International Human Rights Law

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...

This collection presents a unique and diverse range of contributions on challenges faced by criminal justice in England and Wales in the wake of th...

This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do no...

This book aims to prospectively conjecture about what the coming decades may hold for human rights. The authors in this volume discern where curren...

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...

This book investigates the role of Islam and religious freedom in the constitutional transitions of six North African and Middle Eastern countries,...

Amnesty, Serious Crimes and International Law examines the permissibility of amnesties for serious crimes in the contemporary international order. ...

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...

The right to self-determination has played a crucial role in the process of assisting oppressed people to put an end to colonial domination. Outsid...

Memories of violence, suffering and atrocities in Cambodia are today being pulled in different directions. A range of transitional justice practice...

While the visibility of disability studies has increased in recent years, few have thoroughly examined the marginalization of people with disabilit...

Within an international context in which the right to silence has long been regarded as sacrosanct, this book provides the first comprehensive, emp...

This book aims to augment the Ashgate series by taking stock of the current state of migration law literature. It also aims to sketch out the conto...