Human Rights

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788253303499Author Per Egil HeggeFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint FagbokforlagetPublisher FagbokforlagetWeight(grams) 844g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788190583572Author Sibaji Pratim BasuFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Anthem Press IndiaPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 846g

This is the second volume of a compilation of annual lectures delivered under the auspices of the Alladi Memorial Trust. Eminent jurists, lawyers, academicians, social activists, and distinguished persons serving in several fields of cognitive endeavor...

This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm. It addresses the death penalty, showing how the state not only authorizes a system and a practice that tortures human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978828438Author Salvador Santino F. RegilmeFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams)...

Honorable Mention for Best Book Award from the Historia Reciente y Memoria Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Memories before the State examines the discussions and debates surrounding the creation of the Place of Memory, Tolerance,...

2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Short-listed for the Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America from Duke University Libraries How do victims and perpetrators of political violence caught up in a complicated legal battle...

Russia's aggression against Ukraine in February 2022 shook the world and has caused immense suffering and destruction in the invaded country. All indications are that the war will drag on deep into 2023. Until now the conflict has been highly dynamic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839981418Author Giuseppe PalmisanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

Vladimir Pereverzin’s Kafkaesque story is vividly told in this skilful translation of his shocking, but also wryly humorous and ultimately uplifting memoir, published originally in Russian in 2013.  It is the true story of how an ordinary man’s life was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785272264Author Karen Erica BravoFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Jack Nusan Porter's writings date back to 1966, during the height of the Vietnam War. He describes the anguished struggle against war, racism, and poverty, as well as the radical groups involved-Jewish socialists, radical Zionists, radical Jews, Rabbi...

Jack Nusan Porter's writings date back to 1966, during the height of the Vietnam War. He describes the anguished struggle against war, racism, and poverty, as well as the radical groups involved-Jewish socialists, radical Zionists, radical Jews, Rabbi...

During the country’s dictatorship from 1973 to 1985, Uruguayans suffered under crushing repression, which included the highest rate of political incarceration in the world. In Of Light and Struggle, Debbie Sharnak explores how activists, transnational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789550894Author Sarah SargentFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Critical Perspectives on Human Rights provides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary perspectives on rights, ethics and global justice. The chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, make a significant and timely contribution to critical...

Is it desirable, or even necessary, to have distinct human rights for cultural identities? Do different conceptions of culture and identity, and their potential to frame human rights violations as culturally appropriate, complicate the question? How...

In order to gain access to the EU, nations must be seen to implement formal instruments that protect the rights of minorities. This book examines the ways in which these tools have worked in a number of post-communist states, and explores the interaction...

In order to gain access to the EU, nations must be seen to implement formal instruments that protect the rights of minorities. This book examines the ways in which these tools have worked in a number of post-communist states, and explores the interaction...

What is at stake in the fight for safe, legal, and accessible abortion services? And who benefits from our dark legacy of coercive sterilization, eugenics, and population control? Reproductive rights are rights that everyone should be fired up...

During the 1960s, a period of global upheaval and heightened Canadian and Quebec nationalism, Montreal became a central site of Black and Caribbean radical politics. Fear of a Black Nation paints a history of Montreal and the Black activists who lived,...

Case studies explore how women's rights shape state responses to sex trafficking and show how politically empowering women can help prevent and combat human trafficking Human trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares...

This book examines human rights issues in the People's Republic of China (PRC), including ongoing rights abuses, legal reforms, and the development of civil society. Major events of the past year include the PRC leadership transition, the Wukan protests...

Reports of sexual violence in armed conflict frequently appear in political discussions and news media, presenting a stark contrast to a long history of silence and nonrecognition. Conflict-related sexual violence has transitioned rapidly from a...

The bestselling author pulls no punches on what America needs to defeat white supremacy National political commentator Steve Phillips’s “politically charged and thoughtfully reasoned” (Kirkus Reviews) How We Win the Civil War helped chart the way...

After World War II dozens of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) emerged on the global scene, committed to improving the lives of the world's most vulnerable people. Some focused on protecting human rights; some were dedicated to development, aimed at...

Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The survey ratings and narrative reports on 195...

It is established that as a ratified State of international human rights treaties the respective State should comply with its commitments and implement those rights giving effectiveness into domestic laws. Both the right to life and the right to liberty...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the world's best-known and most translated documents. When it was presented to the United Nations General Assembly in December in 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt, chair of the writing group, called it a new...

Stephen Porter's Benevolent Empire examines political-refugee aid initiatives and related humanitarian endeavors led by American people and institutions from World War I through the Cold War, opening an important window onto the "short American century."...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512822656Author Sonia CardenasFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

A radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for global justice. Reinventing Human Rights offers a bold argument: that only a radically reformulated approach to human rights will prove adequate to confront...

Human rights are politically fraught in Turkey, provoking suspicion and scrutiny among government workers for their anti-establishment left-wing connotations. Nevertheless, with eyes worldwide trained on Turkish politics, and with accession to the...

In Infrastructures of Impunity Elizabeth F. Drexler argues that the creation and persistence of impunity for the perpetrators of the Cold War Indonesian genocide (1965–66) is not only a legal status but also a cultural and social process. Impunity for...

The current surge of displaced and trafficked children, child soldiers, and child refugees rekindles the virtually dead letter of the Genocide Convention prohibition on transferring children of one group to another. This book focuses on the gap between...

The U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay has become the symbol of an unprecedented detention system of global reach and immense power. Since the 9/11 attacks, the news has on an almost daily basis headlined stories of prisoners held indefinitely at...

How the rise of HIV in India resulted in government protections for gay groups, transgender people, and sex workers This original ethnographic research explores the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the rights-based struggles of sexual...

How the rise of HIV in India resulted in government protections for gay groups, transgender people, and sex workers This original ethnographic research explores the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the rights-based struggles of sexual...

Cruelty has long been a feature of states' domestic and foreign policies but is seldom acknowledged. Governments mouth respect for human rights yet promote discrimination, violence and suppression of critics. Documenting case studies from around the...

The use of rape as a deliberate tactic of war is a serious human rights issue. This ground-breaking book is the first to analyse its use as an act of war against civilians and international progress away from tacit acceptance to active rejection of this...