Political control and freedoms

Since World War II, abortion policies have remained remarkably varied across European nations, with struggles over abortion rights at the forefront of national politics.

The smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organise, and participate in politics like never before.

Drawing on the incredible wealth of diversity of languages, cultures and movements in which lesbian feminisms have been articulated, this book confronts the historic devaluation of lesbian-feminist politics within Anglo-American discourse and ignites a transnational and transgenerational discussion regarding the relevance of lesbian feminisms in today's world, a discussion that challenges the view of lesbian feminism as static and essentialist.

Stigma is a corrosive social force by which individuals and communities throughout history have been systematically dehumanised, scapegoated and oppressed.

With its rapid industrialization, modernization, and gradual democratization, Imperial Germany has typically been understood in secular terms.

Bringing together some of the world s leading scholars, practitioners, and human-rights activists, this groundbreaking volume provides the first systematic analysis of the 2012 2014 Brazilian National Truth Commission.

While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe.

What can hip-hop tell us about Egypt today?

A new moral, ethical, and legal framework is needed for international human rights law.

The First Amendment is the principle guarantor of speech rights in the United States.

Presenting religion as journalism's silent partner, From Yahweh to Yahoo!

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In the United States, egg donation for reproduction and egg donation for research involve the same procedures, the same risks, and the same population of donorsdisadvantaged women at the intersections of race and class.

Although scholars have long studied how Muslims authenticated and transmitted Muhammad's sayings and practices (hadith), the story of how they interpreted and reinterpreted the meanings of hadith over the past millennium has yet to be told.

Young people have been at the forefront of political conflict in many parts of the world, even when it has turned violent.

Few names are so closely connected with the cause of human rights as that of Mary Robinson.

Despite decades of progress, African Americans living in largely white affluent suburbs still often find themselves caught between the two worlds of race and class.

The twentieth century, a time of profound disillusionment with nationalism, was also the great age of internationalism.

This widely acclaimed and highly regarded book, used extensively by students, scholars, policymakers, and activists, now appears in a new third edition.

Torture is the most widespread human rights crime in the modern world, practiced in more than one hundred countries, including the United States.

Turkey's mixed human rights record has been highly politicized in the debate surrounding the country's probable ascendance to membership in the European Union.

In 1991 the Somali state collapsed.

Hizmet Means Service examines Hizmet, a Turkey-based but global movement dedicated to human service.

In 1993, Jose Medelln, an eighteen-year-old Mexican national who lived most of his life in the United States, was arrested for his participation in the gang rape and murder of two girls in Houston, Texas.

The sheer scale and brutality of the hostilities between Russia and Chechnya stand out as an exception in the mostly peaceful breakup of the Soviet Union.

Although there are legal norms to secure the uniform treatment of asylum claims in the United States, anecdotal and empirical evidence suggest that strategic and economic interests also influence asylum outcomes.

Humanitarian aid workers increasingly remain present in contexts of violence and are injured, kidnapped, and killed as a result.

The right to dignity is now recognized in most of the world's constitutions, and hardly a new constitution is adopted without it.

At peak utilization, private security contractors (PSCs) constituted a larger occupying force in Iraq and Afghanistan than did U.

Before the 2011 uprisings, the Middle East and North Africa were frequently seen as a uniquely undemocratic region with little civic activism.

Saul Alinsky, according to Time Magazine in 1970, was a "e;prophet of power to the people,"e; someone who "e;has possibly antagonized more people .

In these hard times of global financial peril and growing social inequality, injuries to dignity are pervasive.

This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities.

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.

Argues that treating people and artificial intelligence differently under the law results in unexpected and harmful outcomes for social welfare.

Anthropologists and ethnographers examine the global garment industry's impact on workers' well-beingThe 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and injured hundreds more.

In the past decade, debates over immigrant rights and family rights, and accompanying concerns over birthright citizenship, have taken center stage in popular media and mainstream political debates.

International lawyers and ethicists have long judged wars from the perspective of the state and its actions, developing international humanitarian law by asking such questions as "e;Are the belligerents justified in entering the conflict?

This study of religion and violence "e;forces us to reexamine some of our most cherished self-images of modern liberal democratic societies"e; (Charles Taylor).

Vladimir Putin has his own idealized view of himself as CEO of Russia, Inc.

The objective of this e-book is to share information theory that was emailed to the Aljazeera network in Palestine and the Western government offices in Canada and the USA and Great Britain.

After a clerical sanction prohibited them from fishing for a week, a group of Catholic fishers from a village on India's southwestern coast took their church to court.

Violent conflict, climate change, and poverty present distinct threats to women worldwide.

As disdain grows for the workings of Washington, patriots across the country have gathered in "e;tea parties,"e; harkening back to the nations roots in 1773 when "e;No taxation without representation"e; was the motto.

Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are key figures in the struggles playing out in our democracies over internet use, state secrets, and mass surveillance in the age of terror.

The Choice resurrects iconic Conservative Ronald Reagan, making him 32 years younger and places him in the middle of the 2012 election.

Modern democracies face tough life-and-death choices in armed conflicts.

Today, American sovereignty is more challenged than ever before, not from enemies that threaten us militarily but from friends who urge us to share or reduce our sovereignty for larger global objectives.

Lethal autonomous weapons are weapon systems that can select and destroy targets without intervention by a human operator.