Human Rights

This book highlights perspectives from religious traditions worldwide, in conversation with other communities who promote, critique, or question th...

Over a relatively short period of time, Beijing moved from dismissing the UN to embracing it. How are we to make sense of the People's Republic of ...

This edited volume seeks to contest prevailing assumptions about torture and to consider why, despite its illegality, torture continues to be widel...

National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs), defined by the UN as bodies established to promote and protect human rights, have increased in number s...

Is a strong cosmopolitan stance irretrievably arrogant? Cosmopolitanism, which affirms universal moral principles and grants no fundamental moral s...

The new democracies of the Southern Cone have publicly professed to reject and condemn the uses of the state power in various forms against citizen...

The third edition of The Human Rights Reader presents a variety of new primary documents and readings and elaborates the exploration of rights in t...

LARGE PRINT EDITION. The first book by Anna J. Cooper, A Voice From the South, presents strong ideals supporting racial and gender equality as well...

What sort of support do human capacities demand from the world, and how should we think about this support when we encounter differences of gender ...

This is a reissue of Native American Tribalism with a new Introduction by Peter Iverson. In this book the late D'Arcy McNickle, Professor of Anthro...

This volume brings together eighteen of Will Kymlicka's recent essays on nationalism, multiculturalism and citizenship. These essays expand on the ...

The extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in post-cold war international society is the subject of this book. ...

A powerful work of moral and political philosophy.The idea which I shall present here came to me more or less out of the blue. I was on a train som...

It is a commonplace that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a spellbinding orator, and it is evident that he honed these skills in the pulpit, in his ...

Underlying Julia Kristeva’s Nations Without Nationalism is the idea that otherness—whether it be ethnic, religious, social, or political—needs to b...

Warfare in Europe contributed to the development of the modern state. In response to external conflict, state leaders raised armies and defended bo...

This book explores the critical issue of how to manage the ever-increasing demand for social care in Britain’s ageing society. With informal care, ...

Here is a thorough treatment of every important aspect of minority affairs during the Truman administration. The authors trace the significant deve...

While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past several decades th...

However unthinkable child-soldiers may be within a generalized conception of childhood, they are not imaginary figures; rather, they are a constant...

The Universal Periodic Review mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council, which came into effect in 2008, has established itself as a mechanism with ...

It is now generally recognised that gender equality is essential for sustained economic growth and for democracy, peace and security. Small Change ...

In the decade after the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board decision, it became clear to students, parents, and community members alike that court cases w...

Territorial sovereignty - the unilateral right of states to control their land and borders - is a fundamental ordering principle of contemporary po...

While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past several decades th...

Journalists offer a daily dose of commentary sizing up the president’s successes and failures, profoundly influencing the public’s perceptions of p...

The burgeoning terrain of Martin Luther King Jr. studies is leading to a new appreciation of his thought and its meaningfulness for the emergence a...

The use of filibusters in the U.S. Senate by small numbers of members to prevent legislative action apparently desired by a majority of the members...

However unthinkable child-soldiers may be within a generalized conception of childhood, they are not imaginary figures; rather, they are a constant...

On January 10, 1966, Klansmen murdered civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer in Forrest County, Mississippi. Despite the FBI's growing conflict against...