Human Rights

Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditi...

A clear and concise A-to-Z of keywords that echo our current human rights crisis As millions are forced to leave their nations of origin as a resul...

This book provides theoretical and practical guidance to those interested in understanding the dilemmas found at the heart of counter-terror decisi...

Pulitzer Prize FinalistSilver Gavel Award FinalistA sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied on torture in various...

As the most comprehensive edited volume to be published on perpetrators and perpetration of mass violence, the volume sets a new agenda for perpetr...

The 1996 South African Constitution was promulgated on 18th December 1996 and came into effect on 4th February 1997. Its aspirational provisions pr...

Courts in different jurisdictions face similar human rights questions. Does the death penalty breach human rights? Does freedom of speech include r...

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the law and procedure of the European Court of Human Rights. It incorporates a step-by-step approach t...

According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its atte...

Few people know much about the government of Sudan's genocidal attack against the people of the Nuba Mountains in the late 1980s and early 1990s. T...

Dr. Benjamin Rush was the Founding Father of an America that other Founding Fathers forgot or ignored--an America of women, African-Americans, Jews...

Blacklisted tells the controversial story of the illegal strategies that transnational construction companies resorted to in their attempt to keep ...

We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Lui...

The indigenous Bedouin Arab population in the Naqab/Negev desert in Israel has experienced a history of displacement, intense political conflict, a...

In this collection, Wells's anti-lynching crusade comes alive. Through brilliant social analysis, she exposed lynching as part of a larger framewor...

When Turkmenistan gained independence with the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, the former republic''''s president and head of t...

This book on human rights practices chronicles dramatic changes and the stories of the people defending human rights in the countries of Afghanista...

From their classical origins in the natural law theory of Greek and Roman philosophers and jurists to natural rights culminating in the American an...

This encyclopedia presents important research on the Middle East. Some of the topics discussed herein include Iran''''s ballistic missile and space...

The U.S. Supreme Courts highly anticipated decision in Obergefell v. Hodges recognized federal constitutional protection for same-sex marriage.1 Al...