Human Rights

In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly ...

This is an open access book.Modern society is characterized by the fact of contingency, uncertainty, and ambiguity. The purpose of this book is to ...

This book challenges the received scholarship on the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. The author applies economic and social theory to...

This book documents and analyzes the experiences of the UN's first Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. It highlights the conceptual advances i...

It is a fundamental term of the social contract that people trade allegiance for protection. In the nineteenth century, as millions of people made ...

The families of the disappeared have long struggled to uncover the truth about their missing relatives. In so doing, their mobilization has shaped ...

Although the 'Israeli case' of bioethics has been well documented, this book offers a novel understanding of Israeli bioethics that is a milestone ...

Nathan A. Kurz charts the fraught relationship between Jewish internationalism and international rights protection in the second half of the twenti...

The National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) was formed in the 1930s against a backdrop of fascism and 'popular front' movements. In this volati...

The right of self-determination of peoples holds out the promise of sovereign statehood for all peoples and a domination-free international order. ...

What does it mean to fail to recognise people's humanity? This book analyses dehumanization in the global migration crisis to answer this complex q...

Security, Citizenship and Human Rights examines counter-terrorism, immigration, citizenship, human rights, 'equalities' and the shifting discourses...

This book examines the development of enterprise among key migrant groups in Europe and the United States. It argues that the development of 'ethni...

Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, fam...

Throughout the world, governments and intergovernmental organizations, such as the International Organization for Migration are developing new appr...

Asia's rising power and wealth offer its many oppressed ethnic minorities hope for greater political freedom and an end to violence. But the realit...

This book uses human rights as part of a constructivist methodology designed to establish a causal relationship between human rights violations and...

Thousands of women are murdered every year by close relatives for allegedly violating an unwritten social code or rebelling against the patriarchal...

A timely examination of the plight of children and youths in developing nations. The chapters strike a balance between diagnostic analysis of the c...

This volume focuses on issues that have only recently come to the forefront of the discipline such as freedom from religion, ordination of homosexu...

The contributors show that the current understanding of trafficking excludes large groups of people who, due to their migration status, experience ...

Evaluates the nature of the international governance of minority rights in the context of the enlargement of the European Union. This book examines...