Human Rights

Somewhere in D.C., a vast computer complex churns through quintillions of data bytes about every American, living or dead. And one of them is you!S...

A development education resource designed and written by an international group of authors and educationalists. It explores inequalities and injust...

On September 23, 1947, the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires filled with jubilant men and women celebrating a new law that gave women the same right as...

News fixers are locally-based media employees who serve as translators, coordinators, and guides to foreign journalists in unfamiliar terrain. Oper...

Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisisSeven years after the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere s...

States claim the right to choose who can come to their country. They put up barriers and expose migrants to deadly journeys. Those who survive are ...

Biopolitics and posthumanism have been passé theories in the academy for a while now, standing on the unfashionable side of the fault line between ...

Eleanor Roosevelt stands as one of the world''s greatest humanitarians, having dedicated her remarkable life to the liberty and equality of all peo...

How can we understand and contest the global wave of violence against women? In this book, Alison Brysk shows that gender violence across countries...

Rights: Concepts and Contexts contains the central works of recent scholarship on the nature of rights, with contributions by some of the most pro...

The AIDS Law Project (ALP) is a small legal NGO in Johannesburg that, along with its allies in the Treatment Action Campaign, fought for more than ...

In this work, Mill reflects on the struggle between liberty and authority and defends the view that the only purpose for which power can be rightfu...

During the 1900s eugenics gained favour as a means of controlling the birth rate among undesirable populations in Canada. Though many people were t...

The story of Ava Helen Paulingher rich career as an activist first for civil rights and liberties, then against nuclear testing, and finally for pe...

Economic, social, and cultural rights are finally coming of age. This book brings together all essential documents, materials, and case law relatin...

Revolutionizing Feminism offers the first feminist analysis of the human rights crisis in the Philippines during the Arroyo presidency (2001-2010) ...