Political control and freedoms

A discussion of the nature of a discrimination directed both against women as individuals and as members of a group, examining the relevance of criteria which are used to justify such discrimination.

Hanged by the Nigerian government on November 10, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa became a martyr for the Ogoni people and human rights activists, and a symbol of modern Africans' struggle against military dictatorship, corporate power, and environmental exploitation.

The US government spends billions of dollars every year to reduce uncertainty: to monitor and forecast everything from the weather to the spread of disease.

How might the entire citizenry of a country make the decisions that affect them?

This book examines companies'' and investors'' moral and legal complicity in human rights violations in the context of globalisation.

An anthropologist's groundbreaking account of how Islamic religious authority is assembled through the unceasing labor of community building on the island of JavaThis compelling book draws on Ismail Fajrie Alatas's unique insights as an anthropologist to provide a new understanding of Islamic religious authority, showing how religious leaders unite diverse aspects of life and contest differing Muslim perspectives to create distinctly Muslim communities.

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 second edition examines judicial independence as an aspect of democratization based on the premise that democracy cannot be consolidated without the rule of law of which judicial independence is an indispensable part.

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

By exploring the trajectories of Islamist parties in six diverse countries (Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia), this book provides a comparative analysis of the strategies employed by Islamist groups to confront established political structures through electoral processes and their subsequent governance practices if and when they assume power.

Migrant and seasonal farmworkers are largely Latinx men, women, and children.

This Element argues that media and democracy requires a framework that analyzes political life and communication.

This book examines selected legal complexities of the notion of torture and the issue of the proper foundation for legally characterizing certain acts as torture, especially when children are the targeted victims of torture.

The Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is arguably the most historically important clause of the most significant part of the US Constitution.

This book offers a unique intersectional perspective on gender equality, SDG5.

This book discusses the principle of open justice with a focus on the mechanism of video streaming of court proceedings.

This book includes a set of studies and reflections that have emerged since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

Examining the prevalent issue of domestic violence, this book breaks down the reasons behind the ineffectiveness of existing human rights instruments and the gaps in current legal systems failing those in need.

This book provides essential insights into Bhutan's developmental challenges.

We Want Land to Live explores the current boundaries of radical approaches to food sovereignty.

"e;The aim of the Managing Global Insecurity project is to launch a reform effort of the global security system in 2009.

All over the world, there is a growing interest in the relationship between law and aging: How does the law influence the lives of older people?

In the twenty-first century, political conflict and militarization have come to constitute a global social condition rather than a political exception.

Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all forms of 'citizen killings', which include killing in self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and killings carried out by private military contractors and so-called 'foreign fighters'.

Of the over 33 million refugees and internally displaced people in the world today, a disproportionate percentage are found in Africa.

Urteilsbildung ist in allen Fächern mit denselben zentralen didaktischen Prinzipien verknüpft, wie etwa Lebenswelt-, Gegenwarts- und Problemorientierung.

In the early 1960s, thousands of Black activists used nonviolent direct action to challenge segregation at lunch counters, movie theaters, skating rinks, public pools, and churches across the United States, battling for, and winning, social change.

The transformation of patriarchal church culture begins with gender equality in the pulpit.

On February 15, 2003, millions of people around the world demonstrated against the war that the United States, the United Kingdom, and their allies were planning to wage in Iraq.

Since 9/11 interest in Islamophobia has steadily increased - as has the number of academic publications discussing the phenomenon.

The first edition of Halbert and Ball's Creek War was published in 1895, and a new edition containing an introductory essay, supplementary notes, a bibliography, and an index by Frank L.

In 1934, at the age of fourteen, Colette Brull-Ulmann knew that she wanted to become a pediatrician.

This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.

Überall auf der Welt nehmen Ungleichheit und Armut zu, die Menschenrechte werden mit Füßen getreten.

The South China Sea has a rich and turbulent history.

This Commentary provides the first comprehensive legal article-by-article analysis of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

This powerful reference explores the processes and practices of family systems therapy as conducted in humanitarian situations across the globe.

Millions of people have been victimized by the actions and omissions of states and governments.

In the middle of the Mississippi Delta lies rural, black-majority Sunflower County.

2004 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision to end segregation in public schools.

This book provides insights into the emotional dimensions of human mobility.

Focusing on how rape, sexual assault, and harassment relate to underrepresentation of women in public authority, this book provides an insightful exploration of the policy context that impedes women's advancement to positions of power.

In this work, Chomsky explores the West's uses and abuses of the principle of "e;human intervention.

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 came into force on 1 January 2005, creating a new statutory 'right to open government'.

The inspirational saga of one man's fight for civil rights for African Americans in LouisianaWitness to the Truth tells the extraordinary life story of a grassroots human rights leader and his courageous campaign to win the right to vote for the African Americans of Lake Providence, Louisiana.