Human Rights

Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century is a comprehensive resource for training, education, and raising awareness in a wide variety of...

In a turnabout of the cynical belief that might makes right, nations now see fit to issue apologies to peoples and countries they have wronged. We ...

In 1944, Saskatchewan elected the first socialist government in North America. Led by the dynamic Tommy Douglas, the Co-operative Commonwealth Fede...

Martin Luther King, Jr., is widely celebrated as an American civil rights hero. Yet King's nonviolent opposition to racism, militarism, and economi...

The first comprehensive analysis of the impact of the Reagan revolution on African-American political life, this book explores the ways in which co...

In this book, the Gitksan and Gitanyow present their response to the use of the treaty process by the Nisga’a to expand into Gitksan and Gitanyow t...

For decades, Argentina's population was subject to human rights violations ranging from the merely disruptive to the abominable. Violence pervaded ...

The main purpose of this book is to revisit prevailing conceptions of the Japanese state—which tend to focus on bureaucratic dominance, party polit...

From "Don't ask, don't tell" to the Defense of Marriage Act, from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to the continued battle against AIDS, gays ...

From Tammany Hall to the election of David Dinkins, To Be Mayor of New York offers insights into the effect of ethnic competition on the demise of ...

An invaluable resource for readers seeking to understand how traditional religious ideas and values relate to modern ideas of human rights, how Wes...

Readers in Western developed countries are most familiar with abuses of political and civil rights, but the international human rights regime also ...

As nations throughout the world emerge from periods of human rights abuses, systematic oppression, and collective violence, truth commissions have ...

Brazil and Transnational Human Rights Movement, 1964–1985 explores how solidarity for Brazil contributed to the global human rights movement of the...

Since the terrorist attacks of September 2001, surveillance has been put forward as the essential tool for the ‘war on terror,’ with new technologi...

CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Title Illuminates how global solidarity defined African American politics and invigorated the African diaspor...

The issue of minority rights is highly contested in both member and candidate states of the European Union. Compared with other policy areas, the E...