Human Rights

First published in 1966. The main object of the present work is to trace the process whereby the land of this country came into agricultural use un...

Vaclav Havel is one of the most important European writers of our time. In 1979 he was sentenced to four and a half years of hard labour for his in...

This introduction to the arguments about individual freedom is ideal for newcomers to philosophy or political thought. Each chapter considers a fun...

This magisterial work traces the history of our most cherished value. Patterson links the birth of freedom in primitive societies with the institut...

Community Service Volunteers is known nationally for its high profile citizenship and community learning schemes, including the Barclays New Future...

Are there any human rights that apply to all women and all men in all cultures at all times? Can we ground human rights in an abstract rationality ...

Speakers’ Corner is a unique look at the people who come to argue, discuss and preach at Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park, regarded worldwide...

In the first week of June 2013, the American people discovered that for a decade, they had abjectly traded their individual privacy for the chimera...

There is more information in the world than ever before - but who's in control?At the centre sits the Establishment: governments, corporations and ...

Explosively personal account by a British lawyer who defends Death Row prisoners and Guantanamo Bay detainees.Clive Stafford Smith is the 46-year-o...

This important volume examines rights from an inter-disciplinary law and society perspective, beginning with the premise that the most basic functi...

When the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten (Viby, Denmark) published the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed nine years ago, Denmark found itself at th...

A generation ago, most people did not know how ubiquitous and grave human trafficking was. Now many people agree that the $35.7 billion business is...

When the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed nine years ago, Denmark found itself at the center of a gl...

The successor to the legendary activist Saul Alinsky, Edward T. Chambers pioneered a set of principles and practices that have guided community org...

This book informs a renewed movement for fair lending and fair housing. Leading advocates and specialists examine strategic initiatives to realize ...

After World War II dozens of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) emerged on the global scene, committed to improving the lives of the world's mos...

The citizen, a figure capable of self-government is both the political and the personal sense, is a central and enduring theme of political thought...

A critique of attempts by conservative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors to appropriate the rhetoric of victimhood and appeals to "rights"...

The horrific world of modern slavery is exposed in this book based on the first-hand experiences of victims of human trafficking. Through the stor...