Political control and freedoms

This book presents a creative synthesis of two ostensibly disparate fields of law - arbitration and human rights.

This book explains why there is a pronounced disjuncture between R2P's habitual invocation and its actual influence, and why it will not make the transformative progress its proponents claim.

This book explores the little-known world of scrappers and metal thieves.

The expanding remit of policing as a fundamental part of the public health continuum is increasingly acknowledged on the international scene.

This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, with environmental injustices that affect the natural ecology, community health, and physical and mental health of marginalized communities.

The book uses Athens as a case study to identify the key features of urban anti-poverty policies in Greece and to discuss them in relation to policy developments in the crisis-ridden countries of Southern Europe.

This book is the first collection of scholarship featuring both Canadian and American scholarship on the resurgent right-wing extremist movement in the two countries.

This book evaluates the protection of traditional cultural expressions in Africa using South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana as case study examples in the light of regional and international approaches in this respect.

The book offers a comprehensive perspective on the highly topical issue of protecting and promoting labour standards in international economic law and the globalized economy.

This book challenges the rhetoric linking 'war on terror' with 'war on human trafficking' by juxtaposing lived experiences of survivors of trafficking, refugees, and labor migrants with macro-level security concerns.

This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market.

This book is an innovative and critical contribution to the study of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people in the context of Europe.

This book builds on recent research exploring the intersection between language and social justice, using the multilingual context of Hawai'i as a case study.

This volume analyses criminal procedural issues from a European perspective, particularly in connection with EU law and ECHR law.

This volume examines the protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs) through an interdisciplinary lens, with a focus on IDPs in Africa.

Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship - not only theologically, but also politically.

Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Conversion takes a close look at Shakespeare's engagement with the flurry of controversy and activity surrounding the concept of conversion in post-Reformation England.

Microaggressions and Modern Racism: Endurance and Evolution explores the causes, manifestations, and consequences of microaggressions, macroaggressions, and modern racism within society.

This comprehensive book covers the research, theory, policy and practice context of unusual reproduction using third parties.

This edited volume examines child exploitation in the Global South.

This book explores and discusses emerging perspectives of Ubuntu from the vantage point of "e;ordinary"e; people and connects it to human rights and decolonizing discourses.

Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship --not only theologically, but also politically.

This volume presents the most recent joint study of the research group Religion and Human Rights.

This book presents a comprehensive review of fundamental rights issues that are currently in the spotlight.

This volume sheds new light upon the role of victims in the aftermath of violence.

This book is designed to provide specialists, spectators, and students with a brief and engaging exploration of media usage by radical groups and the laws regulating these grey areas of Jihadi propaganda activities.

This book is an empirical comparative study of the complexity of religion in the public spheres of the five Nordic countries.

This book explores how the recent development of Muslim countries as a group has fallen far short of non-Muslim countries, which, some have concluded, may be a result of Islamic teachings.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of findings from the Children's Worlds project - the most extensive and diverse study to have been conducted globally on children's own views of their lives.

This volume brings together innovative work from emerging and leading scholars in international law and political science to critically examine the impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS).

This book introduces Cyber Justice as a viable approach for promoting good governance based on human rights norms in the internet.

This book explores how contemporary approaches to the meaning of time and history follow patterns that are simultaneously political and theological.

This book analyzes women entrepreneurs in Muslim countries who are using Islamic values to develop and run small businesses.

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.

The aim of this book is to delve into the impact of the Information and Communications Technologies in the criminal prevention and investigation, by addressing the state of the art of different measures and its implementation in different legal systems vis a vis the protection of human rights.

This book analyses whether the design of the institutions of Southern African Development Community (SADC) reflects the community's treaty objectives and principles of democracy and the rule of law.

How do ordinary people experience and make sense of the informal justice system?

This book offers a unique look into prisons in Iran and the lives of the prisoners and their families.

The book focuses on the interactions between international legal regimes related to biodiversity governance.

This book provides a comprehensive and updated legal analysis of the equality principle in EU law.

This book provides original and controversial contributions into specific areas of Johannine studies, along with defenses of various traditional theological interpretations of John that are commonly overlooked in New Testament scholarship.

This volume analyses democratic governance, the rule of law and development in Africa.

This book explores the objects, means and ends of international cultural heritage protection.

This book provides essential insights into Bhutan's developmental challenges.

This edited collection evaluates the relationship between Marxism and religion in two ways: Marxism's treatment of religion and the religious aspects of Marxism.

This book discusses the multilayered legal structures concerning the regulation of crimes under international law.

This book conducts a comparative legal study from two analytical points of view.

This book offers fresh insights to enhance and diversify our understanding of the modern history of the state and societies in today's Jordan, while also providing examples of why and how scholars can challenge the static and discursively government-minded approaches to minorities and minoritisation - especially the traditional emphasis on demographic balances.

This book brings together leading authorities from the fields of international human rights law, criminology, legal medicine, and political science with international human rights judges and UN experts to analyze the current situation of detainees in Europe, the Americas and Africa.

This volume brings together tributes to Judith Ennew's work and approach based on issues related to children she once referred to as 'out of place', that is to say children whose living conditions and ways of life appear far removed from Western images of childhood.