Human rights, civil rights

Human rights are politically fraught in Turkey, provoking suspicion and scrutiny among government workers for their anti-establishment left-wing connotations.

The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new kinds of social forms alongside new fusions of political and religious realms that high modernity kept distinct.

The rise of popular social movements throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and North America in 2011 challenged two hegemonic discourses of the post-Cold War era: Francis Fukuyama's 'The End of History' and Samuel Huntington's 'The Clash of Civilizations.

Religion and politics are never far from the headlines, but their relationship remains complex and often confusing.

This volume presents insights from five years of intensive Holocaust, genocide, and mass atrocity education at Queensborough Community College (QCC) of the City University of New York (CUNY), USA, to offer four approaches-Arts-Based, Textual, Outcomes-Based, and Social Justice-to designing innovative, integrative, and differentiated pedagogies for today's college students.

We take rights to be fundamental to everyday life.

This edited volume examines the continued viability of international human rights law in the context of growing transnational law enforcement.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation's oldest civil rights organization, having dedicated itself to the fight for racial equality since 1909.

Is it impossible to assess dignity, the agency of autonomy and equality of rights under the current rule of law, when we are met by global challenges like climate change, financial crisis, food crisis, natural disasters, inequality, violent conflicts and trade disputes?

The Routledge Handbook of Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights is the first book to explore in depth the topic of mega-sporting events (MSEs) and human rights, offering accounts of adverse human rights impacts linked to MSEs while considering the potential for promoting human rights in and through the framework of these events.

The book focuses on the modus operandi of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee), the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) monitoring body, and its main tasks, namely monitoring functions and interpreting the CRPD provisions.

Sheyann Webb was eight years old and Rachel West was nine when Dr.

Dr.

The book provides an understanding of the three decades of Armenia's young history - from the perspective of relations between civil society and government institutions.

This book attempts to establish how courts of general jurisdiction differ from specialized human rights courts in their approach to the implementation and development of international human rights.

This book is a practical guide for advocates interested in the representation of victims before the International Criminal Court (ICC).

From 1924 to 1946 the Republic of Turkey was in effect ruled as an authoritarian single-party regime.

Faith grows when we uphold its vision for a better world and speak of it in the public square-while keeping church and state separate.

The Radical Disciple invites the followers of Christ to take seriously the scriptural mandate to love God and neighbor.

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

Champagne and his distinguished coauthors reveal how the structure of a multinational state has the potential to create more equal and just national communities for Native peoples around the globe.

Confronting the truths of Canada's Indian residential school system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant.

Political culture refers to the basic values, ideas, beliefs and political orientations by which countries, societies, and whole regions are guided.

Against Massacre looks at the rise of humanitarian intervention in the nineteenth century, from the fall of Napoleon to the First World War.

This book analyses the role of businesses in regulating and influencing the exercise of free speech on the internet.

This study examines and compares the important work on global human rights advocacy done by religious NGOs and by secular NGOs.

A groundbreaking look at how a predominantly white faith-based group reset the terms of the fight to integrate US cities.

A radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for global justice.

Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support.

This book demonstrates how human rights obligations of the EU foreign constitution can be operationalized in the realm of international economic regulation.

The story of activist youth in America is usually framed around the Vietnam War, the counterculture, and college campuses, focusing primarily on college students in the 1960s and 1970s.

This book explores recent developments pointing towards a 'domestic institutionalisation of human rights', composed of converging international trends prescribing the setting up of domestic institutions, and the need for a national human rights systems approach.

In Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam, Lahouari Addi attempts to assess the history and political legacy of radical Arab nationalism to show that it contained the seeds of its own destruction.

Offers a fresh perspective on recent human rights history by reconstructing debates around dissent and human rights across four countries.

Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discriminationbut ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the Supreme Courts landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v.

This book contains a global comparative study of implementation and monitoring mechanisms for national disability strategies.

The Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1981, is the only universal human rights instrument specifically focusing on religious intolerance and discrimination.

This book provides a roadmap for how police services can address incivility in the workplace and become more inclusive from the inside out.

The coast of East Africa was considered a strategically invaluable region for the establishment of trading ports, both for Arab and Persian merchants, long prior to invasion and conquest by Europeans.

Human Rights Museums presents case studies that trace how calls for historical and social justice, and the commensurate rise of a rights regime have led to the emergence of a new museological genre: the human rights museum.

The work examines how the attitudes and preferences of various Christian groups in the United States can influence U.

Recording the views of dissidents on the nature of their own activities, this book contains over 20 short essays by a number of leading people from Charter 77.

Learning how to live in today's new social and cultural environment will require examination, trial and error, and adaptation over time.

The United States is extremely diverse religiously and, not infrequently, individuals sincerely contend that they are unable to act in accord with law as a matter of conscience.

What is it to do justice to the absent victims of past injustice, given the distance that separates us from them?

Drawing on participatory action research conducted in Sierra Leone, Kosovo and the Philippines, Human Rights in Prisons analyses encounters between rights-based non-governmental organisations and prisons.

Looking at topics across the spectrum of America's wars, religious groups, personalities, and ideas, this volume shows that even in an increasingly secular society, religious roots and values run deep throughout American society and are elevated in times of war.

This interdisciplinary volume examines the relationship between secularism, freedom of religion and human rights in legal, theoretical, historical and political perspective.

The 2006 elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council, the first in which both Fatah and Hamas fielded candidates, resulted in a resounding victory for Hamas.