Human Rights

Under violent military dictatorship, Operation Condor and the Dirty War scarred Argentina from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, leaving behind a l...

This is the first book-length examination of immigrant admissions from a feminist philosophical perspective. Much philosophical work on immigration...

Drink, in the minds of antebellum temperance reformers, represented the threat of an increasingly urban, industrial world. Contrasting the drunkard...

A deft, readable examination of two icons of black resistance This book is more than a must- read; it is an essential read if one is interested in...

This book commemorates and explores the life of one of Mississippi's great civil rights activists, Fannie Lou Hamer. Known for her daring, her brin...

Over the past three decades or more, the international community has been forced to negotiate agreements aimed at solving global problems of greate...

This book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary e...

This book profiles Venezuela with a focus foreign relations and human rights issues. Under the rule of populist President Hugo Chavez, first electe...

Before Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, he added a paragraph authorizing the army to recruit black soldiers. Nearly 200,000 me...

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...