International Encyclopaedia of Human Rights and Law deals with mo the basic right and freedoms to which all hum am arc entitled at a global level, often held to include the right to life and liberty.
The aims of child rights education are to make children and their primary duty-bearers aware of child rights so that they both can be empowered to together advocate for and apply them at their family, school and community levels.
This book brings a new focus to the ongoing debate on holding perpetrators of massive humanitarian and human rights violations accountable in countries in transition.
Human Rights and the World Today is an edited book with papers dealing with different issues of human rights which have assumed significance in the contemporary world.
This book is a compilation of research papers presented at the two-day UGC sponsored National Seminar organised by the Post-Graduate Department of Political Science, NSS Hindu College, Changanacherry, Kerala.
This book centres on the ways in which the concept of imperativeness has found expression in private international law (PIL) and discusses "e;imperative norms"e;, and "e;imperativeness"e; as their intrinsic quality, examining the rules or principles that protect fundamental interests and/or the values of a state so as to require their application at any cost and without exceptions.
The recent trend in the global system is to evaluate the development of any country not in terms of their military or economic strength or the splendor of their capital cites and big public buildings, but also in terms of human development or the well being of its citizens.
The Asian Development Bank, under the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation program, is helping Maldives implement a robust domestic and regional trade system.
Governments are in a crisis of identity, some would say legitimacy, with election turnouts low in many OECD countries and a widespread feeling of disenchantment among citizens with government and the democratic process.
Religion in Liberal Democracy as a Form of Life advances a theory to deal with the challenges connected to the liberal democratic ideal that all people are free to codetermine the future of their society and equally entitled to their religion and beliefs, given the historical bias towards Christianity in politics and culture within many European societies.
This book presents a selection of revised and updated papers presented in September 2018 at the International Conference 'Rethinking the Crime of Aggression: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives', which was held in Marburg, Germany, and hosted by the International Research and Documentation Centre for War Crimes Trials (ICWC).
Democratic 'transitions' in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and South Africa, often studied under the conceptual rubric of 'transitional justice', have involved the formation of public policies toward the past that are multifaceted and often ambitious.
Since after the Second World War, the crime of aggression is - along with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes - a "e;core crime"e; under international law.
The practice of using children to participate in conflict has become a defining characteristic of 21st century warfare and is the most recent addition to the canon of international war crimes.
This book examines how intellectual property rights (IPR) affect the daily lives of individuals worldwide and how that may in turn impact the health and wealth of nations.
Little has been written about the legal position and conditions of detention of persons detained by international criminal tribunals, particularly as regards their internal legal position (their rights and duties inside the remand facility).
With a Foreword by Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis ResponseOver the last decades natural and man-made disasters have been increasing in terms of frequency, size, number of people affected and material damage caused.
The book assesses the adoption of counterterrorism measures in the Netherlands and the United States, which facilitate criminal investigations with a preventive focus (anticipative criminal investigations), from the perspective of rule of law principles.
First published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Language and Politics 5:1 (2006), this collection of papers focuses, from a number of different disciplinary perspectives, on aspects of language and communication in official processes of dealing with traumatic pasts.
Defending Legal Freedoms in Indonesia provides fresh insights into how cause lawyers navigate political and institutional change, by presenting and analysing the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI), the oldest and most influential legal and human rights organisation in Indonesia.
Los herejes, los disidentes del pensamiento común, obligan a poner en duda las ideas generalmente admitidas que sobreviven en muchos casos por inercia.
A finales del siglo pasado, tras dos décadas de globalización neoliberal, criminólogos, sociólogos y penalistas comenzaron a darse cuenta de un fenómeno extraño: los delitos disminuían y, sin embargo, la población reclusa aumentaba.
Durante los diez años en que el Lehendakari Ibarretxe asumió la máxima responsabilidad política de Euskadi (1999-2009), su voz llegó a la ciudadanía a menudo mediatizada, interpretada, comentada, acotada y, en ocasiones, manipulada.
"El libro mantiene el foco en su heroína, y reconoce que la historia de Victoria es también amena y que ella tenía un instinto natural para el espectáculo", New York Times.
El reloj del fin del mundo, también llamado del apocalipsis, es un indicador científico sobre el riesgo de una hecatombe generalizada y las potenciales amenazas y riesgos catastróficos que pongan en peligro la existencia de la humanidad: guerra nuclear, pandemias, armas de destrucción masiva, fenómenos de la naturaleza como terremotos o erupciones volcánicas.
Una desgarradora historia dedicada a todas las mujeres que sufren en silencio y que, por miedo, no se atreven a contar la realidadEn estas páginas se narra de forma autobiográfica la vida de Juana Redondo, una mestiza que se rebeló contra las leyes de su sociedad.
Esta obra de Jesús Ángel Muro no pretende ser un tratado filosófico, sino aportar una visión diferente del socialismo, sobre todo, a los jóvenes, para que tenga una nueva forma de enfrentarse a la vida y a la política.
En esta brillante obra Teresa Forcades examina las expectativas abiertas por el Papa Francisco y los presupuestos teóricos necesarios para abordar la renovación de la Iglesia pero, sobre todo, nos habla de las cuestiones más espinosas a las que se enfrenta el Vaticano y de los movimientos de renovación que pugnan desde dentro por impulsar un nuevo aggiornamento o "puesta al día" eclesial.
