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Business and Human Rights by Dalia Palombo
$135.04This book analyses the accountability of European home States for their failure to secure the human rights of victims from host States against transnational enterprises. It argues for a reconfiguration of the relationship between multinational... -
Campaigning for Children: Strategies for Advancing Children's Rights by Jo Becker
RRP: $112.23$97.43Advocates within the growing field of children's rights have designed dynamic campaigns to protect and promote children's rights. This expanding body of international law and jurisprudence, however, lacks a core text that provides an up-to-date look at... -
The Legal Empowerment Agenda: Poverty, Labour and the Informal Economy in Africa by Dr. Dan Banik
RRP: $64.49$56.12Despite providing society with a set of crucial services, large groups of workers in the informal economy are subject to exclusion and discrimination, and their lives are characterised by various types of vulnerabilities and deprivations that result from... -
Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below: Deploying Archimedes' Lever by Professor Leigh A Payne
RRP: $33.53$29.97Bruno Tesch was tried and executed for his company's Zyklon B gas used in Nazi Germany's extermination camps. This book examines this trial and the more than 300 other economic actors who faced prosecution for the Holocaust's crimes against humanity. It... -
The Political Uncommons: The Cross-Cultural Logic of the Global Commons Kathryn Milun 9781138376441
RRP: $61.91$53.93In The Political Uncommons, Kathryn Milun presents a cultural history of the global commons: those domains, including the atmosphere, the oceans, the radio frequency spectrum, the earth's biodiversity, and its outer space, designated by international law... -
Criminal Law Reform and Transitional Justice: Human Rights Perspectives for Sudan by Lutz Oette
RRP: $64.49$56.12Sudan has been undergoing profound changes characterized by an uncertain transition from conflict to post-conflict society and the separation of the country in the midst of ongoing human rights concerns. This book examines the nature, policy aspects and... -
The Liberal Way of War: Legal Perspectives by Robert P. Barnidge
RRP: $38.69$34.37Examining some of the huge challenges that liberal States faced in the decade after 11 September 2001, the chapters in this book address three aspects of the impact of more than a decade of military action.This book begins by considering four different... -
Human Rights: A Primer Judith Blau 9781138195035
RRP: $47.72$41.96Human Rights: A Primer breaks new ground in clarifying for undergraduates the international significance of human rights. This new edition highlights current and recent developments, using themes familiar to undergraduates. For example, Americans are... -
Contesting World Order?: Socioeconomic Rights and Global Justice Movements by Joe Wills
RRP: $135.45$121.53What do equality, dignity and rights mean in a world where eight men own as much wealth as half the world's population? Contesting World Order? Socioeconomic Rights and Global Justice Movements examines how global justice movements have engaged the... -
Shaping Rights in the ECHR: The Role of the European Court of Human Rights in Determining the Scope of Human Rights by Eva Brems
RRP: $94.17$85.62In fundamental rights adjudication, a court first has to determine whether the interest at stake falls within the scope of the fundamental right invoked. Whether or not an individual interest falls within the scope or ambit of one of the fundamental... -
Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice: Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling by Nanci Adler
RRP: $159.96$138.08Since the 1980s, an array of legal and non-legal practices-labeled Transitional Justice-has been developed to support post-repressive, post-authoritarian, and post-conflict societies in dealing with their traumatic past. In Understanding the Age of... -
Mexico's Human Rights Crisis by Alejandro Anaya-Munoz
RRP: $79.98$26.95Lawless elements are ascendant in Mexico, as evidenced by the operations of criminal cartels engaged in human and drug trafficking, often with the active support or acquiescence of government actors. The sharp increase in the number of victims of... -
Everyday Occupations: Experiencing Militarism in South Asia and the Middle East by Kamala Visweswaran
RRP: $90.30$78.32In the twenty-first century, political conflict and militarization have come to constitute a global social condition rather than a political exception. Military occupation increasingly informs the politics of both democracies and dictatorships,... -
Science in the Service of Human Rights by Richard Pierre Claude
RRP: $30.95$26.88Issues that mix science and politics present some of today's most daunting ethical questions. Did China violate the human rights of prisoners in 2001 by harvesting their kidneys and other organs without their formal consent? Do the victims of AIDS in... -
Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice by Jack Donnelly
RRP: $139.32$120.49In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that... -
Exporting Virtue?: China's International Human Rights Activism in the Age of Xi Jinping by Pitman Potter
RRP: $104.49$83.14China's rise to prosperity on the international stage has been accompanied by increased tensions with international standards of law and governance. Exporting Virtue? examines human rights as an example of China's international assertiveness and... -
Law, Violence and Sovereignty Among West Bank Palestinians by Tobias Kelly
RRP: $47.72$42.91As the Oslo Peace Process has given way to the violence of the second intifada, this book explores the continuing legacy of Oslo in the everyday life of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Taking a perspective that sees the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as... -
Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession Sandra Ristovska 9780262542531
RRP: $42.57$36.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542531Author Sandra RistovskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Contracting Human Rights: Crisis, Accountability, and Opportunity by Alison Brysk
RRP: $43.80$40.88The securitization that accompanied many national responses after 11 September 2001, along with the shortfalls of neo-liberalism, created waves of opposition to the growth of the human rights regime. By chronicling the continuing contest over the reach,... -
The Quest for Rights: Ideal and Normative Dimensions by Massimo La Torre
$136.24In an era that seeks to challenge the notion of the universality of human rights, this thought-provoking book explores their fundamental nature and considers the work and influence of German legal scholar and constitutional lawyer Robert Alexy, on... -
We Built the Wall: How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central America and Beyond by Eileen Truax
RRP: $21.92$15.58For decades, the American political asylum process has been used to punish enemies and reward friends of the US government. Refugees from Cuba can walk through an open door. People fleeing Eastern Europe have been judged very differently than those... -
Human Rights and the Body: Hidden in Plain Sight by Annabelle Mooney
RRP: $174.15$151.29Human Rights and the Body is a response to the crisis in human rights, to the very real concern that without a secure foundation for the concept of human rights, their very existence is threatened. While there has been consideration of the discourses of... -
Cruelty or Humanity: Challenges, Opportunities and Responsibilities Stuart Rees (University of Sydney) 9781447356981
RRP: $25.79$20.33Cruelty 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... -
Community Paralegals and the Pursuit of Justice by Vivek Maru
RRP: $34.82$28.24The United Nations estimates that four billion people worldwide live outside the protection of the law. These people can be driven from their land, intimidated by violence, and excluded from society. This book is about community paralegals - sometimes... -
State-Owned Entities and Human Rights: The Role of International Law by Mihaela Maria Barnes
RRP: $129.00$110.11The monograph focuses on the human rights challenges that are associated with the involvement of States in economic activities and on the role that international law has to play in addressing and understanding some of those challenges. State-owned... -
Judging State-Sponsored Violence, Imagining Political Change by Bronwyn Leebaw
RRP: $92.88$83.97How should state-sponsored atrocities be judged and remembered? This controversial question animates contemporary debates on transitional justice and reconciliation. This book reconsiders the legacies of two institutions that transformed the theory and... -
Defensive Relativism: The Use of Cultural Relativism in International Legal Practice by Frederick Cowell
RRP: $58.05$50.54Defensive Relativism describes how governments around the world use cultural relativism in legal argument to oppose international human rights law. Defensive relativist arguments appear in international courts, at the committees established by human... -
Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana by Abena Ampofoa Asare
RRP: $90.30$77.80Although truth and reconciliation commissions are supposed to generate consensus and unity in the aftermath of political violence, Abena Ampofoa Asare identifies cacophony as the most valuable and overlooked consequence of this process in Ghana. By... -
Genocide: The Act as Idea by Berel Lang
RRP: $30.95$26.88The term "genocide"-"group killing"-which first appeared in Raphael Lemkin's 1944 book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, had by 1948 established itself in international law through the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime... -
Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed by Stephen R. Porter
RRP: $79.98$69.09Stephen 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."... -
The Human Rights State: Justice Within and Beyond Sovereign Nations by Benjamin Gregg
RRP: $74.82$64.72The nation state operates on a logic of exclusion: no state can offer citizenship and legal rights to all comers. From the logic of exclusion a state derives its sovereign power. Yet this exclusivity undermines the project of advancing human rights... -
Genocide: Conceptual and Historical Dimensions by George J. Andreopoulos
RRP: $30.95$26.88The term genocide has been used to describe a wide range of events and polities, from the "final solution of the Jewish question" in Nazi Germany to Western efforts to establish birth control and abortion programs in Third World nations. It is... -
Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America by Kathryn Sikkink
RRP: $33.53$29.01"Nowhere did two understandings of U.S. identity-human rights and anticommunism-come more in conflict with each other than they did in Latin America. To refocus U.S. policy on human rights and democracy required a rethinking of U.S. policy as a... -
Abortion Belinda Bennett 9780754622383
RRP: $99.32$87.78Abortion remains one of the most complex and controversial issues in contemporary law and bioethics. This volume draws together key essays from leading scholars on the ethical and regulatory aspects of abortion. The essays explore the complex issues of... -
Crisis and Terror in the Horn of Africa: Autopsy of Democracy, Human Rights and Freedom by Dr Pietro Toggia
RRP: $174.15$151.29Contemporary 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... -
Criminal Disenfranchisement in an International Perspective by Brandon Rottinghaus
RRP: $129.00$98.16This collection of original essays by leading scholars and advocates offers the first international examination of the nature, causes, and effects of laws regulating voting by people with criminal convictions. In deciding whether prisoners shall retain... -
Darfur and the International Community: The Challenges of Conflict Resolution in Sudan by Richard Barltrop
$36.11The Darfur conflict has presented the international community with a number of challenges. How can the fighting be stopped in Darfur? What can be done to save lives and help the two million people displaced by the conflict? And how to help bring about... -
The Disabled Contract: Severe Intellectual Disability, Justice and Morality by Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry
RRP: $129.00$110.11Social contract theories generally predicate the authority of rules that govern society on the idea that these rules are the product of a contractual agreement struck between members of society. These theories embody values, such as equality, reciprocity... -
Reunion: Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador by Elizabeth Barnert
RRP: $32.25$25.27This captivating ethnography reveals the immediate and persisting impact of forced family separations and the eventual reunifications in communities affected by El Salvador's civil war. In 2005, medical student Elizabeth Barnert traveled to El Salvador... -
Article by Article: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights for a New Generation by Johannes Morsink
RRP: $30.95$26.88The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is one of the most important and debated sociopolitical documents of the twentieth century. A leading authority on the UDHR, Johannes Morsink is the author of The Universal Declaration of Human...