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Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws against International Crimes by Mark S. Berlin 9780198850441
$189.95Why do countries adopt criminal legislation making it possible to prosecute government and military officials for human rights violations? Over the past thirty years, dozens of countries have prosecuted their own or other states' officials for past... -
The Politics of Transnational Peasant Struggle: Resistance, Rights and Democracy by Robin Dunford 9781783487813
RRP: $87.75$77.01New waves of land grabbing are working to dispossess peasants in both the Global South and the Global North. But peasants are fighting back. They have come together to contest dispossession through place-based and transnational forms of activism. In so... -
Local Autonomy as a Human Right: The Quest for Local Self-Rule by Joshua B. Forrest 9781538154496
RRP: $263.25$233.03This book contends that the quest to secure community self-rule represents a central human value - the belief in a basic and fundamental right to local autonomy. The universal nature of this value suggests that a right to local control should be accepted... -
The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties by John Borrows 9781442630215
RRP: $66.30$59.07The relationship between Canada's Indigenous peoples and the Canadian government is one that has increasingly come to the fore. Numerous tragic incidents and a legacy of historical negligence combined with more vehement calls for action is forcing a... -
A Matter of Principle by Conrad Black 9781594036590
$30.32"I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy. I would never, as was once needlessly feared in this court, be a fugitive from justice in this country, only a seeker of it." Conrad Black, in his statement to the court, June 24, 2011In 1993, Conrad... -
Watching brief: Reflections on Human Rights, Law, and Justice by Julian Burnside 9781921372360
$32.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921372360Author Julian BurnsideFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribe PublicationsPublisher Scribe PublicationsWeight(grams) 278g -
Universal Rights Down to Earth by Richard Thompson Ford 9780393343397
RRP: $21.43$17.63The idea of universal rights-rights shared by all citizens, regardless of nationality, creed, wealth, or geography-has a powerful grip on the way many people feel about justice and global politics. No one should be subjected to torture or disappearance,... -
Reconstructing Human Rights: A Pragmatist and Pluralist Inquiry into Global Ethics by Joe Hoover 9780198782803
$188.00We live in a human-rights world. The language of human-rights claims and numerous human-rights institutions shape almost all aspects of our political lives, yet we struggle to know how to judge this development. Scholars give us good reason to be both... -
Human Rights and Public Goods: The Global New Deal by William F. Felice 9781538129319
RRP: $210.60$184.68This powerful and empowering text offers a way forward for alleviating human suffering, presenting a realistic roadmap for enhanced global governance that can create workable solutions to mass poverty. William Felice and Diana Fuguitt emphasize the... -
Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Issues at Home and Abroad by Wanda Teays 9781538188590
RRP: $195.00$171.25This third edition collection provides a contemporary survey of current international issues in bioethics and human rights for study across social science disciplines. New chapters discuss the reproductive justice in the US, immigration politics and... -
Taking Root: Human Rights and Public Opinion in the Global South by James Ron 9780199975044
RRP: $224.25$190.38Human rights organizations have grown exponentially across the globe, particularly in the global South, and the term human rights is now common parlance among politicians and civil society activists. As international donors pour money into global human... -
Do the Geneva Conventions Matter? by Matthew Evangelista 9780199379774
RRP: $229.13$191.16The Geneva Conventions are the best-known and longest-established laws governing warfare, but what difference do they make to how states engage in armed conflict? Since the start of the "War on Terror" with 9/11, these protocols have increasingly been... -
Women's Human Rights: A Social Psychological Perspective on Resistance, Liberation, and Justice by Shelly Grabe 9780190614614
RRP: $144.30$127.78At a United Nations conference in 1995, 189 governments adopted the Beijing Platform for Action, an international agenda for women's equality and a statement of women's rights as human rights. Since that time, violations of women's human rights have... -
Ethnicity, Law and Human Rights: The English Experience by Sebastian Poulter 9780198298694
$55.03Recent world events have demonstrated anew that a majority of modern states do not reflect single nations, rather they are ethnically heterogeneous in character and possess profound religious, linguistic, and cultural divisions. Ethnicity, Law, and Human... -
The Struggle for Freedom from Fear: Contesting Violence against Women at the Frontiers of Globalization by Alison Brysk 9780190901516
RRP: $187.20$155.84How can we understand and contest the global wave of violence against women? In this book, Alison Brysk shows that gender violence across countries tends to change as countries develop and liberalize, but not in the ways that we might predict. She shows... -
Human Rights at the Crossroads by Mark Goodale 9780195371840
RRP: $214.50$190.38Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a dramatic expansion in both the international human rights system and the transnational networks of activists, development organizations, and monitoring agencies that partially reinforce it. Yet despite or... -
Transnational Social Mobilisation and Minority Rights: Identity, Advocacy and Norms by Corinne Lennox 9780367025076
RRP: $263.25$228.70This book explores the ways in which minority groups across the world are reshaping the international minority rights protection system. It documents the actions of four major groups that are using transnational social mobilisation to achieve recognition... -
Women's rights are human rights by United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights 9789211542066
$39.37Attaining equality between women and men and eliminating all forms of discrimination against women are fundamental human rights and United Nations values. Women around the world nevertheless regularly suffer violations of their human rights throughout... -
Women and Borders: Refugees, Migrants and Communities by Seema Shekhawat 9781784539573
RRP: $234.00$233.06Borders - whether settled or contested, violent or calm, closed or open - may have a direct, and often acute, human impact. Those affected may be people living nearby, those attempting to cross them and even those who succeed in doing so. At the border,... -
Insincere Commitments: Human Rights Treaties, Abusive States, and Citizen Activism by Heather Smith-Cannoy 9781589018877
RRP: $93.60$83.87Paradoxically, many governments that persistently violate human rights have also ratified international human rights treaties that empower their citizens to file grievances against them at the United Nations. Therefore, citizens in rights-repressing... -
The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological Approach by Danielle Celermajer 9781108470452
RRP: $214.50$193.32There is an urgent need to analyze and assess how we prevent torture, against the background of a rigorous analysis of the factors that condition and sustain it. Drawing on rich empirical material from Sri Lanka and Nepal, The Prevention of Torture: An... -
The Global Governed?: Refugees as Providers of Protection and Assistance by Kate Pincock 9781108494946
RRP: $204.75$183.90When refugees flee war and persecution, protection and assistance are usually provided by United Nations organisations and their NGO implementing partners. In camps and cities, the dominant humanitarian model remains premised upon a provider-beneficiary... -
Producing Reproductive Rights: Determining Abortion Policy Worldwide by Udi Sommer 9781108493161
RRP: $195.00$175.27With events and movements such as #MeToo, the Gender Equality UN Sustainable Development Goal, the Irish and Chilean abortion policy changes, and the worldwide Women's March movement, women's rights are at the top of the global public agenda. Yet,... -
Human Rights-Compliant Counterterrorism: Myth-making and Reality in the Philippines and Indonesia Jayson S. Lamchek (National University of Singapore) 9781108492331
RRP: $195.00$176.05Since 9/11, we have lived in an age of counterterrorism in which the spectre of terrorism justifies increasingly repressive and violent measures. Against this backdrop, legal scholars and human rights advocates have encouraged integration of human rights... -
Genocide Never Sleeps: Living Law at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda by Nigel Eltringham 9781108485593
RRP: $195.00$175.27Accounts of international criminal courts have tended to consist of reflections on abstract legal texts, on judgements and trial transcripts. Genocide Never Sleeps, based on ethnographic research at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR),... -
Human Rights in a Time of Populism: Challenges and Responses Gerald L. Neuman (Harvard Law School, Massachusetts) 9781108485494
RRP: $195.00$175.27The electoral successes of right-wing populists since 2016 have unsettled world politics. The spread of populism poses dangers for human rights within each country, and also threatens the international system for protecting human rights. Human Rights in... -
Chinese Refugee Law and Policy by Lili Song 9781108483988
RRP: $195.00$175.27This book is the first to systematically examine Chinese refugee law and policy. It provides in-depth legal and policy analysis and makes recommendations to relevant stakeholders, drawing upon not only existing legal and policy scholarships but also... -
Negotiating the Power of NGOs: Women's Legal Rights in South Africa by Reem Wael 9781108475136
RRP: $216.45$195.04This book focuses on the socio-political environment that allows for the impactful work of NGOs through their proximity to local communities. The book showcases how this space has helped South African women's rights NGOs to bring about crucial legal... -
Human Rights in Thick and Thin Societies: Universality without Uniformity by Seth D. Kaplan 9781108471213
RRP: $195.00$175.27Socio-centric societies have vibrant - albeit different - concepts of human flourishing than is typical in the individualistic West. These concepts influence the promotion of human rights, both in domestic contexts with religious minorities and in... -
The Hidden Hands of Justice: NGOs, Human Rights, and International Courts by Heidi Nichols Haddad 9781108470926
RRP: $195.00$175.27The Hidden Hands of Justice: NGOs, Human Rights, and International Courts is the first comprehensive analysis of non-governmental organization (NGO) participation at international criminal and human rights courts. Drawing on original data, Heidi Nichols... -
The Kenyan TJRC: An Outsider's View from the Inside by Ronald C. Slye 9781108434508
RRP: $56.53$47.62Between 1963 and 2008 Kenya experienced systematic atrocities, economic crimes, ethnic violence, and the illegal taking of land. To come to terms with these historical injustices and gross violations of human rights, the Kenyan Truth, Justice and... -
Rethinking Transitional Justice for the Twenty-First Century: Beyond the End of History by Dustin N. Sharp 9781108425582
RRP: $195.00$175.27Transitional justice is the dominant lens through which the world grapples with legacies of mass atrocity, and yet it has rarely reflected the diversity of peace and justice traditions around the world. Hewing to a largely western and legalist script,... -
North American Genocides: Indigenous Nations, Settler Colonialism, and International Law by Laurelyn Whitt 9781108425506
RRP: $195.00$175.27When and how might the term genocide appropriately be ascribed to the experience of North American Indigenous nations under settler colonialism? Laurelyn Whitt and Alan W. Clarke contend that, if certain events which occurred during the colonization of... -
North Korean Human Rights: Activists and Networks by Andrew Yeo 9781108425490
RRP: $195.00$176.05The evidentiary weight of North Korean defectors' testimony depicting crimes against humanity has drawn considerable attention from the international community in recent years. Despite the attention to North Korean human rights, what remains unexamined... -
Regime Consolidation and Transitional Justice: A Comparative Study of Germany, Spain and Turkey by Anja Mihr 9781108423069
RRP: $181.35$163.96Regime Consolidation and Transitional Justice explores the effect of transitional justice measures on 'regime consolidation', or the means by which a new political system is established in a post-transition context. Focusing on the long-term impact of... -
Human Rights, Democracy, and Legitimacy in a World of Disorder by Silja Voeneky 9781108420945
RRP: $216.45$195.04Human Rights, Democracy, and Legitimacy in a World of Disorder brings together respected scholars from diverse disciplines to examine a trio of key concepts that help to stabilize states and the international order. While used pervasively by... -
Beyond Cages: Animal Law and Criminal Punishment by Justin Marceau 9781108417556
RRP: $185.25$166.63For all the diversity of views within the animal protection movement, there is a surprising consensus about the need for more severe criminal justice interventions against animal abusers. More prosecutions and longer sentences, it is argued, will advance... -
The Witness Experience: Testimony at the ICTY and Its Impact by Kimi Lynn King 9781108416214
RRP: $146.25$132.09This book provides the most comprehensive and scientific assessment to date of what it means to appear before war crimes tribunals. This ground-breaking analysis, conducted with the cooperation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former... -
Human Rights in the Constitutional Law of the United States by Michael J. Perry 9781107666085
RRP: $52.63$44.46In the period since the end of the Second World War, there has emerged what never before existed: a truly global morality. Some of that morality - the morality of human rights - has become entrenched in the constitutional law of the United States. This... -
Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability: Comparative and International Perspectives by Francesca Lessa 9781107617339
RRP: $77.98$67.53This edited volume brings together well-established and emerging scholars of transitional justice to discuss the persistence of amnesty in the age of human rights accountability. The volume attempts to reframe debates, moving beyond the limited...