Human rights, civil rights

This book aims to reinvigorate normative legal scholarship that both criticizes positive law and suggests reforms for it.

This book critically examines how countries across Europe have dealt with the COVID crisis from a policing and security perspective.

This book presents the case that liberal constitutionalism in the global South is a legacy of colonialism and is inappropriate as a means of securing effective peace in regions that have been subject to recurrent conflict.

This book discusses the crucial strategic topic for the practical implementation of transitional justice in post-conflict societies by arguing that the dilemma is defined by the extent to which the actual achievement of the political goals of transition is a necessary condition for the long-term observance and implementation of justice.

The decline of respect for free speech, academic freedom, and civil liberty in American universities.

This book offers a new perspective on international law, which was, for centuries, male-dominant and gender-blind.

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.

Cases of sexual violence against men have been documented in a great number of conflicts and wars, both ancient and contemporary.

Moving past theoretical critiques of human rights, this book considers how we might translate situational analyses of torture into effective strategies for preventing it.

This book explores the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) phenomenon - its impact and implications for Israel and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as well as the inextricable linkage between its anti-Israeli/anti-Zionist propaganda and antisemitism, unraveled from yet unknown perspectives.

Palestine for the Third Time is a book of reportage originally published in Poland in 1933 by Ksawery Pruszynski, a young reporter working for a Polish newspaper, who went to Mandate Palestine to see for himself whether the Zionist dream of returning to Eretz Yisrael had a chance of turning into reality.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Soziologie der Päpste" verfügbar.

Should states use military force for humanitarian purposes?

Was the Bush administration was successful in legitimating its preferences with habeas corpus, torture, and extraordinary rendition?

This book explores the idea of responsible government in East Asia, arguing that many recent governance crises have resulted from responsibility failures on a huge scale.

A landmark dissenting opinion arguing against the death penalty.

The powerful, long-repressed classic of Dallas history that examines the violent and suppressed history of race and racism in the city.

This new work surveys how rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in social, cultural, political and economic domains impact on sexuality, health and human rights.

This book provides a critical account of the concept of international protection.

What does it mean that human rights derive from human dignity?

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

The Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, California, was pivotal in shaping 1960s America.

An examination of the plight of the refugees of Burma's protracted civil war, many of whom have fled across the border into Thailand.

The Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe has emerged as a highly contested reform process both nationally and internationally.

The term 'War on Terror' (WOT) covers a mass of interlinked topics.

This invaluable one-stop reference source supplies students and general readers with historical and current information on the victims' rights revolution in the United States, providing analysis on everything from human rights reports to Supreme Court cases that allows the reader to fully understand these documents.

A theoretically-informed, critical account of the making of the international legal rules governing civil war.

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the critical picture of gender and violence in the age of globalization by introducing a variety of uncommonly discussed geo-political sites and dynamics.

East Asia, until recently the scene of widespread blood-letting, has achieved relative peace.

Scholars from a range of different disciplines explore how best to implement children''s rights.

A child may be born into a poor country, but not a poor world.

This book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies.

War, Conflict and Human Rights is an innovative inter-disciplinary textbook, combining aspects of law, politics and conflict analysis to examine the relationship between human rights and armed conflict.

A sceptical appraisal of the claim that freedom of expression is a human right.

This work reviews the progress of children's rights 25 years since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Formal justice systems have not served the human rights of native and aboriginal groups well and have led to growing natural and international pressure for equal treatment and increased political and legal autonomy.

This book offers a critical analysis of the European colonial heritage in the Arab countries and highlights the way this legacy is still with us today, informing the current state of relations between Europe and the formerly colonized states.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONA New Yorker Best Book of 2024 * An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024 * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard First Book Prize'Reads like a legal thriller' ESQUIRE'As propulsive and affecting as it is infuriating' VANITY FAIRA powerful work of reportage and American history that braids together the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the 1990s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land more than a century later.

The claim that 'LGBT rights are human rights' encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used resistance to 'LGBT rights' to cast themselves as defenders of traditional values against neo-colonial interference and western decadence.

The European Union is a supranational organisation with a set of circumscribed powers.

The contested creation of free movementfor people and goodsin the Schengen area of EuropeEurope is a place of free movement among nationsor is it?

The book shows how state-enforced religious laws impact human rights, and what people do to advance their rights from within.

From Quaker to Upper Canadian is the first scholarly work to examine the transformation of this important religious community from a self-insulated group to integration within Upper Canadian society.

This interdisciplinary volume illuminates housing''s impact on both wealth and community, and examines legal and policy responses to current challenges.

In the West we frequently pay lip service to universal notions of human rights.

This book examines the practice of transitional justice in the Solomon Islands from the period of the 'The Tensions' to the present.

The "e;highly addictive"e; international bestseller, "e;an amazing true-life thriller, one of the most suspenseful books written in recent years"e; (Jeffrey Gettleman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author).