Political control and freedoms

Human Rights: An Introduction is an important text that provides a comprehensive overview of human rights and related issues from a social science perspective.

The fall of communism in the late 1980s and the end of the Cold War seemed to signal a new international social order built on pluralist democracy, the rule of law, and universal human rights.

The year 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment giving many women in the United States the right to vote.

Few places are more notorious for civil rightsera violence than Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the 1964 "e;Mississippi Burning"e; murders.

This revised and updated 2nd edition of Freedman's hard-hitting study aims to remedy the current lack of gender-specific analyses of asylum and refugee issues.

A Brookings Institution Press and the Hoover Institution and the Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law publicationThe events of September 11 and subsequent American actions irrevocably changed the political, military, and legal landscapes of U.

This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.

This book aims to raise awareness about the possibility of achieving the goals of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), in order for all disabled people to enjoy the benefit of human rights.

As citizens, we hold certain truths to be self-evident: that the rights to own land, marry, inherit property, and especially to assume birthright citizenship should be guaranteed by the state.

This book looks at texts produced before and after 9/11 by novelists with Muslim backgrounds in Britain.

Economic developments in irrigation, agriculture, and hydroelectric power generation in western Canada at the turn of the last century challenged the way Native peoples had traditionally managed the watershed environment.

A multidisciplinary empirical study of how juvenile justice standards were operationalised by the state and UNICEF in post-genocide Rwanda.

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This meticulously curated edited volume presents an assemblage of insightful, critical, and contemporary perspectives on how Israeli domination has been sustained and reproduced in new forms and means using various mechanisms and techniques of control, coloniality, and settler colonialism.

En este libro se estudia en detalle el fallido experimento chileno de reemplazar la Constitución.

This book analyzes three major issues related to refugees: repatriation and its accompanying concerns - peace and security.

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Das Kontroversitätsgebot ist ein Kernprinzip politischer Bildung in einer pluralistischen Gesellschaft, die durch zunehmende Heterogenität und Polarisierung herausgefordert ist.

This book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: intellectual representatives of the global north and global south.

This book provides a critical overview of the policy frameworks underpinning the contemporary practices of non-conviction information disclosure during pre-employment 'screening'.

From a young age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa.

This book provides a transdisciplinary assessment of multiple countries' legal and policy frameworks vis-a-vis the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication, adopted in 2014 by the Committee on Fisheries of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

The chapters in this book constitute a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies: the academy has been called to attend to questions of social justice.

Paradigms of International Human Rights Law explores the legal, ethical, and other policy consequences of three core structural features of international human rights law: the focus on individual rights instead of duties; the division of rights into substantive and nondiscrimination categories; and the use of positive and negative right paradigms.

An assessment of the transitional processes aimed at creating a stable and just society in South Africa.

How can children grow to realize their inherent rights and respect the rights of others?

Presents the emerging principle of Common Concern of Humankind as legal response and to serious collective action crises.

In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of the renewal of academic engagement in the Argentinian dictatorship in the context of the post-2001 crisis.

Following the rise of the zemiological movement, the concept of social harm has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention.

In Because of Race, Mica Pollock tackles a long-standing and fraught debate over racial inequalities in America's schools.

With pervasive use of mobile devices and social media, there is a constant tension between the promise of new forms of social engagement and the threat of misuse and misappropriation, or the risk of harm and harassment.

The Law of War and Peace offers a cutting-edge analysis of the relationship between law, armed conflict, gender and peace.

Explores the evolving human rights of Roma in Eastern Europe''s recent history, and the complex politics of Roma rights today.

Securitising Russia shows the impact of twenty-first-century security concerns on the way Russia is ruled.

Human rights have traditionally been understood as protecting individual freedom against intrusion by the State.

Taking the shifting global drug policy terrain as a starting point, this collection moves beyond debates about whether to reform drug policies to a focus on delivering 'drug policy justice' - repairing the damage caused by the war on drugs as a component of reform efforts and safeguarding against future harms in legal markets.

This book uses a practice-driven and empirically founded approach to address the question of whether and how international attention can protect and enable domestic human rights activists in authoritarian settings.

This book deals with the complex and challenging relationship between economic policy and human rights.

What are the implications of colonialism for a theory of global justice today?

By exploring the "e;China factor"e; in the North Korean human rights debate, this book evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of applying the Chinese development-based approach to human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Arguing that there has never been a consensus on which rights all people are entitled, Beyond Illiberalism: Rights, Rhetoric, and Reality in a Pluralistic World traces how the concept of human rights is tied to a global project rooted in colonialism and grounded in nineteenth-century liberalism and post-World War II social democratic principles.

One is usually conscious of tyranny and oppression; domination is more subtle.

This memoir describes the things the author has done in his life to promote justice and peace in America's foreign and domestic policies.

The world is undergoing a profound set of digital disruptions that are changing the nature of how governments counter dissent and assert control over their countries.

A ground-breaking collection applying Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality to the black diasporic experience in Britain.

The arrival of European and Euro-American colonizers in the Americas brought not only physical attacks against Native American tribes, but also further attacks against the sovereignty of these Indian nations.

This volume takes stock of the seminal contribution of Charles Beitz to the so-called "e;political turn"e; in the philosophy of human rights, whose origins are in the work of the late Rawls.