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Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism by Karima Bennoune 9780393081589
RRP: £21.99£18.95In Lahore, Pakistan, Faizan Peerzada resisted being relegated to a "dark corner" by staging a performing arts festival despite bomb attacks. In Senegal, wheelchair-bound Aissatou Cisse produced a comic book to illustrate the injustices faced by disabled... -
For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq by Ayca Cubukcu 9780812250503
RRP: £83.00£72.11On February 15, 2003, millions of people around the world demonstrated against the war that the United States, the United Kingdom, and their allies were planning to wage in Iraq. Despite this being the largest protest in the history of humankind, the war... -
Law's Relations: A Relational Theory of Self, Autonomy, and Law by Jennifer Nedelsky 9780199332168
RRP: £59.00£32.68Autonomy is one of the core concepts of legal and political thought, yet also one of the least understood. The prevailing theory of liberal individualism characterizes autonomy as independence, yet from a social perspective, this conception is glaringly... -
COVID-19 and Human Rights by Morten Kjaerum
RRP: £36.99£32.53This timely collection brings together original explorations of the COVID-19 pandemic and its wide-ranging, global effects on human rights. The contributors argue that a human rights perspective is necessary to understand the pervasive consequences of... -
Catholic Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights by Leonard Francis Taylor 9781108731805
RRP: £23.99£21.51It is because Catholicism played such a formative role in the construction of Western legal culture that it is the focal point of this enquiry. The account of international law from its origin in the treaties of Westphalia, and located in the writing of... -
Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
RRP: £19.99£18.09Who has the right to a safe and protected childhood? Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding deepens understanding of children as political capital in the hands of those in power, critically engaging children's voices alongside archival,... -
Migrant Brothers: A Poet's Declaration of Human Dignity by Patrick Chamoiseau
RRP: £9.99£8.59"If justice had a Jericho trumpet, Chamoiseau would be it."-Junot Diaz As migrants embark on perilous journeys across oceans and deserts in pursuit of sanctuary and improved living conditions, what is the responsibility of those safely ensconced in the... -
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention by Marco Duranti 9780199811380
RRP: £110.00£78.71The Conservative Human Rights Revolution radically reinterprets the origins of the European human rights system, arguing that its conservative inventors envisioned the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) not only as an instrument to contain... -
Making People Illegal: What Globalization Means for Migration and Law by Catherine Dauvergne 9780521719285
RRP: £22.99£19.56This book examines the relationship between illegal migration and globalization. Under the pressures of globalizing forces, migration law is transformed into the last bastion of sovereignty. This explains the worldwide crackdown on extra-legal migration... -
The Debasement of Human Rights: How Politics Sabotage the Ideal of Freedom by Aaron Rhodes
RRP: £19.99£13.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039799Author Aaron RhodesFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA -
Islam, Blasphemy, and Human Rights in Indonesia: The Trial of Ahok Daniel Peterson 9781032400839
RRP: £39.99£35.06Using the high-profile 2017 blasphemy trial of the former governor of Jakarta, Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama, as its sole case study, this book assesses whether Indonesia's liberal democratic human rights legal regime can withstand the rise of growing... -
The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine by Lori Allen
RRP: £23.99£20.84The Rise and Fall of Human Rights provides a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of the Palestinian human rights world-its NGOs, activists, and "victims," as well as their politics, training, and discourse-since 1979. Though human rights activity... -
We Were Taught To Plant Corn Not To Kill: Secrets Behind the Silence of the Mayan People by Douglas Stuart London 9780977810406
£17.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977810406Author Douglas Stuart LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Back Up Books Human Rights PressPublisher Back Up Books Human Rights... -
Human Rights Imperialists by Conall Mallory
£98.86To what extent do a state's obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights apply beyond its territorial borders? Are soldiers deployed on overseas operations bound by the human rights commitments of their home state? What about other agents,... -
A Declaration Of The Rights Of Human Beings: On the Sovereignty of Life as Surpassing the Rights of Man by Raoul Vaneigem 9781629631554
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629631554Author Raoul VaneigemFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
The Gacaca Courts, Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda: Justice without Lawyers by Phil Clark
RRP: £36.99£33.55Since 2001, the Gacaca community courts have been the centrepiece of Rwanda's justice and reconciliation programme. Nearly every adult Rwandan has participated in the trials, principally by providing eyewitness testimony concerning genocide crimes... -
Apartheid’s Stalingrad by Rory Riordan 9781431432806
RRP: £25.00£20.28The apartheid security juggernaut met its Battle of Stalingrad in the townships of Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage in 1985 and 1986. This is the blazing story of how the people's resistance - in the church, in the civic structures, underground - fought that... -
Death Flight: Apartheid's Secret Doctrine of Disappearance by Michael Schmidt 9780624088608
RRP: £17.99£14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624088608Author Michael SchmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams)... -
Voices for Transgender Equality: Making Change in the Networked Public Sphere by Thomas J Billard 9780197695432
RRP: £18.99£16.32Transgender rights have emerged as an important topic of everyday conversation across the country in recent years and become, in many ways, the flashpoint du jour of the American culture wars. During the Trump presidency in particular, transgender people... -
Immigration, Asylum and Human Rights by Nicholas J. Blake 9781841741406
RRP: £110.00£91.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841741406Author QC Nicholas BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Blackstone Press LtdPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams)... -
The Child's Right to Development by Noam Peleg
RRP: £26.99£22.85This book provides a comprehensive account of how child development and the right to development of children have been understood in international children's rights law. It argues that any conceptions of childhood focussed either on children's future as... -
A Most Uncertain Crusade: The United States, the United Nations, and Human Rights, 1941-1953 by Rowland Brucken 9780875804712
RRP: £44.00£38.74A Most Uncertain Crusade traces and analyzes the emergence of human rights as both an international concern and as a controversial domestic issue for US policy makers during and after World War II. Rowland Brucken focuses on officials in the State... -
Seeing the Myth in Human Rights by Jenna Reinbold
RRP: £39.00£34.12The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been called one of the most powerful documents in human history. Today, the mere accusation of violations of the rights outlined in this document cows political leaders and riles the international... -
Crimes Against Humanity: A Beginner's Guide by Adam Jones 9781851686018
RRP: £9.99£7.55Murder, extermination, enslavement, ethnic cleansing, rape, and torture: all these actions constitute 'crimes against humanity' when carried out in a widespread or systematic way. And unfortunately, as is painfully apparent in the popular media every... -
"If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die": How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor by Geoffrey B. Robinson 9780691150178
RRP: £30.00£23.29This is a book about a terrible spate of mass violence. It is also about a rare success in bringing such violence to an end. "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die" tells the story of East Timor, a half-island that suffered genocide after Indonesia invaded... -
The Image before the Weapon: A Critical History of the Distinction between Combatant and Civilian by Helen M. Kinsella
RRP: £23.99£20.84Since at least the Middle Ages, the laws of war have distinguished between combatants and civilians under an injunction now formally known as the principle of distinction. The principle of distinction is invoked in contemporary conflicts as if there were... -
Human Rights and Disability Advocacy by Maya Sabatello
RRP: £62.00£53.96The United Nations adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) constituted a paradigm shift in attitudes and approaches to disability rights, marking the first time in law-making history that persons with disabilities... -
The International Human Rights Movement: A History by Aryeh Neier
RRP: £28.00£24.96A fascinating history of the international human rights movement as seen by one of its foundersDuring the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in struggles against totalitarian regimes and crimes against... -
Rethinking Darkness: Cultures, Histories, Practices by Nick Dunn
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines the concept of darkness through a range of cultures, histories, practices and experiences. It engages with darkness beyond its binary positioning against light to advance a critical understanding of the ways in which darkness can be... -
The Right to Housing: Law, Concepts, Possibilities by Jessie Hohmann
£90.28A human right to housing represents the law's most direct and overt protection of housing and home. Unlike other human rights, through which the home incidentally receives protection and attention, the right to housing raises housing itself to the... -
Sex and International Tribunals: The Erasure of Gender from the War Narrative by Chiseche Salome Mibenge
RRP: £27.99£24.14Before the twenty-first century, there was little legal precedent for the prosecution of sexual violence as a war crime. Now, international tribunals have the potential to help make sense of political violence against both men and women; they have the... -
Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement by Dr. Joanna Wuest 9780226827537
RRP: £26.00£24.85The story of how a biologically driven understanding of gender and sexuality became central to US LGBTQ+ political and legal advocacy. Across protests and courtrooms, LGBTQ+ advocates argue that sexual and gender identities are innate. Oppositely,... -
Procedural Review in European Fundamental Rights Cases by Janneke Gerards
RRP: £30.99£22.85Traditionally, courts adjudicate fundamental rights cases by applying substantive tests of reasonableness or proportionality. Increasingly, however, European courts are also expressly taking account of the quality of the procedure that has led up to a... -
Religious Approaches to Human Rights by Martin Davie 9780993552908
RRP: £10.00£8.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993552908Author Martin DavieFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Select Academic Publishing Oxford LtdPublisher Select Academic Publishing Oxford... -
Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights and the Law by Stephanie Bijlmakers 9780367459055
RRP: £43.99£38.44Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights and the Law examines the responsibilities of business enterprises for human rights from a legal perspective. It analyses the legal status of the 'corporate responsibility to respect human rights' as... -
Enforcing Obligations Erga Omnes in International Law by Christian J. Tams 9780521128896
RRP: £39.99£33.66The concept of obligations erga omnes - obligations to the international community as a whole - has fascinated international lawyers for decades, yet its precise implications remain unclear. This book assesses how this concept affects the enforcement of... -
World Report 2020: Events of 2019 by Human Rights Watch
RRP: £27.99£18.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644210055Author Human Rights WatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in "Frankenstein" by Eileen Hunt Botting 9780812249620
RRP: £35.00£12.86From her youth, Mary Shelley immersed herself in the social contract tradition, particularly the educational and political theories of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as the radical philosophies of her parents, the feminist Mary... -
Non-State Actors and Human Rights by Philip Alston
£61.70Can transnational corporations ignore human rights as long as governments don't hold them accountable? If the UN is put in charge of a territory, is it bound by human rights law? Under traditional approaches to human rights, non-state actors cannot be... -
Human Dignity: The Constitutional Value and the Constitutional Right by Aharon Barak
RRP: £37.99£31.31Human dignity is now a central feature of many modern constitutions and international documents. As a constitutional value, human dignity involves a person's free will, autonomy, and ability to write a life story within the framework of society. As a...