Civil Rights category: 2079 books
by Amanda do Nascimento da Silveira
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 14, 2012
As violações à honra e à integridade psíquica do indivíduo estão cada vez mais freqüentes em nosso cotidiano, e tem se originado significativamente no ambiente de trabalho. Por conta disso, o dano moral e mais recentemente o assédio moral, que ainda não dispõe de legislação regulamentadora...
More Essential than Ever
The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
When the states ratified the Bill of Rights in the eighteenth century, the Fourth Amendment seemed straightforward. It requires that government respect the right of citizens to be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." Of course,...
Living with Guns
A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Newtown. Columbine. Virginia Tech. Tucson. Aurora. Gun violence on a massive scale has become a plague in our society, yet politicians seem more afraid of having a serious conversation about guns than they are of the next horrific shooting. Any attempt to change the status quo, whether to strengthen...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
This collection of original essays by leading scholars and advocates offers the first international examination of the nature, causes, and effects of laws regulating voting by people with criminal convictions. In deciding whether prisoners shall retain the right to vote, a country faces vital questions...
Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law
The Flight and the Plight of People Deemed 'Illegal'
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
This book describes the experiences of undocumented migrants, all around the world, bringing to life the challenges they face from the moment they consider leaving their country of origin, until the time they are deported back to it. Drawing on a broad array of academic studies, including law, interpretation...
CiviC Disobedience
Taking Politics Seriously, A Democtratic Theory of Political Disobedience
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
The book offers a counter-model to the classical liberal theories of civil disobedience, as developed by authors such as John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin. Based on a strict opposition between liberalism and democracy it proposes a new perspective for the understanding of political disobedience. As an...
Conflict, Security and the Reshaping of Society (Open Access)
The Civilization of War
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.
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Faith in Action
A Handbook for Activists Advocates and Allies
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
You want to make the world better. This book can help.
Faith in Action offers quick dives into a range of topics, from racial justice to environmental concerns, from LGBTQIA equality to Native people’s rights, from women’s equality to disability rights, from mass incarceration to immigration....
Tory Pride and Prejudice
The Conservative Party and homosexual law reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
TORY PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is an authoritative but highly accessible account of the Conservative Party's social attitudes from the 1950s to the present day, with a particular focus on homosexual law reform and equal rights for LGBT citizens. Presented in the context of contemporary social and political...
Equality
The New Legal Framework
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Equality Act 2010 is a major landmark in the long struggle for equal rights. This book tells the story of how and why it came to be enacted, what it means, what changes it can bring about in British society, and - no less important - what the Act will not do.
The Act is the outcome of over...
Exploring Disability Identity and Disability Rights through Narratives
Finding a Voice of Their Own
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Building on David M. Engel and Frank W. Munger’s work analyzing the narratives of people with physical and learning disabilities, this book examines the life stories of twelve physically disabled Canadian adults through the prism of the social model of disablement. Using a grounded theory approach...
The Iranian Chronicles
Unveiling the Dark Truths of the Islamic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
The repression in Iran during the past thirty-three years has spilled into nearly every aspect of common citizens lives. Human rights, integrity, ethics, cultural values, and legal morality in Iran have all been dismantled piece by piece since the revolution. In The Iranian Chronicles, author Ali...
Merdeka and the Morning Star
Civil Resistance in West Papua
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
An important addition to UQP’s internationally acclaimed Peace & Conflict Studies series West Papua is a secret story. On the western half of the island of New Guinea, hidden from the world, in a place occupied by the Indonesian military since 1963, continues a remarkable nonviolent struggle...
by R.L. Worthon, Jr
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
The days in the life time of Marvelous Price residing in Lincoln, Nebraska-a living symbol for black youths in America. Where the Bill of Rights and U.S. Constitution means absolutely nothing and all basic rights gain in the 60's have retrogressed in 2013, as profiling, impudence, bigotry, lynching,...