Human rights, civil rights

Addresses challenges to the implementation of international human rights law from institutional, normative and practical perspectives.

This book brings together scholars and practitioners for a unique inter-disciplinary exploration of justice and memory within Rwanda.

To Advanced Proficiency and Beyond: Theory and Methods for Developing Superior Second Language Ability addresses an important issue in Second Language Acquisitionhow to help learners progress from Intermediate and Advanced proficiency to Superior and beyond.

New York Times Best Seller2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition2015 Lillian Smith Book Award2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title Based on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced, richly detailed biography of Perry Wallace, the first African American basketball player in the SEC, digs deep beneath the surface to reveal a more complicated and profound story of sports pioneering than we've come to expect from the genre.

Scherrer examines the ethnicized conflicts, periodic war, and genocide in Rwanda and Burundi.

Few terms elicit such strong and varied feelings and yet have so little clarity as "e;democracy.

This book looks at the centerpiece of the international women's rights discourse, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and asks to what extent it affects the lives of women worldwide.

Otfried H ffe is one of the foremost political philosophers in Europe today.

This book identifies, analyses and discusses the nexus of legal issues that have emerged in recent years around sexuality and gender.

Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties.

A fascinating account of the Intifada (struggle) by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories against Israeli governments, the first part of which was a mass civil disobedience movement of 'stone against bullets', which Israeli security forces contained only with great difficulty, resorting to doubtful methods that included detention without trial, kidnapping and assassinations.

The revival of authoritarianism is one of the most important forces reshaping world politics today.

In this controversial critical analysis of Canada's anti-discrimination policy, the author addresses doubts

In this edited volume, authors explore the ways in which departments, programs, and centers at public research universities are working to better engage students in the work of citizenship and social justice.

From June 12, 2020, until the passage of the state law making the occupation a felony two months later, peaceful protesters set up camp at Nashvilles Legislative Plaza and renamed it for Ida B.

This volume is the first in a new Springer series to examine one of humanity's most pressing concerns: global migration and its implications for development.

Spectacular Rhetorics is a rigorous analysis of the rhetorical frameworks and narratives that underlie human rights law, shape the process of cultural and legal recognition, and delimit public responses to violence and injustice.

First published in 1998, this first volume of The Manual on Human Rights Education for Universities has been prepared in the hope that it will serve as a teaching aid for institutions of higher education, as well as for UNESCO Chairs, and focuses on new dimensions and challenges.

The Book 'Human Rights' draws attention to various types of human right issues that exist in Indian context and also the Global context.

This book analyses legal orders, actors and democracy in contemporary India, with a particular focus on the everyday contexts and dynamics of human rights, citizenship and socio-economic rights and laws.

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Taking as a starting point the widely accepted view that states confronted with terrorism must find a proper equilibrium between their respective obligations of preserving fundamental rights and fighting terrorism effectively, this book seeks to demonstrate how the design and enforcement of a human rights instrument may influence the result of that exercise.

What do medieval knights, suicide bombers and "e;victimhood culture"e; have in common?

Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "e;right of return.

State Crime and Civil Activism explores the work of non-government organisations (NGOs) challenging state violence and corruption in six countries - Colombia, Tunisia, Kenya, Turkey, Myanmar and Papua New Guinea.

What are the consequences of European integration on social movements?

Is it possible, given culturally incongruent perspectives, to validate any common standards of behaviour?

This book deals with what the author considers a sorely neglected question, namely the role of the judiciary in states' foreign policy processes.

Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali piratesa riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign policy, religious extremism, and the costs of survival.

Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and circulate books dealing with issues of race and systemic racism.

Right after the Gezi Resistance, a new tendency of authoritarianism rapidly emerged in Turkey and AKP government started targeting anyone it perceives as a threat to its rule, especially academics, journalists, politicians, actors, directors, i.

Maps the UN legal instruments relevant for the protection and promotion of the rights to freedom of expression and information.

Capitalism likes us to believe in the steady, inevitable march of progress, from the abacus to the iPad.

This book examines the ways in which law can be used to structure the return of indigenous sacred cultural heritage to indigenous communities, referred to as repatriation in this volume.

Packed with over 200 color photos, this visual journey through Black history and the Civil Rights Movement is told through the objectsbuttons, badges, flyers, pennants, posters, and moredesigned by activists as tools to advance the fight for justice and freedom, offering a unique perspective on the Civil Rights Movement from Emancipation through the present day.

This book investigates the relationship between sex and gender under international human rights law, and how this influences the formation of individual subjects.

This book deals with the basic question of what money can and cannot buy and offers an analysis of the limitations of the market mechanism.

Where did affirmative action in employment come from?

This book critically explores the world of older prisoners to provide a more nuanced understanding of imprisonment at old age.

Among the world's hotly contested, obsessively controlled, and often dangerous borders, none is deadlier than the Mediterranean Sea.

This book explores the role of self-medication in reflexive response to victimhood and victim recovery.

However unthinkable child-soldiers may be within a generalized conception of childhood, they are not imaginary figures; rather, they are a constant in almost every armed conflict around the world.

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A nuanced range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of emotions in moral and political reactions to mass violence.

This book addresses practitioners in development cooperation as well as scientists and students who are interested in the interaction of human rights and development issues.

When States Take Rights Back draws on contributions by international experts in history, law, political science, and sociology, offering a rare interdisciplinary and comparative examination of citizenship revocation in five countries, revealing hidden government rationales and unintended consequences.

Over a million Kurdish-Yezidi refugees are dispersed across European cities and towns.

A Generation Abandoned explores the disruptive cultural events especially of the past half century as these have undermined the confidence of the young in themselves and in civil society, and finally in our place in the universe.

Debtors' prisons might sound like something out of a Dickens novel, but what most Americans do not realize is that they are alive and well in a new and startling form.