Human rights, civil rights

The book focuses on volatile processes at the South African-Zimbabwean border that arise from practices of migration and income generating activities.

The book focuses on volatile processes at the South African-Zimbabwean border that arise from practices of migration and income generating activities.

Since 2005, Voice of Witness has illuminated contemporary human rights crises through its oral history book series.

This book provides the answers to controversial questions about religious liberties in the United States and connected issues through balanced, thorough, and nonjudgmental coverage of the issues in a reference format.

Despite committed effort to integrate postcolonial theory and decolonizing practices in human rights education in social work, there is scant literature offering a more balanced global perspective.

Documents the global expansion of genocide in the early modern and modern eras as imperialism and settler colonialism spread across five continents.

The Cunning of Gender Violence focuses on how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs.

This book describes the development of human rights in the People's Republic of China since 1949.

This book describes the development of human rights in the People's Republic of China since 1949.

This book looks at responsible government under the Australian Constitution.

This book provides a comprehensive and impartial overview of laws and norms regarding free speech and censorship in the United States, with a particular focus on free speech rights and restrictions for individuals, politicians, corporations, and news organizations.

Never in history have crises surrounding free speech raged with greater ferocity than we are witnessing today.

This book covers civil rights and civil liberties politics in the United States from the ratification of the Bill of Rights to more recent controversies, such as the travel ban and proposals to end birthright citizenship.

This book outlines the history of same-sex marriage, explaining how politics and religion have intersected to decide and control who can legally marry.

Telling the crucial and under-studied story of the U.

What is America becoming?

This handbook takes stock of the African Union's Vision 2020 to rid the African continent of wars, civil conflicts, human rights violations, and humanitarian disasters - including violent conflicts and genocide - and provides recommendations on how to address contemporary threats to peace and security in Africa.

The main theme of this volume of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law is the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions.

This edited collection showcases innovative, up and coming researchers' work in the field of sex work studies across labour/work and relationships.

This book critically examines contemporary educational practices with a children's rights lens.

This book examines an important socio-political challenge to the ruling party regime in Vietnam.

This book provides a comparative analysis of how communities have developed people-based resilience in response to the global impact of COVID-19.

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This book constitutes the first comprehensive publication on the duty of care of internationalorganizations towards their civilian personnel sent on missions and assignments outsideof their normal place of activity.

The expression "e;transitional justice"e; emerged at the end of the Cold War, during the transition from dictatorships to democracies, and serves as a central concept in dealing with systemic injustice.

This book explores when, why, and how regional organizations adopt and design institutions to promote and protect fundamental standards of democracy, human rights, and rule of law in their member states.

This book focuses on protection needs and new aspects of personality and data protection rights on the Internet, presenting a comprehensive review that discusses and compares international, European and national (Brazilian, German, Pakistani) perspectives.

Public school classrooms around the world have the power to shape and transform youth culture and identity.

Defensive Relativism describes how governments around the world use cultural relativism in legal argument to oppose international human rights law.

In Frontiers of Gender Equality, editor Rebecca Cook enlarges the chorus of voices to introduce new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and to explain the multiple dimensions of gender equality.

This book explores how politics, religion and cinema encounter and re-invent each other in contemporary Turkish cinema.

Women's rights activists around the world have commonly understood gendered violence as the product of so-called traditional family structures, from which women must be liberated.

The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and repeated in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, recognizes everyone's right to "e;share in scientific advancement and its benefits"e; and to "e;enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications.

For decades, Latin America has been plagued by civil wars, dictatorships, torture, legacies of colonialism, racism, and inequality.

This book is a contemporary socio-legal study of Australia's protection of economic and social rights.

Zensur ist der Schlachtruf der Stunde: Ein Gedicht wird von einer Fassade entfernt?

This book argues that Islam has been securitized in US foreign policy, especially during the W.

This book focuses on relatively neglected areas of simulation and gaming (S&G), i.

In King Rules, the niece of Dr.

Situated on the banks of the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky, represents a cultural and geographical intersection of North and South.

The Cut and the Building of Psychoanalysis Volume II explores how the unformulated trauma associated with surgery performed on Emma Eckstein's genitalia, and the hallucinations that Eckstein experienced, influenced Freud's self-analysis, oriented his biological speculations, and significantly influenced one of his closest followers, Sandor Ferenczi.

This book investigates whether treaty interpretation at the ECtHR and WTO, which are sometimes perceived as promoting 'self-contained' regimes, could constitute a means for unifying international law, or, conversely, might exacerbate the fragmentation of international law.

For centuries, the writ of habeas corpus has served as an important safeguard against miscarriages of justice, and today it remains at the center of some of the most contentious issues of our time-among them terrorism, immigration, crime, and the death penalty.

This book comprehensively discusses the background to the passing of India's revolutionary Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, offering a detailed description of the Act itself and a rigorous analysis in the context of the CRPD and the World Health Organization (WHO) standards for mental health law.

This book traces the life of free speech in Russia from the final years of the Soviet Union to the present.

There are few things more joyous in a congregation than the presentation of a new baby or small child for baptism.

There are few things more joyous in a congregation than the presentation of a new baby or small child for baptism.

In twenty-first century Japan there are numerous instances of media harassment, intimidation, censorship and self-censorship that undermine the freedom of the press and influence how the news is reported.

How can the Book of Confessions help elders and lay leaders when they face challenging situations within their congregations?