Human Rights

Hannah Arendt's most important contribution to political thought may be her well-known and often-cited notion of the "right to have rights." In thi...

As social work students and practitioners encounter the term "human rights" with greater frequency, there is a pressing need for them to understand...

This is a riveting, day-by-day, hour-by-hour reconstruction of the massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 3-4, 1989, as well as of the crucial events...

Voted a Best Poetry Book of the Year by Library JournalIncluded in Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books of the YearOne of LitHub's most Anticipa...

An incisive examination of how pundits and politicians manufactured the campus free speech crisis--and created a genuine challenge to academic free...

More than two decades since his death, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s ideas - his call for racial equality, his faith in the ultimate triumph of justice...

With new momentum, the Brazilian black movement is working to bring attention to and change the situation of structural racism in Brazil. Black con...

In this timely book Milton J. Esman surveys a recurrent and seemingly intractable factor in the politics of nations: ethnicity. As the author notes...

A pragmatic inquiry into student speech, public schooling and the First Amendment

Aboriginal claims remain a controversial but little understood issue in contemporary Canada. British Columbia has been, and remains, the setting fo...

As social work students and practitioners encounter the term "human rights" with greater frequency, there is a pressing need for them to understand...

This book analyses patterns of women’s political participation and evaluates disparity between levels of women’s participation in politics and repr...

One of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the Year“One of the smartest young writers of her generation...

Once at the forefront of progressive social change in the US, Black activism has been eclipsed in the past quarter century by dramatic changes in t...

An interdisciplinary collection, Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights examines the potential and limitations of the "women's rights as human r...

Contemporary civil libertarians claim that their works preserve a worthy American tradition of defending free-speech rights dating back to the fram...

We regard genocidal violence as worse than other sorts of violence—perhaps the worst there is. But what does this say about what we value about the...

Since Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967, the quest for just and lasting peace has been a fountainhead of debate, negotiat...

This book tells the story of Ivory Perry, a black worker and community activist who, for more than thirty years, has distributed the leaflets, carr...

Since Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967, the quest for just and lasting peace has been a fountainhead of debate, negotiat...

Sanctions are an important tool within the foreign policy of the European Union, which have until now remained obscure to both scholars and the gen...

On November 16, 1989, on the campus of El Salvador's University of Central America, six Jesuits and two women were murdered by members of the Salva...

In Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in re-education camps. One of the incar...

Refusing to be governed by what is fashionable or inoffensive, Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley frankly address the passions and rationalities that...

A pragmatic inquiry into student speech, public schooling and the First Amendment

We regard genocidal violence as worse than other sorts of violence—perhaps the worst there is. But what does this say about what we value about the...

This little gem of a book, which first appeared in 1920, was written in Walter Lippmann's thirtieth year. He was still full of the passionate faith...

By exploring the "China factor" in the North Korean human rights debate, this book evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of applying the Chine...

"Genocide" may be the most powerful word in the English language. What is the significance and relevance of this formative concept today? In an ext...

What did "freedom of the press" really mean to the framers of the First Amendment and their contemporaries? This masterful book by a Pulitzer Prize...

This book employs the concept of human security to show what the term means from the perspective of women in Afghanistan.It engages with a well-est...

This volume examines the ongoing construction of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, elaborating on areas of both consolidation and conte...

This book reveals why the UN is more successful than unilateral great powers in protecting civilians from violence, and focuses on the discourse, d...