Human rights, civil rights

BAYARD RUSTIN POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE 2013 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOMA master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States.

Signed into law in 2000, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) defined the crime of human trafficking and brought attention to an issue previously unknown to most Americans.

We live in a time when the most appalling social injustices and unjust human sufferings no longer seem to generate the moral indignation and the political will needed both to combat them effectively and to create a more just and fair society.

Understanding the various meanings given to human and citizenship rights in Argentina is an important task, particularly so given the nation's prominence in global discussions.

The unmarked mass graves left by war and acts of terror are lasting traces of violence in communities traumatized by fear, conflict, and unfinished mourning.

The international legal framework of human rights presents itself as universal.

Originally published in 2012, Dignity Rights is the first book to explore the constitutional law of dignity around the world.

In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy.

The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black "e;chosenness"e; into plans and programs for black liberation.

Failed Democratization in Prewar Japan presents a compelling case study on change in political regimes through its exploration of Japan's transition to democracy.

Combining theology, politics and historical analysis, "e;theorizes what might be at stake-ethically-for America's current political life"e; (Andrew Taylor, Journal of American History).

Some of the most massive and persistent violations of human rights occur in African nations.

Lawless elements are ascendant in Mexico, as evidenced by the operations of criminal cartels engaged in human and drug trafficking, often with the active support or acquiescence of government actors.

Barack Obama's presidential victory demonstrated unprecedented racial progress on a national level.

A study of strategies implemented in local, regional, and international human rights campaigns elucidating how advocates were able to achieve their goals.

The ability to forget the violent twentieth-century past was long seen as a virtue in Spain, even a duty.

Central American countries have long defined health as a human right.

The massacres that spread across Algeria in 1997 and 1998 shocked the world, both in their horror and in the international community's failure to respond.

The Adversary First Amendment presents a unique and controversial rethinking of modern American democratic theory and free speech.

The renowned philosopher and author of Homo Sacer continues his groundbreaking work with this examination of selfhood and Western ontology.

The rise of political Islam has provoked considerable debate about the compatibility of democracy, tolerance, and pluralism with the Islamist position.

In this compelling collection of oral histories, more than seventy-five peacemakers describe how they say no to war-making in the strongest way possible--by engaging in civil disobedience and paying the consequences in jail or prison.

For the last thirty years, documented human rights violations have been met with an unprecedented rise in demands for accountability.

Shifting power balances in the world are shaking the foundations of the liberal international order and revealing new fault lines at the intersection of human rights and international security.

The Outcast Majority invites policymakers, practitioners, academics, students, and others to think about three commanding contemporary issues-war, development, and youth-in new ways.

Instead of religion influencing political outcomes, this analysis examines how politics influences religious outcomes.

The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface.

Decentering Citizenship follows three groups of Filipina migrants' struggles to belong in South Korea: factory workers claiming rights as workers, wives of South Korean men claiming rights as mothers, and hostesses at American military clubs who are excluded from claims-unless they claim to be victims of trafficking.

The visible increase in religious practice among young European-born Muslims has provoked public anxiety.

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

Why do "e;peace-loving"e; religions so often cause instability, conflict, and violence?

A fresh account of early American religious history that argues for a new understanding of ritual.

"e;What does it mean to see the American landscape in a secular way?

Living in the Future reveals the unexplored impact of utopian thought on the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement.

A groundbreaking look at how a predominantly white faith-based group reset the terms of the fight to integrate US cities.

When we think of Catholicism, we think of Europe and the United States as the seats of its power.

One of the most substantial divides in American politics is the "e;God gap.

A chapter-by-chapter explanation of the Book of Exodus, revealing its wisdom about nation building and people formation"e;Kass draws from Exodus' record of the founding of Judaism timely even urgent universal lessons about twenty-first-century preconditions for human flourishing in any community.

One of the great liberal politicians of the twentieth century, rediscovered in an important, definitive biographyHubert Humphrey (1911'Ai1978) was one of the great liberal leaders of postwar American politics, yet because he never made it to the Oval Office he has been largely overlooked by biographers.

This collection of fifteen insightful essays examines the complexity and diversity of Quaker antislavery attitudes across three centuries, from 1658 to 1890.

In 1907, physician Lawrence A.

In this eagerly awaited book, political theorist Michael Walzer reports his findings after decades of reading and thinking about the politics of the Hebrew Bible.

In Memory Eternal, Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years.

What can you do to be a force for racial justice?

In Nursing Civil Rights, Charissa J.

A beautifully written exploration of religion's role in a secular, modern politics, by an accomplished scholar of critical theoryMigrants in the Profane takes its title from an intriguing remark by Theodor W.

Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community.

How American conflicts about religion have always symbolized our foundational political values   When Americans fight about “religion,” we are also fighting about our conflicting identities, interests, and commitments.