Human Rights

Athletes first is a slogan the International Olympic Committee often touts, but the reality is very different, as pre-eminent Olympics expert Jules...

'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history - and then go out and change it' Barack Obama'The authentic voice of Mandela shines t...

In Global Visions of Violence, the editors and contributors argue that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method for interdisciplinary collaborat...

Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer once described Dr. Leon Thornes memoir as a work of bitter truth that he compared favorably to the works of To...

Shattered Justice presents original crime victims' experiences with violent crime, investigations and trials, and later exonerations in their cases...

Shattered Justice presents original crime victims' experiences with violent crime, investigations and trials, and later exonerations in their cases...

The Iraqi Bath states Anfal operations (1987-1991) is one of the twentieth centurys ultimate acts of destruction of the possibility of being human....

The declaration of a War on Terror in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks brought sweeping changes to the American criminal j...

Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy Panh is an unconventional book about an unconventional filmmaker. Rithy Panh survived the Cambodian genoci...

Feminicide and Global Accumulation brings us to the frontlines of an international movement of Black, Indigenous, popular, and mestiza womens organ...

Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader radically redefines feminism by introducing the category of Dalit into the core of feminist thought. It supplements...

The Charter of the United Nations was signed in 1945 by 51 countries representing all continents, paving the way for the creation of the United Nat...

Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countri...

A distinctive and unrivaled examination of North American Eastern Orthodox Christians and their encounter with the rights revolution in a pluralist...

Contemporary international affairs are largely shaped by widely differing thematic issues and actors, such as nation states, international institut...

Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was meant to be a carve-out between hos...

When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent d...

When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent d...

The Routledge History of Human Rights is an interdisciplinary collection that provides historical and global perspectives on a range of human right...

The story of how a biologically driven understanding of gender and sexuality became central to US LGBTQ+ political and legal advocacy. Across prote...

An in-depth, on-the ground view of how Chinese officials have co-opted technology, infrastructure and the minds of their people to establish the de...