Category: Human Rights

By Venkat Pulla

ISBN-10: 1137551429

ISBN-13: 9781137551429

ISBN-10: 1349576301

ISBN-13: 9781349576302

ISBN-10: 1451651791

ISBN-13: 9781451651799

This booklet presents perception into one of many world's quietest human rights abuses. the tale of the Lhotsampa humans of Bhutan describes their trip of coping and resilience, incorporating qualitative learn undertaken within the refugee camps in Nepal and resettlement parts in Australia and in different places on the planet.

By Tanya M Kerssen

ISBN-10: 0935028447

ISBN-13: 9780935028447

Grabbing strength explores the heritage of agribusiness and land conflicts in Northern Honduras concentrating on the Aguán Valley, the place peasant hobbies conflict huge palm oil manufacturers for the best to land. within the wake of an army coup that overthrew Honduran president Manuel Zelaya in June 2009, rural groups within the Aguán were brutally repressed, with over 60 humans killed in precisely over years. usa army aid--spent within the identify of the battle on Drugs--fuels the Honduran government's skill to repress its humans. A
strong and encouraging circulation for land, nutrition and democracy has grown during the last years, and it indicates no signal of backing down.

By Thomas Cushman (ed.)

ISBN-10: 041548023X

ISBN-13: 9780415480239

ISBN-10: 113801947X

ISBN-13: 9781138019478

In mapping out the sphere of human rights for these learning and discovering inside either humanities and social technological know-how disciplines, the instruction manual of Human Rights not just offers a high-quality beginning for the reader who desires to study the elemental parameters of the sphere, but in addition promotes new pondering and frameworks for the learn of human rights within the twenty-first century.

The instruction manual contains over sixty person contributions from key figures around the globe, that are grouped in response to 8 key components of discussion:

foundations and critiques;
new frameworks for knowing human rights;
world spiritual traditions and human rights;
social, fiscal, workforce, and collective rights;
critical views on human rights businesses, associations, and practices;
law and human rights;
narrative and aesthetic measurement of rights;
geographies of rights.

In its presentation and research of the normal middle background and issues, serious views, human rights tradition, and present perform, this instruction manual proves a useful source for all scholars and researchers with an curiosity in human rights.

By United Nations

ISBN-10: 9211541735

ISBN-13: 9789211541731

International locations rising from clash and difficulty are liable to susceptible or non-existent rule of legislation, insufficient legislations enforcement and justice management capability, and elevated circumstances of human rights violations. this example is usually exacerbated by means of a scarcity of public self belief in nation gurus and a scarcity of assets. those rule-of-law instruments will offer functional assistance to box missions and transitional administrations in serious transitional justice and rule of law-related components. This booklet units out an operational framework for vetting and institutional reform and is meant to aid United international locations box employees in advising on ways to addressing the demanding situations of institutional and group of workers reform in post-conflict States during the production of vetting tactics that exclude from public associations people who lack integrity.

By You-tien Hsing, Ching Kwan Lee

ISBN-10: 0415491398

ISBN-13: 9780415491396

Reclaiming chinese language Society analyses the mechanisms, methods and actors generating a large spectrum of social and cultural adjustments in reform China. opposite to so much literature that emphasizes financial and political strategies on the rate of chinese language society, this quantity argues for the centrality of the social in figuring out chinese language improvement.

Each of the 11 chapters addresses one form of grassroots activism, overlaying feminist activism, civic environmentalism, non secular revival, violence, movie, media, intellectuals, housing, citizenship and deprivation.

The wide-range of study types utilized in this assortment, together with ethnography, neighborhood comparability, quantitative and statistical research, interviews, textual and content material research, bargains scholars a methodologically wealthy vista to China experiences.

Written by way of topic specialists and masking all facets of chinese language Society, this booklet deals an authoritative evaluation of chinese language society. it's a useful source for classes on chinese language Society and tradition and should be of curiosity to scholars and students in chinese language and Asian studies.

By Shadi Mokhtari

ISBN-10: 0521767539

ISBN-13: 9780521767538

Mokhtari's ebook examines the alterations within the human rights discourse within the usa and the center East after the maltreatment and torture of the U.S. captives within the Abu Ghraib and different prisons grew to become public. in the course of the textual content research of speeches and information stories, in addition to in-depth interviews with human rights NGO officers, she makes a radical review that either credit and criticizes the NGOs. Mokhtari indicates that human rights advocacy has been profitable in pushing the U.S. courts and Congress to acknowledge the relevance of foreign human rights legislation.

By Scott Sheeran, Nigel Rodley

ISBN-10: 0415620732

ISBN-13: 9780415620734

The Routledge guide of overseas Human Rights legislations presents the definitive worldwide survey of the self-discipline of overseas human rights legislation. every one bankruptcy is written by means of a number one professional and gives a latest evaluation of an important sector in the field.
As good as protecting themes crucial to the idea and perform of overseas human rights legislations the amount bargains a broader viewpoint even though examinations of the ways that human rights legislations interacts with different felony regimes and different overseas associations, and by way of addressing the present and destiny demanding situations dealing with human rights.
This hugely topical choice of specifically commissioned papers is divided into 4 sections:
The nature and evolution of overseas human rights legislations discussing the origins, concept and perform of the discipline.
Interaction of human rights with different key regimes and our bodies together with the interplay of the self-discipline with overseas fiscal legislation, overseas humanitarian legislation, and improvement, in addition to different felony regimes.
Evolution and clients of local techniques to human rights discussing the platforms of Europe, the Americas, Africa and South East Asia, and their dating to the United international locations treaty bodies.
Key modern demanding situations together with non-State actors, faith and human rights, counter-terrorism, and enforcement and remedies.
Providing up to date and authoritative articles overlaying key elements of overseas human rights legislations, this publication paintings is a necessary paintings of reference for students, practitioners and scholars alike.

ISBN-10: 0191002909

ISBN-13: 9780191002908

What makes anything a human correct? what's the dating among the ethical foundations of human rights and human rights legislations? What are the problems of attractive to human rights?

This e-book deals the 1st entire survey of present considering at the philosophical foundations of human rights. Divided into 4 components, this e-book focuses to start with at the ethical grounds of human rights, for instance in our dignity, corporation, pursuits or wishes. Secondly, it appears on the implications that various ethical views on human rights undergo for human rights legislation and politics. Thirdly, it discusses particular and topical human rights together with freedom of expression and faith, defense, health and wellbeing and extra arguable rights equivalent to a human correct to subsistence. the ultimate half discusses nuanced serious and reformative perspectives on human rights from feminist, Kantian and relativist views between others.

The essays signify new and canonical examine by means of best students within the box. each one part is based as a collection of essays and replies, delivering a complete research of other positions in the debate in query. The creation from the editors will advisor researchers and scholars navigating the variety of perspectives at the philosophical foundations of human rights.

By Putu Oka Sukanta, Jennifer Lindsay

ISBN-10: 1922235121

ISBN-13: 9781922235121

Edited through former political prisoner Putu Oka Sukanta, it is a choice of bills from humans round the Indonesian archipelago who skilled the violence of 1965-1966. Fifteen witnesses - from the areas of Medan, Palu, Kendari, Yogyakarta, Jakarta, Bali, Kupang, and Sabu Island - proportion their tales of the way they navigated this frightening interval of Indonesian heritage and the way they've got lived with this previous. The publication relies on lifestyles background interviews with usual humans - academics, artists, women's activists, and policemen - whose lives have been became the wrong way up while atrocious assaults and heinous killings happened opposed to those that have been thought of to be supporters of the Indonesian Communist social gathering. those debts - together with one from a culprit who's now affected by guilt, and from survivors who nonetheless suppose remoted and rejected through society - convey how the violence maintains to steer Indonesian society. The booklet can be a precious source for college students of historical past, of Indonesia, and for individuals eager to comprehend the impression of this surprising violence. (Series: Herb Feith Translation)

By John Parry

ISBN-10: 047205077X

ISBN-13: 9780472050772

Felony prohibitions opposed to torture can't hinder country violence