Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Labor Standards in International Supply Chains
Aligning Rights and Incentives
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Labor Standards in International Supply Chains examines developments in working conditions over the past thirty years. The authors analyze the stakeholders and mechanisms that create challenges and opportunities for improving labor rights around the world, in sectors including apparel, footwear and electronics....
The House of Governors - A New Idea in American Politics Aiming to Promote Uniform Legislation on Vital Questions
To Conserve State Rights, to Lessen Centralization, to Secure a Fuller, Freer Voice of the People, and to Make a Stronger Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
"The House of Governors" is a pamphlet published by William George Jordan in 1907 that deals with the ideas of uniform legislation, state rights, centralisation, and democracy in US politics. It was circulated to each state governor, US President Theodore Roosevelt, and members of his cabinet. The...
Love Unites Us
Winning the Freedom to Marry in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Firsthand accounts from the attorneys and advocates who brought the historic cases and fought to secure the freedom to marry for same-sex couples.
The June 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges was a sweeping victory for the freedom to marry, but it was one step in a long process. Love Unites...
Female Soldiers in Sierra Leone
Sex, Security, and Post-Conflict Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
The eleven-year civil war in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002
was incomprehensibly brutal—it is estimated that half of all
female refugees were raped and many thousands were killed.
While the publicity surrounding sexual violence helped to
create a general picture of women and girls as victims of...
Students as suspects?
The challenges of counter-radicalisation policies in education in the Council of Europe member states
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Could policies aimed at preventing radicalisation in Europe end up undermining the very social cohesion they aim to preserve? Since the mid-2000s, a growing number of European governments have broadened the scope of counter-terrorism, making it an issue that needs to be tackled by society as a whole....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The increase in the number of countries that have abolished the death penalty since the end of the Second World War shows a steady trend towards worldwide abolition of capital punishment. This book focuses on the political and legal issues raised by the death penalty in "countries in transition",...
by Richard Lourie
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2018
Seemingly shy, Andrei Sakharov was in fact a man of three great passions. His passion for physics ultimately lead him to create the Soviet H-Bomb, making the USSR a super power. But he rejected all the position and prestige his inventions had brought him in the name of a greater passion — for justice....
The Legal Protection of Refugees with Disabilities
Forgotten and Invisible?
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This ground-breaking book focuses on the ‘forgotten refugees’, detailing people with disabilities who have crossed borders in search of protection from disaster or human conflict. The authors explore the intersection between one of the oldest international human rights treaties, the 1951 Convention...
Agony of Dal Lake
Kashmir’S Soul Under Pressure
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Kashmir has been on the mind of Maharaj Kaul ever since the eruption of the civil war there in 1989, and it has been in his mind since his childhood, as he was born there. For him Kashmir is more than his birthplace, it is an irrigator of his consciousness.
The author of the books The Light...
Personal Autonomy in Plural Societies
A Principle and its Paradoxes
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This volume addresses the exercise of personal autonomy in contemporary situations of normative pluralism. In the Western liberal tradition, from a strictly legal and theoretical perspective the social individual has the right to exercise the autonomy of his or her will. In a context of legal plurality,...
The Rule of Law in Crisis and Conflict Grey Zones
Regulating the Use of Force in a Global Information Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book responds to ongoing calls for clarification and consensus regarding the meaning, scope and interplay of humanitarian law and human rights law in the ‘grey zones’ of unconventional operational environments such as counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations. It contributes to the...
Freedom in Chains
The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Governments and bureaucracies are bigger and more controlling than ever. A citizen's own ability to control his or her own life has never been less than it has today. How did we get to this point? Jim Bovard, bestselling author of Lost Rights, looks at the development of the State into a behemoth...
Liberal Suppression
Section 501(c)(3) and the Taxation of Speech
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
In the course of exempting religious, educational, and charitable organizations from federal income tax, section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code requires them to refrain from campaign speech and much speech to influence legislation. These speech restrictions have seemed merely technical adjustments,...
Mapping Transatlantic Security Relations
The EU, Canada and the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
This book examines how legal, political, and rights discourses, security policies and practices migrate and translate across the North Atlantic.
The complex relationship between liberty and security has been fundamentally recast and contested in liberal democracies since the start of the 'global...