Human Rights

A history of the Civil Rights Movement from Emancipation through the 1980s, told through 200 objects (buttons, badges, posters, leaflets, and more)...

In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colo...

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

The very first time Honduran environmental activist Berta Càceres met the writer Nina Lakhani, Càceres said, The army has an assassination list wit...

Arnovis couldn't stay in El Salvador. If he didn't leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning, that he would wake up ...

A bold new assessment of the multipronged attack on rights in the United States, and how to push back An overwhelming majority of Americans agree t...

Anyone interested in the future of autocracy should buy it Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Demoracy **Short...

Anyone interested in the future of autocracy should buy it Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Demoracy **Winne...

How do authoritarian regimes deal with pressure from the international community? China's leaders have been subject to decades of international att...

An empirical examination of contemporary refugee practices in BritainInnovative theoretical framework , weaving for the first time together the the...

The essential guide that allows both sides to be heard Rabbi Professor Dan Cohn-Sherbok presents the Israeli perspective, while Dr Dawoud El-Alami...

Since the adoption of the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, all children in the world have rights that are protected by states - at le...

After forty years of protest and debate, we all know one thing for certain about abortion: its a womens issue, right? Wrong, says Brian Fisher in...

[In] this slim but powerful book . . . Younge is adept at both distilling the facts and asking blunt questions.Boston GlobeUnequivocal.Financial Ti...

In Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, 18 scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between aparthe...

A compelling argument that the Internet of things threatens human rights and security Sobering and important. -Financial Times, Best Books of 2020...

It is one thing to craft superb human rights tenets in a constitution and another to enforce such policies in practice. This book explores the c...

This work offers important new perspectives on the violence and unrest that gripped Solomon Islands between late 1998 and mid-2003, a period known ...

In The World Refugees Made, Pamela Ballinger explores Italy's remaking in light of the loss of a wide range of territorial possessionscolonies, pro...

Every year tens of millions of individuals suffer grave abuses of their human rights. These violations occur worldwide, in war-torn countries and i...

Since the 1960s, a significant effort has been underway to program computers to see the human face—to develop automated systems for identifying fac...

The Mexican border state of Chihuahua and its city Juarez have become internationally notorious for violence, as drug cartel battles and official c...

My story starts at the very end of the journey to equal marriage rights. I stand on the shoulders of giants...In the future, people will find it di...

A global history of human rights in a world of nation-states that grant rights to some while denying them to othersOnce dominated by vast empires, ...

Ours is an era marked by extraordinary human migrations, with some 200 million people alive today having moved from their country of origin. The po...

David Coltart is one of the most prominent political and human rights figures in Zimbabwe. In 2000, he was elected to Parliament and, following the...

The history of the antiapartheid movement brings up images of boycotts and public campaigns in the UK, but another story went on behind the scenes,...

'Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world.' - J.K. RowlingI Am Malala tells the remarkable true story of a girl who knew she ...

What do Libertarians believe that sets them apart from other political parties? How do Libertarian values, approaches and principles result in more...