Human Rights

Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attenti...

Americans have a deeply ambivalent relationship to guns. The United States leads all nations in rates of private gun ownership, yet stories of gun ...

How have ideas about white women figured in the history of racism? Vron Ware argues that they have been central, and that feminism has largely deve...

The 1980s saw one of the largest social movements in US history, as activists fought to change the Reagan Administrations policy of supporting righ...

Pillay, a trailblazer in Human Rights Law, was born in 1941 to a humble Indian family in apartheid South Africa. She faced enormous obstacles to he...

''These women are each a light and an inspiration, demonstrating how the best instincts of humanity - to love, to share, to protect others - can tr...

'This book should be mandatory reading for all young people' - Pragya Agarwal'I wish this book had been around when I was a kid. . . If every child...

A searing--and sobering--account of the legal and extra-legal means by which systemic white racism has kept Black Americans 'in their place' from s...

It's in our instant noodles and chocolate bars, our lipsticks and fuel tanks. But what even is palm oil, and how has it come to dominate our lives ...

'An indispensable account' Sunday Times 'Moving and devastating' The Literary Review 'An intimate, highly sensory self-portrait' Sunday Telegrap...

Since August 2020, the intimidation of witnesses and journalists has surged in Sri Lanka. Twelve Cries from Home navigates the memories and stories...

A gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the world.For the 150 years that Hong...

A shocking depiction of one of the worlds most ruthless regimes and the story of one womans fight to survive. I will never forget the camp. I can...

Food insecurity poses one of the most pressing development and human security challenges in the world. In Feeding the Hungry, Michelle Jurkovich ex...

Canada enjoys a reputation as a peaceable kingdom and a refuge from militarism.Yet Canadians during the Vietnam War era met American war resisters ...

Nomadic groups and sedentary society have been in conflict throughout the ages and the conflict continues to this day. For the most part it is noma...

Sam Smith explores the development of a human rights based approach to social care, thus she contributes to the development of a culture of awarene...

People in danger have received protection in communities beyond their own from the earliest times of recorded history. The causes war, conflict, v...

'A deeply moving memoir... We owe Ahmet Altan a tremendous debt for the strength he has shown in sharing his story with us' Jon McGregor Written f...

It''s dinned into us from birth that ''all good things come at a price''. Today, that price looks apocalyptic, with wars, exploitation and environm...

The issues which are discussed in the 29 chapters of this volume address core matters with respect to modern diverse societies. The most important ...

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the extent to which the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union will influence the developm...

Even as human rights provide the most widely shared moral language of our time, they also spark highly contested debates among scholars and policym...

Human Rights Watchs World Report 2014 is the global rights watchdogs flagship 24th annual review of global trends and news in human rights. An inva...

The current horrific malaise in the state of Iraq has its roots in the US-led destruction of Iraq in 1991, followed by a decade of harsh US-led int...

CUSTOMERS IN NORTH AMERICA: COPIES ARE AVAILABLE FROM WWW.SEVENSTORIES.COM Human Rights Watch's twenty-third annual World Report summarizes human r...

This book represents a collection of a selected papers from an international conference focusing on the right to happiness, held in Bucharest in De...

Global Society, Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights is the outcome of a decade-long scholarly project. The point of convergence emerging from the anal...

The evil that permeates sex trafficking is not going to stop; but, it can be discouraged and abated and peoples lives spared the incalculable damag...

Fully updated with new preface and five new speeches for paperback edition.A Guardian Book of the Year.Looking at lists of the greatest speeches of...

Despotism on Demand draws attention to the impact of flexible scheduling on managerial power and workplace control. When we understand paid work as...

An analysis - and celebration - of the NHS as it turns 70. Based on a series of interviews with leading experts in and on the NHS and residencies i...

In the first half of the twentieth century, supporters of the eugenics movement offered an image of a racially transformed America by curtailing th...