Human rights, civil rights Books

Examines the effects of culturally specific interpretations of refugeehood with an ethnographic focus on Cyprus

Offers a complete empirical account of US government programs, policies, and interventions outside the United States on behalf of the human rights of LGBTQ people.

""I Volontari in Lombardia e nel Tirolo l'Aprile del 1848"" ����� un libro scritto da Michele Napoleone Allemandi nel 1849. Il libro racconta la storia dei volontari che parteciparono alla rivoluzione del 1848 in Lombardia e nel Tirolo, dando vita a un...

""I Trattati di Commercio e la Liguria: Voti dei Deputati Liguri (1878)"" di Paolo Boselli ����� un libro che esamina l'importanza dei trattati commerciali per la regione della Liguria, in Italia, nel XIX secolo. Il testo raccoglie i voti dei deputati...

Il libro ""I Grandi Stati, La Giustizia E La Pace: A Proposito Della Conferenza Dell' Aia (1899)"" di Corrado Giovannini ����� una riflessione sulla Conferenza dell'Aia del 1899, durante la quale vennero discussi importanti temi riguardanti la pace e la...

Based on actual events, the book describes in detail what it was like during urban America's most violent decade; 1965-1975 when policing was low-tech and gritty. Dayton, Ohio experienced three riots; one of which was sparked by the shooting of an...

A collection of seminal essays, many appearing in English for the first time, which provides an excellent overview of the critical theory developed by the Frankfurt School.

Truth Recovery and Transitional Justice investigates why some societies defer transitional justice issues after successful democratic consolidation. 

Each year, thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers apply for asylum in EU Member States.This book considers the position of LGBTI asylum seekers in European asylum law. Developing an encompassing approach to...

This new edited collection illustrates the paradoxical power of social capital in creating and resolving conflict.This is the first book to bring the two faces of social capital together in a single volume, and includes previously unpublished case...

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is...

This book employs the theoretical framework of 'speech act theory' to analyse current legislative frameworks and cases pertaining to sedition or the advocacy of violence and the issue of freedom of speech. An analysis of the relation between speech and...

This edited volume explores the theoretical and practical implications of war and terror situations for citizenship in democratic states. Citizenship is a key concept in Western political thought for defining the individual's relations with society. The...

This book develops a new theoretical framework for the study of security issues and applies this to the case of health. Building on the work of the 'Welsh School' of Security Studies, and drawing on contributions from the wider critical security...

This new book presents critical approaches towards Human Security, which has become one of the key areas for policy and academic debate within Security Studies and IR.The Human Security paradigm has had considerable significance for academics,...

Minority rights is an important issue in all modern states, but for those countries hoping to join the European Union the protection of minorities is a key condition for success in the accession process. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of...

Written in a clear and easy-to-follow style, this revealing text examines the contemporary political geography of the West Bank and Gaza strip. Descriptive in nature, it documents the changes and developments since 1967 right up to the disengagement...

The essays in this volume unite analysis and practice in exploring both the conflict in Northern Ireland and the internationally applicable counter-terrorism lessons which can be drawn from the response to it.

What is White Nonsense? In the United States and elsewhere, White Nonsense, at its core, is the fiction of race fed by the lie of white supremacy. It is the fiction that melanin-lacking people originally from Europe are inherently of more value than...

WE THE PEOPLE DO ORDAIN & ESTABLISH OUR EARTH AS THE LAND OF THE FREEAre you tired of seeing cycles of poverty and desperation? Worried about the future for yourself and generations to come? It's time to change the course of history.Emergent Freedom...

On Neoliberal Globalization consists of Jose Maria Sison's writings (articles, speeches, statements, messages and interviews) on the subject from 1972 (before the formal adoption of the neoliberal policy regime) to 2021. They reveal how the policy of...

This book provides an insight into lethal autonomous weapon systems and debates whether it would be morally correct to give machines the power to decide who lives and who dies on the battlefield.

This book establishes the link between human rights and corruption. The contributors of this book are well known academicians, civil servants, judges, lawyers and social activists. Corruption is so pervasive in India that it has turned public service for...

Amis lecteurs et lectrices,Avez-vous déjà lu la Constitution ? Pourtant, elle conditionne nos vies à un point que nous n'imaginons pas. C'est pourquoi nous invitons chacun(e) à un exercice singulier : la lire...

Journalist on Trial is the captivating story of Rodney D. Sieh, one of Africa's finest investigative journalists. This is not just Rodney’s story but the story of virtually every journalist today in an era that has become consumed by daily...

This report highlights the difference between the 2021 election and all prior 12 presidential elections in Iran. While every election since 1979 has been rigged, they have served to give an appearance of democracy and republicanism to the ruling...

A classic of investigative journalism, the pamphlets of Ida B. Wells-Barnett shine a light on the evils of racism in the United States. With a contextual introduction and useful footnotes, this book gives students an opportunity to analyze and interpret...

This Security Sector Reform (SSR) Paper offers a universal and analytical perspective on the linkages between Security Sector Governance (SSG)/SSR (SSG/R) and Sustainable Development Goal-16 (SDG-16), focusing on conflict and post-conflict settings as...

Democracy understood as people power, which is the only proper definition of the word, is put forward in this book as the panacea for resolving the most pressing issues of our time. But democracy as a practicable system hinges on many conditions which...

Dorothy Byrne Head of News and Current Affairs Channel FourHugo De Burgh Professor & Director China Media Centre University of WestminsterBob Calver Birmingham City UniversityDuncan Campbell Former Crime Correspondent, The GuardianDamian Paul Carney,...

The Federal Shariat Court [FSC], meant to mainly deal with cases under Hadood Laws, could not get even a single MALE finally convicted in Zina or allied cases since its inception in 1980 – fourteen poor ladies involved have, however, been...

Conversations About Law includes the following 5 in-depth Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading researchers. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters...

This book is about the people who really want a change - it is bigger than wrong. It will teach us how to change to make an improvement in America, and globally. It is a how-to-do book on demonstrating your do's and don'ts and how to's. This writing will...

It is becoming increasingly common for human rights norms to be transferred between legal and political systems and this book is a fresh approach to the intersection of transnational law and the protection of cultural difference beyond the single state...

The focus of this book is the idea of equality as a moral, political and jurisprudential concept. The author is motivated primarily by a concern to better understand conundrums in the justification, interpretation and application of discrimination law...

This volume looks at human rights in independent India through frameworks comparable to those in other postcolonial nations in the Global South. It examines wide-ranging issues that require immediate attention such as those related to disability,...

Randy Jurado Ertll's new non-fiction book In The Struggle: Chronicles depicts the struggles and triumphs of community members who are seeking to be heard and seen. Ertll writes the chronicles of the invisible in our society. He provides a...

This book compares Islamic and Western ideas of human rights in order to ascertain which human rights, if any, can be considered universal. This is a profound topic with a rich history that is highly relevant within global politics and society today.The...

This book reveals why the UN is more successful than unilateral great powers in protecting civilians from violence, and focuses on the discourse, development and consequences of UN peacekeeping. Analysing statistics of state fragility and fatalities of...

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) wrote his most controversial work, "On Liberty" in 1859, the year in which Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" was also published. "On Liberty" contains a rational justification of the freedom of the individual in...

Rousseau and Dignity: Art Serving Humanity is a richly illustrated volume relating a series of events-a photography exhibit, lectures, commentary, and audience reactions by people ages seven to ninety-two-held in the name of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's...

"Craig has become a Pied Piper, inspiring students in hundreds of schools across the United States and Canada to join his crusade." -- New York TimesHere is the dramatic and moving story of one child's transformation from a normal, middle-class kid from...

When Dixie's Dirty Secret was first published in 1998, it was the first book to ever expose the super-secret Mississippi Sovereignty Commission and the involvement of the government, the right-wing news media, and organized crime in combating the...