Human Rights

This report, the first of its kind yet to be published, provides a detailed and impartial account of how the individual's right to hold beliefs is ...

Mexico ranks highly on many of the measures that have proven significant for creating a positive human rights record, including democratization, go...

This book aims to re-think the way in which the subject is inscribed in the modern political, and does so by exploring the potentiality of Lacano-D...

This volume explores the relationship between human rights and democracy within both the theoretical and empirical field. It is a book within the t...

Failed Democratization in Prewar Japan presents a compelling case study on change in political regimes through its exploration of Japan's transitio...

Many transnational campaigns, and particularly the transnational campaign on violence against women, promote international norms that target the be...

In Conscientious Objectors in Israel, Erica Weiss examines the lives of Israelis who have refused to perform military service for reasons of consci...

Recent years have seen the retrenchment of Canadian social programs and the restructuring of the welfare state along neo-liberal lines. Social prog...

Severe poverty is one of the greatest moral challenges of our times. But what place, if any, do ethical thinking and questions of global justice ha...

Human rights advocacy in the West is changing. Before the turn of the century, access to goods such as food, housing, and health care—while essenti...

The collapse of the Soviet Union suddenly rendered ethnic Russians living in non-Russian successor states like Latvia and Kyrgyzstan new minorities...

Multinational Corporations and Global Justice: Human Rights Obligations of a Quasi-Governmental Institution addresses the changing role and respons...

This theoretically innovative anthology investigates the problematic linkages between conserving cultural heritage, maintaining cultural diversity,...

Over the past three decades, neither France's treatment of Muslims nor changes in French, British, and German immigration laws have confirmed multi...

This book looks at the emergence of internationally linked Japanese nongovernmental advocacy networks that have grown rapidly since the 1990s in th...

Humanitarian aid workers increasingly remain present in contexts of violence and are injured, kidnapped, and killed as a result. Since 9/11 and in ...

The past few decades have seen a proliferation of video surveillance systems in major centres in a number of Western countries. Is this development...

The book presents an analysis of the concept of rights and provides an illuminating expression of socialist ideals. The author outlines an analysis...

In recent history, atrocities have often been committed in the name of lofty ideals. One of the most disturbing examples took place in Cambodia's K...

On November 3, 1979, in the Morningside neighborhood of Greensboro, North Carolina, a caravan of Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party members arrived on the...

Human rights language is abstract and ahistorical because advocates intend human rights to be valid at all times and places. Yet the abstract unive...

This is a subtle, yet uncompromising analysis of the iconic photographs of torture from the prison at Abu Ghraib.

Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights. Providing a unique window into the und...

This widely acclaimed and highly regarded book, used extensively by students, scholars, policymakers, and activists, now appears in a new third edi...