Human Rights

Human rights have fallen on hard times, yet they are more necessary than ever. People all over the world from Amazonian villages to Iranian prison...

Rights were once thought to derive from the God-given nature of man. But today human rights and religion are sometimes in conflict. The universal c...

Recent immigrants and refugees--both children and their families--often struggle to adapt to Canadian education systems. For their part, educators ...

Canada is a signatory on the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which guarantees the protection and care of children and youth....

Copts and the Security State combines political, anthropological, and social history to analyze the practices of the Egyptian state and the politic...

How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challen...

Copts and the Security State combines political, anthropological, and social history to analyze the practices of the Egyptian state and the politic...

Why are some international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) more politically salient than others, and why are some NGOs better able to influenc...

China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary and most u...

The global recession has had political consequences across the world, but nowhere greater than in the periphery of Europe. In response, a massive w...

Many think slavery ended with the demise of the trans-Atlantic trade, but sadly, that's far from true. An estimated thirty-six million live without...

During a one-hundred-day period in 1994, Hutus murdered between half a million and a million Tutsi in Rwanda. The numbers are staggering; the metho...

Adam Sitze meticulously traces the origins of South Africa''s Truth and Reconciliation Commission to two well-established instruments of colonial a...

Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insight...

The past decades have seen enormous changes in our perceptions of 'security', the causes of insecurity and the measures adopted to address them. Th...

Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditi...

A clear and concise A-to-Z of keywords that echo our current human rights crisis As millions are forced to leave their nations of origin as a resul...

This book provides theoretical and practical guidance to those interested in understanding the dilemmas found at the heart of counter-terror decisi...

Pulitzer Prize FinalistSilver Gavel Award FinalistA sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied on torture in various...

As the most comprehensive edited volume to be published on perpetrators and perpetration of mass violence, the volume sets a new agenda for perpetr...

The 1996 South African Constitution was promulgated on 18th December 1996 and came into effect on 4th February 1997. Its aspirational provisions pr...

Courts in different jurisdictions face similar human rights questions. Does the death penalty breach human rights? Does freedom of speech include r...

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the law and procedure of the European Court of Human Rights. It incorporates a step-by-step approach t...

According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its atte...

Few people know much about the government of Sudan's genocidal attack against the people of the Nuba Mountains in the late 1980s and early 1990s. T...

Dr. Benjamin Rush was the Founding Father of an America that other Founding Fathers forgot or ignored--an America of women, African-Americans, Jews...

Blacklisted tells the controversial story of the illegal strategies that transnational construction companies resorted to in their attempt to keep ...

We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Lui...

The indigenous Bedouin Arab population in the Naqab/Negev desert in Israel has experienced a history of displacement, intense political conflict, a...

In this collection, Wells's anti-lynching crusade comes alive. Through brilliant social analysis, she exposed lynching as part of a larger framewor...

When Turkmenistan gained independence with the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, the former republic''''s president and head of t...

This book on human rights practices chronicles dramatic changes and the stories of the people defending human rights in the countries of Afghanista...

From their classical origins in the natural law theory of Greek and Roman philosophers and jurists to natural rights culminating in the American an...

This encyclopedia presents important research on the Middle East. Some of the topics discussed herein include Iran''''s ballistic missile and space...

The U.S. Supreme Courts highly anticipated decision in Obergefell v. Hodges recognized federal constitutional protection for same-sex marriage.1 Al...

This book on human rights practices chronicles dramatic changes and the stories of the people defending human rights in the countries of Algeria, E...

This book on human rights practices chronicles dramatic changes and the stories of the people defending human rights in the countries of Iran and I...

This book on human rights practices chronicles dramatic changes and the stories of the people defending human rights in the countries of Belarus, R...

Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day sai...