Civil Rights category: 2079 books
The Street Politics of Abortion
Speech, Violence, and America's Culture Wars
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade stands as a historic victory for abortion-rights activists. But rather than serving as the coda to what had been a comparatively low-profile social conflict, the decision mobilized a wave of anti-abortion protests and ignited a heated struggle that continues...
Security and Defensive Democracy in Israel
A Critical Approach to Political Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
This book scrutinises how political actors in the Israeli parliament (the Knesset) have articulated the security-democracy nexus in their discourses.
Security crises expose political leaders to an uncomfortable dilemma: guaranteeing the safety of citizens while at the same time preserving...
by Erica Howard
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
In recent years, the Danish cartoons affair, the Charlie Hebdo murders and the terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris have resulted in increasingly strident anti-Islamic speeches by politicians. This raises questions about the limits to freedom of expression and whether this freedom can and should...
The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans
Birth, Sex, Marriage, Childrearing, and Death
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003
Personal rights, such as the right to procreate-or not-and the right to die generate endless debate. This book maps out the legal, political, and ethical issues swirling around personal rights. Howard Ball shows how the Supreme Court has grappled with the right...
In the Name of Justice
Striving for the Rule of Law in China
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Of all the issues presented by China’s ongoing economic and sociopolitical transformation, none may ultimately prove as consequential as the development of the Chinese legal system. Even as public demand for the rule of law grows, the Chinese Communist Party still interferes in legal affairs and...
by Jason M. Pobjoy
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Children are the victims of some of the most devastating examples of state-sanctioned and private human rights abuse. In increasing numbers, they are attempting to find international protection, and are forced to navigate complex administrative and legal processes that fail to take into account their...
Revive Us Again
Vision and Action in Moral Organizing
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
A collection of sermons and speeches that lay out a groundbreaking vision for intersectional organizing, paired with inspirational and practical essays from activists in today’s Poor People’s Campaign
The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II has been called “the closest person we have to Martin...
Checkpoint Watch
Testimonies from Occupied Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This book is a critical exploration of Israel's curfew-closure policy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories through the eyes of CheckpointWatch, an organization of Israeli women monitoring human rights abuses. The book combines observers' daily reports from the checkpoints and along the Separation...
Imprisonment of the Elderly and Death in Custody
The Right to Review
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Over the past few decades, there has been a sharp increase in the number of elderly prisoners, and hence a rise in the number of prisoners dying in custody. In this book, Khechumyan questions whether respect for human dignity would justify releasing older and seriously ill prisoners. He also examines...
A Conflict of Principles
The Battle Over Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
"No state . . . shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." So says the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, a document held dear by Carl Cohen, a professor of philosophy and longtime champion of civil liberties who has devoted most of...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
While gender-based violence occurs in all societies irrespective of the level of development or cultural setting, whether in conflict or peacetime, the challenges for legal responses to gender-based violence are particularly acute in Asia. This bookaddresses the lack of academic discourse on gender-based...
by Lorenzo Zucca
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The central focus of this collection of essays is the role and place of freedom of religion in the protection and promotion of world order. The volume offers competing models of world order from a global perspective and highlights the lack of consensus and considerable variety of practice and belief...
Paths to State Repression
Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2000
In the last ten years, there has been a resurgence of interest in repression and violence within states. Paths to State Repression improves our understanding of why states use political repression, highlighting its relationship to dissent and mass protest. The authors draw upon a wide variety of political-economic...
by Karon Monaghan QC
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Written by a leading human rights and employment practitioner, the new edition of Monaghan on Equality Law combines a comprehensive survey of UK equality law with an analytical critique of the legal framework and the concepts that underpin it. The text provides practical guidance on equality law as...