Human Rights

Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago considers the origins, challenges and future of Chagos, bringing together leading experts and a...

This book critically examines the relationship between the United Nations Organization and the small states of the Pacific islands. It provides an ...

This open access book provides a state-of-the-field of the interactions between emerging national asylum governance systems and the 2018 United Nat...

This book focuses on the socio-political problems that emanate from Western states' harsh deterrence policies in their responses to refugee crises....

This textbook presents a range of classical philosophical approaches in order to show that they are unsuitable as a foundation for human rights. On...

Das Buch basiert auf den Ergebnissen eines internationalen Online-Rechtssymposium anlässlich des 160-jährigen Jubiläums der deutsch-japanischen Bez...

Following thirty years of research, including research into recently declassified government archives, this newly revised and expanded edition of L...

Who were the non-Western women delegates who took part in the drafting of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ...

This volume provides a timely assessment on the progress made towards the achievement of a constitutional democracy in South Africa. The chapters c...

An understanding of law and its efficacy in Latin America demands concepts distinct from the hegemonic notions of rule of law which have dominated ...

Bloomfield charts Indias profoundly ambiguous engagement with the thorny problem of protecting vulnerable persons from atrocities without fatally u...

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...