Political control and freedoms

The increased targeting of civilians by militants raises serious and profound questions for policy-makers.

"e;There were they in great fear, where no fear was.

Das Buch bietet Perspektiven von Entscheidungsträgern.

The philosopher Michael Dummett was one of the sharpest and most prominent commentators and campaigners for the fair treatment of immigrants and refugees in Britain and Europe.

Demonstrates the passionate interest the Jeffersonian presidents had in wresting land from less powerful foes and expanding Jefferson's "e;empire of liberty"e; The first two decades of the 19th century found many Americans eager to move away from the crowded eastern seaboard and into new areas where their goals of landownership might be realized.

This book addresses the relationship between International Refugee Law and International Human Rights Law.

The word 'rationality' and its cognates, like 'reason', have multiple contexts and connotations.

No Asylum is a quantitative assessment of the incidence of state repression via the peculiar institution of forced psychiatric hospitalization of evidently healthy Soviet dissidents.

This book examines how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality during the political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century.

La presente obra, que consta de seis capítulos, revisa las respuestas del derecho punitivo del Estado frente a la protesta social.

As the world evolves in increasingly unpredictable directions, one of the key determinants of the future global order will surely be the impact of China.

The first book to engage in a comprehensive examination of the human right to water in theory and in practice.

The fifth volume of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL) discusses diverse and actual legal topics of international and comparative dimensions and angles.

In keinem anderen gesellschaftlichen Bereich kann es zu solch existentiellen menschenrechtlichen Herausforderungen und Grundsatzfragen kommen, wie in der Medizin, in der es neben einem graduellen Verständnis von Gesundheit und Krankheit nicht selten auch um Leben und Tod geht.

Featuring a foreword by Tricia Rose and an Afterword by Cathy J.

This book identifies the definition of a child within the law, the rights of children, and discusses the extent to which primarily English law gives adequate recognition to and protection of these rights.

There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II.

Covering from 1900 to the present day, this book highlights how female artists, actors, writers, and activists were involved in the fight for women's rights, with a focus on popular culture that includes film, literature, music, television, the news, and online media.

The fifth edition of this highly praised study charts and explains the progress that continues to be made towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty.

In the late 1970s when Mao's Cultural Revolution ushered in China's reform era, religion played a small role in the changes the country was undergoing.

Comprehensive analysis of international law''s protection of women''s rights in armed conflict, with an emphasis on how these protections operate in practice.

Exploring the history of contemporary legal thought on the rights and status of the West's colonized indigenous tribal peoples, Williams here traces the development of the themes that justified and impelled Spanish, English, and American conquests of the New World.

Citizenship is not a spectator sport; it is all about engagement.

The first volume in a groundbreaking work of WWII history presents a startlingly different narrative of D-Day based on newly released documents.

The governmental pledge to the American people is found in the First Amendment: "e;Congress shall make no law.

In the last four decades, Australia has resettled thousands of African refugees.

September 11 has become a temporal and symbolic marker of the world's brutal entry into the third millennium.

Aus der Geschichte lernen, kann man nur, wenn die Geschichte richtig erzählt wird.

'Lucid, fluent and compelling' Observer'We need writers like Andrews .

This book argues that the insulation of public life from the ethical standpoint puts in jeopardy the legitimacy and survival of our political communities.

Syrians crossing the Mediterranean in ramshackle boats bound for Europe; Sudanese refugees, their belongings on their backs, fleeing overland into neighboring countries; children separated from their parents at the US/Mexico border--these are the images that the Global Refugee Crisis conjures to many.

The question of to what extent, manifestations of religious beliefs should be permitted in the European public sphere has become a salient and controversial topic in recent years.

In a post-9/11 sea of social and political discord, one state stands apart.

This book addresses the issue of agency in relation to child marriage.

Lawless elements are ascendant in Mexico, as evidenced by the operations of criminal cartels engaged in human and drug trafficking, often with the active support or acquiescence of government actors.

The toppling of Hosni Mubarak marked the beginning of a revolutionary restructuring of Egypt's political and social order.

Yemen is facing a unique confluence of crises.

For decades, framing an issue as a 'human rights' issue carried certain power and effect in politics and international relations, one that has been challenged by the recent rise of populist political forces.

Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate social equality.

This book unearths a food story buried deep within the soil of American civil rights history.

The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag.

Big Brother gets up close and personal.

In Muslim countries, apostasy and blasphemy laws are defended on the grounds that they are based on Islamic Shari'a and intended to protect religion.

Since its first publication in 1971, Barry Cunliffe's monumental survey has established itself as a classic of British archaeology.

John Locke's theory of toleration is generally seen as advocating the privatization of religion.

Following on the heels of his critically acclaimed God of Abraham (Oxford, 1996), Lenn E.

On the evening of September 11, 2002, with the Statue of Liberty shimmering in the background, television cameras captured President George W.

This three-volume set is a rich resource for readers in any discipline interested in understanding the global, regional, and domestic experiences of LGB people.

This book considers the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communication procedure as a key contributor to the realization of children's Article 12 Convention on the Rights of the Child participation rights.