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Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights by Elizabeth D. Heineman
RRP: $36.11$31.14Since the 1990s, sexual violence in conflict zones has received much media attention. In large part as a result of grassroots feminist organizing in the 1970s and 1980s, mass rapes in the wars in the former Yugoslavia and during the Rwandan genocide... -
Human Rights and Social Movements by Neil Stammers 9780745329116
RRP: $38.69$29.70This book champions social movements as one of the most influential agents that shape our conceptions of human rights. It argues that human rights cannot be understood outside of the context of social movement struggles. It explains how much of the... -
Breaking Silence: The Case That Changed the Face of Human Rights by Richard Alan White 9781589012240
$41.00Young seventeen-year-old Joelito Filartiga was taken from his family home in Asuncion, Paraguay, brutally tortured, and murdered by the Paraguayan police. "Breaking Silence" is the inside story of the quest for justice by his father - the true... -
The Indigenous Paradox: Rights, Sovereignty, and Culture in the Americas by Jonas Bens
RRP: $85.14$73.44In the twenty-first century, it is politically and legally commonplace that indigenous communities go to court to assert their rights against the postcolonial nation-state in which they reside. But upon closer examination, this constellation is far from... -
Vortex: The Crisis of Patriarchy by Susan Hawthorne
RRP: $20.58$12.81Do we want to live in a world without birdsong? The pesticides, the coal mines, the clear-felling forestry industry, the industrial farmers are destroying the earth with their insistence on profit. But what point is profit on a dead and silent planet? ... -
Demanding Rights: Europe's Supranational Courts and the Dilemma of Migrant Vulnerability by Moritz Baumgartel 9781108733885
RRP: $45.14$38.82While nominally protected across Europe, the human rights of vulnerable migrants often fail to deliver their promised benefits in practice. This socio-legal study explores both the concrete expressions and possible causes of this persistent deficit. For... -
Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy by Jean L. Cohen
RRP: $45.15$36.30Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional secularism that... -
Intersectionality in the Human Rights Legal Framework on Violence against Women: At the Centre or the Margins? by Lorena Sosa
RRP: $39.98$30.70While gender has become a cornerstone of the current human rights framework on violence against women (VAW), a new theoretical concept has been gaining ground and becoming increasingly visible: intersectionality. In response, this book clarifies three... -
The UN Human Rights Council: A Practical Anatomy Eric Tistounet 9781839102837
RRP: $73.47$65.52Since its establishment the work of the Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has been subject to many interpretations, with differing theories proffered and conclusions drawn. This comprehensive guide, from an author with an intimate knowledge of the... -
Kissinger and Latin America: Intervention, Human Rights, and Diplomacy by Stephen G. Rabe 9781501706295
RRP: $45.15$42.75In Kissinger and Latin America, Stephen G. Rabe analyzes U.S. policies toward Latin America during a critical period of the Cold War. Except for the issue of Chile under Salvador Allende, historians have largely ignored inter-American relations during... -
Research Handbook on Child Soldiers Mark A. Drumbl 9781789903324
RRP: $64.44$57.68Although child soldiers have received considerable media and policy attention, they remain poorly understood and inadequately protected. This Research Handbook addresses this troubling gap by offering a reflective and nuanced review of the complex issue... -
Freedom of Religion: UN and European Human Rights Law and Practice by Paul M. Taylor 9780521672467
RRP: $58.04$49.72The scale and variety of acts of religious intolerance evident in so many countries today are of enormous contemporary concern. This 2005 study attempts a thorough and systematic treatment of both Universal and European practice. The standards applicable... -
Taking Root: Human Rights and Public Opinion in the Global South by James Ron 9780199975051
RRP: $34.82$31.28Human 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... -
Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence: Conflict Science, Conflict Management, Antipolitics by Jacob Mundy
RRP: $30.95$26.88The massacres that spread across Algeria in 1997 and 1998 shocked the world, both in their horror and in the international community's failure to respond. In the years following, the violence of 1990s Algeria has become a central case study in new... -
Torture by Edward Peters
RRP: $36.11$31.14"Torture has ceased to exist," Victor Hugo claimed, with some justification, in 1874. Yet more than a century later, torture is used routinely in one out of every three countries. This book is about torture in Western society from earliest times to the... -
Islamophobia and the Law by Cyra Akila Choudhury 9781108433716
RRP: $38.69$33.46Islamophobia and the Law is a foundational volume of critical scholarship on the emerging form of bigotry widely known as Islamophobia. This book brings together leading legal scholars to explore the emergence and rise of Islamophobia after the 9/11... -
The Anti-Slavery Project: From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking by Joel Quirk
RRP: $36.11$31.14It is commonly assumed that slavery came to an end in the nineteenth century. While slavery in the Americas officially ended in 1888, millions of slaves remained in bondage across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East well into the first half of the... -
Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
RRP: $39.99$35.81Human rights violations are perpetrated in all parts of the world, and the universal reaction to such atrocities is overwhelmingly one of horror and sadness. Yet, as Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and his contributors attest, our viewpoint is clouded and... -
Localizing Transitional Justice: Interventions and Priorities after Mass Violence by Rosalind Shaw 9780804761505
RRP: $32.24$27.95Through war crimes prosecutions, truth commissions, purges of perpetrators, reparations, and memorials, transitional justice practices work under the assumptions that truth telling leads to reconciliation, prosecutions bring closure, and justice prevents... -
Crimes Against Humanity: Birth of a Concept by Norman Geras 9780719096617
RRP: $25.79$22.72This book, newly available in paperback, tells the story of the emergence of the concept of crimes against humanity. It examines its origins, the ethical assumptions underpinning it, its legal and philosophical boundaries, and some of the controversies... -
The New Apartheid by Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh 9780624088547
RRP: $21.92$18.21Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Rights: Concepts and Contexts Horacio Spector 9781138115552
RRP: $56.75$50.88Rights: Concepts and Contexts contains the central works of recent scholarship on the nature of rights, with contributions by some of the most prominent contemporary theorists in moral, legal, and political philosophy, including Joseph Raz, Robert... -
Principles of International Humanitarian Law Jonathan Crowe 9781782545941
RRP: $32.19$28.88This book provides a clear and concise explanation of the central principles of international humanitarian law (or the law of armed conflict) while situating them in a broader philosophical, ethical and legal context.The authors consider a range of wider... -
The Politics of Human Rights: A Global Perspective Tony Evans 9780745323732
RRP: $34.82$26.88In the past, violations of human rights were commonly portrayed as atrocities perpetrated by tyrannical dictatorships. Today, the images of torture at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, and the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, put the lie to this assumption... -
The Struggle for Freedom from Fear: Contesting Violence against Women at the Frontiers of Globalization by Alison Brysk
RRP: $38.69$25.79How 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 Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered: Conceptual Limits and States' Positive Obligations in European Law by Vladislava Stoyanova
RRP: $54.17$39.64By reconsidering the definitions of human trafficking, slavery, servitude and forced labour, Vladislava Stoyanova demonstrates how, in embracing the human trafficking framework, the international community has sidelined the human rights law commitments... -
This Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty by Tobias Kelly
RRP: $36.11$31.14We are accustomed to thinking of torture as the purposeful infliction of cruelty by public officials, and we assume that lawyers and clinicians are best placed to speak about its causes and effects. However, it has not always been so. The category of... -
Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights Monica Luci 9781138908604
RRP: $51.59$45.23Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights contributes to the development of that field of study called 'psycho-social' that is presently more and more committed to providing understanding of social phenomena, making use of the explicative perspective of... -
Law's Relations: A Relational Theory of Self, Autonomy, and Law by Jennifer Nedelsky 9780195147964
RRP: $141.90$99.33Autonomy 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... -
The Human Right to Health by Jonathan Wolfe 9780393063356
RRP: $24.50$19.61Few topics in human rights have inspired as much debate as the right to health. Proponents would enshrine it as a fundamental right on a par with freedom of speech and freedom from torture. Detractors suggest that the movement constitutes an impractical... -
Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media by Jacob Mchangama 9781529382204
RRP: $21.92$17.48A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today.Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian... -
Mind and Rights: The History, Ethics, Law and Psychology of Human Rights by Matthias Mahlmann
RRP: $46.43$40.40Mind and Rights combines historical, philosophical, and legal perspectives with research from psychology and the cognitive sciences to probe the justification of human rights in ethics, politics and law. Chapters critically examine the growth of the... -
Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country by Mike Kim 9780742567054
RRP: $16.76$12.40The first of its kind, this book provides a unique inside look into the hidden world of ordinary North Koreans. Mike Kim, who worked with refugees on the Chinese border for four years, recounts their experiences of enduring famine, sex-trafficking, and... -
The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries by Michael J. Perry 9780195138283
RRP: $67.08$47.30Inspired by a 1988 trip to El Salvador, Michael J. Perry's new book is a personal and scholarly exploration of the idea of human rights. Perry is one of our nation's leading authorities on the relation of morality, including religious morality, to... -
Protest Camps in International Context: Spaces, Infrastructures and Media of Resistance Niko Rollmann 9781447329428
RRP: $38.69$29.70From the squares of Spain to indigenous land in Canada, protest camps are a tactic used around the world. Since 2011 they have gained prominence in recent waves of contentious politics, deployed by movements with wide-ranging demands for social change... -
Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post-9/11 Wars by Neta C. Crawford 9780199981724
RRP: $73.53$60.66In May 2009, American B-1B bombers dropped 2,000-pound and 500-pound bombs in the village of Garani, Afghanistan following a Taliban attack. The dead included anywhere from twenty five to over one hundred civilians. The U.S. military went into damage... -
Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European Court of Human Rights by Ingrid Leijten
RRP: $47.72$30.70Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European Court of Human Rights deals with socio-economic rights in the context of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The book connects the ECtHR's socio-economic case law to an... -
Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Context and Contours by Surya Deva
RRP: $45.14$39.33The calls for an international treaty to elaborate the human rights obligations of transnational corporations and other business enterprises have been rapidly growing, due to the failures of existing regulatory initiatives in holding powerful business... -
Necessary Evil: How to Fix Finance by Saving Human Rights by David Kinley
RRP: $30.30$22.54Finance is the evil we cannot live without. It governs almost every aspect of our lives and has the power to liberate as well as enslave. With the worldas total financial assetsavalued at a staggering $300 trillionabeing four times larger than the... -
Courting Social Justice: Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World by Varun Gauri 9780521145169
RRP: $39.98$32.83This book is a five-country empirical study of the causes and consequences of social and economic rights litigation. Detailed studies of Brazil, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and South Africa present systematic and nuanced accounts of court activity on...