Human rights, civil rights

With the passage into law of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, rights took on new legal, political, and social significance in Canada.

Every year, thousands of girls and women die at the hands of blood relatives.

In Guatemala, it was called the "e;trial of the century"e;: the 2013 prosecution of former de facto head of state (1982-1983) General Jose Efrain Rios Montt and his intelligence chief, General Jose Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez, on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity against the Maya-Ixil people.

The South Seas in the Modern World (1942) surveys the economic, social, educational and strategic problems facing the islands of the Pacific dependencies on the eve of the Second World War.

While the Arab Uprisings presented new opportunities for the empowerment of women, the sidelining of women remains a constant risk in the post-revolutionist MENA countries.

International human rights law has emerged as an academic subject in its own right, separate from, but still related to international law.

The attacks in Paris in January and November 2015 heralded the beginning of a new wave of terrorism - one rooted in the ongoing conflict in Syria and Iraq.

Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan explores how Japanese Protestants engaged with the unsettling changes that resulted from Japan's emergence as a world power in the early 20th century.

An analysis of debates and mechanisms of international criminal law in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Myanmar.

A critical take on the convergence of human rights discourse with the counterterrorism agenda revealing its effects on developing countries.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary thought about rights.

This book develops ''Collective Equality'' as a new theoretical basis for the law of peace and for transitional justice.

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In the past two decades, '"e;civil society"e; has become a central organizing concept in the social sciences.

Drawing from multiple scholarly fields, Kenyon examines free speech''s positive dimensions of enablement and how they can be pursued.

This book lays out the foundation of a privacy doctrine suitable to the cyber age.

The 19th century was a pioneering age for vernacular texts in India.

In the face of ongoing religious conflicts and unending culture wars, what are we to make of liberalism's promise that it alone can arbitrate between church and state?

This book represents a significant and timely contribution to the copious literature of the EU as a global actor providing new insights and fresh perspectives into the promotion of human rights and international labour standards in the EU's external trade relations, building on and stimulating further - the already well-engaged - scientific dialogue on this area of research.

This book contributes to a feminist understanding of international human rights by examining restrictions on reproductive freedom through the lens of the right to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

How does one overcome invisibility and gain legitimacy in an individualized society?

2021 Book Award Winner, The Gospel Coalition (Public Theology & Current Events)Southwestern Journal of Theology 2021 Book Award (Honorable Mention, Baptist Studies)Christians are often thought of as defending only their own religious interests in the public square.

The seventeenth century English philosopher, John Locke, is widely recognized as one of the seminal sources of the modern liberal tradition.

This volume is centred around the theme of veiling in Islam and provides multifarious aspects of the discussion regarding veiling of Muslim women, especially in the West.

This book considers the situation of intersex people who have faced erasure in the areas of science, law, culture, and theology due to the assumption that all humans are either 'female' or 'male.

When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted 50 years ago, Eleanor Roosevelt, its principal architect, predicted that a 'curious grapevine' would carry its message behind barbed wire and stone walls.

Human rights are increasingly described as being in crisis.

This book charts the institutionalisation of human rights from its Western beginnings to its eventual acceptance in ASEAN.

This book is a unique and original examination of borders and bordering practices in the Western Balkans prior to, during, and after the migrant "e;crisis"e; of the 2010s.

This book invites people to think more deeply about human rights in an attempt to overcome many of the traditional arguments in the human rights literature.

This book presents the findings of the first ever survey of the religious preferences of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

Who are the Muslim Brotherhood and Hizbullah?

Formal and informal institutions structure our social interactions by giving rise to normative expectations and patterns of collective behaviour.

Maluku in eastern Indonesia is the home to Muslims, Protestants, and Catholics who had for the most part been living peaceably since the sixteenth century.

This unique book examines the conceptual development of human rights in North Korea from historical, political and cultural perspectives.

There has been a considerable focus in the last few years on the meaning of the Human Rights Act 1998 and its real and potential impact on judges and lawyers.

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Since the 1960s, ideas developed during the civil rights movement have been astonishingly successful in fighting overt discrimina-tion and prejudice.

This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in which writers approach violent conflict and the equally important subject of peace.

This book presents a model for reforming and developing Indigenous related legislation and policy, not only in Australia, but also in other jurisdictions.

Slavery is a live issue today, but the people who talk about it as such are not all of a piece.

Last Lectures on the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide is a collection of hypothetical 'last lectures' by some of the top scholars and practitioners across the globe in the fields of human rights and genocide studies.

A global history of human rights in a world of nation-states that grant rights to some while denying them to othersOnce dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to 200 independent countries with laws and constitutions proclaiming human rights-a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably developed together.

Rival understandings of the meaning and practice of the religious and the secular lead to rival public perspectives about religion and religious freedom in North America.

This is the first book to offer a systematic analysis of human rights in the 21st century.

From Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today s NGOs, this interdisciplinary collection explores the entangled histories of humanitarianism and media.