Human Rights

This volume explores the state of academic freedom in the United States and abroad. What impact have the attacks of September 11th and the ensuing ...

Freedom's Sword is the first history to detail the remarkable, lasting achievements of the NAACP's first sixty years. From its pivotal role in over...

This book studies children’s and young adult literature of genocide since 1945, considering issues of representation and using postcolonial theory ...

A vivid and fast-paced history, Gary May's Bending toward Justice offers a dramatic account of the birth and precarious life of the 1965 Voting Rig...

In Cruel Modernity, Jean Franco examines the conditions under which extreme cruelty became the instrument of armies, governments, rebels, and rogue...

The Europeanization of the World puts forward a defense of Western civilization and the unique gifts it has bequeathed to the world-in particular, ...

Many human rights advocates agree that conventional advocacy tools— reporting abuses to international tribunals or shaming the perpetrators of huma...

In a country or community fractured by war and mass violence, who is to determine "justice" and how it should be achieved? Truth commissions, inter...

From Guantánamo Bay to the war in Iraq, post-9/11 security measures have sparked fears that the West is violating the very civil rights and freedom...

Politics today is marked by tension between claims of universal human rights and diversity. From the war on terror to immigration, one of the major...

This book investigates why some societies defer transitional justice issues after successful democratic consolidation.Despite democratisation, the ...

In recent years there has been an explosion in the usage and visibility of the language of human rights, but what does this mean for the role of th...

Understanding the various meanings given to human and citizenship rights in Argentina is an important task, particularly so given the nation's prom...

Transitional justice mechanisms employed in post-conflict and post-authoritarian contexts have largely focused upon individual violations of a narr...

This book provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understanding the formation of US hu...

When privatization of public services swept the developing world in the 1990s, it was part of a seemingly unstoppable tide of neoliberal reforms ai...

At a time when states are increasingly hostile to the international rights regime, human rights activists have turned to non-state and sub-state ac...

Richard Falk once again captures our attention with a nuanced analysis of what we need to do - at the personal level as well as state actions - to ...

Most of the world’s population lives in cities in developing countries, where access to basic public services, such as water, electricity, and heal...

This book uncovers the contradictions and convergences of racism, decolonisation, migration and living international relations that were shaped by ...

This book provides an innovative contribution to the study of the Responsibility to Protect and Kantian political theory.The Responsibility to Prot...