Human Rights

Identity politics has been creeping into public discourse for many years. When the first edition of this book was published in 2006, it was already...

Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in t...

A child bride paralysed by fear, a man trapped in a life of slavery, a couple imprisoned for simply loving one another, a woman who refuses to bow ...

What explains differences in soldier participation in violence during irregular war? How do ordinary men become professional wielders of force, and...

No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals how he did it. He played baseball for Y...

No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals how he did it. He played baseball for Y...

Decades of military oppression in Burma have led to the systematic destruction of thousands of ethnic minority villages, a standing army with one o...

Five years ago, DeRay Mckesson quit his job as a schoolteacher, moved to Ferguson, Missouri, and spent the next 400 days on the streets as an activ...

In 2014, distinguished jurist Richard Falk completed his six-year term as UN Special Rapporteur on occupied Palestine. With Palestine: The Legitima...

Jack Nusan Porter's writings date back to 1966, during the height of the Vietnam War. He describes the anguished struggle against war, racism, and ...

Political hackers, like the infamous Anonymous collective, have demonstrated their willingness to use political violence to further their agendas. ...

Political hackers, like the infamous Anonymous collective, have demonstrated their willingness to use political violence to further their agendas. ...

This book lays bare the global propaganda war waged by the South African government in the attempt to bolster support for their apartheid regime. T...

Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalism, Jessica Whyte uncovers the place of human rights...

I invite you to be courageous and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, because any discomfort you feel is temporary and pales in comparison to...

In the early 1970s, Sir Maurice Oldfield of the British Secret Service, MI6, embarked upon a decade-long campaign to derail the political career of...

The world needs a UN 3.0. The extent and severity of global crises are such that business as usual provides no solution. Roland Richs Leviathan des...

Much has been written In English about the experiences and treatment of immigrants from south of the Rio Grande once they have entered the United S...

What does it take to make a dictator answer for his crimes? Hissène Habré, the former despot of Chad, had terrorized, tortured, and killed on a hor...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The EconomistA chilling work of true crime about the midair murder of a human rights activist, set against a rivet...