Human rights, civil rights

In the burgeoning literature on law and religion, scholarly attention has tended to focus on broad questions concerning the scope of religious freedom, the nature of toleration and the meaning of secularism.

This book explores the links between religion, states, social welfare and social change in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Clear and concise CHOICEA serious and successful book Illan PappCould not be timelier.

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

What can literary theory reveal about discourses and practices of human rights, and how can human rights frameworks help to make sense of literature?

The books aims to discuss and present an alternative epistemology of human rights, against the background of the globalization from below.

This original book is a comprehensive, richly documented and critical examination of laws applicable to Anglican cathedrals in England, some of the most iconic monuments in the national heritage and centres of spiritual and cultural capital.

For the last two decades, refugees, like other immigrants, have been settling in newer locations throughout the US and other countries.

In a time when the global and national economies seem to favor so few and harm so many, when the threats to the common good are so prevalent and so deep, how do people of faith think about these issues and act with those who are most vulnerable?

A comprehensive global account of the past ''century of genocide'', from the Holocaust to Bosnia, and from Stalin to the Rohingyas.

With essays ranging from climate change and global poverty to just war and human rights and immigration, leading future figures present an ideal collection for anyone interested in the most important debates in global justice.

The immense power the Catholic Church once wielded in Ireland has considerably diminished over the last fifty years.

Though currently only partially understood, evolving interactions among Latin American communities of faith, governments, and civil societies are a key feature of the popular mobilizations and policy debates about environmental issues in the region.

The idea of sovereignty and the debates that surround it are not merely of historical, academic, or legal interest: they are also potent, vibrant issues and as current and relevant as today's front page news in the United States and in other Western democracies.

This book brings together a diverse set of clinicians, scholars, and researchers actively using systemic family therapy ideas within the context of ongoing or recent humanitarian intervention.

A searing study of how modern reproductive politics shapes women's bodily agency Pregnancy indisputably takes place within a woman's body.

Same-sex marriage emerged in 2004 as one of the hottest issues of the campaign season.

This book is a practical guide to freeing political prisoners and provides a comprehensive review of this UN body''s 1,200 jurisprudence cases.

Ethical and human rights issues have assumed an increasingly high profile in the wake of miscarriages of justice, racism (Lawrence Inquiry), incompetence and corruption - in both Britain and overseas.

Explores the effect of justice measures on ''regime consolidation'' in a post-transition context.

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This book considers the complex and contradictory role of the United Nations when it comes to human rights around the world.

This book compares the postcolonial populations of Britain and France, examining the ways in which they are redefining citizenship.

Using post-colonial Hong Kong as a case study, this book examines why and how legal mobilization arises in authoritarian regimes.

'The countryside ought to be for everyone, and this beautiful, thoughtful companion can help us all start to forge paths into the forgotten corners of our green, pleasant and often inaccessible land' Catrina Davies, author of Homesick

The Trespasser's Companion is a rallying cry for greater public access to nature and a gently seditious guide to how to get it: by trespassing.

Recent shifts in the contemporary cultural, political, and religious landscape are engendering intensive attention concerning political theology.

Dieses Buch analysiert den grundrechtlichen Schutzbereich der Garantien der Meinungsäußerungsfreiheit in den Grundrechtskatalogen der EMRK, des Grundgesetzes und der Grundrechtecharta der EU.

Situated within the wider post-secular turn in politics and international relations, this volume focuses not on religion per se, but rather explicitly on theology.

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

What are the implications of project finance for human rights and sustainable development?

A powerful portrait of the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time, from the director of Human FlowIn the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his collaborators interviewed more than 600 refugees, aid workers, politicians, activists, doctors, and local authorities in twenty-three countries around the world.

Evidence-based solutions and practical steps to preserve privacy online.

What is friendship?

This book is a brief historical account of Khilafat, an Islamic political institution mired in controversies from its inception.

Winner of an Award of Merit in the Christianity Today Book Awards, History/Biography categoryOn January 17, 1776, one week after Thomas Paine published his incendiary pamphlet Common Sense, Connecticut minister Samuel Sherwood preached an equally patriotic sermon.

Counter-Terrorism Networks in the European Union: Maintaining Democratic Legitimacy after 9/11 presents a model of democratic legitimacy for within international counter-terrorism co-operation.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most extensive and widely ratified international human rights treaty.

The end of the post-World War II 'long boom' in the mid-1970s proved the beginning of a process of political-economic change that has fundamentally transformed labour law, both in Australia and across the developed world more generally.

This book brings together leading scholars researching the field of gender, sexuality, schooling, queer activism, and social movements within different cultural contexts.

This book places context at the core of the Islamic mechanism of ifta' to better understand the process of issuing fatwas in Muslim and non-Muslim countries, thus highlighting the connection between context and contemporaneity, on one hand, and the adaptable perception of Islamic law, on the other.

This book explores what victimology, as both an academic discipline and an activist movement, has achieved since its initial conception in the 1940s, from a variety of experts' perspectives.

Human Trafficking is a growing transnational criminal phenomenon-conservative estimates put the total number of persons trafficked annually at two million.

This book offers a synthesis of the main achievements and pending challenges during the thirty years of transitional justice in Chile after Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

This book pursues a critical perspective on the phenomenon of state violence and its legal unaccountability.

This volume collects essays from academics and practitioners from a diversity of areas and perspectives in order to discuss water security at various levels and to illuminate the central idea of water security: its focus on the individual.

The relationship between international order and justice has long been central to the study and practice of international relations.

Creating Ourselves is a unique effort to lay the cultural and theological groundwork for cross-cultural collaboration between the African and Latino/a American communities.