Human Rights

It follows the earliest struggle for liberty from slavery,when some 200,000 African American slaves and freemen fought on both sides in return for ...

Intended for the general reader with an interest in American history, this book profiles eleven women who made enduring contributions to society...

It is because Catholicism played such a formative role in the construction of Western legal culture that it is the focal point of this enquiry. The...

This book is the first to systematically examine Chinese refugee law and policy. It provides in-depth legal and policy analysis and makes recommend...

The book provides in-depth insight to scholars, practitioners, and activists dealing with human rights, their expansion, and the emergence of 'new'...

Starting as a civil uprising calling for liberal reforms in March 2011, the unrest in Syria rapidly deteriorated into a proxy-led armed conflict in...

The gig economy, precarious work, and nonstandard employment have forced labor law scholars to rethink their discipline. Classical remedies for une...

This volume consists of timely, useful, original contributions by historians, media scholars and anthropologists that will be essential reading for...

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is increasingly used to civilize grassroots disabled persons' organ...

With events and movements such as #MeToo, the Gender Equality UN Sustainable Development Goal, the Irish and Chilean abortion policy changes, and t...

By executive order, the US adopted an immigration policy that looks remarkably similar to a Muslim ban, and threatened to deport long-settled resid...

The recent Colombian peace negotiations took the art and science of negotiating transitional justice to unprecedented levels of complexity. For dec...

The three most important Supreme Court Justices before the Civil WarChief Justices John Marshall and Roger B. Taney and Associate Justice Joseph St...

For over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by women and their male allies. Sexual h...

The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Disasters provides the first comprehensive review of the role played by international human rights law i...

Diplomacy is used primarily to advance the interests of a state beyond its borders, within a set of global norms intended to assure a degree of int...