Human rights, civil rights

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 examines the State's duty to protect human rights in Asia amidst rising concern over the human rights impact of business organisations in the region, a topic which has hitherto been understudied.

This book provides a comprehensive human rights analysis of key areas of law affecting older persons, including legal capacity; elder abuse; accommodation and aged care; healthcare; employment; financial security, retirement, and estate planning; and social and cultural participation.

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

This book examines the extraordinary nature of the power of preventive detention, which permits executive dispensation of the personal liberty of an individual on the mere apprehension that, if free and unfettered, he may commit acts prejudicial to national security or public order.

This book explores tribal land alienation problems in India and tribal agitation against land encroachment and alienation.

This book includes original and ground breaking research into parliamentary law making and legislative responses to counter-terrorism in Australia.

This book explores human dignity, human rights and social justice based on a Chinese interdisciplinary dialogue and global perspectives.

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 explores how public policy advocacy can be used to approach policy issue identification, resolution or, at the least, support the management of wicked policy issues.

This book presents the welfare regime of societies of Chinese heritage as a liminal space where religious and state authorities compete with each other for legitimacy.

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

This book examines a selection of themes that have become salient in contemporary debates on constitutional democracies.

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

This book is an account of the concept of equality from the perspective of both theory and practice, and presents methods of quantifying values.

This book presents a comprehensive legal and constitutional study of emergency powers from a comparative common law perspective.

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

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

This book aims to enrich the thinking and discussion in relation to the importance that citizenship, immigration, rights and private laws play in the modern world.

This book traces the expansion of Islamisation within a modern and plural state such as Malaysia.

This book reviews Southeast Asia's National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) as part of an emerging assessment of a nascent regional human rights architecture that is facing significant challenges in protecting human rights.

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 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 yearbook is a compilation of thematically arranged essays that critically analyseemerging developments, issues, and perspectives across different branches of law.

This book explores the emergent concept of 'human security' within the political context of COVID-19 Chinese politics.

This book explores the Chinese Catholic Church as a whole as well as focusing on particular aspects of its activities, including diplomacy, politics, leadership, pilgrimage, youths, and non-Chinese Catholics 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 examines resolution of the disputes between both sides of Belt and Road economic cooperation.

This book argues that Political Islam in the Iranian context evolved into three main schools of thought during the 1960s and 1970s: Jurisprudential Islam led by Ayatollah Khomeini, Leftist Islam led by Shariati, and Liberal Islam led by Bazargan.

This book examines resolution of the disputes between both sides of Belt and Road economic cooperation.

This book includes original and ground breaking research into parliamentary law making and legislative responses to counter-terrorism in Australia.

This multidisciplinary book introduces readers to original perspectives on crimmigration that foster holistic, contextual, and critical appreciation of the concept in Australia and its individual consequences and broader effects.

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

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

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 yearbook is a compilation of thematically arranged essays that critically analyseemerging developments, issues, and perspectives across different branches of law.

The book examines the international treaty regimes and the Indian laws in depth.

This book brings together a set of contributions that examine the complexities associated with domestic work by highlighting not only the legal issues but also exploring the social, psycho-social, economic, and cultural dimensions of domestic work.

The book reviews the origin and development of the exclusionary rule in China, and systematically explains the problems and challenges faced by criminal justice reformers.

This book offers a much-needed critical overview of the concept of social justice and its application in professional social work practice.

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

This book addresses the forms of legal protection extended to people displaced due to the consequences of climate change, and who have either become refugees by crossing international borders or are climatically displaced persons (CDPs) in their own homelands.

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 book traces the expansion of Islamisation within a modern and plural state such as Malaysia.

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

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

This book provides an innovative contribution to the emerging field of culture and development through the lens of cultural rights, arguing in favour of a fruitful dialogue between human rights, development studies, critical cultural studies, and concerns about the protection and preservation of cultural diversity.

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 book covers the trajectories and trends in social change communication, engaging the key theoretical debates on communication and social change.

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.