Human rights, civil rights

This casebook addresses selected precedent-setting rulings of various international human rights and international criminal courts with a focus on the child victims of international crimes and human rights abuses.

Learning to read Orthodox icons is an opportunity to engage Holy Scripture with greater depth and understanding.

A practical analysis of co-regulation, a technique increasingly widely adopted in European regulation.

This book addresses the contemporary aspects of employee voice through theoretical and practical analysis.

This volume exposes some of the various issues raised in relation to Muslim communities in Europe by putting the intellectual and legal traditions into dialogue.

Case studies explore how womens rights shape state responses to sex trafficking and show how politically empowering women can help prevent and combat human traffickingHuman trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of victims each year, disproportionately affecting women and girls.

For Frederick Douglass, the iconic nineteenth-century slave and abolitionist, the foundations for his arguments in support of racial equality rested on natural rights and natural law-and the bold proclamation of the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal.

The sequel to the acclaimed Gaza in Crisis from world-famous political analyst Noam Chomsky and Middle East historian Ilan Pappé.

This volume addresses three things many people do not discuss candidly with strangers or mere acquaintances: God, sex, and politics.

"e;Fundamentalism"e; and "e;authoritarian secularism"e; are commonly perceived as the two mutually exclusive paradigms available to Muslim majority countries.

To talk about religion is to talk about politics, identity, terrorism, migration, gender, and a host of other aspects of society.

This book explores the increasing political and social prominence of Islamist groups across the Middle East in recent years.

This volume investigates the rise of human rights discourses manifested in the global spectrum of theatre and performance since 1945.

Leading social scientists and historians debate key controversies in the field of modern slavery and human trafficking studies.

Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b.

This book examines how legal systems and mechanisms give shape to the capitalist economic system.

The expanding remit of policing as a fundamental part of the public health continuum is increasingly acknowledged on the international scene.

In the past two decades, '"e;civil society"e; has become a central organizing concept in the social sciences.

This book examines the understudied role of the interfaith movement in institutionalizing religious pluralism in the public life of contemporary societies through the case study of Interfaith Scotland.

While the relevance of ontological commitments for epistemology and methodology in International Relations have been the subject of growing debate for several years, the implications for ethics and political agency of embracing an ontology of entanglement have remained unexplored.

In this pathbreaking study, Pamela Steiner deconstructs the psychological obstacles that have prevented peaceful settlements to longstanding issues.

Case studies explore how womens rights shape state responses to sex trafficking and show how politically empowering women can help prevent and combat human traffickingHuman trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of victims each year, disproportionately affecting women and girls.

Fact-finding is at the heart of human rights advocacy, and is often at the center of international controversies about alleged government abuses.

While scholars, media, and the public may be aware of a few extraordinary government raids on religious communities, such as the U.

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In twentieth-century Canada, mainline Protestants, fundamentalists, liberal nationalists, monarchists, conservative Anglophiles, and left-wing intellectuals had one thing in common: they all subscribed to a centuries-old world view that Catholicism was an authoritarian, regressive, untrustworthy, and foreign force that did not fit into a democratic, British nation like Canada.

In the last decade a new tool has been developed in the global war against official corruption through the introduction of the offense of "e;illicit enrichment"e; in almost every multilateral anti-corruption convention.

Islam and Political-Cultural Europe identifies the sometimes confusing and often contentious new challenges that arise in daily life and institutions as Islam settles deeper into Europe.

The rhetoric of social justice is commonplace but increasingly it means little more than a tag line or a punctuation point.

This book analyzes the variety of ways through which Japanese religions (Buddhism, Shinto, and new religious movements) contribute to the dynamics of accelerated globalization in recent decades.

This book provides a thorough analysis of the evolution of land property rights and transfer mechanism during the transition of the Chinese society from being a traditional self-sustaining agricultural society to a modern commercialized agricultural society.

Scientists are supposed to have freedom to choose and conduct their experiments and exchange their ideas.

Christos Yannaras is one of the most significant Orthodox theologians of recent times.

This volume demonstrates that the Christian Right has a surprising past.

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion.

Based on research findings and detailed, original cases, this book charts the new innovation imperative, where organizations must deliver on dual goals: an efficient return on current operations, and a burgeoning pipeline of new products.

This book explores emotional-affective implications of partnership and rivalry in Turkey-Iran relations.

In this highly provocative investigation, C.

This book focuses on human trafficking and the anti-trafficking movement, particularly as it is expressed in Southeast Asia.

This book sets out a rationale for the compatibility of Islam and Feminism and shows that Islamic Feminism is a diverse and valuable lens through which to analyse religion and gender.

Debates over the proper relationship between church and state in America tend to focus either on the founding period or the twentieth century.

Our nation is becoming ever more politicized.

Clara Braungart analysiert die Rolle religiöser Nichtregierungsorganisationen (RNGOs) in der Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung.

In this study of exile, Sean Akerman chronicles the ways in which narrative approaches provide opportunities to understand and represent the lives of those who have been displaced after violence.

This book compares African and Afrikaner nationalisms to demonstrate that the transition from apartheid to liberal democracy in South Africa was a neo-colonial settlement that left the economy and the military and security sectors under the control of the white minority, while increasing wide socioeconomic disparities between rich and poor.

In Understanding Social Action, Promoting Human Rights, editors Ryan Goodman, Derek Jinks, and Andrew K.

Land is one of the world's most emotionally resonant resources, and control over it is fundamental to almost all human activity.

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.

This book focuses on the issues of global environmental injustice and human rights violations and explores the scope and limits of the potential of human rights to influence environmental justice.