Human rights, civil rights

On February 15, 2003, millions of people around the world demonstrated against the war that the United States, the United Kingdom, and their allies were planning to wage in Iraq.

The first edition of Halbert and Ball's Creek War was published in 1895, and a new edition containing an introductory essay, supplementary notes, a bibliography, and an index by Frank L.

In 1934, at the age of fourteen, Colette Brull-Ulmann knew that she wanted to become a pediatrician.

This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.

Überall auf der Welt nehmen Ungleichheit und Armut zu, die Menschenrechte werden mit Füßen getreten.

This Commentary provides the first comprehensive legal article-by-article analysis of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

This powerful reference explores the processes and practices of family systems therapy as conducted in humanitarian situations across the globe.

Millions of people have been victimized by the actions and omissions of states and governments.

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

In this work, Chomsky explores the West's uses and abuses of the principle of "e;human intervention.

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 came into force on 1 January 2005, creating a new statutory 'right to open government'.

The inspirational saga of one man's fight for civil rights for African Americans in LouisianaWitness to the Truth tells the extraordinary life story of a grassroots human rights leader and his courageous campaign to win the right to vote for the African Americans of Lake Providence, Louisiana.

This book provides the first systematic assessment from a human rights law perspective of the landmark contributions of the renowned legal anthropologist, Sally Engle Merry.

This book examines the extent and causes of contemporary religious persecution and conflict.

The book project strives to establish and interpret the experiences and realities of African migration using African epistemology and philosophy.

The classic collection of major speeches, now bundled with an audio download of Malcolm X delivering two of them.

This book centres on the ways in which the concept of imperativeness has found expression in private international law (PIL) and discusses "e;imperative norms"e;, and "e;imperativeness"e; as their intrinsic quality, examining the rules or principles that protect fundamental interests and/or the values of a state so as to require their application at any cost and without exceptions.

The British North America Act of 1867 fashioned a Canadian federation which was intended to be a highly centralized union led by a powerful national government.

Rarely in the short history of liberal-democratic government has a primer on basic liberal-democratic values and institutions been more needed than now.

The Soviet collapse of 1991 - the Great August liberation - demonstrated the total exhaustion of Marxist-Leninist agitation and propaganda.

The nature of environmental human rights and their relation to larger rights theories has been a frequent topic of discussion in law, environmental ethics and political theory.

This edited work collates novel contributions on contemporary topics that are related to human rights.

This book brings together a set of contributions that examine the complexities associated with domestic work by highlighting not only the legal issues but also exploring the social, psycho-social, economic, and cultural dimensions of domestic work.

Telling the crucial and under-studied story of the U.

This key resource for anyone interested in the United Nations, global issues, or world politics provides accessible and comprehensive coverage of the history, growth, and development of ideas and institutions governing the globe.

Activism through Poetry: Critical Spanish Poems in Translation is a compiled anthology of translated poems, which explore cultural, political, social, and ecological issues in the context of contemporary Spain.

This book analyses and evaluates the international efforts to ensure the fair and human treatment of persons in police custody.

An in-depth look at how U.

What do you need to know in order to provide the best possible care for sick children of different faiths?

Philosophical interest in disability is rapidly expanding.

The coasts of todays American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of beachfront property in the Chesapeake, along the Carolina shores, and around the Gulf of Mexico was owned and populated by African Americans.

This book addresses the legal feasibility of ethnic data collection and positive action for equality and anti-discrimination purposes, and considers how they could be used to promote the Roma minority's inclusion in Europe.

In armed conflicts around the world, children are being killed, raped, abducted and recruited to fight at a shocking scale.

Human dignity, equality, and freedom are central to the South African Constitution.

Offers the first-ever comprehensive treatment under international law of the foundational human right to life.

This book adds impetus to the nexus between human rights, human rights education and material reality.

* Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2016*Modern warfare has a new form.

Traditional understandings of the genesis of the separation of church and state rest on assumptions about "e;Enlightenment"e; and the republican ethos of citizenship.

Making the case for the relevance of pastoral care today, this book explores the role of pastoral care through the prism of music.

This collection of fifteen insightful essays examines the complexity and diversity of Quaker antislavery attitudes across three centuries, from 1658 to 1890.

This book presents important fields of research in public healthcare in India from an interdisciplinary and health systems perspectives.

This book examines the lived experienes of death penalty defense lawyers and how they created a legal culture of resistance to the death penalty.

With an overview essay, timeline, reference entries, and annotated bibliography, this resource is a concise, one-stop reference on antisemitism in today's society.

Explores issues of global relevance around journalism''s relationship with political power through the lens of Southeast Asian states.

Menschenrechte in Nah- und Fernost Die Berücksichtigung von Menschenrechten bleibt weltweit noch immer hinter den international verbrieften Standards zurück.

Religious freedom is now widely accepted as fundamental to any liberal democracy.

Offering an up-to-date and comprehensive resource for students and general readers investigating human trafficking, this book examines the phenomenon in its many forms, the factors contributing to its existence, the victims it affects, and those who perpetrate this horrific crime.

Now more than ever, indigenous peoples' interests in their cultural heritage are in the spotlight.