Human Rights

Right after the Gezi Resistance, a new tendency of authoritarianism rapidly emerged in Turkey and AKP government started targeting anyone it percei...

Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understan...

What is the state of current European governance on new and emerging technologies, and where is it going? What is, and what can be, the role of hum...

The Internets importance for freedom of expression and other rights comes in part from the ability it bestows on users to create and share informat...

First published in 1999, this volume represents an empirical model of reproductive rights in developing countries. The model encompasses three expl...

In recent decades, corporations have increasingly accepted that they have obligations to respect the socio-economic rights of individuals whose rig...

Criminologists are increasingly turning their attention to the many points of intersection between immigration and crime control. This book discuss...

Violations of the right to the physical integrity of the person, such as torture, cruel and unusual punishment, extra-judicial executions, disappea...

This book examines ethnic conflicts of the former Soviet Union to indicate how turbulent the world has become in the post-Cold War era-and how diff...

Genocide studies is a relatively new field of comparative inquiry, but recent years have seen an increasing range of themes and subject-matter bein...

Composed of activists, academics, religious scholars and professionals, this generation is drawing on new reformist thinking emerging from outside ...

Today human rights represent a primary concern of the international legal system. The international communitys commitment to the protection and pro...

This title was first published in 2001. The case of Lawless v Ireland is a landmark in the development of human rights jurisprudence. Stemming from...

While every constitution includes a provision over the right to equal protection of the laws, perhaps with different terminology, this book interpr...

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality. This book examines these processes and outlines how the figure of the c...

The capacity to abuse, or in general affect the enjoyment of human, labour and environmental rights has risen with the increased social and economi...

Health rights litigation is still an emerging phenomenon in Africa, despite the constitutions of many African countries having provisions to advanc...

This book examines the relationship between intellectual property in pharmaceuticals and access to medicines from a human rights perspective, with ...

This book develops an analysis of the historical, political and legal contexts behind current demands by NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights C...

What is this thing called Global Justice? is a clear and engaging introduction to this widely studied and important topic. It explores the fundamen...

This book is about how Australians have responded to stories about suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of public media, incl...

The field of humanitarianism is characterised by profound uncertainty, by a constant need to respond to the unpredictable, and by concepts and prac...