Human Rights

Who gets to decide what it means to live a healthy lifestyle, and how important a healthy lifestyle is to a good life? As more governments make pre...

This encyclopedia presents important research on Cuba. Some of the topics discussed herein include Cuba''s policies and relations with the United S...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was the first and most celebrated of a wave of international criminal tribunal...

This book explores the law relating to the right to liberty of people with mental illness and international human rights standards. It is also a ma...

Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European Court of Human Rights deals with socio-economic rights in the context of the jurisprudence of the Europ...

The families of the disappeared have long struggled to uncover the truth about their missing relatives. In so doing, their mobilization has shaped ...

This book is a comprehensive and critical introduction to the field of gender and crime, re-thinking the key themes and debates within a human righ...

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD AND THE LA TIMES BOOK AWARD'Masterly. Brilliantly crafted, powerfully written and deftly reported' Guardian The u...

Written by the world's leading experts and campaigners, Modern Slavery: A Beginner's Guide blends original research with shocking first-hand accoun...

Six years after the Marikana massacre, we have still seen minimal change for mineworkers and mining communities. Although much has been written abo...

Over sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it has been widely observed that human rights resonate differently in various set...

Considering the rights of the child is now central to all fields involving children and to good multi-agency working. This book offers an explanati...