Human Rights

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This book brings together internationally renowned academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines who, in a variety of ways, seek to understand the legal, conceptual and practical consequences of parental imprisonment through a children's...

By using human rights as a guidepost, social workers can help create social welfare policies that better serve societal needs. However, in applying human rights to contemporary situations, social workers often encounter challenges that require thinking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999370681Author Michael CasterFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Safeguard DefendersPublisher Safeguard DefendersWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773239170Author Isabel PatersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860597Author Russell Maroon ShoatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 378g

The trial of Slobodan Milosevic represents a singular moment in modern history. For the first time a former head of state must answer charges before an International Tribunal for the commission of war crimes. Taking as its starting point the existing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501765094Author Kate Cronin-FurmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Associating social justice with landscape is not new, yet the twenty-first century's heightened threats to landscape and their impact on both human and, more generally, nature's habitats necessitate novel intellectual tools to address such challenges...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733647328Author Sheldon RichmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Libertarian InstitutePublisher Libertarian InstituteWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

The practice of sanctuary-giving refuge to the threatened, vulnerable stranger-may be universal among humans. From primate populations to ancient religious traditions to the modern legal institution of asylum, anthropologist Linda Rabben explores the...

A new moral, ethical, and legal framework is needed for international human rights law. Never in human history has there been such an elaborate international system for human rights, yet from massive disasters, such as the Darfur genocide, to everyday...

This collection of essays is the first book to take up the urgent issue of torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. In the post-9/11 era, where we are once again compelled to entertain debates about the legality of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988531212Author Maire LeadbeaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

This volume is the first of two addressing the legal regime governing the use of force during armed conflicts. Traditionally labeled 'Hague Law', today the norms it examines are commonly referred to as 'conduct of hostilities rules'. At the heart of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839700392Author Veronika FlegarFormat PaperbackImprint Intersentia LtdPublisher Intersentia Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474496490Author Demet Aslı CaltekinFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812253245Author Jacob A C RemesFormat HardbackImprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815739753Author Christopher SabatiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 640g

This book presents an in-depth analysis of how UN human rights institutions and mechanisms have addressed environmental protection, sustainable development, and climate change. Despite the increasing involvement of UN human rights bodies in addressing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788172730734Author V.T. PatelFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Authors PressPublisher Authors Press

With the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), commentators began to situate the evolution of the status of children within the context of the "property to persons" trajectory that other human rights...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925950687Author Susan HawthorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Spinifex PressPublisher Spinifex PressWeight(grams) 140g

The essays selected for this second volume on the conduct of hostilities examine discrete topics of international humanitarian law that are particularly relevant to 21st century warfare. It commences with an examination of the adequacy of traditional...

Human rights and peace issues and concerns have come about at a critical time. The world has recently witnessed a plethora of turning points that speak of the hopes and vulnerabilities which are inherent in being human and demonstrate that change in the...

Pursuing Justice in Africa focuses on visions of justice across the African continent, featuring essays that engage with topics at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship across a wide range of disciplines including activism, land tenure,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978800274Author Eva van RoekelFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

Detention and occupation are two challenging aspects of international humanitarian law in 21st century warfare. The essays selected for this volume examine the historical foundations of these issues, as well as the contemporary practices surrounding them...

Migration and Integration clarifies and proposes answers for all of the politically toxic questions associated with large-scale migration from the Global South to the Western liberal democracies. Driven by the conviction that the Alt-Right is using the...

When does the exercise of an interest constitute a human right? The contributors to Menuge’s edited collection offer a range of secular and religious responses to this fundamental question of the legitimacy of human rights claims. The first section...

Conceptualizing the nature of reality and the way the world functions, Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko analyzes the foundations of human rights law in the strict subject/object dichotomy. Seeking to dismantle this dichotomy using topo-logic, a concept...

Old immigration hubs and new ones worldwide have experienced rapid and increasing movements of people from more varied national, ethnic, linguistic, and religious backgrounds. These movements have emerged along with a diversification of migration...

The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped life across the world, placing people at risk as our responses to it alter not only health and wellbeing but also governance, economies, social relations, and our interaction with the natural environment. This volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587311567Author Helen M AlvareFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773634760Author Emily Regan WillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Fernwood Publishing Co LtdPublisher Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642595406Author Mateo HokeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books

Contemporary social life in the Horn of Africa is generally a state-orchestrated experience that terrorizes the majority of the people. This collection of carefully selected essays, explores the different aspects of the current crisis in the Horn region...

The essays and articles selected for this volume analyze what is generally understood by freedom of religion and belief in today's world. The different aspects of this fundamental right are considered from the contents of freedom of religion, to the...

In Frontiers of Gender Equality, editor Rebecca Cook enlarges the chorus of voices to introduce new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and to explain the multiple dimensions of gender equality. This volume demonstrates...

Originally published in 1987, Refugees in International Politics explores the nature of forced migration. It sets out systematically the factors that set refugees in motion and explains how and why a flexible network of organizations copes with the...