Human Rights

From the perspective of a number of different social science disciplines, this book explores the ways in which the election of politicians can be m...

Social work Codes of Ethics of professional organizations around the world appeal to the concept of people having ‘rights’ that social workers need...

This book explores the challenges of transforming the violent conflict between the State of Israel and the Palestinians into just peace.There are m...

Gender Equality in a Global Perspective looks to discuss whether Gender Equality can be adopted as it has been defined in international documents a...

Although there have been numerous publications that argue the merit of Chinese rule over Tibet, and many more that argue for Tibetan self-determina...

This handbook explores how democracies around the world seek to balance democratic values with the requirement to protect their citizens from the t...

In twenty-first century Japan there are numerous instances of media harassment, intimidation, censorship and self-censorship that undermine the fre...

The Scourge of Genocide collects essays, reviews, and reportage on the subjects of genocide and crimes against humanity by Adam Jones, recently sel...

Human rights are intertwined with large processes of globalisation. One of these processes is the rapid world-wide growth of multinational business...

The recognition of women’s human rights to migrate and work as sex workers is disregarded and dismissed by anti-trafficking discourses of rescue in...

We are used to thinking of human rights as a matter for state governments to deal with. Much less investigated is the question of what cities do wi...

Social work Codes of Ethics of professional organizations around the world appeal to the concept of people having ‘rights’ that social workers need...

The business of journalism has an extensive, storied, and often romanticized history. Newspaper reporting has long shaped the way that we see the w...

Faye V. Harrison's collection of essays focuses on the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, class, and nationality that exert a huge infl...

European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they ha...

Faye V. Harrison's collection of essays focuses on the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, class, and nationality that exert a huge infl...

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

This book explores human trafficking, examining the work of grass-roots, non-profit organizations who educate and rehabilitate human trafficking vi...

1999 was a decisive year in the long history of the people of Timor-Leste, whose future was open when they voted for independence in a UN-sponsored...

Children's human rights are regularly violated around the world. We hear about graphic examples including child soldiers, child prostitutes, and ch...

Thirty years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made a fateful decision: to allow newspapers, magazines, television, and radio stations to comp...

Over the past two decades, book-length analyses of politics in Southeast Asia, like those addressing other parts of the developing world, have focu...

This book employs the concept of human security to show what the term means from the perspective of women in Afghanistan.It engages with a well-est...