Human Rights

The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Disasters provides the first comprehensive review of the role played by international human rights law i...

Diplomacy is used primarily to advance the interests of a state beyond its borders, within a set of global norms intended to assure a degree of int...

The LGBTI community in Turkey face real dangers. In 2015, the Turkish police interrupted the LGBTI Pride march in Istanbul, using tear gas and rubb...

The Hidden Hands of Justice: NGOs, Human Rights, and International Courts is the first comprehensive analysis of non-governmental organization (NGO...

We live in a time when the most appalling social injustices and unjust human sufferings no longer seem to generate the moral indignation and the po...

How can we best empower people living in the most economically disadvantaged areas of the world to improve their lives in ways that matter to them?...

'Human trafficking' brings to mind gangsters forcing people, often women and girls, to engage in dangerous activities against their will, under thr...

As president of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs advocated for the disempowered, the disenfranchised, the marginalised. She withstood re...

The recent reawakening of the debate about migration in the new millennium has evoked intense emotion, particularly in the United States and Europe...

Under violent military dictatorship, Operation Condor and the Dirty War scarred Argentina from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, leaving behind a l...

With the end of the global Cold War, the struggle for human rights has emerged as one of the most controversial forces of change in Latin America. ...

This is the first book-length examination of immigrant admissions from a feminist philosophical perspective. Much philosophical work on immigration...

Drink, in the minds of antebellum temperance reformers, represented the threat of an increasingly urban, industrial world. Contrasting the drunkard...

A deft, readable examination of two icons of black resistance This book is more than a must- read; it is an essential read if one is interested in...

Over the past three decades or more, the international community has been forced to negotiate agreements aimed at solving global problems of greate...

This book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary e...

This book profiles Venezuela with a focus foreign relations and human rights issues. Under the rule of populist President Hugo Chavez, first electe...

Before Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, he added a paragraph authorizing the army to recruit black soldiers. Nearly 200,000 me...