Human rights, civil rights

This book examines the manner in which the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount has been appropriated by both Palestinians and Israelis as a nationalist symbol legitimizing respective claims to the land.

This concise volume guides public health advocates on how to successfully advocate for their cause, strengthen their messaging and communication strategies, build coalitions, and gather political allies.

This books demonstrates the difficulty of protecting victims of human trafficking from being held liable for crimes they were compelled to commit in the course, or as a consequence, of being trafficked, under current European law.

The volume gathers theoretical contributions on human rights and global justice in the context of international migration.

This book argues that the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) the Libyan people played an important role in the U.

This book investigates the often-fragmented nature of Ulster Nationalist / Republican / Roman Catholic politics, culture and identity.

The project discusses Hezbollah's political ideology and how it evolves over time and the conditions that lead to the change of ideology.

This book addresses the ongoing problem of HIV in black South African women as a health inequity.

Veiled women in the West appear menacing.

This book examines the unintended consequences of top-down reforms in Iran, analysing how the Iranian reformist governments (1997-2005) sought to utilise gradual reforms to control independent activism, and how citizens responded to such a disciplinary action.

This book addresses the discourses, agendas and actions of Muslim faith-based organizations and activists to empower Muslim communities in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa.

Situated within the wider post-secular turn in politics and international relations, this volume focuses not on religion per se, but rather explicitly on theology.

Using legal arguments consistent with international law, this book explores whether and under which circumstances a State (or States) may establish and militarily enforce safe zones in countries that produce large-scale refugee outflows so as to protect its (or their) own interests by averting said outflows, as well as to alleviate human suffering in today's world of civil and internal warfare.

This book shows how the introduction of  intermediation is relevant in studying political and public policy processes, as they are increasingly accompanied by grey spaces in public and non-public arenas that cannot be categorized as purely representative or purely participative.

This book examines lifelong learning from different angles and follows the trajectory beginning with the expansive notion of lifelong education promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and its subsequent version intended to better suit the neoliberal framework and make EU countries more competitive in the global economy.

This book analyses current developments in Europe and Latin America towards the greater involvement of the parties in the administration of criminal justice.

This book brings together theories of world society with poststructuralist and postcolonial work on modern subjectivity to understand the universalising and particularising processes of globalisation.

This book explores the ombudsman as a global institution.

This contributed volume motivates and educates across fields about the major challenges in global health and the interdisciplinary strategies for solving them.

This anthology constitutes an important contribution to the interdisciplinary debate on poverty measurement and alleviation.

This book brings to life the experiences of children affected by maternal imprisonment, and provides unique, in-depth analysis of judicial thinking on this issue.

This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in Nigeria.

This volume examines the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life in a representative sample of West European countries: newly democratized and long-established democracies, societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and welfare states with different levels and types of state-provided social services.

This book narrates the integration of consumer culture into transnational human rights advocacy and explores its political impact.

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

This book discusses the threats and challenges facing the Persian Gulf and the future security in the region, providing an overview of the major regional and extra-regional actors in Gulf security.

This book aims to shift the limited and often negative popular understanding of the Middle East's place in the world by chronicling the region's contributions to the international order rather than disorder, and to the development of the international human rights system.

The book analyses the Indian Supreme Court's jurisprudence on homosexuality, its current approach and how its position has evolved in the past ten years.

This book intends to analyze Reinhold Niebuhr's understanding of the state in his Christian Realism.

This book investigates the importance of gender and resistance to silences and denials concerning human rights abuses and historical injustices in narratives on transnational memories of three violent conflicts in Indonesia.

This book provides an inclusive and incisive analysis of the experiences of working-class young people in education.

This is the first book devoted entirely to exploring Zizek's peculiar kind of Paulinism.

This book examines Australia's and the United States' ability to prosecute their peacekeepers for sexual exploitation and abuse.

This book, which updates and expands the third edition published by Springer in 2015, explains, compares and evaluates the social and legal functions of adoption within a range of selected jurisdictions and on an international basis.

This book presents evidence that children are the real experts of their lives.

Why the pursuit of state recognition by seemingly marginal religious groups in Egypt and elsewhere is a devotional practiceOver the past decade alone, religious communities around the world have demanded state recognition, exemption, accommodation, or protection.

This edited volume brings together alternative and innovative approaches in conflict resolution.

This edited textbook covers a range of key operational and strategic aspects of police administration, from experts who have both an academic and practitioner background.

This book draws on the voices of sex workers and their clients to critically assess the criminalization of prostitution in favour of decriminalization.

This book poses a radical challenge to the legend of Socrates bequeathed by Plato and echoed by scholars through the ages: that Socrates was an innocent sage convicted and sentenced to death by the democratic mob, for merely questioning the political and religious ideas of his time.

This book addresses the question: "e;What should be the appropriate limits to free speech?

This book explores the pros and cons of the death penalty and the history of capital punishment.

This book explores how and why the transposition of EU directives in the new and contentious policy area 'Business and Human Rights' differs between member states.

This book analyses post-deportation outcomes and focuses on what happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers after deportation.

This book shows how an encounter with everyday nationhood in the northern United Arab Emirates can make us revisit the classics of sociology as continuous analytical world-views.

This book sheds light on how Hizbullah has transformed religious rituals and supernatural narratives in order to mobilize the Shi'a community.

This book gathers the very best academic research to date on prison regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean.