Human Rights

Winner of the 2021 Raphael Lemkin Book Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide Honorable Mention, 2020 CALACS Book Prize Beyond Repair? ...

Advances in reproductive biotechnology increase control over who is born and under what circumstances. Consequently, the question arises: what do w...

Beginning with the negotiations that concluded with the unanimous adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the...

In May 1798, after Congress released the XYZ Affair dispatches to the public, a raucous crowd took to the streets of Philadelphia. Some gathered to...

The literature that explores the compatibility of Islam and human rights is torn between one approach that focuses on reinterpreting Islamic script...

The collapse of the multiethnic, multireligious, and multilingual Ottoman Empire after World War I led to the establishment of several nation-state...

Human rights are politically fraught in Turkey, provoking suspicion and scrutiny among government workers for their anti-establishment left-wing co...

What does it mean for Black women to organize in a political context that has generally ignored them or been unresponsive although Black women have...

In this book, former Warren Commission lawyer Burt Griffin examines anew the Kennedy assassination, its various investigations, its effects on the ...

How do we represent the experience of being a gender and sexual outlaw? In Queer Forms, Ramzi Fawaz explores how the central values of 1970s movem...

For the last half century, Latin America has been plagued by civil wars, dictatorships, torture, legacies of colonialism and racism, and other evil...

In recent years, aggrieved groups around the world have routinely portrayed themselves as victims of human rights abuses. Physically and mentally d...

Despite being dubbed the worlds oldest profession, prostitution has rarely been viewed as a legitimate form of labour. Instead, it is often crimina...

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade stands as a historic victory for abortion-rights activists. But rather than serving as the coda to w...

Since the end of World War II and the founding of the United Nations, genocide, crimes against humanity and other war crimesmass atrocitieshave bee...

This book traces the development of feminist consciousness in Japan from 1871 to 1941. Taeko Shibahara uncovers some fascinating histories as she ...

Critical Perspectives on Human Rights provides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary perspectives on rights, ethics and global justice. The ...

This book critically examines just liberal violence: forms of direct and structural violence that others may be justly subjected to. Michael Neu fo...

This book informs a renewed movement for fair lending and fair housing. Leading advocates and specialists examine strategic initiatives to realize ...

Collecting the diverse perspectives of scholars, labor organizers, and human-rights advocates, Accountability across Borders is the first edited co...

This publication explores human rights in the context of constitution making. It notes the important role of participatory processes which should b...

A Most Uncertain Crusade traces and analyzes the emergence of human rights as both an international concern and as a controversial domestic issue f...

Completely revised and updated, this textbook continues to offer the most comprehensive resource available. Concise chapters from a diverse mix of ...