Civil Rights category: 2079 books
China's Human Rights Lawyers
Advocacy and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book offers a unique insight into the role of human rights lawyers in Chinese law and politics. In her extensive account, Eva Pils shows how these practitioners are important as legal advocates for victims of injustice and how bureaucratic systems of control operate to subdue and marginalise...
Operation Breadbasket
An Untold Story of Civil Rights in Chicago, 1966–1971
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This is the first full history of Operation Breadbasket, the interfaith economic justice program that transformed into Jesse Jackson’s Operation PUSH (now the Rainbow PUSH Coalition). Begun by Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement, Breadbasket was directed by Jackson. Author...
At the Cross
Race, Religion, and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Curing systemic inequalities in the criminal justice system is the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement. No part of that system highlights this truth more than the current implementation of the death penalty. At the Cross tells a story of the relationship between the death penalty and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This edited volume explores the theoretical and practical implications of war and terror situations for citizenship in democratic states.
Citizenship is a key concept in Western political thought for defining the individual’s relations with society. The specific nature of these rights, duties...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Rights brings together the most influential essays of the last thirty years critiquing and defending the liberal rights tradition. Modern 'rights critics' have focused on the perceived conflict between liberal rights and progressive or egalitarian political objectives, the preference of liberal states...
by Joseph Indaimo
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book explores how the notion of human identity informs the ethical goal of justice in human rights. Within the modern discourse of human rights, the issue of identity has been largely neglected. However, within this discourse lies a conceptualisation of identity that was derived from a particular...
Working Women and their Rights in the Workplace
International Human Rights and Its Impact on Libyan Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book addresses women’s rights to work and motherhood in Libya from a legal and international human rights perspective. In an attempt to solve the problem posed by the perception that there is an unsolvable conflict between the right of women to work and their right to motherhood, the author...
International Human Rights in the 21st Century
Protecting the Rights of Groups
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
The Universal Declaration for Human Rights was approved in 1948 and yet more than fifty years later some human rights—especially the rights of groups such as women, minorities, and indigenous peoples—continue to be at risk. This book examines recent humanitarian catastrophes involving such groups...
Social Rights in Russia
From Imperfect Past to Uncertain Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Russia's human rights record, especially violations of the right to life, liberty and freedom of expression, has been the subject of much international concern. Social, or welfare, rights, on the other hand, including the right to housing, health and access to social security, have received much less...
Proportionality, Equality Laws, and Religion
Conflicts in England, Canada, and the USA
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This book considers how the law should manage conflicts between the right of religious freedom and that of non-discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. These disputes are often high-profile and frequently receive a lot of media attention and public debate. Starting from the basis that...
Freedom's Detective
The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
“This is a powerful, vitally important story, and Lane brings it to life with not only vast amounts of research but with a remarkable gift for storytelling that makes the pages fly by.” —Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt and Hero of the Empire
Freedom’s Detective reveals...
Rights-based Litigation, Urban Governance and Social Justice in South Africa
The Right to Joburg
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Rights-based Litigation, Urban Governance and Social Justice in South Africa considers the overlap between legal and everyday struggles for social and spatial justice in the particular context of Johannesburg, South Africa. Drawing from literature across disciplines of law, urban geography and urban...
by W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently...
The European Convention on Human Rights
A Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
The European Convention on Human Rights: A Commentary is the first complete article-by-article commentary on the ECHR and its Protocols in English. This book provides an entry point for every part of the Convention: the substance of the rights, the workings of the Court, and the enforcement of its...