Civil Rights category: 2079 books
International Human Rights Law
Returning to Universal Principles
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
This clear and compelling textoffers a vastly different approach to human rights. Arguing that not only are human rights universal, but so are the obligations to protect these rights, Mark Gibney challenges the dominant territorial basis as well as the hesitancy to hold states responsible for contributing...
Religion and Human Rights
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable. While most of the world's religions have supported violence, repression, and prejudice, each has also played a crucial role in the modern struggle for universal human rights. Most importantly, religions provide the...
Supreme Neglect
How to Revive Constitutional Protection For Private Property
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2008
As far back as the Magna Carta in 1215, the right of private property was seen as a bulwark of the individual against the arbitrary power of the state. Indeed, common-law tradition holds that "property is the guardian of every other right." And yet, for most of the last seventy years, property rights...
by Charles S. Bullock III, Ronald Keith Gaddie, Justin J. Wert
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting rights law. The decision—the culmination of an eight-year battle over the power of Congress to regulate state conduct of elections—marked the closing of a chapter...
Asia Pacific and Human Rights
A Global Political Economy Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Human rights are acquiring an increasingly prominent role on the world stage. Interest in, concern about and action on human rights are widespread and rising, albeit in a far from globally even, uniform and untroubled fashion. Human rights have generated a booming global industry while having become,...
Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region
Towards Institution Building
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
The Asia-Pacific is known for having the least developed regional mechanisms for protecting human rights. This edited collection makes a timely and distinctive contribution to contemporary debates about building institutions for human rights protection in the Asia-Pacific region, in the wake of ASEAN’s...
Human Rights in Global Perspective
Anthropological Studies of Rights, Claims and Entitlements
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
In the West we frequently pay lip service to universal notions of human rights. But do we ever consider how these work in local contexts and across diverse cultural and ethical structures? Do human rights agendas address the problems many people face, or are they more often the imposition of Western...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Property as a human rights concern is manifested through its incorporation in international instruments and as a subject of the law through property-related cases considered by international human rights organs. Yet, for the most part, the relationship between property and human rights has been discussed...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This important volume examines rights from an inter-disciplinary law and society perspective, beginning with the premise that the most basic functions of rights requires the empirical study of rights consciousness and claiming behavior. As such the volume includes articles and essays by political...
by Jill Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
This book explores the role human rights law plays in the formation, and protection, of our personal identities. Drawing from a range of disciplines, Jill Marshall examines how human rights law includes and excludes specific types of identity, which feed into moral norms of human freedom and human...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This collection explores and illustrates issues arising from ‘political’ approaches to human rights in contrast to the more traditional ‘moral’ approaches. Moral approaches conceptualize and justify human rights in terms of priority rights which are both universal and moral. In contrast, political...
Every New Right is a Freedom Lost
A Classical Liberal Defense Against the Triumph of False Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
For a long time, individual rights were viewed as a protection against an overweening political power, allowing citizens and businesses to freely govern themselves without interference at work, home, and at worship. These rights were enshrined in seminal documents such as the English Magna Carta,...
Human Rights Discourse in North Korea
Post-Colonial, Marxist and Confucian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
This unique book examines the conceptual development of human rights in North Korea from historical, political and cultural perspectives.
Dr Jiyoung Song explains how North Korea has understood the concepts of human rights in its public documents since its independence from Japan in 1945. Through...
by Kirsten Shoraka
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
The end of the Cold War has ushered a restructuring of the institutions of the European Community, culminating into its enlargement to Eastern Europe, under the aegis of economic integration, democracy and human rights.
This book examines the development and the role of human rights in the...