Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Forging the Franchise
The Political Origins of the Women's Vote
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
The important political motivations behind why women finally won the right to vote
In the 1880s, women were barred from voting in all national-level elections, but by 1920 they were going to the polls in nearly thirty countries. What caused this massive change? Why did male politicians agree...
Trois conditions pour une responsabilité civile
Sept regards
Language: French
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Les Éditions Anthemis vous proposent un outil complet pour comprendre la responsabilité civile.
« Tout fait quelconque de l'homme, qui cause à autrui un dommage, oblige celui par la faute duquel il est arrivé, à le réparer. »
Véritable ritournelle pour les juristes, l’article 1382...
Confronting Homophobia in Europe
Social and Legal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Homophobia exists in many different forms across Europe. Member States offer uneven levels of legal protection for lesbian and gay rights; at the same time the social meanings and practices relating to homosexuality are culturally distinct and intersect in complex ways with gender, class and ethnicity...
A Question of Balance
A Study of Legal Equality and State Neutrality in the United States, France, and the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
The politics of the hijab and burqa lie at the intersection of the political and legal spheres. Consequently, the political and legal spheres have each attempted to enforce differing versions of the concepts of equality and neutrality. A cross-cultural and cross-national survey of judicial decisions...
by Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
For decades, Argentina's population was subject to human rights violations ranging from the merely disruptive to the abominable. Violence pervaded Argentine social and cultural life in the repression of protest crowds, a ruthless counterinsurgency campaign, massive numbers of abductions, instances...
Elly Peterson
"Mother" of the Moderates
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
"A magisterially written, well-researched, informative, and entertaining biography of a woman who helped throw open the doors to broader participation and power for women in the Republican Party and American politics."
---Dave Dempsey, author of William G. Milliken: Michigan's Passionate...
Corporate Accountability
The Role and Impact of Non-Judicial Grievance Mechanisms
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Whilst many of us would agree that human rights are more important than corporate profits, the reality is often different; such realities as child labour and environmental destruction caused by corporate activities make this patently clear. Recognising that balancing human rights and business interests...
Free Country
Selected Lectures and Talks
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
For decades Sydney Kentridge QC has been admired as a brilliant advocate, an outstanding lawyer and, during the apartheid years in South Africa, a courageous defender of the individual against an oppressive state. His advocacy at the inquest of Steve Biko came to the attention of a wider audience...
Fracturing the Founding
How the Alt-Right Corrupts the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Many in the radical right, including the Tea Party, the militia movement, the Alt-right, Christian nationalists, the Oath Keepers, neo-Nazis, and a host of others, brand themselves as constitutional patriots. In Fracturing the Founding: How the Alt-Right Corrupts the Constitution, John E. Finn, one...
by Ernesto Gutiérrez y González
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 26, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 26, 2013
Cuatro ediciones con el nombre completo de "El Patrimonio. El Pecuniario y el moral, o Derechos de la personalidad, y Derecho sucesorio", alcanzó este libro, que ahora lo presento ya por cuarta vez sin la última parte de ese nombre, esto es, la parte relacionada con "Derecho sucesorio",...
When They Call You a Terrorist
A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
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Stride Toward Freedom
The Montgomery Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The classic story of nonviolent resistance in America—the Montgomery bus boycott—written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolent resistance in America is comprehensive, revelatory, and intimate. King...
Freedom for the Thought That We Hate
A Biography of the First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
From one of the most influential journalists of the last half century, an essential explanation and defense of a foundational American idea: free speech
More than any other people on earth, we Americans are free to say and write what we think. The press can air the secrets of government, the...
Imbeciles
The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
**Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction
One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undesirable” citizens the law of the land**
In 1927, the Supreme Court handed down...