans stand on current civil rights and liberties issues related to voting, free speech, abortion and reproductive rights, guns, and other hot button topics.

This work is an interdisciplinary study that investigates the nature and effectiveness of the mobilization of law by domestic nongovernment organizations to enforce human rights.

This book examines the implications of information security which plays such an important role in modern digital infrastructure.

These Intricacies is a book of poems traversing the intersection of family, fatherhood, and faith.