Human Rights

A just international order and a healthy cosmopolitan discipline of law need to include perspectives that take account of the standpoints, interests, concerns and beliefs of non-Western people and traditions. The dominant scholarly and activist...

This book evaluates the experience of official torture of France in Algeria, as well as recently, the United States since 9/11, Israel against Palestinians, and Argentina during its "Dirty War" from 1972 to 1983. While evaluating what...

Author Richard Chang maintains that there is no factual evidence to support the Japanese contention that the Western consular tribunals of the nineteenth century were partial to Westerners and prejudiced against Japanese, and, consequently, seldom...

"Many . . . unwritten rights are somehow inherent in the American scheme of democracy. So where do these freedoms come from? . . . One of the nation`s most venerated thinkers about such matters offers a provocative and refreshing way to answer that...

Human rights activism is often associated with international organizations that try to effect change in regional conflicts around the globe. In Barrancabermeja, Colombia, argues Luis van Isschot in The Social Origin of Human Rights, the struggle for...

Are efforts to protect workers' rights compatible with the forces of globalization? How can minimum standards designed to protect labour rights be implemented in a world in which national labour law is more and more at the mercy of international forces...

Since 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...

While rights are indispensable to our moral and political thinking, they are also mysterious and controversial. What is it for someone to have a moral right to something? What kinds of creatures are capable of having rights? Which rights do they have? As...

Of all the influential-indeed, formative-moral ideas to occupy centre stage in the twentieth century, the notion of human rights is for many the most difficult. Inspired by a 1988 trip to El Salvador, Michael Perry's new book explores this idea in full...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948202766Author Michael HopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Veritas Foundation Publication CentrePublisher Veritas Foundation Publication Centre

A detailed expose of blacklisting in Britain in the Civil Service, business and the media. The authors argue that new safeguards are needed, especially now that computer networks are increasingly being brought into play. Mark Hollingsworth was one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782911939761Author Stephane HesselFormat PaperbackImprint Indigene editionsPublisher Indigene editions

This book presents the raging debate on one of the most brutal political realities that India has confronted in recent years: the rising conflict between Maoist insurgent groups and the Indian State. With some of the finest writings on the subject, it...

This book examines the national legal frameworks in place for internally displaced people in Nigeria and considers how they can be extended to provide further legal protection.Despite a growing global awareness of the importance of developing solutions...

On March 16, 1985, Associated Press's Chief Middle East Correspondent, Terry Anderson, was kidnapped on the streets of Beirut. 2454 days - nearly seven years - later, he emerged into the light. "Den of Lions" is his memoir of that harrowing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904286656Author Ursula OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Index on CensorshipPublisher Index on CensorshipWeight(grams) 239g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786868612Author Malika OufkirFormat HardbackPage Count 293Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 567g

Since his release from Chinese labour camps in 1976, Harry Wu has worked to bring China's human rights abuses to international attention. This book documents the brutality and scale of the Chinese penal system and tells the extraordinary story of Wu's...

This is a biography of one of the most significant black figures in American history. A brilliant scholar and athlete, he became world famous as a singer and actor, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Othello in the 1944 Broadway production and for...

This book examines the legal nature of Islamic states and the human rights they have committed to uphold. It begins with an overview of the political history of Islam, and of Islamic law, focusing primarily on key developments of the first two centuries...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780340412527Author Anthony SampsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Coronet BooksPublisher Hodder & Stoughton General DivisionWeight(grams) 220g

How do we define human rights, and how do we protect them? Is the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights truly universal? And how has human rights discourse been appropriated by legal and institutional cultures? In this "No-Nonsense Guide",...

At a July 17, 2003 press conference held jointly with Prime Minister Tony Blair, President George W. Bush described the prisoners held in Guantanamo: "The only thing I know for certain is that these are bad people. " They are, supposedly, the...

A powerful, urgent and timely polemic on why women still need equality, and how we get there It is the greatest human rights abuse on the planet. It blights first and developing worlds, rich and poor women's health, wealth, education, representation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782630235878Author Christina J RayFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Christina J. RayPublisher Christina J. RayWeight(grams) 218g

With the strengthening focus worldwide on human rights, there has been a rapid increase in recent years in the number of countries that have completely abolished the death penalty. This is in recognition that it is a violation of the right to life and...

In this book, Fiona de Londras presents an overview of counter-terrorist detention in the US and the UK and the attempts by both states to achieve a downward recalibration of international human rights standards as they apply in an emergency. Arguing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787664161162Author Elio EndlessFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Elio Endless PublishersPublisher Elio Endless PublishersWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954182448Author Clifford M EberhardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Tyler MacDonaldPublisher Tyler MacDonaldWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692819708Author Julio M ShilingFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Patria de MartiPublisher Patria de MartiWeight(grams) 109g

Between 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...

States have long denied basic rights to non-citizens within their borders, and international law imposes only limited duties on states with respect to those fleeing persecution. But even the limited rights previously enjoyed by non-citizens are eroding...

The places in which refugees seek sanctuary are often as dangerous and bleak as the conditions they fled. In response, many travel within and across borders in search of safety. As part of these journeys, refugees are increasingly turning to courts to...

Countries undergoing or recovering from conflict and authoritarianism often face profound rule of law challenges. The law on the statute books may be repressive, judicial independence may be compromised, and criminal justice agencies may be captured by...

Seeking Justice: Access to Remedy for Corporate Human Rights Abuse explores victims' varying experiences in seeking remedy mechanisms for corporate human rights abuse. It puts forward a novel theory about the possibility of productive contestation and...

The idea that a claim for international protection can be rejected on the basis that the claimant behave 'discreetly' in their country of origin has remained resilient in asylum claims based on sexual orientation, but also other grounds of claim. This is...

This book asks whether human rights, since the 9/11 attacks and the 'war on terror,' are a luxury we can no longer afford, or rights that must always remain a fundamental part of democratic politics, in order to determine the boundary between individual...

In our globalised world, where inequality is deepening and migration movements are increasing, states continue to maintain strong regulatory control over immigration, health and social policies. Arguments based on state sovereignty can be employed to...