Human rights, civil rights

For over four centuries the Catholic Church enjoyed a religious monopoly in Latin America in which potential rivals were repressed or outlawed.

Public mistrust of those in authority and failings of public organisations frame disputes over attribution of responsibility between individuals and systems.

This book provides a comprehensive and updated legal analysis of the equality principle in EU law.

Known terrorists are often targeted for death by the governments of Israel and the United States.

This book advances practical protection of human rights, and challenge claims of western monopoly of human rights discourse.

First published in 1917, Satow's Diplomatic Practice has long been hailed as a classic and authoritative text.

Engaging with the idea that the world reveals not one, but many routes to modernity, this volume explores the role of religion in the emergence of multiple forms of modernity, which evolve according to specific cultural conditions and interpretations of the 'modern project'.

American Evangelicals Today assesses the contemporary social, religious, and political characteristics of evangelical Protestants today, and it does so in light of (1) whether these characteristics are similar to, or different from, the corresponding characteristics of adherents of other major faith traditions in American religious life, and (2) the extent which these particular characteristics among evangelicals may have changed over the past four decades.

During the last two decades, the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have attempted to address the numerous human rights abuses that characterized the decades of communist rule.

This book incorporates a wide theoretical, cultural, literary and historical engagement in exploring the tension between dramatic productions and the forms of censorship they encounter from creation to reception.

This book focuses on the dynamics of democracy and populism in Muslim-majority countries, such as Turkey and Indonesia.

This important work addresses the difficult ethical issues surrounding the accessibility of food to all people as a human right, and not a privilege that emerges because of social structure or benefit of geography.

Explains the rapid rise of China''s innovation system and provides a roadmap for the prospects of China''s AI development.

With original and engaging contributions, this Handbook confirms feminist scholarship in development studies as a vibrant research field.

In Initiating the Millennium, Robert Collis and Natalie Bayer fill a substantial lacuna in the study of an initiatic society--known variously as the Illumins d'Avignon, the Avignon Society, the New Israel Society, and the Union--that flourished across Europe between 1779 and 1807.

Das materialistische, nur auf die sinnlich-physische Körperlichkeit gerichtete Denken kann den Begriff des Organismus nicht fassen.

This resource helps readers navigate and better understand the religious, cultural, and political impact of American views of religious faith and scientific inquiry.

Explores the ICC''s regime of victim redress, including both its reparations regime and the work of the ICC Trust Fund.

The Sacred Is the Profane collects nine essays by William Arnal and Russell McCutcheon that advance current scholarly debates on secularism-debates.

This book examines the international forums in which states develop cyber norms-"e;rules of the road"e; for how governments use information and communication technologies.

The book analyzes a contemporary policy question at the nexus of democracy, criminal justice, and constitutional citizenship.

This book examines the origins of Australia's constitutional religious freedom provision.

In the vast expanse of human history, migration has been an ever-present phenomenon.

While the notion of social harm has long interested critical criminologists it is now being explored as an alternative field of study, which provides more accurate analyses of the vicissitudes of life.

This book examines the increasing retention and use of previous criminal record information, within and beyond the criminal justice system.

This innovative volume is focused on the relationship between religion on the one hand and political and judicial rights on the other.

This book examines conflict and violence among religious minorities and the implication on the idea of citizenship in contemporary India.

This book offers a unique insight into the role of human rights lawyers in Chinese law and politics.

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.

The investigation of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood during the presidencies of Anwar Sadat and the early years of Hosni Mubarak is based on the movement's main journals, al-Da'wa and Liwa' al-'Islam, presenting its history during two relevant periods: 1976-1981, 1987-1988.

For over forty years, Cold War concerns about the threat of communism shaped the contours of refugee and asylum policy in the United States, and the majority of those admitted as refugees came from communist countries.

This book, first published in 1949, analyses the thread of Christian anti-authority thought that runs through protests and revolts from the first days of Christianity to modern times.

In the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice.

The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century-the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention.

This book follows and complements the previous volume Biotechnology and International Law (Hart 2006) bringing a specific focus on human rights.

With respect to the countries of the world, this work addresses two basic questions: "e;How does religion affect politics in this country?

An internationally-renowned scholar in the fields of international and transitional justice, Diane Orentlicher provides an unparalleled account of an international tribunal's impact in societies that have the greatest stake in its work.

This book examines the failure of Islamic politics in becoming a hegemonic force in Indonesia and the far-reaching consequences for current practices of democracy and of Islam itself.

The first book to engage in a comprehensive examination of the human right to water in theory and in practice.

This book, finished in September 2023, addresses the fundamental principles enshrined in Resolution 2625 (XXV): sovereignty, the principle of non-intervention, the prohibition of the use of force, and self-determination.

This comprehensive theological analysis of leading early Quakers'' work, offers fresh insights into what they were really saying.

In contemporary pluralist states, where faith communities live together, different religious symbols and practices have to coexist.

The term "e;genocide"e;"e;group killing"e;which first appeared in Raphael Lemkin's 1944 book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, had by 1948 established itself in international law through the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

The teaching of history has long been the subject of partisan warfare.

In the light of intense international focus on ongoing forms of world poverty, this book examines the potential of the concept of recognition in contemporary political philosophy to respond morally to this dire condition.

This book explores the extent of parallelism and cross-influence between Catholic Social Teaching and the work of the world's oldest human rights institution, the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

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

In this book, Julia Berger examines internal meaning-making structures and processes driving NGO behavior, identifying constructs from within a religious tradition that forge new ways of pursuing social change.