Discourse on fundamentalism has gained much attention in recent years, particularly in a post-9/11 context where extremist or terrorist threats are more prominent, perilous, and pervasive.
Human Rights in ASEAN: Indonesian and International Perspectives is a collection of 13 essays that not only offers fresh new insights on the different facets of human rights and their protection in ASEAN, but also 'insider' accounts of the development of the ASEAN Inter-Governmental Commission for Human Rights.
The book, Economic Empowerment of Women in the Islamic World, discusses the economic, social, and political rights and status of women in Islam, which is theoretically given by the Islamic Jurisprudence (Shariah law).
The subject of this book is human rights law, focusing on historic achievement of a common standard viewed from a perspective of Pengchun Chang's contributions to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
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 provides a comprehensive introduction to the broad spectrum of human rights issues and violations as they are experienced by women and sexual minorities across civil, political, social, economic, and/or cultural domains, in different regions, countries, and contexts.
This volume extends debates on the interaction between universal human rights and the political experiences of Iranians, through a conceptual analysis of 'theories of change'.
This book discusses various dynamic facets of the life of Rashid al-Ghannushi, a distinguished Islamic thinker and activist not only in Tunisia and North Africa, but in the entire Muslim world.
This book provides a rigorous investigation into the adoption and culture of human rights in Nigeria, with a focus on the human rights attitudes of Nigerian students.
This book focuses on the formal and informal reconciliation processes during conflict and post-conflict periods in various locations in the Asia-Pacific, and includes cases studies based on primary research conducted in countries such as Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, South Thailand, Bougainville and the Solomon Islands.
This book provides a ground breaking interdisciplinary study of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, focusing on the post 1949 Civil War in China through to the present day, and discusses the role played by the Catholic Church in contemporary Taiwanese society.
The research presented in this book provides a stakeholder analysis of human rights protection at a time when the region appears to be regressing into an insidious and deep authoritarianism.
This book introduces readers to the major human rights institutions, courts, and tribunals and critically assesses their legacy as well as the promise they hold for realizing human rights globally, and the challenges they face in doing so.
In this book, it is explained that despite a current drop in the number of deaths, terrorism should still be considered a serious and widespread problem.
This book addresses major aspects of inequity, such as access, financing, financial risk protection, gender, service delivery and utilization, in the healthcare sector in India,.
This pivot chronicles the life of Charles McCarthy, a San Francisco native and Jesuit missionary to China, and tells the unique and compelling story of a young man who experienced confinement under the Japanese occupation, followed shortly by imprisonment by the Chinese Communists in the 1950's.
This book considers refugee protection mandates and addresses how legal scholarship can articulate a comprehensive and humane response to the contemporary refugee problem.
This book explores the meaning and implementation of international children's rights law, as laid down in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and related international and regional human rights instruments.
This book provides theoretical and practical guidance to those interested in understanding the dilemmas found at the heart of counter-terror decision-making.
This volume highlights a range of issues underpinning elder care in India, with particular focus on the challenges that India faces in caring for the elderly.
This book addresses contemporary debates on civil disobedience in Islam within the rich Sunni tradition, especially during the height of the non-violent people revolution in various Arab countries, popularly known as the Arab Spring.
This book investigates whether and how reconciliation in Australia and other settler colonial societies might connect to the attitudes of non-Indigenous people in ways that promote a deeper engagement with Indigenous needs and aspirations.
Volume 24 of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is dedicated to investigating IHL's universalist claims from different perspectives and regarding different areas of IHL.
This book is about the 100 years of World Wars and Regional Collaboration in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, investigating and considering how to foster Good Governance and New World Order.
Sororidad profundiza en el análisis de los códigos y mensajes misóginos existentes tras los feminicidios sexuales, centrando su estudio en el caso de Ciudad Juárez (México).
Con el propósito de visibilizar la importancia de la aplicación de los Derechos Humanos en pro de la construcción de alternativas de vida digna y sostenible se ofrece al público, este documento reúne herramientas que le apuestan a la transformación social desde enfoques formativos y pedagógicos, y coherente con elementos específicos del bienestar humano como la economía y ecología sustentable en el marco de la equidad, principios contemplados en la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, como un derecho fundamental para el desarrollo humano.
En este libro se presentan dos zonas de conflicto urbano y los procesos organizativos que permiten la acción colectiva, la gestión territorial y la gobernanza democrática; la primera zona es la Cuenca del Río Tunjuelito y el proceso organizativo Asamblea Sur que allí actúa, la segunda está asociada al contexto de la zona aeroportuaria y a los procesos organizativos Mesa Aeroportuaria de Engativá y Casa de Derechos de Engativá.
La importancia de las tecnologías de la información y de las comunicaciones (TICS) en todos los ámbitos de la vida económica social política y cultural es hoy en día un hecho insoslayable.
Este libro es la segunda entrega del Grupo de Investigacion para la articulacion del Derecho Civil y los Derechos Economicos, Sociales y Culturales (Giadesc) de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Este libro, El derecho fundamental a la salud: retos de la Ley Estatutaria —algunas miradas a la salud en el posconflicto—, es el cuarto libro preparadopor el Centro de Pensamiento en Derecho a la Salud, de la Facultad de Derecho, Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá.
Constituye un motivo de especial satisfacción presentar a la comunidad académica esta nueva obra colectiva, titulada La acción popular: análisis evolutivo de algunas temáticas en los 20 años de vigencia de la Ley 472 de 1998, que reúne seis disertaciones jurídicas con serias y profundas reflexiones sobre aspectos trascendentales para la comprensión de los derechos colectivos y del mecanismo procesal constitucional que los protege por excelencia en Colombia: la acción popular.
Este libro presenta un panorama actualizado y global respecto a la relación inescindible que hoy existe entre la promoción y protección de los derechos humanos con las empresas del sector minero y del sector petrolero.
Este libro tiene como propósito dar a conocer el análisis de impacto normativo, también llamado análisis de impacto regulatorio, como uno de los elementos de la mejora regulatoria, desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria de la economía y del derecho público.
En Reforma y desmembramiento constitucional, Richard Albert, profesor de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Texas en Austin, aborda el problema que plantean las enmiendas que modifican los pilares estructurales de las constituciones.
Reparación simbólica: cultura y arte para nueve casos de violaciones de los derechos humanos es el volumen 2 de la Serie de ESTUDIOS SOBRE REPARACIÓN SIMBÓLICA.
El volumen tiene como objetivo lustrar los resultados más significativos logrados por la doctrina civilista europea en materia de derecho de obligaciones, con una particular atención a las reflexiones doctrinales y a la evolución jurisprudencial .
