Human rights, civil rights

In a fallen world, politics will be a brutal, at times violent, sport.

In 1956 Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr.

Examines relationships between black and white Detroit residents through the lens of 1967, fifty years later.

For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia.

This most thorough and contemporary examination of the religious features of the UK state and its monarchy argues that the long reign of Elizabeth has led to a widespread lack of awareness of the centuries old religious features of the state that are revealed at the accession and coronation of a new monarch.

In the wake of same-sex marriage legalization, most religious conservatives realize that they now share a minority viewpoint on many social issues.

The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange Order in Scotland.

Religious liberty is often called "e;the first freedom.

The twenty-first century has seen violence thunder back onto the stage of history.

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

Big Brother gets up close and personal.

Sick of the total BS of rampant PC?

Bodies of Truth offers an intimate account of how apartheid victims deal with the long-term effects of violence, focusing on the intertwined themes of embodiment, injury, victimhood, and memory.

Through its strength in numbers and remarkable presence in politics, Pentecostalism has become a force to reckon with in twenty-first-century Zambian society.

For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia.

This book analyses the principle of equality from three perspectives: public international law, private international law and EU law.

This book critically examines how and why Eastern enlargement has impacted on EU human rights policy.

Nonie Darwish lived for thirty years in a majority Muslim nation.

The new edition of Mark Lewis Taylors award-winning The Executed God is both a searing indictment of the structures of Lockdown America and a visionary statement of hope.

This book tells the story of the emergence of the concept of crimes against humanity.

More man a oecaoe aner me Taliban were ousted from power.

A gun-toting preacher, a rebel army led by a madman, and entire villages slaughtered just because they were in the way.

Is there life after death?

Everyone is paying attention to Pope Francis, and that includes the most unlikely of admirers: a female Baptist pastor.

This book critically examines how and why Eastern enlargement has impacted on EU human rights policy.

Brian Bantum says that race is not merely an intellectual category or a biological fact.

Immigration has long been associated with the urban landscape, from accounts of inner-city racial tension and discrimination during the 1960s and 1970s and studies of minority communities of the 1980s and 1990s, to the increased focus on cities amongst contemporary scholars of migration and diaspora.

The book addresses authoritarian legacies of politically motivated justice and its unwritten practices that have re-emerged in the recent trials related to both political and ordinary criminal charges against prominent opposition leaders in many former Soviet republics.

This study is an attempt at explaining the social structure of India with reference to untouchability.

In this collection of essays, interviews, and speeches, the renowned activist examines today's issues-from Black Lives Matter to prison abolition and more.

Encyclopaedia of Human Rights covers the vast field of human rights at all levels, i.

Combining a historical perspective that traces lines of continuity and change in Arab liberalism, an integrative discussion of cross-sectional themes, and a comparative analysis of the West, Turkey and Iran, this book seeks to enrich our knowledge of liberal thought in the Arab Middle East.

The introduction of FOI in Ireland was a watershed moment in Irish democracy.

';I worked in a trailer that ICE had set aside for conversations between the women and the attorneys.

This book provides a profound exploration of the concept of a "e;human minimum"e; as articulated by the renowned African philosopher H.

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In the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice.

One of Argentinas 30,000 disappeared, Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed.

The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religionIn The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in nineteenth-century America promoted a secular religion of humanity centered on the deistic revolutionary Thomas Paine (1737-1809) and how their descendants eventually became embroiled in the culture wars of the late twentieth century.

The bestselling author and activist "e;has delivered another impressive argument that the U.

This book provides an in-depth examination of the judicial response at the internationalcriminal tribunals (ICTs) to the violation of procedural standards in thepre-trial phase of proceedings.

Should a liberal democratic state permit religious schools?

Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others.

The religious and political winds are changing.

Unlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War.

What did the founders of America think about religion?

A political history of the most famous desegregation crisis in AmericaThe desegregation crisis in Little Rock is a landmark of American history: on September 4, 1957, after the Supreme Court struck down racial segregation in public schools, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called up the National Guard to surround Little Rock Central High School, preventing black students from going in.

Where did affirmative action in employment come from?

An in-depth look at the historic and strategic deployment of rights in political conflicts throughout the worldRights are usually viewed as defensive concepts representing mankind's highest aspirations to protect the vulnerable and uplift the downtrodden.

A powerful portrait of the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time, from the director of Human FlowIn the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his collaborators interviewed more than 600 refugees, aid workers, politicians, activists, doctors, and local authorities in twenty-three countries around the world.