Human Rights

In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 ter...

In 1907, physician Lawrence A. Nixon fled the racial violence of central Texas to settle in the border town of El Paso. There he became a community...

Since the arrival of European settlers, Native American cultural sovereignty has been under attack. Self-determination is a tribal right of Nati...

If the stories they tell about themselves are to be believed, all of the tech giantsApple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazonwere built from t...

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In the Old Northwest from 1830 to 1870, a bold set of activists battled slavery and racial prejudice. This book is about their expansive efforts to...

A collection of United Nations documents associated with the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, these volumes facilitate resear...

Human rights have fallen on hard times, yet they are more necessary than ever. People all over the world from Amazonian villages to Iranian prison...

Rights were once thought to derive from the God-given nature of man. But today human rights and religion are sometimes in conflict. The universal c...

Recent immigrants and refugees--both children and their families--often struggle to adapt to Canadian education systems. For their part, educators ...

Canada is a signatory on the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which guarantees the protection and care of children and youth....

Copts and the Security State combines political, anthropological, and social history to analyze the practices of the Egyptian state and the politic...

How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challen...

Copts and the Security State combines political, anthropological, and social history to analyze the practices of the Egyptian state and the politic...

Why are some international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) more politically salient than others, and why are some NGOs better able to influenc...

China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary and most u...

The global recession has had political consequences across the world, but nowhere greater than in the periphery of Europe. In response, a massive w...

Many think slavery ended with the demise of the trans-Atlantic trade, but sadly, that's far from true. An estimated thirty-six million live without...

During a one-hundred-day period in 1994, Hutus murdered between half a million and a million Tutsi in Rwanda. The numbers are staggering; the metho...