Human rights, civil rights

Notions of Christian love, or charity, strongly shaped the political thought of John Winthrop, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln as each presided over a foundational moment in the development of American democracy.

This book explores the relationship between social movements, sexual citizenship and change in Southern Europe.

An insightful examination of how intersecting individual motivations and social structures mobilize spontaneous mass protests.

This book reinforces our knowledge and understanding of the problems involved in balancing human rights protection and security concerns, considering how these human rights issues have been raised by the various international debates and policy issues which have been created by the continuing global war on terrorism.

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has moved from a religion-dominated protest party to a pragmatic party of government in Northern Ireland, the most popular in the region, with more votes, Assembly seats, and MPs than any of its rivals.

People in prison are usually (and often exclusively) seen and approached as persons who have committed one or more crimes and who have to pay their debt to society.

Iraq, holding oil reserves second only to those of Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, is locked in a war with Iran whose outcome will affect Western energy supplies and the prospects for stability in the Arabian Gulf.

Despite the progress of decades-old disability rights policy, including the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, threats continue to undermine the wellbeing of this population.

It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential black electoral politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War, for as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African Americans remained in bondage.

NATO, an organisation brought together to function as an anti-communist alliance, faced existential questions after the unexpected collapse of the USSR at the beginning of the 1990s.

Using a variant of structuration theory, what Paul C.

In the face of ongoing religious conflicts and unending culture wars, what are we to make of liberalism's promise that it alone can arbitrate between church and state?

This book introduces readers to the major human rights institutions, courts, and tribunals and critically assesses their legacy as well as the promise they hold for realizing human rights globally, and the challenges they face in doing so.

This book tackles a hitherto neglected topic by presenting Ireland as very much a part of the Black Atlantic world.

Offers the first analysis of international courts'' archives and of how these constitute the international community as a particular reality.

In Nursing Civil Rights, Charissa J.

The chapters in this book are reworkings of presentations given during a conference held in 2018 at the German Embassy to the Netherlands in The Hague on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute.

Surveys over the last twenty years have seen an ever-growing number of Americans disclaim religious affiliations and instead check the "e;none"e; box.

This timely book, newly revised for this edition, addresses the question of human rights in the international context, focusing in particular on the interaction between human rights as a value and norm in international relations and Islam as a constituent of political culture in particular societies.

The refugee crisis that began in 2015 has seen thousands of refugees attempting to reach Europe, principally from Syria.

This book examines the attainment of complete free movement of civil judgments across EU member states from the perspective of its conformity with the fundamental right to a fair trial.

Miteinander und füreinander zu sorgen ist zentrales Anliegen von Seelsorge und Diakonie, von Gemeindearbeit und kirchlicher Praxis - aber auch gesellschaftliche Herausforderung in Zeiten von Digitalisierung und demografischem Wandel.

Jimmy Carter's notable works gathered into one ebook boxed set.

The last decade has witnessed a growing perception of ethical crisis in public life.

Across diverse countries and contexts in Africa, religion has direct implications for human security.

The term 'terrorism' is often applied exclusively to non-state groups or specific 'rogue states'.

While religious conflict receives plenty of attention, the everyday negotiation of religious diversity does not.

State crackdowns on drug cartels often backfire, producing entrenched ''cartel-state conflict''; deterrence approaches have curbed violence but proven fragile.

These 35 little known heroes and heroines of American history from across the ethnic spectrum have been virtually ignored in traditional history books.

This topical book shows that racism by skin color is much more embedded and prevalent in the modern world than racism by race.

This collection considers how contemporary cultural and religious diversity challenges and redefines national constitutional and legal frameworks and concepts, within the context of education.

This book examines the legal and policy issues behind the ambiguity involved with civil rights protections for Jewish students.

The human rights regime is one of modernity's great civilizing triumphs.

This book provides a hypothetical classification of constitutions through international law and human rights values used in any constitution, which draws connections between the inclusive standards of international law and human rights contained in the constitutions.

Critically examines ASEAN''s human rights system in the context of Southeast Asian political-legal developments and the global human rights discourse

This book examines Syrian displacement since the start of the 2011 conflict.

Between Advents continues Bruce Taylor's series of sermons for the Common Lectionary (Revised), offering theologically rich, sacramentally reflective, ecumenically compatible, and biblically centered proclamations for the Sundays and major feast days of Year C, from Advent through Eastertide.

This book focuses on socio-economic rights in the context of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.

The 2013 elections took place less than two years after the overwhelming wave of social protests of summer 2011.

This book provides the first book-length, English-language account of the political ethics of large-scale, Western-based humanitarian INGOs, such as Oxfam, CARE, and Doctors Without Borders.

This study utilises John Donne's works concerning the Jacobean Settlement as a contextualised case study to examine a seriously pressing issue in contemporary society: the issue of Catholic loyalism post-1603 and the disputes that thistopic sparked over the matter of conformity.

Cyberhate is defined as racist, discriminatory, negationist and violent statements made on social network platforms, text platforms, comment pages, and more.

Madison Powers and Ruth Faden here develop an innovative theory of structural injustice that links human rights norms and fairness norms.

This is the first book-length work to offer a sustained comparison of Roma and African Americans.

Despite widespread persecution, Orthodox churches not only survived the Cold War period but levels of religiosity in Orthodox countries remained significant.

Is the US really exceptional in terms of its willingness to take universal human rights seriously?

In response to the intellectual movement of New Atheism, this volume articulates a "e;New Theist"e; response that has at its core a desire to engage in productive and depolarizing dialogue.