Human Rights

At the core of African American religions response to social inequalities has been a symbiotic relationship between socio-political activism and sp...

Zimbabwe's severe crisis - and a possible way out of it with a transitional government, and the new era for which it prepares the ground - demands ...

The European Unions (EU) fundamental principles on free movement of persons and non-discrimination have long challenged the traditional closure of ...

Through its investigation of the underlying political economy of gender, caste and class in India, this book shows how changing historical geograph...

A combination of economic transformation, political transitions and changes in media have substantially, if incrementally, altered the terrain for ...

This book examines the relationship between international human rights discourse and the justifi cations for criminal punishment. Using interdiscip...

This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this...

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to this emerging field, o...

This book offers a detailed analysis of the Islamic Republic of Irans approach towards human rights in the media. It looks at the state-owned and s...

The human rights of communities in many resource-rich, weak governance States are adversely affected, not only by the acts of States and their agen...

The European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) has been relatively neglected in the field of normative human rights theory. This book aims to bridg...

This book provides a robust gendered analysis and establishes a feminist approach to international actors responses to sexual violence crimes in co...

The Holocaust: The Basics is a concise introduction to the study of this seismic event in mid twentieth-century human history. The book takes an or...

The problem of escalating population displacement demands global attention and country co-ordination. This book investigates the particular issue o...

Throughout the 1990s, humanitarian interventionism sat at a crossroads, where ideas about rights and duties within and beyond borders collided with...

This book contributes to a feminist understanding of international human rights by examining restrictions on reproductive freedom through the lens ...

This book presents a compelling and highly sophisticated politico-legal history of a particular security operation that resulted in one of the most...

Rights are part of our everyday moral and political vocabulary. Yet while few would deny that rights are important, there is a great deal of disagr...

This title was first published in 2002: Utilizing the case of the 1994 US decision to delink Chinas human rights record from most favoured nation s...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century brings together a wide range of geographical, cultural, historical, and con...

First published in 2006, this book brings together some of the most innovative and important research on civil rights law and legality, this book d...

Teaching Human Rights in Primary Schools delves into the important issue of Human Rights Education (HRE) implementation, exploring the nature and e...

This collection of imaginative essays traces notions of hospitality across a sequence of theoretical permutations, not only as an urgent challenge ...

Around the world there are a myriad of NGOs using human rights education (HRE) as a tool of community empowerment with the firm belief that it will...