Human Rights

A unique insider perspective of daily life in New York Citys most notorious house of correction While most people behind bars at Rikers Island are ...

Palestine is a microcosm of the world: wretched, raging, fraught, and fragmented. On fire. Stubborn. Ineligible. Dignified. The lens we lend the Pa...

The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, awarded by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State University, recognizes outstanding in...

Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandell, Canterbury Academy educated more than two dozen Black women during its eighteen-month existence...

Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandell, Canterbury Academy educated more than two dozen Black women during its eighteen-month existence...

Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representationPlaces refugee imaginaries at the centre of interdiscipli...

This book examines the intersection between Indian cinema (across geographic regions, languages and formats) and human rights. It analyzes Indian c...

In the light of intense international focus on ongoing forms of world poverty, this book examines the potential of the concept of recognition in co...

This book grapples with the challenges inherent in an uncertain period for global human rights and explores the future of international human right...

More than just a legal doctrine, color-blind constitutionalism has emerged as the defining metaphor of the post-Civil Rights era. Even for those ch...

Now available as a paperback: the history of a disturbing image, now iconic, that expressed the turmoil of the 1970s and race relations in the Unit...

Are global standards of aid, assistance and redistribution achievable in practice? These 8 essays mirror and expand the complexity of contemporary ...

Reconceiving Civil Society and Transitional Justice examines the role of civil society in transitional justice, exploring the forms of civil societ...

This is an open access book. What is the history and current state of play of EU law and policy covering irregularised human mobility? What has bee...

This is an open access book. What is the history and current state of play of EU law and policy covering irregularised human mobility? What has bee...

This landmark two-volume anthology chronicles more than thirty tumultuous years in the African American struggle for freedom and equal rights. Here...

This landmark two-volume anthology chronicles more than thirty tumultuous years in the African American struggle for freedom and equal rights. Here...

Combining conflict studies and feminist perspectives on everyday violence, this book analyses games and push-back which are vectors to migrants' bo...

This book aims to prospectively conjecture about what the coming decades may hold for human rights. The authors in this volume discern where curren...

Right after the Gezi Resistance, a new tendency of authoritarianism rapidly emerged in Turkey and AKP government started targeting anyone it percei...

Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understan...

What is the state of current European governance on new and emerging technologies, and where is it going? What is, and what can be, the role of hum...