Human Rights

This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways i...

Although nomadic peoples are scattered worldwide and have highly heterogeneous lifestyles, they face similar threats to their mobile livelihood and...

Most Western liberal democracies are parties to the United Nations Refugees Convention and all are committed to the recognition of basic human righ...

This volume explores the factors that give rise to the number of people seeking asylum and examines the barriers they currently and will continue t...

This book examines protest policing and the toolbox of options available to police commanders in response. The right to peacefully protest is intri...

First published in 1999, this volume follows the interactions between the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the African National Congress (ANC) and...

This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are interrogated via t...

Africans and their descendants have long been faced with abuse of their human rights, most frequently due to racism or racialized issues. Consequen...

The Second Amendment, by far the most controversial amendment to the US Constitution, will soon celebrate its 225th anniversary. Yet, despite the a...

This book argues that the effectiveness of the state apparatus is one of the crucial variables determining human rights conditions, and that state ...

This book contributes an original theory to understanding human rights and international trade. It offers the governance space framework for analys...

This book examines discourses of rights and practices of resistance in post-conflict societies, exploring the interaction between the international...

This book explores situations when public opinion presents as an obstacle to the protection and promotion of human rights. Taking an International ...

The Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (also known as the Istanbul Convention) was adopted by the ...

Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will,...

This book makes a significant contribution to the on-going international dialogue on the meaning of concepts such as human rights, humanity, and co...

At the time of the adoption of the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man in 1948, there was little indication that the Declaration w...

As local media institutions collapse and news deserts sprout up across the country, the US is facing a profound journalism crisis. Meanwhile, conti...

Why have the early years of the 21st century seen increasing use of emergency-type powers or claims of supra-legal executive authority, particularl...

Transnational business activities are important drivers of growth for developing and the least developed countries. However, they can also negative...

A unique insider perspective of daily life in New York Citys most notorious house of correction While most people behind bars at Rikers Island are ...

Palestine is a microcosm of the world: wretched, raging, fraught, and fragmented. On fire. Stubborn. Ineligible. Dignified. The lens we lend the Pa...

The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, awarded by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State University, recognizes outstanding in...