Human Rights

"Genocide" may be the most powerful word in the English language. What is the significance and relevance of this formative concept today? In an ext...

In The Ethics of Migration: An Introduction, Adam Hosein systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding the concept of ...

This book delves into the theory and praxis of human security in South Asia. Home to almost a quarter of the world’s population and fast emerging m...

The book, Economic Empowerment of Women in the Islamic World, discusses the economic, social, and political rights and status of women in Islam, wh...

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights: History, Politics, Practice is an edited collection that brings together analyses of human rights wor...

This book explores the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) phenomenon – its impact and implications for Israel and the Palestinian-Israeli con...

Studies on the aesthetic representations of atrocity the world over have taken different discursive dimensions from history, sociology, political t...

Manycolleges and universities are struggling to strike a balance between protecting free speech as a way of supporting their goal of academic freed...

This book evaluates the extent to which the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has consolidated as a norm in international society.A consolidated norm...

In The Ethics of Migration: An Introduction, Adam Hosein systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding the concept of ...

For undergraduate courses in Constitutional Law, Civil Rights and Liberties, Introduction to American Government, Introduction to Law and Legal Pro...

This book describes and analyzes the gravest crisis now facing constitutional democracy: the fundamental conflict between liberal and egalitarian v...

This book looks at how the ideas of freedom, property, and order are expressed in modern social contract theories (SCTs). Drawing on the theories o...

The politics of the body is often highly contested, culturally specific, and controlled, and this book calls our attention to how bodies are includ...

Known most prominently as a daring anti-lynching crusader, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) worked tirelessly throughout her life as a political ad...

Focusing on the NAACP’s twentieth-century attempt to overturn the “separate but equal” doctrine through school desegregation cases, Desegregation a...

Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was one of the most remarkable women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Active in both the civil...

This book explores how the Chinese government reasserts its control and management of public spaces as part of its overall counter-terrorism strate...

This volume examines the ongoing construction of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, elaborating on areas of both consolidation and conte...

Manycolleges and universities are struggling to strike a balance between protecting free speech as a way of supporting their goal of academic freed...

Can security automata (robots and AIs) make moral decisions to apply force on humans correctly? If they can make such decisions, ought they be used...

The relationship between human rights and justice is significant, deep, and ultimately contested. The two terms themselves – human rights and justi...

This book focuses on the balance between protecting human rights and protecting world heritage sites. It concerns itself with the idea that the man...