The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is the first international agreement setting out freedoms, rights and entitlements for all humanity to claim.
When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades, with a focus on women's health and rights.
La Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme (DUDH) est le premier document international établissant les libertés et les droits pour toute l'humanité.
When considering the structures that drive the global diffusion of human rights norms, Brian Greenhill argues that we need to look beyond institutions that are explicitly committed to human rights and instead focus on the dense web of international government organizations (IGOs)-some big, some small; some focused on human rights; some not-that has arisen in the last two generations.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is the first international agreement setting out freedoms, rights and entitlements for all humanity to claim.
The Canada Pension Plan disability benefit is a monthly payment available to disabled citizens who have contributed to the CPP and are unable to work regularly at any job.
When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades, with a focus on women's health and rights.
On the morning of February 24, 1942, on the Black Sea near Istanbul, an explosion ripped through a decrepit former cattle barge filled with Jewish refugees.
For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a drivers license, verifying information for new employers, or claiming state and federal benefits.
Sovereign nation states, which were formed in the context of major war, have been deeply exclusionary in their dealings with minority cultures and alien outsiders.
Since gaining their independence from Belgium forty years ago, the people of the Congo have endured a never-ending stream of violent political upheavals, natural disasters and failed social and economic experiments.
La Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos es el primer acuerdo internacional que establece las libertades, los derechos y las prestaciones para que toda la humanidad reclame.
Volume two of the influential study of US foreign policy during the Cold War—and the media’s manipulative coverage—by the authors of Manufacturing Consent.
A road map for addressing and resolving the debate surrounding Confederate monuments in the United StatesIn recent years, the debate over the future of Confederate monuments has taken center stage and caused bitter clashes in communities throughout the American South.
This extensive study suggests that, despite being one of the largest slaveholders in Virginia, Jefferson was consistent in his advocacy of human rights.
At great personal risk and with forged travel documents, George Monbiot in 1988 bluffed, cheated and forced his way into the remotest tropical place in the world - the forbidden territories of Irian Jaya, Indonesia.
n Many people across the world know Antonio Negri as an internationally renowned political thinker whose book, Empire, co-authored with Michael Hardt, is an international bestseller.
Sentenced to death in 1982 for allegedly killing a police officer named Daniel Faulkner, Mumia Abu-Jamal is the most famous death row inmate in the United States, if not the world.
For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a drivers license, verifying information for new employers, or claiming state and federal benefits.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is the first international agreement setting out freedoms, rights and entitlements for all humanity to claim.
Le 25 septembre 2015, les pays du monde adoptèrent un ensemble de 17 objectifs pour mettre fin à la pauvreté, protéger la planète et assurer la prospérité pour tous dans le cadre d'un nouveau programme de développement durable à atteindre d'ici 2030.
Within the framework of the human rights treaty system of the European Social Charter, the collective complaints procedure was created in 1995 as an optional quasi-jurisdictional monitoring mechanism specific for the protection of social rights.
Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens human rights, especially over the past three decades.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is the first international agreement setting out freedoms, rights and entitlements for all humanity to claim.
The first comprehensive narrative of the South Carolina state capitol and the history enshrined in its monuments from 1787 to the presentThe South Carolina State House grounds are a work in progress-a cultural landscape of human-built and natural components connected physically, conceptually, and aesthetically.
