Human rights, civil rights

The book is a response to the dominant discourse of South Africa as unwelcoming to African immigrants.

This book brings together a collection of essays about the untenable political status quo in Bangladesh under Sheikh Hasina.

This book considers the positive and negative impacts of the minimum wage policy in China.

This book addresses issues concerning five major categories of disadvantaged children, namely street children, children involved in trafficking, child labor, slum children, and children in institutional care, which apply to a large number of children around the world, including India.

This book explores the dilemmas posed by globalisation in various aspects of law.

This book explores the fluid, mutable and contingent ways in which transgender men in Malaysia construct their subjectivities.

This book describes the Islamisation process that has unfolded in Malaysia over the last fifty years and provides feedback from in-depth interviews with 100 individuals from Malaysia's "e;educated classes"e;, or the "e;elite"e;, regarding their reactions to the changes that have accompanied Islamisation and how they feel it has impacted them.

This book is the first to critically analyze Buddhist-Muslim relations in Theravada Buddhist majority states in South and Southeast Asia.

This book explains how recognition theory contributes to non-colonial and enduring political relationships between Indigenous nations and the state.

This book presents important fields of research in public healthcare in India from an interdisciplinary and health systems perspectives.

Australia has one of the harshest immigration detention regimes in the world, labelled cruel and degrading and a crime against humanity; these policies have been widely condemned.

This book discusses human rights law, focusing on Chinese contributions to international human rights viewed from a perspective of global governance.

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

This book engages the diverse meanings and interpretations of Islamic and Western law which have affected people and societies across the globe, past and present, in correlation to the epistemological groundings of those meanings and interpretations.

This book develops an understanding of workplace justice and labour rights in Vietnam from factory workers' voices and their resistance against abuse and exploitation.

This is the first book that explicitly outlines Asian contributions to the elaboration of universal human rights values that were proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.

The Sourcebook-IV provides training modules for rights-based integrated child protection service delivery systems at the secondary and tertiary prevention levels.

This book sheds light on religiously motivated extremism and violence in South Asia, a phenomenon which ostensibly poses critical and unique challenges to the peace, security and governance not only of the region, but also of the world at large.

This book addresses sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women from an international law point of view.

This book offers new clarity on three important political concepts: authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and resistance.

This Handbook represents an unprecedented exploration of the positive peace platform.

What makes a leader truly great?

This book explores the journey of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as it is interpreted and translated from International Human Rights Law into domestic law and policy in different cultural contexts.

This book examines the current status of environmental human rights at the international, regional, and national levels and provides a critical analysis of possible future developments in this area, particularly in the context of a changing climate.

The book presents debates around the concept of representation and how these ideas apply to representation for selected disadvantaged groups in India.

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

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.

This volume is the most comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of in-depth analyses on human rights violations committed in war.

This book introduces six key influential feminist activists from Japan's contemporary feminist movement and examines Japanese women's experience of and contribution to the international #MeToo movement.

This book analyzes three major issues related to refugees: repatriation and its accompanying concerns - peace and security.

This book examines the engagement between the United Nations' human rights machinery and the respective governments since Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) joined the United Nations.

This book charts the roller coaster ride taken by the authors over the past 33 years, in the ongoing fight to acknowledge, prevent, and respond to the rape and sexual abuse of women in conflict and displacement situations.

This book examines the role of Hindu-inspired faith movements (HIFMs) in contemporary India as actors in social transformation.

This volume presents an overview of the evolution of the current Chinese Constitution (1982) and the characteristics of constitutional studies since 1978.

This book focuses on a Pentecostal-Evangelical Kenyah community in central Borneo, a region that crosses the border between Malaysia and Indonesia.

Civil war and conflict within countries is the most prevalent threat to peace and security in the opening decades of the twenty-first century.

This book offers a broad overview of public attitudes to the death penalty in India.

Singapore's well-documented economic progress since independence owes a big debt to the initial investment that the nation made in raising the nutrition, hygiene, health and education standards of its children.

This book addresses the European Court of Human Rights' fairness standards in criminal appeal, filling a gap in this less researched area of studies.

This book investigates perceptions against the people of north-east India, and why such prejudicial attitude exists.

In Ancient Echoes, Walter Brueggemann -- one of our most influential biblical scholars -- responds to eight "e;truth claims"e; made by the radical right in US politics.

This book explores the challenge that the commons present to the private-public dichotomy in a wide variety of national legal systems representing the West European legal tradition as well as post-socialist and post-colonial experiences.

This book investigates perceptions against the people of north-east India, and why such prejudicial attitude exists.

In 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declared that every human being, without distinction of any kind, possesses a set of morally authoritative rights and fundamental freedoms that ought to be socially guaranteed.

The third edition of Ethics & International Affairs provides a fresh selection of classroom resources, ideal for courses in international relations, ethics, foreign policy, and related fields.

Decades of conflicts and persecution have driven millions from their homes in all parts of the northeast African country of Sudan.

This book uses a practice-driven and empirically founded approach to address the question of whether and how international attention can protect and enable domestic human rights activists in authoritarian settings.

In this short book Mark shares the observations that he's made over the last 18 years as a targeted individual.

A history of colonial legacies in United Nations peacekeeping operations in the aftermath of the Second World War.