Political control and freedoms

This book introduces six key influential feminist activists from Japan's contemporary feminist movement and examines Japanese women's experience of and contribution to the international #MeToo movement.

The book examines the dynamic processes of the various social, political, and cultural negotiations that representatives of Christian groups engage in within authoritarian societies in Greater China, where Christianity is deemed a foreign religious system brought to China by colonial rulers.

The book presents debates around the concept of representation and how these ideas apply to representation for selected disadvantaged groups in India.

The book provides new research highlighting perspectives, perceptions, and practices regarding human rights and human rights education in China.

This book examines the law in relation to how it has responded to sexual and gender issues in the context of Hong Kong, and addresses the implications of those responses for the global context.

The book is a response to the dominant discourse of South Africa as unwelcoming to African immigrants.

This book charts the roller coaster ride taken by the authors over the past 33 years, in the ongoing fight to acknowledge, prevent, and respond to the rape and sexual abuse of women in conflict and displacement situations.

This book addresses sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women from an international law point of view.

In light of the third-generation concept of 'inclusive sustainability', the volume explores the architecture of global disability governance and its degree of harmonisation.

This book discusses human rights law, focusing on Chinese contributions to international human rights viewed from a perspective of global governance.

This book focuses on relatively neglected areas of simulation and gaming (S&G), i.

This book investigates Turkey's departure from a 'flawed democracy' under Kemalist secularism, and its transitioning into Islamist authoritarian Erdoganism, through the lenses of informal law, legal pluralism, and legal hybridity.

This book focuses on a Pentecostal-Evangelical Kenyah community in central Borneo, a region that crosses the border between Malaysia and Indonesia.

This book presents the welfare regime of societies of Chinese heritage as a liminal space where religious and state authorities compete with each other for legitimacy.

This book presents the welfare regime of China as a liminal space where religious and state authorities struggle for legitimacy as new social forces emerge.

This book sheds light on religiously motivated extremism and violence in South Asia, a phenomenon which ostensibly poses critical and unique challenges to the peace, security and governance not only of the region, but also of the world at large.

This book explores state-religion relations under a populist authoritarian ruling party in Turkey.

This book discusses the current reality and the future of ethnic Rohingyas in Myanmar.

This book examines the law in relation to how it has responded to sexual and gender issues in the context of Hong Kong, and addresses the implications of those responses for the global context.

This book reviews Southeast Asia's National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) as part of an emerging assessment of a nascent regional human rights architecture that is facing significant challenges in protecting human rights.

This book highlights that an independent judiciary is indispensable for the very existence of any society based on democratic values, such as the observance of the rule of law and respect for the human rights of individuals.

This book examines how emerging forms of citizenship are shaped by young people in digital spaces as way of making sense of contemporary Chinese society, forming new identities, and negotiating social and political participation.

This book applies libertarian property rights theory to a vexing controversy, abortion.

This book explores the emergent concept of 'human security' within the political context of COVID-19 Chinese politics.

This book is an essential guide on surrogacy, discussing various legal issues that arise in surrogacy cases.

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This book offers new clarity on three important political concepts: authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and resistance.

This book focuses on China's evolution in the field of human rights protection, highlighting its achievements in various systems of human rights protection, as well as its role in international human rights governance and the healthy development of human rights.

This book probes the depths of libertarian philosophy and highlights the need for laws that protect all individuals in society.

This book examines an important socio-political challenge to the ruling party regime in Vietnam.

This is the first book dedicated to clarifying the concept of "e;foundlings"e; and how to best prevent their statelessness in light of the object and purpose of Article 2 of the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and equivalent nationality law provisions.

This book provides a comparative analysis of how communities have developed people-based resilience in response to the global impact of COVID-19.

This book offers perspectives from the ground on human rights and peace in Timor-Leste.

This book focuses on how Indonesian civil society organisations interact with ASEAN to shape human rights institutionalisation in the region.

This volume is the most comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of in-depth analyses on human rights violations committed in war.

This book provides an innovative outlook of the various challenges of international law in the Asian region.

This book shows the push and pull effects between resources, human security and conflicts in Africa.

This book provides an overview of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) to assist readers in developing a more complete understanding of P/CVE and the issues of radicalisation, disengagement and rehabilitation.

This book compares how British and Spanish media have covered the French ban on hijab wearing in public schools.

The book highlights the root cause of human trafficking and analyses how factors of vulnerability affect the marginalized, especially during and after a disaster.

This book brings together a collection of essays about the untenable political status quo in Bangladesh under Sheikh Hasina.

This Handbook represents an unprecedented exploration of the positive peace platform.

This book is a contemporary socio-legal study of Australia's protection of economic and social rights.

This book presents important fields of research in public healthcare in India from an interdisciplinary and health systems perspectives.

Australia has one of the harshest immigration detention regimes in the world, labelled cruel and degrading and a crime against humanity; these policies have been widely condemned.

This book examines the State's duty to protect human rights in Asia amidst rising concern over the human rights impact of business organisations in the region, a topic which has hitherto been understudied.

This book provides a comprehensive human rights analysis of key areas of law affecting older persons, including legal capacity; elder abuse; accommodation and aged care; healthcare; employment; financial security, retirement, and estate planning; and social and cultural participation.

For the last two decades, refugees, like other immigrants, have been settling in newer locations throughout the US and other countries.

This book engages the diverse meanings and interpretations of Islamic and Western law which have affected people and societies across the globe, past and present, in correlation to the epistemological groundings of those meanings and interpretations.

This book examines the extraordinary nature of the power of preventive detention, which permits executive dispensation of the personal liberty of an individual on the mere apprehension that, if free and unfettered, he may commit acts prejudicial to national security or public order.