Human Rights

A compelling must-read for parents, administrators, faculty, and anyone with an interest in what happens when academics and politics intersect How ...

Sergei Kovalyov is a central figure in the struggle for human rights in Russia. He was a leading Soviet biology academic and, in the 1970s after be...

IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award™ gold winner, poetry category Sierra Leone’s devastating civil war barely caught the attention of Western media, but i...

A new collection of philosophical biographies of key figures in Black Southern American social and political thoughtFrederick Douglass, Booker Wash...

Fatna El Bouih was first arrested in Casablanca as an 18-year-old student leader with connections to the Marxist movement. Over the next decade she...

Indigenous people in Colombia constitute a mere three percent of the national population. Colombian indigenous communities' success in gaining coll...

From the 1798 Sedition Act to the war on terror, numerous presidents, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, and local officials have endorse...

The military coup that brought General Pervez Musharraf to power as Pakistan's tenth president resulted in the abolition of a century-old sharecrop...

This remarkable biography features a white American pacifist minister whose tireless work for justice and human rights helped reshape Black civil r...

Siddharth Kara is a tireless chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world. He has documented the realities of human trafficking and for...

Implementing Inequality argues that the international development industry’s internal dynamics—between international and national staff, and among ...

• A police officer kills a twelve-year-old boy. It’s caught on video. The officer gets off.• A police officer strangles a man selling cigarettes. I...

This book, an outcome of an international conference entitled "State Organized Terror: The Case of Violent Internal Repression", addresses the ante...

Human rights is an empowering framework for understanding and addressing justice issues at local, domestic, and international levels. This book com...

This volume examines the ethical issues that arise as a result of national security intelligence collection and analysis.Powerful new technologies ...

The United States is the world's leading foreign aid donor. Yet there has been little inquiry into how such assistance affects the politics and soc...

The Subject of Human Rights is the first book to systematically address the "human" part of "human rights." Drawing on the finest thinking in polit...

This text comprises cutting-edge research on one of the greatest global challenges: the failure to address systematic economic and social exclusion...

Securitizing Youth offers new insights on young people’s engagement in a wide range of contexts related to the peace and security field. It present...

First published in 1985. In this study, Donnelly distinguishes between "having a right" and "being right" and elaborates the distinction with great...

This book addresses the challenges of international intervention in violent conflicts and its impact on groups in conflict.When the international c...