Human Rights

Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease that mainly affects the skin and peripheral nerves. Left untreated, it can cause progressive and permanent ...

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

Freedom of speech is central to the liberal democratic tradition. It touches on every aspect of our social and political system and receives explic...

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 f...

The field of conflict resolution has evolved dramatically during the relatively short duration of the discipline's existence. Each generation of sc...

Cases of sexual violence against men have been documented in a great number of conflicts and wars, both ancient and contemporary. Despite this grow...

The end of the post-World War II 'long boom' in the mid-1970s proved the beginning of a process of political-economic change that has fundamentally...

Winner, 2020 Best Book Award, Law Category, given by the American Book Fest Examines immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighte...

Georg Brandes was known as the Father of the Modern Breakthrough for his influence on Scandinavian writers in the late nineteenth century. A promin...

Winner of the 2018 Best Book Award (Social Sciences) of the Southern Cone Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association.From 1973 to 19...

What happens when concepts of truth, memory, and human rights are taken up and adapted by former perpetrators of violence? Peru has moved from the ...

This first English translation of Pierre Manents profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de lhomme is a reflection on...

A critical examination of six memoirs and six novels written by and about young adults from Africa who were once child soldiers. This book analyzes...

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...

Postcolonial legacies continue to impact upon the Global South and this edited collection examines their influence on systems of policing, security...

Social movement scholars have become increasingly interested in the role of stories in contentious politics. Stories may facilitate the mobilizatio...

Hinduism is the largest religion in India, encompassing roughly 80 percent of the population, while 14 percent of the population practices Islam an...

Through a combination of detailed case studies of humanitarian emergencies and thematic chapters which cover key concepts, actors and activities, t...

Through a combination of detailed case studies of humanitarian emergencies and thematic chapters which cover key concepts, actors and activities, t...

In Inequality and Governance in an Uncertain World: Perspectives on Democratic & Autocratic Governments, the authors address structural and sys...

Cases of sexual violence against men have been documented in a great number of conflicts and wars, both ancient and contemporary. Despite this grow...

The last two decades have been marked by momentous changes in forms of governance throughout the post-Soviet region. Ukraine's political system, li...

Through war crimes prosecutions, truth commissions, purges of perpetrators, reparations, and memorials, transitional justice practices work under t...