Human rights, civil rights

In this book, originally published in Britain in 1971, and reissued here with a new preface, Eleanor Hamilton provides an enlightened and practical guide to the problems of sex and love for the increasing number of young men and women who wanted to enjoy a full and rich relationship before marriage, still frowned upon at the time.

Documents the global expansion of genocide in the early modern and modern eras as imperialism and settler colonialism spread across five continents.

This Brief introduces a novel research approach to investigate freedom of the press in Hong Kong.

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

Most countries on the African continent have ratified or acceded to several human rights treaties, including the Torture Convention and the African Charter on Human and People's Rights.

In this book, originally published in Britain in 1971, and reissued here with a new preface, Eleanor Hamilton provides an enlightened and practical guide to the problems of sex and love for the increasing number of young men and women who wanted to enjoy a full and rich relationship before marriage, still frowned upon at the time.

ALA TimesBestseller[A] compelling history of our citys last half century, as conveyed through the life of one of our most impactful leaders.

Delfina Nahuenhual le enseña a Celeste cosas que ella no conocía.

How do white people handle their own dominance while striving for racial reconciliation in a concrete church context in Cape Town?

A provocative new history of how the news media facilitated the Reagan Revolution and the rise of the religious Right.

The story of Africa is a ghost story with two plots.

Canadian Christian parents have lost their parental sovereignty over their children.

The phenomenon of child trafficking holds a unique position as an issue of significant contemporary relevance, occupying a principal place in debates about human rights today.

This cutting-edge book examines the unique issues that transgender identities face globally in the criminal processing system through empirical and theoretical contributions.

This Brief introduces a novel research approach to investigate freedom of the press in Hong Kong.

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

When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades.

This book provides a space for victims' testimonies and memories, engages with their experiences, reflects upon the redress movement, and evaluates policies related to Korean comfort women as victims and survivors from the international, domestic, and bilateral realms.

The book provides a pentapartite theoretical analysis of socio-economic factors as the grand basis for the evolution of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria.

This is the first scholarly book to examine the UN Sustainable Development Goals from an indigenous perspective and, specifically, with reference to the right to self-determination.

From the rise of constitutionalism during the rule of despotic Qajars, foreign invasions, the Pahlavi regimes' destructive politics, economic, cultural and social modernization efforts and the oil nationalization movement, to the Iranian Revolution, its high hopes, broken promises, repression and intolerance causing national discontent and another socio-political upheaval today, the history of modern Iran has been eventful, unstable and turbulent.

The book provides a pentapartite theoretical analysis of socio-economic factors as the grand basis for the evolution of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria.

Highlights the shifting terrain in literary studies of slavery and challenges the notion of what constitutes slavery and its representation.

This volume provides an updated analysis of the most significant constitutive aspects for the political sociology of the EU.

POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENTA portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leadersAung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and crusader for democracyin Myanmar, is once again behind bars.

Lejos de los pronosticos apocaliticos del siglo pasado que planteaban la progresiva desaparicion de lo religioso en el marco de la creciente racionalizacion y secularizacion de la sociedad moderna, lo religioso ha emergido a traves de multiples manifestaciones demostrando su persistencia, a la vez que exteriorizando tanto perspectivas novedosas como reafirmando planteos tradicionalistas y fuertemente fundamentalistas.

En este libro se estudia en detalle el fallido experimento chileno de reemplazar la Constitución.

Political Islam and Democracy in Central Asia is a study of moderation of political Islam in Central Asia.

Los artículos, libros y compilaciones sobre temas de derechos humanos, justicia internacional y ética global ocupan un espacio cada vez más destacado en el debate académico e intelectual contemporáneo.

Political Islam and Democracy in Central Asia is a study of moderation of political Islam in Central Asia.

In 2014, after a decade of political turmoil, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) carried out Thailand's 13th coup since the country's transformation from absolute to constitutional monarchy in 1932.

Wir stecken momentan in der größten Krise seit dem zweiten Weltkrieg: Corona, Impfdesaster, Ukrainekrieg, Nahostkrieg, Inflation, Rezession – all das hängt miteinander zusammen.

2024 Midwest Book Award Winner in Religion & PhilosophyPower.

This volume provides an updated analysis of the most significant constitutive aspects for the political sociology of the EU.

Dive deep into the vast expanse of intellectual thought with "e;Aristotle's Complete Works,"e; a comprehensive eBook that brings together the works of Aristotle, one of the most revered philosophers in history.

We are currently engaged in an existential species war against nonhuman animals.

This book uses empirical data gathered using ethnographic methods in two contrasting prisons to provide a rare insight into death and dying in prisons in the UK.

Net neutrality prevents cable companies from filtering internet content without a court order and fosters freedom of speech.

Algunos temas empíricos de investigación no han recibido hasta el momento un abordaje sistemático por parte de las ciencias histórico-sociales en Argentina.

We are currently engaged in an existential species war against nonhuman animals.

This book uses empirical data gathered using ethnographic methods in two contrasting prisons to provide a rare insight into death and dying in prisons in the UK.

ALA TimesBestseller[A] compelling history of our citys last half century, as conveyed through the life of one of our most impactful leaders.

In this original and provocative book, Nahed Artoul Zehr explores the theological underpinnings of al-Qaeda and related Islamic movements such as ISIS.

Sovereignty generally refers to a particular national territory, the inviolability of the nations borders, and the right of that nation to protect its borders and ensure internal stability.

This book examines both border policies and oppositional narratives of "e;the border,"e; 2011-2021, demonstrating that the term designates not merely a line of territorial control but also a set of social relations shaped by persistent, racially differentiated colonial structures and, more recently, by neoliberal modes of accumulation.

This book explores how prison life is normalized in different countries, with a critical and detailed look at 'Scandinavian exceptionalism' - the idea that Scandinavian prisons have exceptionally humane conditions - and compares these prisons to ones in Belgium.