Human rights, civil rights

From cleaning to construction, from agriculture to domestic work, every day migrant labourers are exploited and enslaved.

Association for the Study of Higher Education Outstanding Book Award Winner, 2020This book outlines the beginning of student organizing around issues of sexual orientation at Midwestern universities from 1969 to the early 1990s.

The authors explore the outlook of Rwanda in the context of development of East Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Privacy is a puzzling concept.

New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650-1800 takes a fresh look at archival and printed sources from England and America, elucidating why women were instrumental to the Quaker movement from its inception to its establishment as a transatlantic religious body.

In Challenging Inequality in South Africa: Transitional Compasses leading scholars of South Africa explore creative possibilities to challenge structures of economic, social and political power that produce inequality.

No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis.

In the late twentieth century, nothing united union members, progressive students, Black and Chicano activists, Native Americans, feminists, and members of the LGBTQ+ community quite as well as Coors beer.

This book examines the ability of citizens across ten European countries to exercise their democratic rights to access their personal data.

The European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) has been relatively neglected in the field of normative human rights theory.

This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the 'global justice movement'.

An analysis of the UN human rights treaty bodies, their methods of interpretation, their effectiveness and issues of legitimacy.

This book contributes to a feminist understanding of international human rights by examining restrictions on reproductive freedom through the lens of the right to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

This book analyses the UN's Agenda 2030 and reveals that progress is lagging on all five interlocking and interdependent themes that are discussed: conflict prevention, development, peace, justice and human rights.

This book offers a unique and powerful critique of the quest for international criminal justice.

A stimulating, theoretically driven examination of the relationship between human rights and the globalizing process.

This book offers a materialist critique of mainstream human rights discourse in the period following 9/11, examining literary works, critical histories, international declarations, government statutes, NGO manifestos, and a documentary film.

This book focuses on the toxic legacy of Native North America, which is pervasive but largely invisible to most non-Native peoples.

Nathan A.

This two-volume book addresses the economic transformation occurring in China at present.

This is a new examination of how Shari'a law affects public policy both theoretically and in practice, across a wide range of public policy areas, including for example human rights and family law.

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.

This book analyzes the contemporary politics of immigration from the asylum crisis to Islamophobia, multiculturalism, and post-colonialism.

This remarkable collection of letters reveals the debate over universal human rights.

This book describes a structured sketching methodology to help you create alternative design ideas and sketch them on paper.

Starting in late 2012, Westerners working in Syria -- journalists and aid workers -- began disappearing without a trace.

Contributions by Robert Adams Jr.

This book explores how Europe can resolve its foreign fighter conundrum without losing its credibility as a guardian of the rule of law and human rights.

This book argues for the utility of human rights in the practice of ocean governance.

How do international norms evolve?

Human rights can be understood as moral or political.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the broad spectrum of human rights issues and violations as they are experienced by women and sexual minorities across civil, political, social, economic, and/or cultural domains, in different regions, countries, and contexts.

This book draws attention to emerging issues around the rights of minorities, marginalized groups, and persons in Africa.

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.

Pink Triangle Legacies traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a widespread, recognizable symbol of queer activism, pride, and community.

The book provides an in-depth discussion of democratic theory questions in relation to refugee law.

This book draws together interdisciplinary perspectives to examine the legal, moral, and socio-spatial regulation of sex work in the contemporary context.

Este libro explora las posibilidades imaginarias de la libertad tras la crítica a los derechos humanos.

Forty years ago Amartya Sen introduced to the world a novel approach to the idea of equality: the notion of 'basic capability' as 'a morally relevant dimension' and the claim that we should focus upon equality of basic capabilities ('a person being able to do certain basic things').

Gender and Human Rights in a Global, Mobile Era delves into feminist debates surrounding the relationship between gender and human rights through engaging feminist perspectives on the multifaceted issue of human trafficking.

The book presents a theoretical and practical approach to international social work.

This book addresses the interrelationship between economic and financial crises, the responses thereto, and economic and social rights.

Nearly every country in the world has a mechanism for executive clemency, which, though residual in most legal systems, serves as a vital due process safeguard and as an outlet for leniency in punishment.

In recent decades, corporations have increasingly accepted that they have obligations to respect the socio-economic rights of individuals whose rights to livelihoods, education, food, health, housing and water are affected by the actions of corporations on a daily basis.

'It is my thesis that this general production of life, or subsistence production - mainly performed through the non-wage labour of women and other non-wage labourers as slaves, contract workers and peasants in the colonies - constitutes the perennial basis upon which "e;capitalist productive labour"e; can be built up and exploited.

This edited collection investigates how full employment programs can sustain the economy and the environment, promote social justice, and reinvigorate local communities.

This book presents the updated results of an investigation carried out in 2019.

In Advocating Dignity, Jean H.

This book explores how competing worldviews impact on intergroup relations and building a sustainable peace in culturally diverse societies.