Human Rights

This book examines the efforts of one particular civil society organization, the human rights ministry of a Catholic parish located in the Kibera s...

An expanded and updated edition of a classic work on human rights and global justiceSince its original publication, Basic Rights has proven increas...

When A Beauty That Hurts was published in 1995, Guatemala was still one of the world s most flagrant violators of human rights. Now that a measure ...

Europe is facing its greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War, yet the institutions responding to it remain virtually unchanged from thos...

Should people with deeply held objections to certain practices be allowed to opt out of involvement with them? Should a Christian baker who objects...

Time's Language contains powerful poems of witness as well as personal poems, and autobiographical prose pieces (that read like prose poems), recou...

The book aims at offering an overview of the current human rights practice, indicating some main specific features able to provide a meaningful exp...

Shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Congress enacted the USA PATRIOT Act, in part, to provide enhanced investigative tools and to assist in t...

'Shocking, heartfelt and well-researched' New Statesman'A ground-shaping book that defines the edge of so many vital contemporary debates. Hers is ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet...

A series of international human rights treaties and other instruments adopted since 1945 have conferred legal status on inherent human rights and d...

Much of the mental health legislation in the Pacific region is archaic, pays no attention to the rights of mental health consumers and is long over...

During the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in the struggle against totalitarian regimes, cruel...

This is a book about a terrible spate of mass violence. It is also about a rare success in bringing such violence to an end. If You Leave Us Here, ...

During the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in the struggle against totalitarian regimes, cruel...