Human rights, civil rights

This book brings together leading scholars researching the field of gender, sexuality, schooling, queer activism, and social movements within different cultural contexts.

This book addresses the challenges within teaching Criminology and Criminal Justice, for students studying and academics involved in designing and delivering courses at an undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Provides an original analysis of the routine and spectacular forms of violence deployed by the Asad regime in Syria over the last four decades.

This is the first study of anti-discrimination law as it applies to housing law in Europe.

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Today more than 200 million Christians around the world suffer imprisonment, abuse and even death because of their faith.

The Care of the Witness explores the historical shifts in the crises of witnessing to genocide, war, and disaster and their contribution to nongovernmental politics.

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.

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.

Olympic Education is tasked by both Olympism (Olympic Movement's underlying philosophy) and the United Nations to educate on human rights.

Challenge your biases and broaden your understanding of power and how we wield it with this essential guide.

Examines the shared responsibilities and challenges for protecting the human rights of witnesses and accused at the International Criminal Court.

Turkish accession to the European Union is an important but controversial item on the agenda of the European Union.

This book considers refugee protection mandates and addresses how legal scholarship can articulate a comprehensive and humane response to the contemporary refugee problem.

At present, the entire world, including India, is facing a precarious situation.

Provides the first-ever comprehensive legal analysis of orphanage trafficking in international law.

In 1980, Professors McDougal, Lasswell, and Chen published the original edition of Human Rights and World Public Order to present a "e;comprehensive framework of inquiry"e; from which to approach international human rights law, and international law, and inadequacies therein in the discourse of that time by combining theme, structure, method, and process.

Scholars of history, law, theology and anthropology critically revisit the history of human rights.

How many people have migrated from central and Eastern Europe since the 1989 revolutions?

This book examines John Locke as a theorist of migration, immigration, and the movement of peoples.

This multidisciplinary book examines the potential of economic and social rights to contest adverse impacts of neoliberalism on human wellbeing.

Though the United States has been a relatively diverse nation, Americans have historically lived close to those who are ethnically and culturally like them.

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

This book develops theoretical intersections between theatre and human rights and provides methodologies to investigate human rights questions from within the perspective of theatre as a complex set of disciplines.

This book focuses on the economic analysis of refugee law and the protection of refugee rights.

This book addresses one of the core challenges in the corporate social responsibility (or business and human rights) debate: how to ensure adequate access to remedy for victims of corporate abuses that infringe upon their human rights.

The advent of the Internet for global advancement and development has opened the world to new crimes.

This book explores the ombudsman as a global institution.

Charlton Heston is perhaps most famous for his portrayal of Moses in Cecil B.

This book argues that the weakness of civil society in the post-Soviet Caucasus is a result not only of post-communist political and economic problems, but also of the effects of historical legacies.

This book investigates the imaginative capacities of literature, art and culture as sites for reimagining human rights, addressing deep historical and structural forms of belonging and unbelonging; the rise of xenophobia, neoliberal governance, and securitization that result in the purposeful precaritization of marginalized populations; ecological damage that threatens us all, yet the burdens of which are distributed unequally; and the possibility of decolonial and posthuman approaches to rights discourses.

Providing a critical introduction to the notion of humanitarianism in global politics, tracing the concept from its origins to the twenty-first century, this book examines how the so called international community works in response to humanitarian crises and the systems that bind and divide them.

This book illustrates the parallel struggles among Blacks in the US and the Caribbean for equality and greater political participation and equal treatment during the 1960s and 1970s.

This commemorative 30th-anniversary volume of Research in Political Sociology delves into the ramifications of warfare and conflict on migration, sustainable development, and security.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been intertwined with, and has had a profound influence on, the principles of modern international law.

This book critically explores civic republicanism in light of contemporary republican political theory and the influence of republican models of citizenship in recent developments in civic education across a number of Western nations.

Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence explores the relationship between the human rights movement emerging after 1945 and the increasing violence of decolonization.

The right to a jury trial is a fundamental feature of the American justice system.

Socioeconomic rights include rights with regard to social security, labour and employment, as well as cultural rights which may be regarded as a shield for the protection of human dignity, especially of specific groups, such as women, children and refugees.

Publishing on the 50th anniversary of the opening of St Christopher's Hospice - widely thought of to be the first modern hospice, combining pain and symptom management with education and training - this edited collection discusses what motivates professionals and volunteers to provide spiritual care.

State takeovers of local governments have garnered national attention of late, particularly following the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

“One of the definitive works on the Israeli Palestinian conflict” from the celebrated New York Times–bestselling author of Hopes and Prospects (Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!

In the early 1960s, thousands of Black activists used nonviolent direct action to challenge segregation at lunch counters, movie theaters, skating rinks, public pools, and churches across the United States, battling for, and winning, social change.

Global political actors, from states and NGOs to activist groups and individuals, exert influence in societies beyond their own in myriad ways--including via public criticism, consumer boycotts, divestment campaigns, sanctions, and forceful intervention.

In this volume, we examine the challenges and opportunities created by global migration at the start of the 21st century.

Explores how international law deals with detention conducted by non-State armed groups and the motivations behind these practices.

With essays and commentaries by David Levering Lewis, Clayborne Carson, Steven F.

When asked which branch of government protects citizens rights, we tend to think of the Supreme Courtstepping in to defend gay rights, for example, in the recent same-sex marriage case.