International Human Rights Law

Based on original research and personal encounters, this book narrates the real-life-stories of women locked up in Indian prisons for alleged or ac...

Human Rights and the Body is a response to the crisis in human rights, to the very real concern that without a secure foundation for the concept of...

This volume analyses current debates concerning problems in the nature, justification, and legal protection of human rights for minorities, with re...

Health law and policy in Nigeria is an evolving and complex field of law, spanning a broad legal landscape and drawn from various sources. In addr...

Tracing the development of international humanitarian law especially since World War II, this volume focuses on the role of the international commu...

This title was first published in 2000: An investigation of how the claims of minority groups for greater political power through 'autonomy' and 's...

Although nomadic peoples are scattered worldwide and have highly heterogeneous lifestyles, they face similar threats to their mobile livelihood and...

This title was first published in 2002.This book offers an intriguing examination of the law concerning liability for psychiatric injury suffered b...

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the critical picture of gender and violence in the age of globalization by introducing a variet...

This volume explores the factors that give rise to the number of people seeking asylum and examines the barriers they currently and will continue t...

This title was first published in 2003. The authors of the essays in this collection, all internationally recognised refugee scholars and practitio...

This title was first published in 2002.This original text studies the UN system for the maintenance of international peace and security in the face...

This title was first published in 2002. Was the bombing of Belgrade morally justified as an attempt to halt 'ethnic cleansing' in Kosovo'? Should W...

This title was first published in 2001: This book brings together the experiences of a diverse range of leading human rights advocates and activist...

This title was first published in 2001. This work is a uniquely multi-disciplinary contribution to the existing bioethical literature on the topic ...

This book provides a vital and original investigation into, and critique of, the situation facing the realisation of the childs right to play. The ...

This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are interrogated via t...

Genocide is both the gravest of crimes under international law and the ultimate violation of human rights. Recent years have seen major legal and p...

This book argues that the effectiveness of the state apparatus is one of the crucial variables determining human rights conditions, and that state ...

This book analyzes the promotion and protection of freedom of religion in the international arena with a particular focus on the role and influence...

Originally published in 2004. The book examines the possibility of resolving past and continuing social injustices that are rooted in colonial or s...

This volume features a selection of the best scholarship on international law as it is relevant to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction...

The United States is extremely diverse religiously and, not infrequently, individuals sincerely contend that they are unable to act in accord with ...

This book examines discourses of rights and practices of resistance in post-conflict societies, exploring the interaction between the international...

First published in 1998, Black Globalism: The International Politics of a Non-state Nation examines the international political behaviour of Africa...

This book explores situations when public opinion presents as an obstacle to the protection and promotion of human rights. Taking an International ...

The Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (also known as the Istanbul Convention) was adopted by the ...

International Criminal Justice and the Politics of Compliance provides a comprehensive study of compliance with legal obligations derived from the ...

Maternity Discrimination is an ever increasingly important area of the law around the world, affecting both women and men as they juggle parenthood...

This volume offers snapshots of how rights are debated and employed in public discourse to reshape legal and political relations at the beginning o...

This book brings together leading counterterrorism experts, from academia and practice, to form an interdisciplinary assessment of the terrorist th...

This book examines the link between refugee protection, duration of risk and residency rights. It focuses on two main issues of importance to curre...

This book contributes to a critical reflection of current legislative and jurisprudential developments in Non-Discrimination Law, focusing on the E...

This timely and valuable book explores the development of international human rights law over the last six decades. The volume brings together lead...

Inquisitorial processes refers to the inquiry powers of administrative governance and this book examines the use of these powers in administrative ...

Transnational business activities are important drivers of growth for developing and the least developed countries. However, they can also negative...

This book asks the fundamental question of how new human rights issues emerge in the human rights debate. To answer this, the book focuses on nongo...

This book evaluates the global response to climate change from a cosmopolitan justice perspective. Going above and beyond existing studies, Dietzel...

As legal jurisdictions in the Global South, both India and South Africa have long histories of inequality and structural oppression. This book enga...

As legal jurisdictions in the Global South, both India and South Africa have long histories of inequality and structural oppression. This book enga...

This book grapples with the challenges inherent in an uncertain period for global human rights and explores the future of international human right...

Reconceiving Civil Society and Transitional Justice examines the role of civil society in transitional justice, exploring the forms of civil societ...

This is an open access book. What is the history and current state of play of EU law and policy covering irregularised human mobility? What has bee...

This is an open access book. What is the history and current state of play of EU law and policy covering irregularised human mobility? What has bee...

This book presents a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study into the various goals assigned to international criminal trials. It starts from the ...

This volume examines European and national higher-court decisions on social media from the perspective of fundamental rights and judicial dialogue....

The Disputed Freedoms of a Disrupted Press explores the origins, connections, and contradictions evident amongst divergent understandings of press ...

This book focuses on the analysis of coercive measures that sports organisations are permitted to use as part of their internal sports investigatio...