Human Rights

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...

Ten years previously Zana Muhsen escaped from the life of slavery in the Yemen into which her father had sold her as a child bride, leaving behind ...

This book provides an overview on the contemporary political system of China, the world''''s second largest economic power, one of five permanent m...

Interest in international law has increased greatly over the past decade, largely because of its central place in discussions such as the Iraq War ...

On 10 July 2014, the New York Advisory Committee held a briefing on New York''''s use of solitary confinement (or extreme isolation, as it is somet...