Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network
Books beyond Borders
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
In her innovative study of human rights discourse, Lena Khor takes up the prevailing concern by scholars who charge that the globalization of human rights discourse is becoming yet another form of cultural, legal, and political imperialism imposed from above by an international human rights regime...
by Ingrid Nifosi-Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The protection of vulnerable groups varies under international human rights law. Depending on the group at stake, protection may be more or less advanced. In some cases, the international community has deemed it necessary to adopt conventions providing for the rights of certain vulnerable groups and...
by Ciara Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
The child asylum seeker poses unique challenges for reception and refugee status determination systems, not least because the child is entitled to have his or her rights as a child respected as a matter of international and regional human rights law. In the last decade the European Union has increasingly...
The Politics of Rights
Dilemmas for Feminist Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Since the late 1990s, development institutions have increasingly used the language of rights in their policy and practice. This special issue on feminist perspectives on politics of rights explores the strategies, tensions and challenges associated with ‘rights work’ in a variety of settings.
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Creating Human Rights
How Noncitizens Made Sex Persecution Matter to the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Creating Human Rights offers the first systematic study of a pioneering women's refugee movement and its challenge, as an international trigger case, to more conventional paths toward human rights policy development. Lisa S. Alfredson...
Discursive Framings of Human Rights
Negotiating Agency and Victimhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
What does it mean to be a subject of human rights? The status of the subject is closely connected with the form and rhetoric of the framing discourse, and this book investigates the relationship between the status of the subject and the form of human rights discourse, in differing aesthetic and social...
Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation
Futurity, Alterity, Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Against the recent backdrop of sociopolitical crisis, radical thinking and activism to challenge the oppressive operation of power has increased. Such thinkers and activists have aimed for radical social transformation in the sense of challenging dominant ways of viewing the world, including the neoliberal...
The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era
Universality in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era: Universality in Transition examines transitional justice from the perspective of its impact on the universality of human rights, taking the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights as its detailed case study. The problem is twofold:...
Beyond Disagreement
Open Remedies in Human Rights Adjudication
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Examining the role of 'open remedies' in human rights adjudication, this book provides a new perspective informing comparative constitutional debates on how to structure institutional relationships over fundamental rights and freedoms. Open remedies declare a human rights violation but invite the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements is the first collection to focus on the contribution sociological approaches can make to analysis of human rights. Taking forward the sociology of human rights which emerged from the 1990s, it presents innovative analyses of global human rights struggles...
The UK and European Human Rights
A Strained Relationship?
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
The UK's engagement with the legal protection of human rights at a European level has been, at varying stages, pioneering, sceptical and antagonistic. The UK government, media and public opinion have all at times expressed concerns about the growing influence of European human rights law, particularly...
Current Problems in the Protection of Human Rights
Perspectives from Germany and the UK
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
While the legal systems of the United Kingdom and Germany differ in essential respects, the current process of 'constitutionalisation' is well recognised on both sides of the Channel. 'Constitutionalisation' manifests itself in the evolution of a constitution and the influence of existing constitutional...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The book studies the human rights monitoring mechanisms of the Council of Europe. It provides an in-depth examination of six such mechanisms: the Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the CPT), the European...
The Case for Gay Rights
From Bowers to Lawrence and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
As Americans wrestle with red-versus-blue debates over traditional values, defense of marriage, and gay rights, reason often seems to take a back seat to emotion. In response, David Richards, a widely respected legal scholar and long-time champion of gay rights, reflects upon the constitutional and...