Amnesty International, 2010. — 57 p. Across Malaysia, government officials regularly tear into the flesh of prisoners with rattan canes (rotan) travelling up to 160 kilometres per hour. The cane shreds the victim's naked skin, turns the fatty tissue into pulp, and leaves permanent scars that extend all the way to muscle fibres. Blood and flesh splash off the victim's body,...
Amnesty International, 2010. — 57 p. Across Malaysia, government officials regularly tear into the flesh of prisoners with rattan canes (rotan) travelling up to 160 kilometres per hour. The cane shreds the victim's naked skin, turns the fatty tissue into pulp, and leaves permanent scars that extend all the way to muscle fibres. Blood and flesh splash off the victim's body,...
Amnesty International, 2010. — 57 p. Across Malaysia, government officials regularly tear into the flesh of prisoners with rattan canes (rotan) travelling up to 160 kilometres per hour. The cane shreds the victim's naked skin, turns the fatty tissue into pulp, and leaves permanent scars that extend all the way to muscle fibres. Blood and flesh splash off the victim's body,...
Amnesty International, 2010. — 57 p. Across Malaysia, government officials regularly tear into the flesh of prisoners with rattan canes (rotan) travelling up to 160 kilometres per hour. The cane shreds the victim's naked skin, turns the fatty tissue into pulp, and leaves permanent scars that extend all the way to muscle fibres. Blood and flesh splash off the victim's body,...
Amnesty International, 2010. — 57 p. Across Malaysia, government officials regularly tear into the flesh of prisoners with rattan canes (rotan) travelling up to 160 kilometres per hour. The cane shreds the victim's naked skin, turns the fatty tissue into pulp, and leaves permanent scars that extend all the way to muscle fibres. Blood and flesh splash off the victim's body,...
Routledge, 2022. — 200 p. This book examines the contemporary and contentious question of the critical connections between business and human rights, and the implementation of socially responsible norms in developing countries, with particular reference to Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Business enterprises and transnational corporate actors operate in a complex global...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2021. — 168 p. Explores the human rights implications of Fourth Industrial Revolution – related technologies in South Africa, as well as current and emerging regulatory legal frameworks and policies.
LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2004. — 255 p. Aks's analysis of "marrying out" cases--when indigenous women marry outside of their tribe--in the United States and Canada examines how indigenous women mobilize the law. By marrying out of their tribes/bands, these women either lose their "Indian" status or are unable to pass such status on to their children, and they have few legal...
Springer Netherlands, 2014. — 272 p. This book explores both the possibilities and limits of arguments from human nature in the context of human rights. Can the concept of human nature provide a basis for understanding fundamental rights? Is it plausible to justify the claim to universal validity of human rights by reference to human nature? Or does the idea of human rights in...
CLV, 2015. — 256 S. In der Abtreibungsdebatte steht unglaublich viel auf dem Spiel. Nach Ansicht der Abtreibungsbefürworter geht es um unverhandelbare Freiheiten, die in Gefahr geraten. Und die Abtreibungsgegner sind überzeugt, den ungeborenen Kindern werde das grundlegendste Recht – das Recht auf Leben – verweigert. Autoaufkleber gibt es genug; aber Fakten kommen nur selten...
Routledge, 2015. — 264 p. This book addresses women’s rights to work and motherhood in Libya from a legal and international human rights perspective. In an attempt to solve the problem posed by the perception that there is an unsolvable conflict between the right of women to work and their right to motherhood, the author considers how these two sets of rights, as protected...
Routledge, 2022. — 290 p. — (Law and Anthropology). This volume examines cases of accommodation and recognition of minority practices: cultural, religious, ethnic, linguistic or otherwise, under state law. The collection presents selected situations and experiences from a variety of regions and from different legal traditions around the world in which diverse societal...
Routledge, 2016. — 224 p. In the light of NATO's humanitarian war in Kosovo is it possible to understand or explain wars as an outcome of perceptions of human rights? How did rights, be they divine rights in the Middle Ages, territorial rights in the eighteenth century, or human rights today, become something that people are willing to fight and die for? To answer these...
Routledge, 2015. — 250 p. This book contributes to the international debate on Indigenous Peoples Law, containing both in-depth research of Scandinavian historical and legal contexts with respect to the Sami and demonstrating current stances in Sami Law research. In addition to chapters by well-known Scandinavian experts, the collection also comments on the legal situation in...
Second Edition. — Hart Publishing, 2014. — 795 p. In this completely revised and updated second edition, the judicial interpretation and application of the UK's Human Rights Act 1998 is comprehensively examined and analyzed. Part I concerns key procedural issues including: the background to the Act * the relationship between UK courts and the European Court of Human Rights *...
Edward Elgar, 2017. — 495 p. Methodological discussion has largely been neglected in human rights research, with legal scholars in particular tending to address research methods and methodological reflection implicitly rather than explicitly. This book advances thinking on human rights methodology, offering instruction and guidance on the methodological approaches to human...
Ashgate, 2014. — 237 p. This book takes up the postcolonial challenge for law and explains how the problems of legal recognition for Indigenous peoples are tied to an orthodox theory of law. Constructing a theory of legal pluralism that is both critical of law's epistemological and ontological presuppositions, as well as discursive in engaging a dialogue between legal...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. — 446 p. Some of the most massive and persistent violations of human rights occur in African nations. In Human Rights Under African Constitutions: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves, scholars from a wide range of fields present a sober, systematic assessment of the prospects for legal protection of human rights in Africa. In a series of...
Brookings Institution Press, 2006 Over the past two decades, the United States has seen an intense debate about the composition of the federal judiciary. Are judges “activists”? Should they stop “legislating from the bench”? Are they abusing their authority? Or are they protecting fundamental rights, in a way that is indispensable in a free society? Are Judges Political? cuts...
Graz: European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, 2012. – 17 p. 3rd edition. As you journey through these pages written by many people from around the world, sharing their experiences and knowledge, you will learn about the moral and political implication of human rights and how they are firmly protected by law. Furthermore, a vital responsibility will...
Straightforward Publishing, 2016. — 224 p. This timely and comprehensive book, post-Brexit, is written by an experienced human rights barrister and covers all aspects of human rights and civil liberties in the United Kingdom. The much talked about UK Bill of Rights, supposedly replacing the Human Rights Act, is also covered. The book is wide ranging and certainly topical as we...
Kogan Page Business Books, 2004. — 320 p. The Human Rights Act of 1998 incorporated into UK law rights and freedoms guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights. This Act has all-reaching implications for management issues ranging from IT security and employees' privacy, to issues of racial, disability and sex discrimination. The text is peppered throughout with...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 301 p. Although rights-based claims are diversifying and opportunities and resources for claims-making have improved, obtaining rights protections and catalysing social change in South Korea remain challenging processes. This volume examines how different groups in South Korea have defined and articulated grievances and mobilized to remedy...
Hart Publishing, 2020. — 202 p. This collection of essays analyses how diversity in human identity and disadvantage affects the articulation, realisation, violation and enforcement of human rights. The question arises from the realisation that people, who are severally and severely disadvantaged because of their race, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, class...
Stanford University Press, 2017. — 230 p. 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 European Union underway, Turkey's human rights record remains a key indicator of its...
Lexington Books, 2012. — 428 p. Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a discursive space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions in human rights, citing issues and problems from...
Hart Publishing, 2002. — 352 p. This book,the second produced by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, is a collection of essays on the subject of law and the human body. As the title suggests, bodies and body parts are not only subject to regulation through formal legal processes, but also the meanings attached to particular bodies, and the significance accorded to some body parts,...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 337 p. — ISBN: 978-0-195343-39-5. Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? Is democracy a necessary condition for the achievement of human rights in practice? And when, if ever, is it legitimate for external actors to impose their understandings of human rights upon particular countries? In the contemporary context of...
Routledge, 2017. — 209 p. A Genealogy of the Torture Taboo by Jamal Barnes (Routledge Studies in Human Rights) examines the historical genealogy of the torture taboo. The dissonance between the absolute prohibition against torture and its widespread violation raises important questions about the torture taboo in world politics. Does the torture taboo matter? Or are political...
Routledge, 2017. — 209 p. A Genealogy of the Torture Taboo by Jamal Barnes (Routledge Studies in Human Rights) examines the historical genealogy of the torture taboo. The dissonance between the absolute prohibition against torture and its widespread violation raises important questions about the torture taboo in world politics. Does the torture taboo matter? Or are political...
Routledge, 2017. — 209 p. A Genealogy of the Torture Taboo by Jamal Barnes (Routledge Studies in Human Rights) examines the historical genealogy of the torture taboo. The dissonance between the absolute prohibition against torture and its widespread violation raises important questions about the torture taboo in world politics. Does the torture taboo matter? Or are political...
Routledge, 2017. — 209 p. A Genealogy of the Torture Taboo by Jamal Barnes (Routledge Studies in Human Rights) examines the historical genealogy of the torture taboo. The dissonance between the absolute prohibition against torture and its widespread violation raises important questions about the torture taboo in world politics. Does the torture taboo matter? Or are political...
Routledge, 2017. — 209 p. A Genealogy of the Torture Taboo by Jamal Barnes (Routledge Studies in Human Rights) examines the historical genealogy of the torture taboo. The dissonance between the absolute prohibition against torture and its widespread violation raises important questions about the torture taboo in world politics. Does the torture taboo matter? Or are political...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 320 p. In Outrageous Invasions: Celebrities' Private Lives, Media, and the Law, Professor Robin D. Barnes examines the role and nature of privacy in Western democracies. Celebrities are routinely subjected to stalking, harassment, invasion of privacy, and defamation. These occurrences are often violations of their constitutional rights....
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. — 452 p. Globalization, interdisciplinarity, and the critique of the Eurocentric canon are transforming the theory and practice of human rights. This collection takes up the point of view of the colonized in order to unsettle and supplement the conventional understanding of human rights. Putting together insights coming from Decolonial...
University of Michigan Press, 2005. — 384 p. Communities and Law looks at minorities, or non-ruling communities, and their identity practices under state domination in the midst of globalization. It examines six sociopolitical dimensions of community--nationality, social stratification, gender, religion, ethnicity, and legal consciousness--within the communitarian context and...
Routledge, 2010. — 159 p. This book focuses on security practices, civil liberties and the politics of borders in liberal democracies. In the aftermath of 9/11, security practices and the denial of human rights and civil liberties are often portrayed as an exception to liberal rule, and seen as institutionally, legally and spatially distinct from the liberal state. Drawing upon...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 198 p. Despite the availability of some formal legal remedies, women attorneys rarely sue their employers, and often do not challenge discriminatory behavior. This book explores this seemingly contradictory situation, where lawyers fail to employ the legal system on their own behalf. By exploring attorneys’ use of legal discourse in an Internet...
Hart Publishing, 2010. — 161 p. The UK’s new Human Rights Act with its duty to give domestic effect to the European Convention on Human Rights and the jurisprudence of the Strasbourg court will have a significant effect on many aspects of the criminal and regulatory process. The papers in this volume, arising from the second Cambridge Centre for Public Law conference consider...
Routledge, 2018. — 298 p. In contrast to the claim that refugee law has been a key in guaranteeing a space of protection for refugees, this book argues that law has been instrumental in eliminating spaces of protection, not just from one’s persecutors but also from the grasp of sovereign power. By uncovering certain fundamental aspects of asylum as practised in the past and in...
New York University Press, 2002. — 227 p. Policing Hatred explores the intersection of race and law enforcement in the controversial area of hate crime. The nation's attention has recently been focused on high-profile hate crimes such as the dragging death of James Byrd and the torture-murder of Matthew Shepard. This book calls attention to the thousands of other individuals...
Routledge, 2018. — 298 p. This book offers a comparative perspective on Northern and Southern European laws and customs concerning women’s property and economic rights. By focusing on both Northern and Southern European societies, these studies analyse the consequences of different juridical frameworks and norms on the development of the economic roles of men and women. This...
Sarajevo; Graz: Human Rights Centre, University of Sarajevo; ETC - European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, 2008. – 216 p. ICT Service in Human Rights Education: Introduction (Wolfgang Benedek). Repositories of Human Rights Information and Documentation: Note on Research Methodology (Saša Madacki, Veronika Bauer and Andela Lalovic). Repositories of...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 392 p. — (Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity).
Why, despite massive public concern, is child trafficking on the rise? Why are unaccompanied migrant children living on the streets and routinely threatened with deportation to their countries of origin? Why do so many young refugees of war-ravaged and failed states end up warehoused in...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 384 p. In this sweeping international perspective on reparations, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injustice—be it slavery or colonization, forced sterilization or widespread atrocities—has enduring consequences that generate ongoing harm, which needs to be addressed as a matter of justice and equity. Time for...
Routledge, 2019. — 259 p. An introductory text to the philosophy of human rights, this book provides an innovative, systematic study of the concepts, ideas, and theories of human rights. It examines the principal philosophical issues that arise in specific areas of rights, such as women's rights, minority rights, or disability rights, and addresses the human rights aspects of...
Edward Elgar, 2014. — 288 p. Multinational corporations have the potential to bring economic and social benefits to emerging economies, but also social and political upheaval that can suppress fundamental human rights. This book synthesizes views from multinational corporations and civil society groups to find areas of common ground and raise issues of future potential...
Routledge/Glasshouse, 2022. — 275 p. This book addresses the impact of a range of destabilising issues on minority rights in Europe and North America. This collection stems from the fact that liberal democracy did not bring about the “end of history” but rather that the transatlantic region of Europe and North America has encountered a new era of instability, particularly since...
Interim report, 2019 — 53 p. On Boxing Day 2018 The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, HM Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, announced that he had asked me to set up an Independent Review into the global persecution of Christians; to map the extent and nature of the phenomenon; to assess the quality of the response of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), and to...
Routledge-Cavendish, 2010. — 224 p. The Land is the Source of Law brings an inter-jurisdictional dimension to the field of indigenous jurisprudence: comparing Indigenous legal regimes in New Zealand, the USA and Australia, it offers a ‘dialogical encounter with an Indigenous jurisprudence’ in which individuals are characterised by their rights and responsibilities into the...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 501 p.
Never before have the civil rights of people with disabilities aligned so well with developments in information and communication technology. The center of the technology revolution is the Internet's World Wide Web, which fosters unprecedented opportunities for engagement in democratic society. The Americans with Disabilities Act...
Routledge, 2017. — 275 p. Understanding Statelessness offers a comprehensive, in-depth examination of statelessness. The volume presents the theoretical, legal and political concept of statelessness through the work of leading critical thinkers in this area. They offer a critique of the existing framework through detailed and theoretically-based scrutiny of challenging contexts...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 267 p. An in-depth look at the historic and strategic deployment of human rights in political conflicts throughout the world. Rights are usually viewed as defensive concepts representing mankind’s highest aspirations to protect the vulnerable and uplift the downtrodden. But since the Enlightenment, political combatants have also used rights...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 272 p. How can we guarantee a right to life or a right to health without also guaranteeing a decent environment in which to exercise these rights? It is becoming increasingly obvious that a high quality environment is key to the fundamental human rights of life and health, and associated rights such as the right to clean water, adequate housing,...
Brill, 2004. — 486 p. Desperate and vulnerable people, who take enormous risks to migrate to Europe in rickety boats or concealed in the containers of articulated lorries, are familiar images portrayed in the media of "irregular migrants". Irregular migration has become a major political concern both at the European level and in the wider international context. In the European...
Routledge, 2020. — 216 p. This book uses a human rights perspective – developed philosophically, politically and legally – to change the way in which we think about drug control issues. The prohibitionist approach towards tackling the ‘drugs problem’ is not working. The laws and mentality that see drugs as the problem and tries to fight them, makes the ‘drugs problem’ worse....
Yale University Press, 2016. — 315 p. How can women’s rights be seen as a universal value rather than a Western value imposed upon the rest of the world? Addressing this question, Eileen Hunt Botting offers the first comparative study of writings by Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill. Although Wollstonecraft and Mill were the primary philosophical architects of the view that...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 421 р. Classical Natural Law and the Law of Nations: The Greeks and the Romans Christian Natural Law: A Universal Morality Natural Law, the Law of Nations, and the Transition to Natural Rights Natural Rights and Social Exclusion: Cultural Encounters Natural Rights: Descriptive and Prescriptive Natural Rights and Their Critics Slavery and Racism...
Routledge, 2018. — 257 p. Gender and the Law provides an ideal introduction to gender and feminist theory for students. Beginning with an overview of traditional notions of gender, the book establishes the key feminist and queer legal theories. It provides a basic structure and overview upon which students can build their understanding of some of the complex and controversial...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 217 p. Offers an in-depth and critical examination of the processes and pitfalls of human rights. Contributes an original theoretical approach that intervenes in influential and current debates regarding the limits of human rights. Uses three ‘case studies’ based on particular human rights practices – conceptualizing violations as events,...
Hart Publishing, 2002. — 405 p. This book, written by a team of academics, judges and distinguished practitioners from the UK and abroad discusses the implications of the incorporation of the ECHR into Scots law. The contributors consider the impact of the Human Rights Act in light of the new constitutional settlement for Scotland and their experiences of other rights regimes...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 208 p. From unsafe working conditions in garment manufacturing to the failure to consult indigenous communities with regard to extractive industries that affect them, human rights violations remain a pervasive aspect of the global economy. Advocates have long called upon states, as the primary duty bearers and enforcers of human rights,...
6 с. Решение Верховного Суда США от 17 мая 1954 года по делу «О́ливер Бра́ун и др. про́тив Сове́та по образова́нию Топи́ки» (англ. Oliver Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al.) 347 U.S. 483 (1954), которым было признано противоречащим конституции раздельное обучение чернокожих и белых школьников (на англ. яз.). Решение явилось важным событием в борьбе против расовой...
Palgrave Pivot, 2023. — 107 p. This book considers the growing interest in transitional justice practices that take place against the backdrop of ongoing settler-colonialism in Palestine. By critiquing the role of common top-down and bottom-up interventions, namely truth recovery and international criminal justice, the book argues that transitional justice acts as an extension...
Hart Publishing, 2004. — 250 p. This book — one in the four-volume set, Global Governance and the Quest for Justice — focuses on human rights in the context of “globalization” together with the principle of “respect for human rights and human dignity” viewed as one of the foundational commitments of a legitimate scheme of global governance. The first part of the book deals with...
Routledge, 2016. — 195 p. Race in the Shadow of Law offers a critical legal analysis of European responses to institutional racism. It draws connections between contemporary legal knowledge practices and colonial systems of thought, arguing that many people of colour experience the law as a part of a racial problem, rather than a solution, to racial injustice. Based on a...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. — 320 p. The 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, range, and regime of rights, Contracting Human Rights analyzes the way forward in an...
State University Of New York, 2017. — 224 p. Discusses how just war theory needs to be revised to better secure and respect human rights. Warfare in the twenty-first century presents significant challenges to the modern state. Serious questions have arisen about the use of drones, target selection, civilian exposure to harm, intervening for humanitarian reasons, and war as a...
Brill, 2014. — 317 p. — (Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe 35). Human Rights, State Sovereignty and Medical Ethics: Examining Struggles Around Coercive Sterilisation of Romani Women examines the mobilized use by people and groups of the international human rights law framework to move legal, policy and ultimately social change at national and local level. One...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 450 p. In the West, human bondage remains synonymous with the Atlantic slave trade. But large slave systems in Africa and Asia predated, co-existed, and overlapped with the Atlantic system―and have persisted in modified forms well into the twenty-first century, posing major threats to political and economic stability within those regions and...
Springer Netherlands, 2006. — 262 p. Liberal theories have long insisted that cultural diversity in democratic societies can be accommodated through classical liberal tools, in particular through individual rights, and they have often rejected the claims of cultural minorities for group rights as illiberal. Group Rights as Human Rights argues that such a rejection is misguided....
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022. — 372 p. This casebook provides an overview of the main international and regional legal standards related to the human rights of women and explores their development and practical application in light of contemporary times, challenges, and advances. It navigates the nuances of the ongoing problems of discrimination and gender-based violence, and...
2nd ed. — Oxford University Press, 2008. — 398 p. This is the second edition of a remarkable study of a young woman's defiant stand against Hindu orthodoxy and the colonial legal establishment in the late nineteenth century India. It revolves around a suit for 'restitution of conjugal rights' filed against Rukhmabai, who was married at age eleven and refused to go and live with...
Amsterdam University Press, 2017. — 228 p. For more than three decades, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fought a gruesome war for independence against the majoritarian Sinhalese government of Sri Lanka. Even as the government fought LTTE on the battlefield, it also pursued a legal war through the enactment of counterterrorism laws that permitted indefinite detention...
Xlibris, 2001. — 111 p. “Polygamy, Bigamy and Human Rights Law” focusses mainly on UK law but has been cited in international research on polygamy, and referred to in the British Columbia Supreme Court in the 2010-11 Polygamy Reference Case in Canada, where the book was entered into evidence as an exhibit and relied upon both by those arguing for decriminalisation of polygamy,...
Routledge, 2019. — 538 p. Recent events such as ‘Iran’s Green Revolution’ and the ‘Arab Uprisings’ have exploded notions that human rights are irrelevant to Middle Eastern and North African politics. Increasingly seen as a global concern, human rights are at the fulcrum of the region’s on-the-ground politics, transnational intellectual debates, and global political...
A textbook for university students. — International Labour Organization, 2004. — 311 p. What is Child Labour? The Worst Forms of Child Labour Causes of Child Labour Education and Child Labour Girls and Child Labour Researching Child Labour Actions of Governments and International Organizations Actions of Employers’ Organizations, Trade Unions, Non-Governmental Organizations,...
Brill, 2015. — 287 p. In Beyond Parliament, Horman Chitonge, draws from diverse experiences around the rights to water and food in the global South, to illustrate that giving effect to these rights require going beyond parliamentary politics to the radical politics of social change.
Brill; Nijhoff, 2020. — xlviii, 356 p. — (Queen Mary Studies in International Law 43). In General Principles for Business and Human Rights in International Law Ludovica Chiussi Curzi offers an overview of the relevance of general principles of law in the multifaceted discourse on business and human rights. What are the implications of the state duty to protect human rights in...
Pluto Press, London. Sterling, Virginia, 2001. 307 p. Provides an introduction to the subject of human rights in East Asia. Containing comprehensive coverage of China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Burma, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore, the book explains competing definitions of human rights. Introduction: Human Rights in East Asia...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 641 p. Human rights activists increasingly address the activity of multinational corporations, the policies of international organizations such as the World Bank and World Trade Organization, and international crimes committed by entities such as armed opposition groups and terrorists. This book presents an approach to human rights which goes...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 144 p. — (Very Short Introductions).
From the controversial incarceration of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, to the brutal ethnic cleansing being practiced in Darfur, to the widespread denial of equal rights to women in many areas of the world, human rights violations are a constant presence in the news and in our lives. Taking an international...
SAGE Publications, 2019. — 581 p. Millions of people around the world are forced to work without pay and under threat of violence. These individuals can be found working in brothels, factories, mines, farm field, restaurants, construction sites and private homes: many have been tricked by human traffickers and lured by false promises of good jobs or education, some are forced...
Routledge, 2004. — 241 p. Human rights are acquiring an increasingly prominent role on the world stage. Interest in, concern about and action on human rights are widespread and rising, albeit in a far from globally even, uniform and untroubled fashion. Human rights have generated a booming global industry while having become, not unconnectedly, highly controversial and deeply...
Humanity Vol.2, Issue 1. It is an understatement to say that the contemporary international society of states is deeply divided. Despite the happy consciousness of those who proclaimed the end of history and the worldwide triumph of the liberal democracy in the early 1990s, the legitimating principles for domestic polities around the globe remain diverse. True, the sovereign...
Renouf, 2003. — 208 p. The Globalization of Human Rights addresses a set of questions focusing on the justice at the national, regional, and international levels. The examination of these questions is conducted through analysis of rights, both civil and political, and economic and social. Any search for justice is based upon identifying values, including relationships with...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 296 p.
This book does not start from the premise that separate is inherently unequal. Writing from an ''anti-subordination perspective,'' Professor Colker provides a framework for the courts and society to consider what programs or policies are most likely to lead to substantive equality for individuals with disabilities. In some contexts,...
Hart Publishing, 2002. — 208 p. With incorporation into domestic law of the European Convention on Human Rights, there is for the first time a right to privacy in the UK. This comprehensive report looks at the question of privacy rights generally under Article 8. In particular, it examines two important areas: the balance between privacy and freedom of expression in the media...
Martinus Nijhoff, 2010. — 403 p. — (Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe). Practices of immigration detention in Europe are largely resistant to conventional forms of legal correction. By rethinking the notion of territorial sovereignty in modern constitutionalism, this book puts forward a solution to the problem of legally permission.
2nd Edition. — Springer, 2022. — 302 p. — ISBN 978-94-024-2129-3. Релятивизм и права человека: теория плюралистического универсализма This is an innovative contribution to the philosophy of human rights. Considering both legal and philosophical scholarship, the views here bear an importance on the legitimacy of international politics and international law. As a result of more...
Hart Publishing, 2017. — 272 p. This collection of essays interrogates how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in relation to legal pluralism, i.e., the co-existence of more than one regulatory order in a same social field. As a social phenomenon, legal pluralism exists in all societies. As a legal construction, it is characteristic of particular regions, such as...
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012. — 334 p. Focusing on treaties jeopardized during the ‘war on terror’, The Extraterritorial Application of Selected Human Rights Treaties investigates whether and to what extent human rights treaties apply to states acting abroad. It proposes a way to accommodate conflicting interests, while preserving the effective protection of basic rights.
New York University Press, 2015. — 274 p. American political and legal culture is uncomfortable with children's sexuality. While aware that sexual expression is a necessary part of human development, law rarely contemplates the complex ways in which it interacts with children and sexuality. Just as the law circumscribes children to a narrow range of roles - either as entirely...
Routledge, 2022. — 325 p. Human Rights and Social Justice: Key Issues and Vulnerable Populations is a comprehensive text that focuses on central issues of human rights and justice and links them directly with social work competencies and practice. Drawing attention to oppression and multiple forms of disadvantage and discrimination based on a person’s identity and social...
Routledge, 2017. — 212 p. Around the world there are a myriad of NGOs using human rights education (HRE) as a tool of community empowerment with the firm belief that it will help people improve their lives. One way of understanding these processes is that they translate universal human rights speak using messages and symbols which make them relevant to people’s daily lives and...
Washington, D.C.: Coalition for Human Rights in Development, 2019. — 144 p. Case Studies Map Executive Summary Case Studies Table Defenders in Development Policy & Practice The Cases Annexes Reprisal Prevention and Response Process Policy Recommendations Endnotes
Crude Accountability. — 2014. — 33 с. Тюрьма Овадан Депе, расположенная примерно в 50 километрах (30 милях) к северо-‐западу от Ашхабада в Туркменистане , не только предназначена для проживания осужденных, но специально спроектирована так, чтобы окончательно подорвать физическое и психическое состояния содержащихся в ней политзаключенных. До сих пор мало что было известно об...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 720 p. What makes something a human right? What is the relationship between the moral foundations of human rights and human rights law? What are the difficulties of appealing to human rights? This book offers the first comprehensive survey of current thinking on the philosophical foundations of human rights. Divided into four parts, this book...
NY., L. : HarperCollins Publishers, 2009. — 299 p.
The U.S. military detention center at Guantánamo Bay — known to the public as Gitmo — has been called the American Gulag, a scene of medieval horrors where innocent farmers and goat herders swept up in Afghanistan and Iraq have been sequestered, tortured, and abused for years on end without access to legal counsel or basic...
SAGE Publications, 2022. — 345 p. Appreciation of the context that advances or hinders the enjoyment of human rights would provide the basis for developing relevant strategies, including the use of concepts, laws and mechanisms to promote human rights protection. With this aim, this book facilitates reflection on the theory and practice of human rights. It deals with the...
Routledge. 2014. 181 pages. Description Whether you’re new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Human Rights Law is all about, Beginning Human Rights Law is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ground running. Starting with the basics and an overview of each topic, it will help you come to terms with the structure, themes...
Hart Publishing, 2008. — 329 p. The discussion of group rights, while always a part of the human rights discourse, has been gaining importance in the past decade. This discussion, which remains fundamental to a full realisation by the international community of its international human rights goals, requires careful analysis and empirical research. The present volume offers a...
Emerald Publishing, 2021. — 200 p. In Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship, Mathieu Deflem and Derek M.D Silva have gathered an interdisciplinary team of leading experts to make a valuable contribution to the existing literature. This volume explores free speech and the control thereof from both a political as well as cultural lens. These topics have once again...
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2020. — 557 p. — ISBN 978 1 78643 639 9. This authoritative Research Handbook brings together leading international scholars and practitioners to provide in-depth analysis of some of the most hotly debated topics and issues concerning the interface of human rights and business. In addition to offering critical insights on the historical...
Routledge, 2012. — 295 p. Despite the continuous addition of regulatory initiatives concerning corporate human rights responsibilities, what we witness more often than not is a situation of corporate impunity for human rights abuses. The Bhopal gas leak – examined as a site of human rights violations rather than as a mass tort or an environmental tragedy – illustrates that the...
Routledge/Glasshouse, 2022. — 172 p. Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender examines the impact of legislation premised upon the principle of ‘self-declaration’ of legal gender status. Existing doctrinal and comparative analyses have tended to come out strongly in favour of, or against, self-declaration. This book offers a socio-legal alternative which focuses on...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006. — 401 p. — (Corporations, Globalization and the Law Series). Human Rights and Capitalism brings together two important facets of the globalisation debate and examines the complex relationship between human rights, property rights and capitalist economies.
Hart Publishing, 2012. — 329 p. This collection engages with a central theme on EU citizenship - the emancipation of certain citizens, the alienation of others - and expands the horizons to interrogate whether similar debates and trends can be identified in other fields of European integration. The focus of the book is distinctly citizen-focused. It delivers the potential for...
Routledge, 2018. — 250 p. While every constitution includes a provision over the right to equal protection of the laws, perhaps with different terminology, this book interprets this right in a new way. Theories of the right to equal protection of the laws as the right to anti-subordination are the most influential theories on the theory suggested by Drymiotou. Elena Drymiotou...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020. — 435 p. This exciting Research Handbook combines practitioner and academic perspectives to provide a comprehensive, cutting edge analysis of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR), as well as the connection between ESCR and other rights. Offering an authoritative analysis of standards and jurisprudence, it argues for an expansive and...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 348 p. There is a stark contradiction between the theory of universal human rights and the everyday practice of human wrongs. This timely volume brings together leading scholars to evaluate this paradox. The contributors ask whether human rights abuses are a result of the failure of governments to live up to a universal human rights standard,...
Routledge/Earthscan, 2018. — 218 p. What are our obligations towards future generations who stand to be harmed by the impact of today’s environmental crises? This book explores ecological sustainability as a human rights issue and examines what our long-term responsibilities might be. This interdisciplinary collection of chapters provides a basis for understanding the debates...
Routledge, 2011. — 304 p. Prisoners’ Rights: Principles and Practice considers prisoners’ rights from socio-legal and philosophical perspectives, and assesses the advantages and problems of a rights-based approach to imprisonment. At a time of record levels of imprisonment and projected future expansion of the prison population, this work is timely. The discussion in this book...
Menschenrechte im Schatten kolonialer Gewalt: Die
Dekolonisierungskriege in Kenia und Algerien 1945–1962
Fabian Klose, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2009. x 346 pages.
(forthcoming in English translation
from University of Pennsylvania Press)
Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights
Roland Burke, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 264 pages.
In the...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 197 p. The current legal and political context is perhaps more congenial than ever before to considering claims made by minorities for the protection of some aspect of their identity. Reasons of Identity argues that diverse societies depend for their success on having courts and legislatures which are capable of assessing these identity claims...
I.B.Tauris, 2016. — 220 p. During the uprisings of late 2010 and 2011 which took place across the Middle East and North Africa, women made up an important part of the crowds protesting. Women's rights were central to the demands made. However, despite this, in the ensuing social and political struggles, these rights have not progressed much beyond the situation under previous...
Routledge, 2014. — 232 p. Among several contesting views about the purpose of development and how progress should be evaluated, human rights and capabilities (or human development) stand out as two approaches that are concerned first and foremost with the well-being of individuals, their freedom, dignity and empowerment. These two approaches contrast sharply with the dominant...
Routledge, 2017. — 208 p. This book argues that the effectiveness of the state apparatus is one of the crucial variables determining human rights conditions, and that state weakness and failure is responsible for much of the human rights abuses we see today. Weak states are unable to control their own agents or to police abuses by private actors, resulting in less...
Routledge, 2005. — 248 p. This volume explores the relationship between human rights and democracy within both the theoretical and empirical field. It is a book within the tradition of deliberative democracy, although it focuses on global institutions and human rights rather than nation-state or federalist democracy. Eva Erman problematizes the absence of political rights in...
De Gruyter, 2011. — 270 p. — ISBN: 3110263394, 9783110263398. The notion of “human rights” is widely used in political and moral discussions. The core idea, that all human beings have some inalienable basic rights, is appealing and has an eminently practical function: It allows moral criticism of various wrongs and calls for action in order to prevent them. On the other hand it...
Routledge, 2001. — 298 p. William Eskridge, a Yale law professor chronicles the Vermont law which legalised civil unions - distinct from marriage - for same sex couples. Eskridge's Equality Practice is a truly excellent book--informative, well written, and broad in scope and inquiry while maintaining a clear argument. It nicely integrates global, historical, and contemporary...
Routledge, 2019. — 316 p. This collection sets about untangling some of the knotty issues in the underexplored relationship between human rights and the media. We investigate how complex debates in political, judicial, academic and public life on the role and value of human rights are represented in the media, particularly, in print journalism. To focus the discussion, we...
Hart Publishing, 2010. — 636 p. Concerns associated with globalisation of markets, exacerbated by the 'credit crunch', have placed pressure on many nation states to make their labour markets more 'flexible'. In so doing, many states have sought to reduce labour standards and to diminish the influence of trade unions as the advocates of such standards. One response to this...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 485 p. Judicial Reasoning under the UK Human Rights Act is a collection of essays written by leading experts in the field, which examines judicial decision-making under the UK’s de facto Bill of Rights. The book focuses both on changes in areas of substantive law and the techniques of judicial reasoning adopted to implement the Act. The...
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 168 p. Your guide to human rights in Scotland, looking at legislation and case law. How have human rights influenced Scots law? And how does the law protect Scottish citizens’ rights? This guide introduces you to the interplay between human rights and Scots law. It covers fundamental rights, procedural rights, qualified rights and other...
Routledge, 1991. — 368 p. Feminists have recently begun to challenge the powerful influence of the law on the social and cultural construction of women s roles, identities, and rights. At the Boundaries of the Law is a timely and path-breaking work that provides a series of non-technical, interdisciplinary explorations into the nature and effects of legal regulation on women s...
Hart Publishing, 2001. — 272 p. Concepts of who and what children are and what childhood consists of have changed over time. Our historical and contemporary notions of childhood also change according to the context of the interaction between the child and the state. This book is concerned with various ideas of what childhood consists of where the child is involved with the...
Policy Press, 2016. — 302 p. The use of rape as a deliberate tactic of war is a serious human rights issue that needs to be addressed as a threat to human and international security. 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 toward active rejection of this violation of...
Hart Publishing, 2008. — 214 p. Advancing a bold theory of the relevance of tort law in the fight against human rights abuses, celebrated US law professor George Fletcher here challenges the community of international lawyers to think again about how they can use the Alien Tort Statute. Beginning with an historical analysis Fletcher shows how tort and criminal law originally...
Springer: 2014. — 144 p. — ISBN: 978-3319057194.
Язык: Английский.
This book presents the latest research on the challenges and solutions affecting the equilibrium between freedom of speech, freedom of information, information security and the right to informational privacy. Given the complexity of the topics addressed, the book shows how old legal and ethical frameworks may...
Routledge, 2019. — 241 p. This edited collection is the result of the Voices of Individuals: Collectively Exploring Self-determination (VOICES) based at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National University of Ireland Galway. Focusing on the exercise of legal capacity under Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the stories of people...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 250 p. This pioneering work explores a new wave of widely overlooked conflicts that have emerged across the Andean region, coinciding with the implementation of internationally acclaimed indigenous rights. Why are groups that have peacefully cohabited for decades suddenly engaging in hostile and, at times, violent behaviours? What is the link...
NYU Press, 2001. — 261 p. Despite the apparent progress in women's legal status, the law retains a profoundly male bias, and as such contributes to the pervasive violence and injustice against women. In A Law of Her Own, the authors propose to radically change law's fundamental paradigm by introducing a "reasonable woman standard" for measuring men's behavior. Advocating that...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. 285 p. This new edition of David Forsythe’s successful textbook provides an authoritative overview of the place of human rights in international politics in an age of terrorism. The book focuses on four central themes: the resilience of human rights norms, the importance of soft law, the key role of non-governmental organizations, and the...
Third Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 878 p. Following the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998, awareness has increased that we live in a rights-based culture and that children constitute an important group of rights holders. Now in its 3rd edition, Children's Rights and the Developing Law explores the way developing law and policies in England and Wales...
Hart Publishing, 2003. — 225 p. Until recently, age discrimination attracted little social opprobrium. However, ageism has now been thrust onto the equality agenda by the spectre of an ageing population. This has led to a range of policies on active ageing. Most importantly, legally binding legislation prohibiting age discrimination in employment will need to be in place by...
Clarendon Press, 1997. — 428 p. This detailed book is an original and incisive analysis of pressing legal issues concerning women ranging from low pay, sexual harassment and flexible working to parenting rights and reverse discrimination.
Hart Publishing, 2002. — 415 p. Traditionally, the theory of human rights limited its application to the public domain, namely the relationships between individuals and public authorities. The great expansion of human rights legislation and concepts in modern national and international law has given rise to a major issue relating to their potential impact on private...
Policy Press, 2006. — 225 p. What is to be done about prostitution? Is it work or is it violence? Are women involved in prostitution offenders or victims? Is prostitution a private or a political issue? The answers to these questions vary depending on many factors, including where in the world you live. This book provides a valuable, detailed international comparison of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 372 p. Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the early twenty-first century. This book presents in an authoritative and readable form the variety of platforms on which human rights law is practiced today, reflecting also on the dynamic inter-relationships that exist between these various levels. The collection has a critical...
Routledge/GlassHouse, 2022. — 152 p. This book offers a jurisprudential meditation on and methodological performance of how feminist and legal thought come into relation. This book is about the conduct of one’s scholarship and why it requires examination. Across six essays, the book reintroduces official and unofficial jurisprudence writing of the late 20th century to show how...
Springer International Publishing, 2016. — 270 p. This book discusses affirmative action or positive discrimination, defined as measures awarding privileges to certain groups that have historically suffered discrimination or have been underrepresented in specific social sectors. The book’s underlying rationale is that one cannot place at the same starting point people who have...
Routledge, 2016. — 238 p. Surrogacy presents particularly complex questions for human rights law and theory. This book provides a unique and insightful examination into the underexplored issues of how domestic and international law is responding to the sharp increase in the use of surrogacy. The work presents critical analysis of the current regulation of surrogacy via domestic...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 379 p. Human dignity: social movements invoke it, several national constitutions enshrine it, and it features prominently in international human rights documents. But what is it, why is it important, and what is its relationship to human rights and social justice? Pablo Gilabert offers a systematic defense of the view that human dignity is the...
Routledge, 2014. — 272 p. Although nomadic peoples are scattered worldwide and have highly heterogeneous lifestyles, they face similar threats to their mobile livelihood and survival. Commonly, nomadic peoples are facing pressure from the predominant sedentary world over mobility, land rights, water resources, access to natural resources, and migration routes. Adding to these...
Ashgate, 2014. — 253 p.
Contemporary human rights discourses problematically co-opt disabled bodies as 'evidence' of harms done under capitalism, war, and other forms of conflict, while humanitarian non-governmental organizations often use disabled bodies to generate resources for their humanitarian projects. It is the connection between civil rights and human rights, and the...
Dublin, Ireland: Amnesty International Ireland, 2012. — 52 p.
This resource pack has been developed by Amnesty International Ireland in consultation with an advisory and piloting group of primary school teachers. The concept for the resource pack originated with primary school teachers who identified storytelling as a powerful medium through which a range of concepts and topics...
Routledge, 2016. — 255 p. The right to social security, found in international law and in the constitutions of many nations, contributes to the alleviation of poverty globally. Social security and its articulation as a human right have received increased attention in recent years both in response to austerity cuts to welfare in developed countries and as a means of lifting...
Hart Publishing, 2019. — 248 p. This book undertakes a critical analysis of international human rights law through the lens of queer theory. It pursues two main aims: first, to make use of queer theory to illustrate that the field of human rights law is underpinned by several assumptions that determine a conception of the subject that is gendered and sexual in specific ways....
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 398 p. Human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. But how do human rights work? What do they do? Drawing on anthropological studies of human rights work from around the world, this book examines human rights in practice. It shows how groups and organizations mobilize human rights language in a variety of local...
Stanford University Press, 2022. — 232 p. 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 and overcome the most consequential global problems. Charting a new path—away from...
Routledge, 2016. — 320 p. Japanese society is often referred to as an example of a homogeneous culture moderated by an ethos of groupism. Yet often enough homogeneity is its own worst enemy as norms are required and enforced at the centre of legal power to the detriment of individual and human rights.
Zed Books, 1995. — 228 p. Torture: Human Rights, Medical Ethics and the Case of Israel edited by Neve Gordon and Ruchama Marton helps us to understand torture and the international issues it raises. It focuses on Israel, where over 400,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza have been detailed or gaoled since 1967. Its sober analysis and evidence are supplemented by...
Hart Publishing, 2014. — 241 p. The Article 6 fair trial rights are the most heavily-litigated Convention rights before the European Court, generating a large and complex body of case law. With this book, Goss provides an innovative and critical analysis of the European Court’s Article 6 case law. The category of ‘fair trial rights’ includes many component rights. The existing...
Cornell University Press, 2016. — 248 p. More than half of the 41 million foreign-born individuals in the United States today are noncitizens, half have difficulty with English, a quarter are undocumented, and many are poor. As a result, most immigrants have few opportunities to make their voices heard in the political process. Nonprofits in many cities have stepped into this...
State University of New York Press, 2016. — 245 p.
The division of life into animal and human is one of the fundamental schisms found within political societies. Ironically, given the immense influence of the animal/human divide, especially upon power dynamics, the discipline in charge of theorizing and studying power political science and theory has had little to say about the...
State University of New York Press, 2016. — 245 p.
The division of life into animal and human is one of the fundamental schisms found within political societies. Ironically, given the immense influence of the animal/human divide, especially upon power dynamics, the discipline in charge of theorizing and studying power political science and theory has had little to say about the...
Routledge, 2017. — 293 p. This interdisciplinary book explores the Northern Ireland conflict through a human rights framework. The book examines the conflict from the creation of the Northern Ireland state in 1921 to 2014. This timeframe allows an analysis of how human rights impacted upon the conflict in its broadest understanding (i.e. the pre-violent conflict, the violent...
Hart Publishing, 2015. — 239 p. This book provides a new and powerful account of the demands of justice on immigration law and policy. Drawing principally on the work of Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, and John Rawls, it argues that justice requires states to give priority of admission to the most disadvantaged migrants, and to grant some form of citizenship or non-oppressive status...
Springer Netherlands, 2011. — 270 p. Young People’s Human Rights and The Politics of Voting Age is the first book to address in-depth the topic of voting age eligibility as a universal fundamental human rights issue rather than an internal, discretionary State policy matter. International perspectives on the issue of voting age eligibility are examined as are the legal,...
Hart Publishing, 2019. — 504 p. How do you protect rights without a Bill of Rights? Australia does not have a national bill or charter of rights and looks further away than ever from adopting one. But it does have a range of individual elements sourced from common law, statute and the Constitution which, though unsystematic, do provide Australians with some meaningful rights...
Hart Publishing, 2020. — 272 p. This book critically examines the relationship between protecting human rights and building peace in post-violence societies. It explores the conditions that must be present, and strategies that should be adopted, for the former to contribute to the latter. The author argues that human rights can aid peacebuilding efforts by helping victims of...
Springer, 2014. — 262 p. This volume contributes to the on-going legal discussion on pressing procedural and substantial law issues in the ambit of international human rights and civil liberties. While the 20th century has seen the true awakening of human rights, the 21st century poses new challenges to this ever-unfolding area of law. Not only do international tribunals and...
Hart Publishing, 2004. — 278 p. What practical impact does the incorporation of international human rights standards into domestic law have? This collection of essays explores human rights in domestic legal systems. The enactment of the Human Rights Act in 1998, ushering the European Convention on Human Rights fully into UK law, represented a landmark in the UK constitutional...
Brill, 2010. — 290 p. Since World War II, human rights have engaged people around the world like perhaps no other discourse. In Finland their embrace represents a shift from ideological homogeneity to pluralism and openness. Human rights education is understood to hold a key role in empowering individuals to become free and equal members of their societies. Yet little empirical...
Ashgate, 2003. — 270 p. Environmental Human Rights redefines the political, ethical and legal relationships between the environment and human rights to claim the human rights to an environment free from toxic pollution and to natural resources. Through a focus on the operational dynamics of social power, this compelling book details how global capitalism subjugates concerns of...
Hart Publishing, 2001. — 331 p. Recent developments in Northern Ireland have correctly been described as historic. While the future of constitutional change is by no means certain,events merit close scrutiny. The Good Friday Agreement 1998 marked a significant departure from incrementalism and thus with the dominant logic of British constitutionalism. The Agreement is in...
Hart Publishing, 2012. — 284 p. — (Human Rights Law in Perspective). Societies emerging from violent conflict often opt for a bill of rights as part of a wider package of constitutional reform. Where conflict is fuelled by long-standing ethno-national divisions, these divisions are often addressed through group-differentiated rights. Recent constitutional settlements have...
Hart Publishing, 2017. — 367 p. Gender equality law in Czechia, as in other parts of post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe, is facing serious challenges. When obliged to adopt, interpret and apply anti-discrimination law as a condition of membership of the EU, Czech legislators and judges have repeatedly expressed hostility and demonstrated a fundamental lack of...
Routledge, 2022. — 230 p. Gender and Human Rights in a Global, Mobile Era delves into feminist legal debates surrounding the relationship between gender and human rights through engaging feminist perspectives on the multifaceted issue of human trafficking.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 131 p. Written by one of the world’s leading scholars in the field, this book provides a unique perspective on the connections between energy justice and human rights. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the author offers an accessible discussion about the implementation of energy justice in practice. The book explores the rise of justice issues in...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 340 p. Since the 1990s, sexual violence in conflict zones has received much media attention. In large part as a result of grassroots feminist organizing in the 1970s and 1980s, mass rapes in the wars in the former Yugoslavia and during the Rwandan genocide received widespread coverage, and international organizations -- from courts to...
MIT Press, 2022. — 192 p. A bold, groundbreaking argument by a world-renowned expert that unless we treat free speech as the fundamental human right, there can be no others. What are human rights? Are they laid out definitively in the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights or the US Bill of Rights? Are they items on a checklist—dignity, justice, progress, standard of...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 476 p. There has recently been a remarkable growth in standard-setting with respect to the protection of minorities in international and European law. Layered on top of existing human rights standards relevant to minorities, these developments have resulted in a complex and multifaceted regime, but one which still does not amount to an...
Hart Publishing, 2014. — 248 p. The Equality Act 2010 is a major landmark in the long struggle for equal rights. This book tells the story of how and why it came to be enacted, what it means, what changes it can bring about in British society, and - no less important - what the Act will not do. The Act is the outcome of over 13 years of research, public debate and campaigning,...
UBC Press, 2019. — 212 p. Over the last twenty years, India has enacted legislation to turn development goals such as food security, primary education, and employment into legal rights for its citizens. But enacting laws is different from implementing them. A Human Rights Based Approach to Development in India examines a diverse range of human development issues over a period...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 441 p. The Human Rights Act 1998 has had a profound effect in numerous private law decisions and has been the subject of extensive academic debate, in particular on the issue of the extent to which it has horizontal effect and its application in disputes between individuals. With contributions from a variety of academics and practitioners,...
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This article responds to the argument that judicial
review of legislation under the Canadian Charter of
Rights and Freedoms is illegitimate because it is
undemocratic. The authors show that Charter cases
nearly always can be, and often are, followed by new
legislation that still accomplishes the same objectives as
the...
Hart Publishing, 2014. — 265 p. A human right to housing represents the law’s most direct and overt protection of housing and home. Unlike other human rights, through which the home incidentally receives protection and attention, the right to housing raises housing itself to the position of primary importance. However, the meaning, content, scope and even existence of a right...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. — 282 p. Readers in Western developed countries are most familiar with abuses of political and civil rights, but the international human rights regime also embraces a set of laws regarding economic rights. These rights include the right to work and to just and favorable working conditions; the right to join and form trade unions; the...
Oxford University Press, 2016. - 192 p.
For the vast majority of human existence we did without the idea of race. Since its inception a mere few hundred years ago, and despite the voluminous documentation of the problems associated with living within the racial worldview, we have come to act as if race is something we cannot live without. The arc of a bad idea: Understanding...
Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2014. — 81 p. — ISBN 978-1-84206-528-0. This publication aims to help officials in public authorities understand how the Human Rights Act relates to what they do and how they do it. It provides handy information on what obligations public authorities have under the Human Rights Act, and how human rights are relevant to various roles.
Hart Publishing, 2015. — 515 p. This book is the first volume to unite theoretical and practical insights into the protection of human rights by legislatures from a number of domestic jurisdictions, international organisations, and leading scholars. In doing so it aims to present a complete picture of the parliamentary protection of human rights which will interest both...
Hart Publishing, 2010. — 504 p. While feminist legal scholarship has thrived within universities and in some sectors of legal practice, it has yet to have much impact within the judiciary, or on judicial thinking. Thus, while feminist legal scholarship has generated comprehensive critiques of existing legal doctrine, there has been little opportunity to test or apply feminist...
Hart Publishing, 2008. — 212 p. The concept of equality has been a key animating principle of modern feminism, and has been highly productive for feminist legal thought and feminist politics concerning law. Today however, given the failure to achieve material and psychic equality for women, feminists have come to challenge the usefulness of equality as a concept, a particular...
University of Minnesota Human Rights Center, 2003. — 12 p. Terms Commonly Used when Speaking about Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights. Rights at Stake. International Instruments of Protection. UN organs for Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights. Resources.
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 368 p. Between the Second World War and the early 1970s, political leaders, activists, citizens, protestors. and freedom fighters triggered a human rights revolution in world affairs. Stimulated particularly by the horrors of the crimes against humanity in the 1940s, the human rights revolution grew rapidly to subsume claims from minorities,...
3rd ed. — Routledge, 2022. — 720 p. The third edition of The Human Rights Reader presents a variety of new primary documents and readings and elaborates the exploration of rights in the areas of race, gender, refugees, climate, Artificial Intelligence, drones and cyber security, and nationalism and Internationalism. In the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, it addresses human rights...
Судебное решение "Джеймс М. Терри и др. против Ричарда Хилла, заместителя директора Службы психического здоровья Арканзасского Департамента социальных услуг" (США) (2002) Истец жалуется на неудовлетворительную работой Службы психического здоровья: при возрастающем количестве обращений и уменьшении способности ASH принимать пациентов, заключенные, находящиеся в следственных...
LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2007. — 302 p. James offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the origins and development of universal human rights from the earliest days to 1966, when the Covenants were added to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. His work has significance for debates about the universality of international human rights law in a culturally diverse...
Brill, 2015. — 379 p. — (International Studies in Human Rights 110). In Modern Slavery – A Comparative Study of the Definition of Trafficking in Persons Dominika Borg Jansson discusses why, despite international anti-trafficking efforts, there are so few trafficking convictions worldwide. In an easily accessible language, the author explains why international legal...
Pretoria University Law Press, 2022. — 452 p. This book focuses on the strategies that activists for LGBTIQ+ equality in Africa deploy to challenge deep seated homophobia and transphobia, as well as the politicisation of LGBTIQ+ issues. It is a peer-reviewed, edited volume with scholarly contributions from lawyers, anthropologists, and LGBTIQ+ activists. It covers different...
Hart Publishing, 2003. — 212 p. As is well known the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) is a constitutional innovation,but can its scheme deliver? This timely and provocative book probes the extent to which the HRA is guaranteeing rights and whether it is transforming the legal landscape. This companion text to Understanding Human Rights Principles (Hart Publications 2001) is the...
Routledge, 2019. — 279 p. This edited collection provides a comprehensive, insightful, and detailed study of a vital area of public policy debate as it is currently occurring in countries across the world from India to South Africa and the United Kingdom to Australia. Bringing together academics and experts from a variety of jurisdictions, it reflects upon the impact on human...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 218 p. Responsibility for Human Rights provides an original theoretical analysis of which global actors are responsible for human rights, and why. It does this through an evaluation of the different reasons according to which such responsibilities might be assigned: legalism, universalism, capacity and publicness. The book marshals various...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 232 p. What difference does law make in immigration policymaking? Since the 1970s, networks of progressive attorneys in both the U.S. and France have attempted to use litigation to assert rights for non-citizens. Yet judicial engagement - while numerically voluminous - remains doctrinally curtailed. This study offers new insights into the...
Palgrave Pivot, 2023. — 159 p. This Palgrave Pivot strives to recount and understand Indigenous Law, as set within a remote community in northern Australia. It pays close attention to the realpolitik and high-level political functioning of Indigenous Laws, which inspires a discussion of how this Law models the relational, influences governance and emplaces people in an ordered...
Hart Publishing, 2014. — 241 p. This book presents a unique and comprehensive examination of the human and moral rights of artists. In what is arguably the first exhaustive book-length account of artists’ rights, Paul Kearns explores the problems associated with censorship, both from philosophical and legal perspectives, and focuses on the various ways in which the morality of...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 308 p. This broad-ranging examination of privacy law considers the challenges faced by the law in changing technological, commercial and social environments. It encompasses three overlapping areas of analysis: privacy protection under the general law; legislative measures for data protection in digital communications networks; and the influence...
Grey House Publishing, 2019. — 788 p. This encyclopedia discusses the practical, political, psychological, and philosophical challenges we face as technological advances have changed the landscape of traditional notions of privacy. Big Data applications of every sort now permeate our social and civic lives: Orwellian government surveillance in the name of national security;...
T.M.C. Asser Press, 2014. — 338 p. Privacy-invading technologies (PITs) such as Body scanners; Public space CCTV microphones; Public space CCTV loudspeakers and Human-implantable microchips (RFID implants/GPS implants) are dealt with in this book. The book shows how and why laws that regulate the design and development of privacy-invading technologies (PITs) may more...
UBC Press, 2010. — 279 p. Delgamuukw. Mabo. Ngati Apa. Recent cases have created a framework for litigating Aboriginal title in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The distinguished group of scholars whose work is showcased here, however, shows that our understanding of where the concept of Aboriginal title came from – and where it may be going – can also be enhanced by...
Cornell University Press, 2022. — 322 p. In The United States of Anonymous, Jeff Kosseff explores how the human right to anonymity has shaped American values, politics, business, security, and discourse, particularly as technology has enabled people to separate their identities from their communications. Legal and political debates surrounding online privacy often focus on the...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020. — 159 p. This unique book analyses the impact of international human rights on the concept of gender, demonstrating that gender emerged in the medical study of sexuality and has a complex and broad meaning beyond the sex and gender binaries often assumed by human rights law. Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko skilfully illustrates the dynamics within the...
SAGE Publications, 2004. — 348 p. This collection of original articles by an international team of contributors addresses a wide range of issues affecting children and youth such as: child labour; international child custody abduction; juvenile delinquency; child abuse and neglect; and date violence among teenagers. The innovative approaches proposed by the contributors to deal...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 258 p. Human rights have been generally understood as juridical products, organizational outcomes or abstract principles that are realized through formal means such as passing laws, creating institutions or formulating ideals. In this book, Fuyuki Kurasawa argues that we must reverse this ‘top-down’ focus by examining how groups and persons...
Routledge, 2021. — 148 p. This book explores recent developments pointing towards a ‘domestic institutionalisation of human rights’, composed of converging international trends prescribing the setting up of domestic institutions, and the need for a national human rights systems approach. Building on new compliance theories, innovative arrangements have resolutely appeared...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 356 p. Private companies exert considerable control over the flow of information on the internet. Whether users are finding information with a search engine, communicating on a social networking site or accessing the internet through an ISP, access to participation can be blocked, channelled, edited or personalised. Such gatekeepers are...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 228 p. A compelling account of how women shaped the common law right to privacy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Jessica Lake documents how the advent of photography and cinema drove women—whose images were being taken and circulated without their consent—to court. There they...
Anthem Press, 2022. — 265 p. The Rights Track: Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery uses rich content from The Rights Track podcast in an innovative book that enhances and enriches our understanding of the human rights challenges facing the world today. This book showcases the important role of evidence in tackling those challenges and explores the medium of...
Hart Publishing, 2011. — 214 p. Many liberals consider CCTV surveillance in public places – particularly when it is as extensive as it is in England – to be an infringement of important privacy-based rights. An influential report by the House of Lords in 2009 also took this view. However there has been little public, or academic, discussion of the underlying principles and...
Hart Publishing, 2020. — 239 p. Traditionally, human rights have protected those facing the sharp edge of the criminal justice system. But over time human rights law has become increasingly infused with duties to mobilise criminal law towards protection and redress for violation of rights. These developments give rise to a whole host of questions concerning the precise...
Law Africa Publishing, 2007. — 298 p. The subject of human rights and its attendant these of access to justice have remained relevant areas to the legal fraternity. This relevance resonates well in the fields of teaching and learning the law, consultancy, legal practice and advocacy, law reform, and judicial decision making. In the East African region, however, the availability...
Hart Publishing, 2014. — 432 p. This book is about judicial reasoning in human rights cases. The aim is to explore the question: how is it that nationally universal norms are reasoned by courts in such significantly different ways? What is the shape of this reasoning; which techniques are common across the transnational jurisprudence; and which are particular? The book,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. — 770 p. In response to a growing global awareness of human poverty and the increasing potential of human rights law as a tool that can be used by the poor to achieve their basic rights, the international body of law, policy and relevant standards on economic, social, and cultural rights has expanded markedly in recent years. Economic,...
Springer, 2022. — 255 p. — (Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights, 8). The book discusses discrimination based on sexual orientation in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Constitutional Court of Korea. The work provides insights into how prohibition on discrimination based on sexual orientation can be realized in South Korea with the...
2 vol. set. — SAGE Publications, 2014. — 840 p. — ISBN10: 0857022482, ISBN13: 978-0857022486. The SAGE Handbook of Human Geography will comprise a two volume set consisting of more than 50 original chapters that clarify and analyze human rights issues of both contemporary and future importance. The Handbook also has an innovative multimedia component of conversations about key...
Hart Publishing, 2008. — 335 p. More than five years after the commencement of the UK's Human Rights Act 1998, it is timely to evaluate the Act's effectiveness. The focus of Making Rights Real is on the extent to which the Act has delivered on the promise to 'bring rights home.' The book considers how the judiciary, Parliament, and the executive in the UK have performed in the...
Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of International Law, 1944. — 674 p. — (Foundations of the Laws of War). In 1933 a government arose in Germany whose policy was directed not towards the murder of individuals only but of a whole civilization. The decrees of this government together with those of Fascist Italy and those of the puppet regimes of the...
Routledge, 2016. — 475 p. This handbook will be a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of indigenous peoples’ rights. Chapters by experts in the field will examine legal, philosophical, sociological and political issues, addressing a wide range of themes at the heart of debates on the rights of indigenous peoples. The book will address not only the major questions, such as...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 298 p. The idea of multi-culturalism has had a significant impact across many areas of law. This book explores how it has shaped the recent development of international human rights law. Custodians of human rights, especially international monitoring bodies, try to advance the effectiveness of human rights standards by interpreting these...
Routledge, 1993. — 732 p. Whether the issue is sexual predators, abortion, same-sex marriage, sexual harassment, or internet pornography, stories relating to sexual matters regularly make headlines in the news and provoke strong emotions. But until now, researchers looking for policy information on these issues have been limited to reading books that often express particular...
Brill Nijhoff, 2012. — 112 p. — (Nijhoff Law Specials 77). The term human rights is relatively recent. It was first used in the late 18th century, in the West. However, many of the basic ideas behind that concept had long been current in various other cultures and civilizations. The book traces those ideas on a journey to some unexplored, or insufficiently explored, sources of...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 242 p. From attacks on oil infrastructure in postwar reconstruction Iraq to the laying of gas pipelines in the Amazon rain forest through indigenous community villages, infrastructure projects are sites of intense human rights struggles. Many state and nonstate actors have proposed solutions for handling human rights problems in the context of...
Springer, 2021. — 232 p. This book focuses on China’s evolution in the field of human rights protection, highlighting its achievements in various systems of human rights protection, as well as its role in international human rights governance and the healthy development of human rights. From the perspective of China’s human rights protection, starting with various types of...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 259 p. Despite its absence in the written text of the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights now regularly uses the concept of autonomy when deciding cases concerning assisted dying, sexuality and reproductive rights, self-determination, fulfilment of choices and control over body and mind. But is the concept...
Hart/Nomos, 2018. — 301 p. The contributors of the volume analyse the effect of the ECHR and international human rights on the national and European legal order from different angles. Special emphasis is given on the Union's accession to the ECHR and the scrutiny of ECJ's opinion 2/13. The impact of the human rights provisions of the accession agreement with Ukraine is shown...
CEPAL, 2014. — 126 p. Este documento fue elaborado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina (CEPAL), a través del Centro Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Demografía (CELADE)-División de Población de la CEPAL, bajo la dirección de Dirk Jaspers-Faijer. El estudio responde a una solicitud del Foro Permanente para las Cuestiones Indígenas de las Naciones Unidas (UNPFII) y del...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 375 p. — (Globalization and Human Rights). Economic inequalities are among the greatest human rights challenges the world faces today due to the past four decades of neoliberal policy dominance. Globally, there are now over 2,000 billionaires, while 3.4 billion people live below the poverty line of US $5.50 per day. Many human rights scholars...
Hart Publishing, 2013. — 310 p. Human rights have become a defining feature of contemporary society, permeating public discourse on politics, law and culture. But why did human rights emerge as a key social force in our time and what is the relationship between rights and the structures of both national and international society? By highlighting the institutional and...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 514 p. Mind and Rights combines historical, philosophical, and legal perspectives with research from psychology and the cognitive sciences to probe the justification of human rights in ethics, politics and law. Chapters critically examine the growth of the human rights culture, its roots in history and current human rights theories. They...
ITexLi, 2024. — 89 p. — ISBN 1837683492 9781837683499 1837683484 9781837683482 1837683506 9781837683505. We are often confronted with unknown events that plunge us into ignorance, unpredictability, and various hardships. In such situations, it is essential how fundamental human values and rights such as dignity, freedom, equality, and solidarity are protected. Ensuring human...
Brill, 2014. — 245 p. — (Law in Eastern Europe 64). In Russia and European Human-Rights Law: The Rise of the Civilizational Argument, Lauri Mälksoo and his co-authors critically examine Russia's experiences as part of the European human-rights protection system since its admittance to the Council of Europe in 1998. The authors combine legal and constructivist...
T.M.C. Asser Press, 2022. — 215 p. This book focuses on the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on individuals and society from a legal perspective, providing a comprehensive risk-based methodological framework to address it. Building on the limitations of data protection in dealing with the challenges of AI, the author proposes an integrated approach to risk assessment that...
Routledge, 2022. — 302 p. Thirty years after the adoption of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, this book provides diverse perspectives from countries and regions across the globe on its implementation, critique and potential for reform. The book revolves around key issues including progress in implementing the CRC worldwide; how to include children in legal...
Routledge, 2022. — 225 p. — (Routledge Studies in Law and Humanity). In this new and burgeoning field in legal and human rights thought, this edited collection explores, by reference to applied philosophy and case law, how the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has developed and presented a right to personal identity, largely through interpretation of Article 8 of the...
Springer Netherlands, 2015. — 352 p. This book focuses on descriptions of the developments in legal frameworks and policies regarding the human rights of older persons. First, it covers the policies adopted and practices developed at the universal system, particularly within the sphere of the United Nations. Second, it includes a side-by-side comparison of the work of regional...
Edward Elgar, 2016. — 320 p. The ongoing refugee and migrant crisis in Europe has accelerated the need to find answers for refugee movements. Refugees, Regionalism and Responsibility examines regional cooperation as a potential solution. Through a thorough assessment of past and present regional arrangements concerning refugees, this book considers whether regionalism has...
Routledge, 2014. — 221 p. — (Law, Development and Globalization). Governing refugees examines the themes of community governance, order maintenance and legal pluralism in the context of refugee camps. The nature of a refugee situation is such that multiple actors take a role in camp management, creating a complex governance environment which has a significant impact on the...
Hart Publishing, 2020. — 293 p. 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 of Islam. Building on this foundation, the book presents the first study into Islamic...
Routledge, 2010. — 255 p. This book considers the increasing trend towards a 'culture of control' in democratic countries. The post-9/11 counter-terrorism laws in nations such as the USA, the UK, Canada and Australia provide a stark demonstration of this trend. These laws share a focus on the pre-emption of crime, restrictions on the right to liberty of non-suspects, limited...
Univ Of Minnesota Press; 1st University of Minnesota Press Ed edition, 2007. — 392 p. — ISBN10: 0816650314, ISBN13: 978-0816650316 Freedom of Expression covers the ways in which intellectual property laws have been used to privatize all forms of expression—from guitar riffs and Donald Trump’s “you’re fired” gesture to human genes and public space—and in the process stifle...
Brill, 2016. — 320 p. — (Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe). Questioning the seemingly ossified premise that states have an absolute discretion to control migration, this research submits that measures of migration control must be justified on a rational-legal basis and offers a regional model as the most sustainable long-term option.
Routledge-Cavendish, 2007. — 320 p. Many countries confront similar human rights controversies, but, despite the claimed universality of human rights values they are not always resolved in the same way. Why? What role do local legal conditions play? Is human rights discourse more potent where rights are constitutionally entrenched, rather than where there is a tradition of...
Hart Publishing, 2010. — 524 p. The right to demonstrate is considered fundamental to any democratic system of government, yet in recent years it has received little academic attention. However, events following the recent G20 protests in April 2009 make this a particularly timely work. Setting out and explaining in detail the domestic legal framework that surrounds the right...
Routledge, 2005. — 212 p. The concept of 'human rights' as a universal goal is at the centre of the international stage. It is now a key part in discourse, treaties and in domestic jurisdictions. However, as this study shows, the debate around this development is actually about human rights law. This text scrutinizes the extent to which legalization shapes the human rights...
Third Revised Edition. — Brill Nijhoff, 2012. — 859 p. — (The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library 40). In 1997, The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Compilation of Human Rights Instruments was published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers as the first volume in the series "The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library". In 2004, the second edition of that Compilation was...
Routledge, 2013. — 230 p. — (Applied Legal Philosophy). 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 evaluates the plausibility of natural and transcendent foundations for...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 280 p. International human rights have been an important matter for study, policy, and activism since the end of World War II. However, as William H. Meyer observes, global governance is not only a relatively new topic for students of international relations but also a widely used yet often contested concept. Despite the conflicting and...
Routledge, 2014. — 260 p.
People with disabilities are among the most adversely affected during conflict situations or when natural disasters strike. They experience higher mortality rates, have fewer available resources and less access to help, especially in refugee camps, as well as in post-disaster environments. Already subject to severe discrimination in many societies,...
Hart Publishing, 2005. — 305 p. The modern law of defamation is frequently criticised for being outdated, obscure and even incomprehensible. The Making of the Modern Law of Defamation explains how and why the law has come to be as it is by offering an historical analysis of its development from the seventeenth century to the present day. Whilst the primary focus of the book is...
Routledge, 2015. — 315 p. Business and human rights has emerged as a distinct field within the corporate governance movement. The endorsement by the United Nations Human Rights Council of a new set of Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights in 2011 reinforces the State’s duty to protect against human rights abuses by third parties, including business; the corporate...
Stamford, CT, USA: W1-Media Inc., 2021. — 80 p. — ISBN-13 9781646900084. Спасите нашу свободу: тревожный звонок в эпоху цифровых технологий A WARNING FROM AN AUTHORITY: Save Freedom! is an urgent plea by Bijan Moini, a human rights activist and expert on civil liberties. Freedom is something we take for granted—a fundamental human right we assume will always be there, and that...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 266 p. This book traverses three pivotal human rights struggles of the post–September 11th era: the American human rights campaign to challenge the Bush administration’s “War on Terror” torture and detention policies, Middle Eastern efforts to challenge American human rights practices (reversing the traditional West to East flow of human rights...
Hart Publishing, 2019. — 182 p. The concept of privacy has long been confused and incoherent. The right to privacy has been applied promiscuously to an alarmingly wide-ranging assortment of issues including free speech, political consent, abortion, contraception, sexual preference, noise, discrimination, and pornography. The conventional definition of privacy, and attempts to...
Routledge, 2018. — 245 p. From the very first negotiations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights half a century ago to the present day, socio-economic rights have often been regarded as less enforceable than civil and political rights. The right to adequate housing, even though protecting one of the most basic needs of human beings, has not...
Routledge, 2023. — 275 р. Religious freedom is a fundamental and relatively uncontested right in both the United States and Europe. But other values like equality, justice, and the right to a private life are just as precious. Managing such conflicts has become a highly contested and politicized area of law and nowhere are such conflicts more evident – or more challenging –...
Springer Netherlands, 2013. — 322 p. Translated and updated from the seminal Spanish text on legal decisions affecting gender and sexuality in Latin America, this English edition is the only law text to focus specifically on the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and the transgender population in addition to women’s rights more broadly. The volume provides close analysis of...
Harvard University Press, 2010. - 346 p. - ISBN: 978-0-674-04872-0 (alk. paper) Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates...
Routledge, 2012. — 272 p. The question of to what extent, manifestations of religious beliefs should be permitted in the European public sphere has become a salient and controversial topic in recent years. Despite the increasing interest however, debates have rarely questioned the conventional wisdom that an increase in the range of security measures employed by a government...
Hart Publishing, 2016. — 275 p. This book is concerned with the international regulation of non-state armed groups. Specifically, it examines the possibility of subjecting armed groups to international human rights law obligations. First addressed is the means by which armed groups may be bound by international law. Of particular interest is the de facto control theory and the...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 887 p. The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) is the principle regional human rights treaty for the African continent. Adopted in 1981, there is now a significant body of jurisprudence and interpretation by its African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the recently established African Court. This volume provides a...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 405 p. Reproductive justice (RJ) is a pivotal movement that supplants the language and limitations of reproductive rights. RJ's tenets are that women have the human rights to decide if or when they'll become pregnant, whether to carry a pregnancy to term, and to parent the children they have in safe and healthy environments. Recognizing the...
Springer Singapore, 2018. — 218 p. This book analyzes issues in human rights law from a variety of perspectives by eminent European and Asian professors of constitutional law, international public law, and European Union law. As a result, their contributions collected here illustrate the phenomenon of cross-fertilization not only in Europe (the EU and its member states and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 225 p. How does culture make a difference to the realisation of human rights in Western states? It is only through cultural politics that human rights may become more than abstract moral ideals, protecting human beings from state violence and advancing protection from starvation and the social destruction of poverty. Using an innovative...
T.M.C. Asser Press, 2011. — 407 p. Following the internationalisation of the indigenous rights movement, a growing number of African hunter-gatherers, pastoralists and other communities have adopted indigenousness in claiming special legal protection. Their legal claims as the indigenous peoples of Africa are backed by many international actors such as indigenous rights...
Routledge, 2001. — 254 p. Ethical and human rights issues have assumed an increasingly high profile in the wake of miscarriages of justice, racism (Lawrence Inquiry), incompetence and corruption - in both Britain and overseas. At the same time the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998 in England and Wales will have a major impact on policing, challenging many of the...
Brill, 2009. — 245 p. — (Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe). The book lays out the methodology behind the Migrant Integration Policy Index, a unique study on indicators of legal integration, before analysing European trends in various policy areas critical to immigrants’ opportunities to participate in their country of residence. The Migrant Integration Policy...
Hart Publishing, 2013. — 272 p. This edited collection addresses some of the most important challenges in contemporary human rights law and practice. Its central theme is the linkage between public finance, particularly budget decisions, and the realisation (or not) of economic and social rights. While much academic and political debate on economic and social rights...
Springer International Publishing, 2017. — 500 p. This book examines the ability of citizens across ten European countries to exercise their democratic rights to access their personal data. It presents a socio-legal research project, with the researchers acting as citizens, or data subjects, and using ethnographic data collection methods. The research presented here evidences a...
2018, 202 с. Остальные выходные данные неизвестны. Данная книга - справочное руководство для юристов из стран-членов Совета Европы. Она о региональных и международных механизмах, касающихся темы бизнес и права человека. Опубликована Советом Европы. **** Introduction The State Duty To Protect Against Business-related Human Rights Abuses General framework of international human...
Routledge, 2012. — 248 p. Notwithstanding the widespread and persistent affirmation of the indivisibility and equal worth of all human rights, socio-economic rights continue to be treated as the "Cinderella" of the human rights corpus. At a domestic level this has resulted in little appetite for the explicit recognition and judicial enforcement of such rights in constitutional...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 398 p. It is now widely accepted that international human rights law applies in situations of armed conflict alongside international humanitarian law, but the contours and consequences of this development remain unclear. This book revisits, organizes and contextualizes the debate on human rights in armed conflict and explores the legal...
Routledge, 2014. — 254 p. Human rights based budget analysis projects have emerged at a time when the United Nations has asserted the indivisibility of all human rights and attention is increasingly focused on the role of non-judicial bodies in promoting and protecting human rights. This book seeks to develop the human rights framework for such budget analyses, by exploring the...
United Nations. — 31 August 2022. — 48 p. Background China’s legal and policy framework on countering terrorism and “extremism” Clarity and scope of concepts of “terrorism” and “extremism” Methodologies applied to identify suspects and “at risk” persons Scope and nature of responses to alleged “terrorist” or “extremist” conduct Breadth of preventive, investigative and coercive...
Cavendish Square Publishing, 2019. — 84 p. — (Laws That Changed History). World history is a history of immigrants and immigration, which is the act of traveling to a country one was not born in and living there, making a living, creating a whole new life. Ours is a world filled with a wide variety of people and pursuits, but immigration is complicated by country borders and...
Springer, 2023. — 359 p. The book aims at presenting an updated version of the basic and general human rights debates. While it is frequently suggested that Human Rights are universal and indivisible, it is an undeniable fact that this is far from being true. And if there was ever any justification for talking about an ending to history, that narrative has definitely lost all...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 290 р. 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 explores governance outcomes for victims of corporate human rights abuse across Latin...
Ashgate, 2011. — 245 p. The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession explores an important set of legal and policy issues surrounding the concepts of home and homelessness, taking a growing area of legal scholarship into the new arena of human rights and international law. The collection considers the ideas concerning home - both in the sense of the dwelling place as...
Ashgate, 2011. — 245 p. The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession explores an important set of legal and policy issues surrounding the concepts of home and homelessness, taking a growing area of legal scholarship into the new arena of human rights and international law. The collection considers the ideas concerning home - both in the sense of the dwelling place as...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 248 p. Rights for Others is an empirical study of what happens when international human rights are applied domestically in The Netherlands. It tracks recent debates in Dutch society on citizenship and the rights of immigrants, and analyses the shift from the perception of human rights as a 'foreign policy concern' to the slow processes of...
Springer, 2023. — 118 p. This book formulates a human right to research in Africa based on an in-depth examination of the available international and regional human rights instruments as well as those relevant to the national contexts of African countries. The imbalances in the African copyright ecosystem regarding access to information for research and education became...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2016. — 332 p. Internment remains : the 1988 Civil Liberties Act and racism re-formed -- Residues of rightlessness : ghosts and the afterlife of internment -- Just to stay alive : Haitian refugees and Guantánamo's carceral quarantine -- Not a place to live : resisting rightlessness through word and body -- Creating the enemy combatant:...
Brill, 2019. — 308 p. — (International Studies in Human Rights 129). In Consensus-Based Interpretation of Regional Human Rights Treaties Francisco Pascual-Vives examines the central role played by the notion of consensus in the case law of the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights. As many other international courts and tribunals do, both regional human rights...
T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer, 2020. — 372 p. In this book, it is explained that despite a current drop in the number of deaths, terrorism should still be considered a serious and widespread problem. However, the responses to this phenomenon are often more problematic from a long-term perspective. With the human rights framework under serious pressure, this edited volume offers a...
Routledge, 2006. — 543 p. Human Rights in Asia considers how human rights are viewed and implemented in Asia. It covers not just civil and political rights, but also social, economic and cultural rights. This study discusses the problems arising from the fact that ideas of human rights have evolved in Western liberal democracies and examines how far such values are compatible...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 271 p. In Toward a Theory of Human Rights, Michael Perry pursues three important, related inquiries: Is there a non-religious (secular) basis for the morality of human rights? What is the relationship between the morality of human rights and the law of human rights? Perry here addresses the controversial issues of capital punishment, abortion,...
Routledge, 2023. — 268 p. This book examines the everyday judicial experience in four multicultural jurisdictions as a means of exploring the relationship between legal systems and cultural identities. Increasing social heterogeneity has deeply affected legal systems as courts and parliaments must now deal with a growing rate of cases concerning cultural pluralism....
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022. — 659 p. — ISBN 978-0-674-27588-1 It’s easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the grand sweep...
Routledge, 2015. — 297 p. China's human rights lawyers are important: as legal advocates for victims of injustice; as proponents of legal and political change in China; as part of the global and international struggle for human rights; and as persecuted individuals. Based on years of fieldwork research and hundreds of anonymised conversations with several dozen human rights or,...
Routledge, 2019. — 178 p. This book has been written as a tribute to the memory of Victor Baras, who was deeply concerned with human rights. It examines the philosophical foundations of human rights, the lessons of history that are relevant to today's concerns, and contemporary policy.
Oxford University Press, 1987 — 292 с. Family violence, once considered a private trouble, has become a matter of intense public concern. Many people think the problems of child abuse and wife-beating were discovered in the last two decades. This book, the first history of family violence in the United States, proves otherwise. Based on enormous research into court records,...
Routledge, 2018. — 140 p. Making Human Rights News: Balancing Participation and Professionalism explores the impact of new digital technology and activism on the production of human rights messages. It is the first collection of studies to combine multidisciplinary approaches, "citizen witness" challenges to journalism ethics, and expert assessments of the "liberating role" of...
Edward Elgar, 2009. — 232 p. Europeans have attempted for some time to develop a human rights talk and now European intellectuals are talking about the need to construct `European narratives'. This book illustrates that these narratives will emphasize a political and cultural vision for a multi-ethnic and more cosmopolitan Europe. The narratives evolve around human rights,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. — 208 p. — (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights). The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and repeated in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, recognizes everyone’s right to “share in scientific advancement and its benefits” and to “enjoy the benefits of...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 208 p. The right to security of person is widely recognized but little understood. Courts, legislatures, and scholars disagree about how the right to security of person should be defined. This book investigates the meaning of the right to security of person through an analysis of its constituent parts. Applying an original conceptual analysis of...
Routledge, 2022. — 244 p. This book studies the history of intercultural human rights. It examines the foundational elements of human rights in the East and the West and provides a comparative analysis of the independent streams of thought originating from the two different geographic spaces. It traces the genesis of the idea of human rights back to ancient Indian and...
Springer Netherlands, 2011. — 374 p. “Never again” stands as one the central pledges of the international community following the end of the Second World War, upon full realization of the massive scale of the Nazi extermination programme. Genocide stands as an intolerable assault on a sense of common humanity embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other...
Springer Netherlands, 2013. — 290 p. Human rights have transformed the way in which we conceive the place of the individual within the community and in relation to the state in a vast array of disciplines, including law, philosophy, politics, sociology, geography. The published output on human rights over the last five decades has been enormous, but has remained tightly bound...
Selected data from Freedom House’s annual survey of political rights and civil liberties.
- Freedom House, 2013. – 38 p.
"As the year 2012 drew to a close, events in the Middle East dramatized two competing trends: demands for change pushed forward by popular democratic movements, and an authoritarian response that combines intransigence with strategic adaptability.
The...
Routledge, 2013. — 241 p. State Violence and the Execution of Law stages a provocative analysis of how the biopolitical divide between human and animal has played a fundamental role in enabling state violence, including torture, secret imprisonment and killing-at-a-distance via drones. Analyzing the complex ways in which the United States government deploys law in order to...
Routledge, 2018. — 309 p. It is well known in Australia that Aboriginal people are currently massively over-represented amongst the prison population. Although it is not officially acknowledged to the same degree in Trinidad, it is also well-known that Afro-Trinidadians are over-represented in the prisons of that county. The disproportionate criminalisation of Aboriginal...
Oxford University Press, 2016. - 368 p. In January of 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an 86-year-old charter member of the NAACP, headed into Thompson's Restaurant, just a few blocks from the White House, and requested to be served. She and her companions were informed by the manager that they could not eat in his establishment, because they were "colored." Terrell, a former...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 302 p. This book explores how the law and the institutions of the criminal justice system expose minorities to different types of violence, either directly, through discrimination and harassment, or indirectly, by creating the conditions that make them vulnerable to violence from other groups of society. It draws on empirical insights across a broad...
Routledge, 2020. — 169 p. This book draws on the analytic and political dimensions of queer, alongside the analytic and political usefulness of emotion, to navigate legal interventions aimed at progressing the rights of LGBT people. Scholars, activists, lawyers, and judges concerned with eliminating violence and discrimination against LGBT people have generated passionate...
Brill, 2005. — 574 p. — (The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library 22). The implementation of economic, social and cultural rights is a most pressing item on the international human rights agenda. Millions of people go without food, health, shelter, education, work, social security, not because the resources are unavailable to provide for these basic human rights, but...
Bentham Science Publishers, 2017. — 312 p. This volume covers topics related to human rights issues and problems of people who are overwhelmed by hostile situations around them and are subsequently rendered vulnerable. The situations of vulnerability discussed in this book are related to suffering caused by the moral, family, social, economic or political conditions in which...
Routledge, 2014. — 186 p. Exercising Human Rights investigates why human rights are not universally empowering and why this damages people attempting to exercise rights. It takes a new approach in looking at humans as the subject of human rights rather than the object and exposes the gendered and ethnocentric aspects of violence and human subjectivity in the context of human...
Edinburgh University Press, 2013. — 577 p. Scotland and South Africa are mixed jurisdictions, combining features of common law and civil law traditions. Over the last decade, a shared feature in both Scotland and South Africa has been a new and intense focus on human rights. In Scotland, the European Convention on Human Rights now constitutes an important element in the...
T.M.C. Asser Press, 2021. — 320 р. This book deals with urgency and human rights. 'Urgent' is a word often used, in very different contexts. Yet together with a reference to human rights violations, it likely triggers images of people caught up in armed conflict, facing terror from either the state, gangs, paramilitaries, or terrorists. Or of people fleeing terror and facing...
Routledge, 2022. — 284 p. In the last 20 years, the related phenomena of honour-based violence and forced marriages have received increasing attention at the international and European level. Punitive responses towards this type of violence have been adopted, including ad hoc criminalisation and legislation containing direct references to the concepts of honour, culture, and...
Routledge, 2011. — 241 p. The Human Right to Water and Its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories provides an overview and examination of the human right to water as determined under international human rights law. This is a highly topical issue, with the UN General Assembly having passed a resolution which declares access to clean water and sanitation a human...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 218 p. The regulation of business in the global economy poses one of the main challenges for governance, as illustrated by the dynamic scholarly and policy debates about the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and a possible international treaty on the matter. This book takes on the conceptual and legal underpinnings of global...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 430 p. As the climate emergency intensifies, rights-based climate cases – litigation that is based on human rights law – are becoming an increasingly important tool for securing more ambitious climate action. This book is the first to offer a systematic analysis of the universe of these cases known as human rights and climate change (HRCC)...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 378 p. Written by a select international group of leading privacy scholars, Social Dimensions of Privacy endorses and develops an innovative approach to privacy. By debating topical privacy cases in their specific research areas, the contributors explore the new privacy-sensitive areas: legal scholars and political theorists discuss the...
Springer, 2022. — 487 p. This volume is the most comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of in-depth analyses on human rights violations committed in war. It offers myriad perspectives on the content and application of legal protections offered to civilians, including women, children and the elderly, and to others who are ‘no longer active in the fight.’ A series of carefully...
Routledge, 2013. — 182 p. Scenes of violence and incisions into the flesh inform the demand for law. The scene of little girls being held down in practices of female circumcision has been a defining and definitive image that demands the attention of human rights, and the intervention of law. But the investment in protecting women and little girls from such a cut is not all that...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 273 p. This book considers those aspects of human rights law whichmay become relevant to the activities of armed forces whether they remain in barracks, undertake training or are deployed inmilitary operations within their own State or outside it. The unique nature of military service and of military courts gives rise to human rights issues in...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 336 p. Economic interaction has enlarged the international trade in goods and services, but the safe and humane flow of persons across international borders remains a challenge in a State-based model of territorial jurisdictions. Once an immigrant enters a new host country the guarantee of respect for their human rights comes into question....
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 434 p. Reparations programs seeking to provide for victims of gross and systematic human rights violations are becoming an increasingly frequent feature of transitional and post-conflict processes. Given that women represent a very large proportion of the victims of these conflicts and the authoritarianism generating them, and that women...
Routledge, 2014. — 224 p. This book considers the theoretical, policy and empirical arguments relevant to the debate concerning the legalisation of interrogational torture. Torturing Terrorists examines, as part of a consequentialist analysis, the nature and impact of torture and the implications of its legal regulation on individuals, institutions and wider society. In making...
Routledge, 2012. — 268 p. The book examines patterns of participation in human rights treaties. International relations theory is divided on what motivates states to participate in treaties, specifically human rights treaties. Instead of examining the specific motivations, this dissertation examines patterns of participation. In doing so, it attempts to match theoretical...
Toshkent: O‘zbekiston Respublikasi IIV Akademiyasi, 2012. — 288 b. Darslik O'zbekiston Respublikasi Konstutsiyasi va amaldagi qonun hujjatlariga asoslangan holda tayyorlangan bo'lib, fuqarolarimizning Inson huquqlari, uning mazmun mohiyati va kelib chiqishi bilan bog'liq bilimlarini yanada oshirishga xizmat qiladi.
Routledge, 2023. — 287 p. Looking at two of the key paradigms of the post-Cold War era–national sovereignty, and human rights – this book examines the possibilities for their reconciliation from a global perspective. The real or imagined fear of a flood of immigrants has caused and fuelled the surge of an amalgam of populist political forces, anti-immigrant movements, and...
Brill, 2017. — 241 p. — (International Studies in Human Rights 124). The book offers an account of Egypt's legislative achievements and shortcomings in light of its international obligation to eliminate gender discrimination resulting from the Women's Convention and proposes de jure and de facto reforms to improve Egypt's implementation efforts. By virtue of ratifying the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 342 p. This open access edited volume investigates children and youth's deep entanglement in today's major global, national, and local transformations and processes: wherein they are not mere spectators and objects of transformations but instead actively shape them through various social, economic, and political representations. International...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 342 p. This open access edited volume investigates children and youth's deep entanglement in today's major global, national, and local transformations and processes: wherein they are not mere spectators and objects of transformations but instead actively shape them through various social, economic, and political representations. International...
JAI Press, 2006. — 192 p. This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society presents a diverse array of articles by an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Their work covers several social science disciplines as well as law. Some of the articles published in this issue examine the interactions of law and ''vulnerable'' populations. Here research illustrates the complex ways...
University of Michigan Press, 2001. — 135 p. Today the language of human rights, if not human rights themselves, is nearly universal. Human Rights brings together essays that attend to both the allure and criticism of human rights. They examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics and help us rethink some of the basic concepts of human rights. Questions...
Routledge, 2019. — 284 p. This book examines the relationship between international human rights discourse and the justifications for criminal punishment. Using interdisciplinary discourse analysis, it exposes certain paradoxes that underpin the ‘International Bill of Human Rights’, academic commentaries on human rights law, and the global human rights monitoring regime in...
Brill, Nijhoff, 2018. — 359 p. — (Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children’s Rights 4). Corporal Punishment of Children: Comparative Legal and Social Developments towards Prohibition and Beyond, provides country-specific insights and thematic understandings in relation to childrens ongoing experience of corporal punishment, and aims to advance recognition of childrens human...
Routledge, 2016. — 129 p. This book brings legal and academic perspective to the theory and practice surrounding the right to a fair hearing within a reasonable time. This field of rights has been somewhat neglected academically, a fact which jars with the sheer volume of case law budding from this single, simple, fundamental right, bearing testimony to the widespread concern...
Luchterhand, 2021. — 32 S. Jeder Mensch hat das Recht … Mit der amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitserklärung 1776 und der Erklärung der Menschen- und Bürgerrechte 1789 in Frankreich wurden die Grundsteine für unsere moderne Gesellschaft gelegt, für unsere Freiheit und unsere unveräußerlichen Rechte. Das Erstaunliche an diesen Deklarationen ist, dass sie nicht die Wirklichkeit...
Luchterhand, 2021. — 32 S. Jeder Mensch hat das Recht … Mit der amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitserklärung 1776 und der Erklärung der Menschen- und Bürgerrechte 1789 in Frankreich wurden die Grundsteine für unsere moderne Gesellschaft gelegt, für unsere Freiheit und unsere unveräußerlichen Rechte. Das Erstaunliche an diesen Deklarationen ist, dass sie nicht die Wirklichkeit...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 322 p. About one-third of the world's population currently lives under pluri-legal systems where governments hold individuals subject to the purview of ethno-religious rather than national norms in respect to family law. How does the state-enforcement of these religious family laws impact fundamental rights and liberties? What resistance...
Brill, 2007. — 250 p. — (Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe 13). The large-scale establishment of ethnic minorities and diasporic communities in Europe has gained the attention of social science scholars for a number of decades now. However, legal interest in this field has remained relatively underdeveloped, and few scholars have addressed emerging legal issues to...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 245 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society). This book examines and discusses the ordeals that women face as violence is perpetrated against them in politically conflicted and militarized areas. In conflict zones, every act is affected by, dependent on and mobilised by militaristic values. The militarization of both the private and public...
Routledge, 2013. — 520 p. Recent years have seen an increased interest in the variety of cultures co-existing within one state, and a growing acknowledgement of the values ensconced in pluralistic social structures. this book examines the manner in which indigenous people can function in modern states, preserving their traditional customs, while simultaneously adapting aspects...
Routledge, 2012. — 248 p. Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries. Rather than asking whether legal pluralities are 'good' or 'bad' for women, the starting point of this volume is that legal pluralities are a social fact....
Hart Publishing, 2022. — 315 p. Sir Rabinder Singh has been one of the leading lights in the recent development of the common law, most notably in the field of human rights and the law of privacy. Here, for the first time, he reflects on the defining themes of his career as advocate and judge. Combining his trademark originality of thought and impeccable scholarship, he selects...
Fordham University Press, 2007. — 448 p. In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of “world literature” and international human rights law are related phenomena. Slaughter argues that international law shares with the modern novel a particular...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 419 p. Did the history of human rights begin decades, centuries or even millennia ago? What constitutes this history? And what can we really learn from 'the textbook narrative' - the unilinear, forward-looking tale of progress and inevitable triumph authored primarily by Western philosophers, politicians and activists? Does such a...
Cavendish Square Publishing, 2017. — 135 p. Our constitution guarantees the right against unreasonable search and seizure, but where does the line get drawn in these days of high-tech surveillance? This book not only looks at the new methods for spying on citizens, but on the technological shortfalls that allow hackers to gain private information. It also presents the pros and...
Routledge, 2017. — 244 p. Under the influence of the global spread of human rights, legal disputes are increasingly framed in human rights terms. Parties to a legal dispute can often invoke human rights norms in support of their competing claims. Yet, when confronted with cases in which human rights conflict, judges face a dilemma. They have to make difficult choices between...
Temple University Press, 2019. — 289 p. As widespread environmental degradation threatens the basic human rights of a large proportion of the world’s population, we are also confronting the worst migration crisis in the modern era. Emerging Threats to Human Rights searches among the interrelated causes of these overlapping crises. The editor and contributors to this timely...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. — 329 p. In November 2016 the University of Brighton hosted a one day conference entitled “The Future of Human Rights in the UK”. Legal academics and practitioners from across the UK and Ireland attended to discuss the various topical issues that arise under the title of the conference. Papers were presented on terrorism and...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 327 p. An innovative framework for advancing human rights. Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve rights for all. Human Rights for Pragmatists explains why: activists prioritize universal legal and moral norms, backed by the public shaming of violators,...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 224 p. An innovative framework for advancing human rights. Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve rights for all. Human Rights for Pragmatists explains why: activists prioritize universal legal and moral norms, backed by the public shaming of violators,...
Hart Publishing, 2008. — 470 p. Taking as a starting point the widely accepted view that states confronted with terrorism must find a proper equilibrium between their respective obligations of preserving fundamental rights and fighting terrorism effectively, this book demonstrates how the design and enforcement of a human rights instrument may influence the result of that...
Hart Publishing, 2017. — 248 p. Over the last 15 years, constitutional issues regarding the rights of gays, lesbians and same-sex couples have emerged on a global scale. The pace of recognition of their fundamental rights, both at judicial and legislative level, has increased dramatically across different jurisdictions, reflecting a growing consensus toward sexual orientation...
Hart Publishing, 2008. — 186 p. The last twenty years have seen rapid development of the equitable action for breach of confidence. The Spycatcher saga of the late 1980s led to the restatement of the fundamental principles. There was increasing concern about press intrusion, and the need to protect privacy rights guaranteed by Article 8 of the European Convention in the wake of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 361 p. This book explores when, why, and how regional organizations adopt and design institutions to promote and protect fundamental standards of democracy, human rights, and rule of law in their member states. These regional institutions have spread globally. While their institutional designs have become increasingly similar over time, regional...
Routledge, 2012. — 225 p. This book takes a global historical perspective to trace the rise of human rights and their global impact from the 18th century to the present. This fully updated volume examines the complex relationships between Western concepts of human rights and developments in other world regions. After providing background on relevant premodern concepts and...
ABC-CLIO, 2001. — 446 p. A comprehensive overview of homosexuality and the law, this fascinating dictionary opens with a history of the Gay Rights Movement which started in Germany during the 1860s with Karl Heinrich Ulrich, the "Grandfather of Gay Liberation," who wrote 12 books including, Researches on the Riddle of Love Between Men. Homosexuals were later herded into Nazi...
Brill, 1999. — 270 p. The eleventh in the series of yearbooks on Human Rights in Developing Countries, this volume marks a departure from previous editions and a new beginning. The Yearbook will now bear the title of Human Rights in Development, to reflect the fact that it will explore the role of human rights as an integral part of the development process. The new title is...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. — 609 p. Explores the key rationales and principles that underpin our understanding of free speech Provides a comprehensive overview of freedom of speech as a legal principle in national and supra-national settings This volume is divided into three parts, with part one outlining the history of the idea of freedom of speech. Part two...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 608 p. Freedom of speech is central to the liberal democratic tradition. It touches on every aspect of our social and political system and receives explicit and implicit protection in every modern democratic constitution. It is frequently referred to in public discourse and has inspired a wealth of legal and philosophical literature. The liberty...
Routledge, 2014. — 200 p. The law is one of the primary means through which sexuality is constructed, monitored and controlled. In this much needed book, Carl Stychin provides a critical examination of the relationship between law and sexual orientation in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. The author exposes the connection between the law and sexual control...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2015. — 212 p. Human rights and development cannot be understood separately. They are historically connected by the idea of race, and have evolved concomitantly with the latter. As the tools of race, human rights and development have been forged in the effort to legitimize and maintain coloniality. While rights and development can be used as...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021. — 315 p. Based on the author's first-hand experience as a UN Special Rapporteur, this thought-provoking and original book examines the values of Eastern civilisations and their contribution to the development of the UN Human Rights agenda. Offering an authoritative analysis of Hindu and Buddhist traditions, Surya P. Subedi, KC, focuses on the...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 215 р. In the past forty years, the idea of home, which is central to how the law conceives of crime, punishment, and privacy, has changed radically. Legal scholar Jeannie Suk shows how the legitimate goal of legal feminists to protect women from domestic abuse has led to a new and unexpected set of legal practices. Suk examines case studies of...
University of California Press, 2023. — 335 p. A rigorous analysis of systemic misogyny in the law and a thoughtful exploration of the tools needed to transcend it through constitutional change beyond litigation in the courts. Just as racism is embedded in the legal system, so is misogyny—even after the law proclaims gender equality and criminally punishes violence against...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 245 p. Research using genetic data raises various concerns relating to privacy protection. Many of these concerns can also apply to research that uses other personal data, but not with the same implications for failure. The norms of exclusivity associated with a private life go beyond the current legal concept of personal data to include...
Hart Publishing, 2008. — 270 p. This book is set against the background of the so-called 'justice gap' in sexual assault cases. It represents an interdisciplinary attempt to examine the attitudinal problems which bedevil this area of law and to offer possible strategies for addressing them. Written by a professor of law and a professor of psychology, Sexual Assault and the...
Brill, 2010. — 440 p. This book presents a human rights-based assessment of the various modes of state-religion identification and of the various forms of state practice that surround and characterize these different state-religion models. This book makes a case for the recognition of a state duty to remain impartial with respect to religion or belief in all regards so as to...
Chairman: Sir Robert Owen. Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 26 of the Inquiries Act 2005 Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 21 January 2016
Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy, March 2021. — 55 p. This report is the first independent expert application of the 1948 Genocide Convention to the ongoing treatment of the Uyghurs in China. It was undertaken by the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy, in cooperation with the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, in response to emerging accounts of serious...
New York University Press, 2011. — 274 p. Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created, feminist lawyers, historians, and activists have long recognized the discontinuities and contradictions that lie at the heart of efforts to transform the law in ways that fully serve women's interests. At its core, the nascent field of feminist legal history is driven by a...
University of Edinburgh, UK Cultural Diversity: Normative Theory and Constitutional Practice Stephen Tierney The Global Diffusion of Multiculturalism: Trends, Causes, Consequences Will Kymlicka Towards a Hybrid Theory of Multinational Justice Helder De Schutter Putting Kymlicka in Perspective: Canadian Diversity and Collective Rights Dwight Newman Reasoning about the Identity...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017. — 327 p. This book examines privacy in public space from both legal and regulatory perspectives. With on-going technological innovations such as mobile cameras, Wi-Fi tracking, drones and augmented reality, aspects of citizens’ lives are increasingly vulnerable to intrusion. The contributions describe contemporary challenges to achieving privacy...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 759 p. Children's rights law is a relatively young but rapidly developing discipline. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, the field's core legal instrument, is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. Yet, like children themselves, children's rights are often relegated to the margins in mainstream legal, political,...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 714 p. This book examines the rights of accused persons in criminal proceedings. The case-law of the international bodies dealing with this issue is presented and critically examined by an author who has contributed to its creation for almost a quarter of a century. He places particular emphasis on the European Court and Commission of Human Rights.
Springer International Publishing, 2016. — 592 p. This book provides a comparative perspective on one of the most intriguing developments in law: the influence of basic rights and human rights in private law. It analyzes the application of basic rights and human rights, which are traditionally understood as public law rights, in private law, and discusses the related spillover...
Faculty of Law of the PIM University, 2021. — 255 p. The monograph covers four human rights of the new generation: the principle of the best interests of the child in criminal proceedings; the right to freedom of expression on the Internet; the right to privacy on the Internet and the right to non-discriminatory access to education. The main goal was achieved and is reflected...
Routledge, 2019. — 202 p. Applying a legal pluralist framework, this study examines the complex interrelationships between religion, law and politics in contemporary Ghana, a professedly secular State characterised by high levels of religiosity. It aims to explore legal, cultural and moral tensions created by overlapping loci of authority (state actors, traditional leaders and...
Casebook Series, No. 1, 2011, UNESCO: Paris, 144 pp. ISBN: 978-92-3-104202-7 Acknowledgement Foreword Privacy Physician’s rights A patient’s right to personal medical information Objection to unapproved treatment The right to life with dignity Withdrawal of medical care from minors at the terminal stage of life Witholding life-saving treatment End of life considerations Pain...
Montreal; Geneva: Equitas – International Centre for Human Rights Education; United Nations; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2011. — 294 p. — Professional Training Series No. 18.
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"The international community is increasingly promoting human rights education and training — through United Nations initiatives such as the World Programme for...
New York; Geneva: United Nations; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; UNESCO, 2012. — 48 p. (Автор не указан). The international community has on many occasions—most recently, with the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training on 19 December 2011—expressed its consensus on the importance of human rights education as a...
Geneva: United Nations; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2003. — 191 с. (Автор не указан). В настоящем издании "Азбука преподавания прав человека" говорится о нас, людях. Она посвящена процессу преподавания и познания значимости врожденного "достоинства и ценности человеческой личности", которые являются "основой свободы, справедливости и всеобщего мира"...
Routledge, 2013. — 156 p. A rich examination of the neglect and abuses occurring to women in correctional facilities, Women, Incarceration, and Human Rights Violations draws upon a wealth of case studies from around the world and class action lawsuits to shed light on ’covert’ abuse such as sexual or physical abuse, as well as ’overt’ abuse such as the denial of medical...
Routledge, 2019. — 362 p. The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Asia provides a rich study of human rights challenges facing some of the most vulnerable people in Asia. While formal accession to core international human rights instruments is commonplace across the region, the realisation of human rights for many remains elusive as development pressure, violent conflict,...
Hart Publishing, 2008. — 257 p. The book considers the extent to which religious interests are protected at work, with particular reference to the protection against religious discrimination provided by the Equality Act 2010. It establishes a principled basis for determining the proper scope of religious freedom at work, and considers the interaction of freedom of religion with...
Routledge, 2021. — 211 p. This book focuses on Islamic constitutionalism, and in particular on the relation between religion and the protection of individual liberties potentially clashing with shariᶜa and the Islamic ethos. The analysis goes from general to particular, starting with a theoretical overview on constitutionalism, human rights and Islam, moving to the assessment...
Springer, 2023. — 812 p. — (Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice). — ISBN 978-3-031-30847-5. This book critically examines why a human rights framework would improve the wellbeing and status of young people. It explores children’s rights to provision, protection, and participation from human rights and clinical sociological perspectives, and from historical to contemporary...
Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, 2016. — 256 p. — ISBN: 1137539518. This book traces the development of the discourse used by the pro-life movement since the 1970s, and its relationship to public policy efforts at the state and federal level. The pro-life movement's successes, both in legislative efforts to limit access to abortion as well changing the public's perception of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 363 p. Migration and refugee law and policy is fundamentally concerned with the choices that we as a nation make regarding the people that we want to allow into our community and share our resources. This involves balancing a number of complex and competing considerations, including the self-interest of the nation and the desire to assist needy...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019. — 464 p. In a digitally connected world, the question of how to respect, protect and fulfil human rights has become unavoidable. Uniting research from scholars and practitioners, this contemporary Handbook offers new insights into well-established debates surrounding digital technologies by framing them in terms of human rights. An international...
LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2013. — 225 p. Wallace explores the role and methods of media suppression in the South during the civil rights movement and the southern "massive resistance" to integration. Segregationists understood the importance of public opinion to defending their social system, and, as a result, desperately fought to influence how the civil rights movement and...
Routledge, 2020. — 264 p. This book examines how child protection law has been shaped by the transition to late modernity and how it copes with the ever-changing concept of risk. The book traces the evolution of the contemporary child protection system through historical changes, assessing the factors that have influenced the development of legal responses to abuse over a...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 128 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Voltaire's comment--"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"--is frequently quoted by defenders of free speech. Yet it is rare to find someone prepared to defend all freedom of speech, especially if the views expressed are obnoxious or obviously false. So where do we...
Routledge, 2021. — 341 p. This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and world views. In this groundbreaking work, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars have collaborated to rewrite 16 key decisions. Spanning from 1889 to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 112 p. This book explores storytelling as an innovative means of improving understanding of Indigenous people and their histories and struggles including with the law. It uses the Critical Race Theory (‘CRT’) tool of ‘outsider’ or ‘counter’ storytelling to illuminate the practices that have been used by generations of Aboriginal women to create an...
Routledge, 2022. — 308 p. This book will examine the legal regulation of caste discrimination in three key legal spheres: in India (the world’s largest caste-affected country and the country with the greatest experience of using law to tackle such discrimination); in international human rights law; and in Britain, the first European country to introduce a prohibition of caste...
Law Africa Publishing, 2011. — 308 p. This posthumous publication is a collection of essays some of which are based on the author s research work while others record her thoughts on issues she regarded as important. The materials, which were written between 1991 and 1996, cover a range of subjects that have been tied together under the theme of women, law and justice in Uganda....
Routledge, 2015. — 216 p. As politicians, public bodies and non-Governmental organisations continue to profess an interest in making peace with the past, this highly original study explores the motivation, significance and legacy of ‘making public’ experiences of state violence in Northern Ireland. Based on a synthesis of documentary material with the findings from a series of...
Routledge, 2009. — 208 p. The ever-present threat of terrorism and the growing human-rights backlash against anti-terrorist policies are becoming ever more significant on the international stage. Constant media-coverage and public concern have characterised the debate over the last ten years. This book is a fair and objective assessment of counter-terrorist policy and human...
Hart Publishing, 2016. — 192 p. This book investigates the limits of the legitimate role of the state in regulating the human body. It questions whether there is a public interest in issues of bodily autonomy, with particular focus on reproductive choices, end of life choices, sexual autonomy, body modifications and selling the body. The main question addressed in this book is...
Oxford University Press, 2016. - 400 p. On April 16, 1972, ten thousand people gathered in Central Park to protest New York's liberal abortion law. Emotions ran high, reflecting the nation's extreme polarization over abortion. Yet the divisions did not fall neatly along partisan or religious lines-the assembled protesters were far from a bunch of fire-breathing culture...
Hart Publishing, 2012. — 375 p. In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly and the Human Rights Council recognized the human right to water. This formal recognition has put the issue high on the international agenda, but, by itself, leaves many questions unanswered. This book addresses this gap and clarifies the legal status and meaning of the right to water through a...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2008. — 320 p. A nonpartisan analysis of the consequences of the Bush administration's legal battles pertaining to the war on terror takes a controversial stance that America's executive branch took necessary aggressive steps and only failed to obtain the support of other branches of government.
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 329 p. This path-breaking book is the first substantive contribution to a sociology of human rights and takes up the question of whether so-called Asian values are compatible with human rights discourse. Using a sociological and poststructuralist approach to the concept of rights, and incorporating transnationality into sociological theory,...
Bloomsbury, 2015. — 352 p. Property as a human rights concern is manifested through its incorporation in international instruments and as a subject of the law through property-related cases considered by international human rights organs. Yet, for the most part, the relationship between property and human rights has been discussed in rather superficial terms, lacking a clear...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 354 p. In recent decades international and regional human rights norms have been increasingly applied to constitutional provisions, revealing significant tensions between primary political arrangements, such as power-sharing institutions, and human rights norms. This book argues that these tensions, generally framed as a peace versus justice...
LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2009. — 178 p. Yesil proposes that video surveillance is not a novel technology specific to the post-September 11 era, but that it can be historicized within crime prevention and risk management initiatives going back to the 1970s. Analyzing press coverage, security industry statements, and federal agency and law enforcement reports, Yesil discusses...
Human Rights Watch, 2018 — 98 p. Map Korean Words Glossary Acronyms Sexual Abuse in Prisons and Detention Facilities Sexual Abuse of Women Engaged in Trade Lack of Remedies Discrimination Against Women Key Recommendations Methodology Background Extreme Poverty and Modest Market Reforms Women, Society, and Law in North Korea Women and Society Women and Girls at Home, School, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 705 p. The future of economic and social rights is unlikely to resemble its past. Neglected within the human rights movement, avoided by courts, and subsumed within a single-minded conception of development as economic growth, economic and social rights enjoyed an uncertain status in international human rights law and in the public laws of...
Hart Publishing, 2013. — 257 p. While the legal systems of the United Kingdom and Germany differ in essential respects, the current process of ‘constitutionalisation’ is well recognised on both sides of the Channel. ‘Constitutionalisation’ manifests itself in the evolution of a constitution and the influence of existing constitutional principles on the ordinary law. Human...
Ashgate, 2014. — 282 p. This volume analyses some of the most current debates concerning problems in the nature, justification, and legal protection of human rights, relating to the issues surrounding social milieu as a source of any legitimized law, which is in need of legal recognition as well as being an object of legal protection.With contributions from a global network of...
University of Arizona Press, 2018. — 392 p. In the era of globalization, shifting political landscapes, and transnational criminal organizations, discourse around immigration is reaching unprecedented levels. Immigration and the Law is a timely and significant volume of essays that addresses the social, political, and economic contexts of migration in the United States. The...
Springer, 2020. — 305 p. The book illustrates how the trend of associating migrants and refugees with criminality is on the rise. In political discourses and popular media alike, migrants and refugees are frequently portrayed as being dangerous, while cultures intent on welcoming newcomers are increasingly seen as being naïve, and providing assistance to migrants is more and...
СПб.: Юридический центр Пресс, 2004. — 322 с. Только главы 6, 8 и заключение. Введение Истоки теории прав личности Соотношение прав человека и юридического закона в естественно-правовой доктрине Права человека как критерий законности государственного строя Идейные предпосылки либерализма Становление современной системы прав человека и гражданина: развитие прав и свобод личности...
Перевод: Владимир (Абдалла) Нирша.
Проверка: Абу Абдурахман Дагестани.
Офис по содействию в призыве и просвещении этнических меньшинств в районе Рабва г. Эр-Рияд. - 1429 - 2008. - 54 с.
Предисловие
Европейское представление о правах человека
Критика западной школы в области прав человека
Основы исламской школы в области прав человека
Краткое содержание этих вопросов...
М.: Б/и, 2009. — 72 с.: ил. Московская группа "Анархического Чёрного Креста" (АЧК) собрала в эту брошюру по активистской безопасности тексты, написанные на основе многолетнего опыта борьбы и противодействия репрессиям анархических движений США, Канады, Нидерландов, Германии и Британии. Информацию, представленную здесь, необходимо знать не только для того, чтобы не быть...
С.М. Ананич [и др.]. — Минск : Экоперспектива, 2020. — 128 с. — ISBN: 978-985-469-727-7. Монография представляет собой междисциплинарное научно-прикладное исследование по вопросам обеспечения прав человека в сфере трансплантации органов и тканей, выполненное авторским коллективом медицинских работников, философов и юристов под эгидой Центра по правам человека при факультете...
Учебное пособие. - Ярославль: ЯрГУ, 2012. - 108 с.
В пособии раскрываются вопросы происхождения прав человека; соотношения личности, права и государства; даётся классификация прав и свобод человека и гражданина; анализируются личные, политические, социально-экономические права и свободы. Изучается механизм международного контроля за соблюдением Россией права на доступ к...
Бишкек: Общественный Наблюдательный Совет при Государственной службе исполнения наказаний при Правительстве Кыргызской Республики; 2012. – 132 с.
Авторы: Аширов А.А., Бегалиев Д., Воцлава Ю.Н., Исмаилова Т.А., Исмаилова Л., Крапивина Е., Курманова Н.А., Эсенаманова Э.
Высказанные в данном отчете мнения являются сугубо авторскими и не могут восприниматься как отражающие...
Обзор законодательства по доступу к информации в мире. – М.: Де Ново, 2004 г. – 160 с. / Ред. – С. Шевердяева.
Это исследование о свободе информации в тех странах, в которых были приняты законы,
регулирующие эту сферу. Настоящая версия обзора была распространена в сентябре 2003 г., а исправлена и дополнена в апреле-мае 2004 г. еще четырьмя странами, в которых были приняты...
Учебное пособие. - М.: РУДН, 2012. - 210 с.
В учебном пособии по курсу "Теории прав человека" рассматриваются основные концепции и подходы к проблеме прав человека. Особое внимание уделяется характеристике структуры и содержания основных теорий прав человека, современным теориям и концепциям, формирующим социальные, правовые и общекультурные основания реализации прав человека....
Москва : Сектор, 2015. — 136 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9905530-6-4. В бытность министром внутренних дел ФРГ Герхарту Бауму пришлось на собственном опыте убедиться, насколько сложно принять решение, когда на чаше весов с одной стороны лежит безопасность граждан, а с другой — выстраданные статьи Конституции Германии, касающиеся свобод и прав граждан. Политический и личный опыт тех лет...
Женева: изд-во Союза Русских Социялдемократов, 1902. — 48 с. Практическое пособие по поведению в общении с "царскими сатрапами" от Союза Русских Социялдемократов из Женевы.
Алматы, 2008. - 99 с.
ISBN 9965-9860-5-3
Данное практическое руководство призвано помочь журналистам узнать о том, какие усилия предпринимают правозащитники для решения проблемы пыток, как они проводят мониторинг и собирают информацию, работают с жертвами пыток, их родственниками и адвокатами, какие используют механизмы защиты пострадавших. Читатели получат информацию о том, как...
Тексты лекций, Республики Беларусь, Гомель, УО ГГУ им Ф. Скорины, 2003. – 65 с. В пособии излагается сущность и основные понятия прав человека, раскрываются современные представления о правах человека, междуна-родная защита в области прав человека и внутригосударственные гарантии и механизмы защиты прав и свобод человека и гражданина в Республике Беларусь. Содержание: Права...
Монография. - СПб.: СПбГИЭУ, 2004. - 104 с. Монография посвящена методологическим, теоретическим и практическим правовым проблемам в России, касающихся прав граждан на информацию. Исследованы политико-правовые, социальные и управленческие аспекты реализации и обеспечения российским законодательством информационных прав граждан, их защиты и информационной безопасности....
ИГОО "ЦСОИ", 2001 г, 2 стр.
Издание подготовлено Ижевской городской организацией "Центр социальных и образовательных инициатив" в рамках проекта "От правового просвещения к обеспечению прав ребенка" при финансовой поддержке Европейского Союза.
Содержание:
О программе "Европейская инициатива в области демократии и прав человека (ЕИДПЧ)".
О проекте "От правового просвещения...
Варшава: Бюро ОБСЕ по демократическим институтам и правам человека (БДИПЧ) ОБСЕ, Совет Европы, ЮНЕСКО, Управление Верховного комиссара ООН по правам человека, 2009. — 282 с. (Автор не указан). Сегодня, спустя 60 лет после провозглашения Всеобщей декларации прав человека, международное сообщество признает права человека и основные свободы и способствует их соблюдению посредством...
Пер. с англ. М. В. Дьячкова. — М. : Юрист, 2002. — 110 с. : табл. — (Res cottidiana). — ISBN 5-7975-0551-7. В работе всесторонне охарактеризованы права меньшинств в сфере использования языка. Содержатся основные положения международных соглашений и других документов, относящихся к правам национальных меньшинств. Дается подробная информация об организациях и программах,...
Збірка есе до круглого столу Харківського юридичного товариства 25 лютого 2015 року. Харків: б/и, 2015. 100 с. Баумейстер Андрей. Контуры толерантности Биля-Сабадаш Ірина. Блюзнірство та (або) критика у принизливій формі в контексті свободи релігії Бочаров Дмитро. Про користь насмішки в царині релігії Бурлай Євген. Повтор можливий, але хай можливість не перетвориться на...
Учебное пособие по международному законодательству по правам человека / Центр за верховенство права им. лорда Бингхэма. — Лондон, Соединенное Королевство, февраль 2012. — 348 с.
В пособии приведен обзор международных правовых норм, обеспечивающих соблюдение и защиту прав человека. Отдельно дается анализ источников прав человека и принципов их реализации. Рассматриваются...
М.: Книжный Клуб КниговеК, 2015. - 208 с. ISBN: 978-5-4224-0964-8 Книга Никки ван дер Гааг прочитывается на одном дыхании и действительно заставляет задуматься о месте женщины в современном мире. Семейные ценности снова в моде, но так ли все хорошо? Нельзя забывать, что две трети неграмотных людей — женщины, что ежедневно во время родов или от их последствий погибает 1500...
М.: Юристъ, 2003. — 304 с. В настоящей работе рассматриваются теоретические проблемы обеспечения основных прав и свобод человека, провозглашенных как в законодательстве разливших государттв, так и в международном праве. Автор рассматривает институт прав человека в сочетании с анализом основных вопросов развития человека, в современном мире.глобализацией'общественного прогресса,...
Доклад. — Кипр: CASE, 2025. — 52 с. Введение. Travel Documents — 2025. Россияне в Европе: социологический опрос «Влияние паспортной политики РФ и РБ на мигрантов в ЕС». Некоторые выводы. Приложение. Краткий обзор практики выдачи travel documents в странах ЕС и Шенгенской зоны 2023–2025 гг. Термины и понятия. Анкета для опроса эмигрантов из РФ и Беларуси в ЕС.
Петроград: Типография В.М. Вольфа, 1918. — 100 с. Вводные замечания Естественное право – инстинктивное и разумное – и социальный договор Естественное право инстинктивное и разумное в общем строе воззрений Руссо Volonte generale и верховная власть Религиозная свобода и право собственности
Введение в права человека/ Московско Хельсинская Группа. 2009 г. - 104 с.
Александр Даниэль. Истории правозащитного движения.
Марек Новицкий. О правах и свободах человека.
Андрей Юров. Введение в концепцию прав человека.
В статье Андрея Юрова имеются логические схемы общественных отношений по поводу прав и свобод человека и государства.
Минск, 2003 - 270 с. Спецкурс по правам человека для юридических вузов и факультетов, для факультетов и вузов международного права и международных отношений Понятие прав человека Природа и этапы развития прав человека. Становление права прав человека. Классификация прав человека и гражданина. Принципы и императивы прав человека. Права и обязанности. Универсальные механизмы...
Есенин-Вольпин А. Памятка для тех, кому предстоят допросы.
11 с.
Каждого могут неожиданно вызвать на допрос, а значит, каждый, приятно это или нет, должен готовиться к этому. Бывают самые различные допросы - допрашивают обвиняемых, арестованных и неарестованных, допрашивают свидетелей, допрашивают и просто так, на всякий случай. Допрашивают по поводу действительных преступлений...
Автор неизвестен. — М., 2006. — 39 с.
Желания и потребности
Группирование прав
Выстраиваем статистическую линию
Тест
Связь между правами
Конфликт прав (в картинках)
Права и обязанности (игровые карточки)
Будь стойким! (ролевая игра)
Учебное пособие. — СПб.: Санкт-Петербургская юридическая академия, 2019. — 44 с. Учебное пособие «Международно-правовая и национальная защита прав и свобод человека с ограниченными» подготовлено в соответствии с требованиями Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего профессионального образования по направлению подготовки 40.03.01 «Юриспруденция» (уровень...
Вучэбна-метадычны дапаможнік для студэнтаў устаноў вышэйшай адукацыі, якія навучаюцца па спецыяльнасцях «Гісторыя (па напрамках)», «Музейная справа і ахова гісторыка-культурнай спадчыны (па напрамках)», «Гісторыка-архівазнаўства». — Мінск: БДУ, 2017. — 295 с. У дапаможніку прадстаўлены гістарычны агляд эвалюцыі праблемы разумення і абароны правоў этнічных меншасцей у Еўропе....
Мн.: Академия управления при Президенте Республики Беларусь, 2005. - 66 с.
Курс лекций предназначен для слушателей системы дистанционного обучения Академии управления при Президенте Республики Беларусь.
Содержание:
Введение.
Философская концепция происхождения прав человека и ее регламентация в национальном законодательстве некоторых государств.
Становление и развитие...
Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2019. — 136 c. — (Библиотека журнала „Неприкосновенный запас“). В чем назначение прав человека? Каким должно быть содержательное наполнение этого понятия? В каких ситуациях нарушения прав человека должны повлечь за собой внешнее вмешательство? Имеется ли у прав человека какое-то единое моральное основание, объединяющее культуры, или таких...
Лондон: Article 19, 2013. — 41 с. В данной аналитической записке организация Article 19 рассматривает распространившиеся за последнее время запреты так называемой «пропаганды гомосексуализма» и чётко демонстрирует, как международные стандарты свободы выражения мнений и недискриминации могут быть использованы в агитационной деятельности против таких законов. Организация Article...
Учебное пособие. - Ташкент, 2010. - 54 с.
Данное издание посвящено разъяснению основных положений Конвенции о ликвидации всех форм дискриминации в отношении женщин, участником которой с 1995 г. является и Республика Узбекистан. Содержание Конвенции и национального законодательства по вопросам прав женщин раскрывается в книге в виде вопросов и ответов по наиболее актуальным...
Отчет Human Rights Watch, 2018 — 13 с. Этот отчет в основном основан на опросах 58 бывших жителей Синьцзяна, в том числе 5 бывших заключенных и 38 родственников задержанных. Среди респондентов 19 человек покинули Синьцзян с января 2017 года. Интервьюирование происходит из всех 14 префектур в Синьцзяне.
Монография. — М.: Экон-Информ, 2018. — 332 с. — ISBN: 978-5-907057-77-7. В рамках настоящей монографии раскрыто юридическое содержание общего отраслевого принципа международного права прав человека – принципа наилучшего обеспечения интересов ребенка, выявлены проблемные моменты и сферы нормативного и прикладного характера при реализации данного принципа на универсальном,...
Выходные данные неизвестны.
Краткое руководство для должников, которые страдают от назойливого внимания коллекторов. Скачав книгу, вы узнаете о том, кем в действительности являются коллекторы, как можно общаться с ними без последствий для себя, стоит ли верить их угрозам, и нужно ли вообще с ними разговаривать. В книге нет советов о том, как не платить по долгам, но есть...
Монография - "Буквовед", 2006 г.
Содержание
Введение
Общая характеристика эвтаназии: предпосылки, сущность, правовая природа Генезис эвтаназии в аспекте учений о праве и государстве Исторический анализ влияния согласия потерпевшего на наказуемость деяния в отечественном уголовном законодательстве Теоретические основы определения эвтаназии Формы эвтаназии Правовые нормы об...
Учебное пособие. - М.: МХГ, 2012. - 124 с.
В учебном пособии изложена современная концепция прав и свобод человека и гражданина, представлены правовая (международная и национальная) регламентация основных прав человека и механизмы их защиты, особое внимание уделено механизму защиты прав и свобод человека в Европейском суде по правам человека. Кроме того, учебное пособие...
На английском и русском языках. — Stsk.biz. — 6 с. Выходные данные не указаны. Мартин Лютер Кинг (Martin Luther King; 1929-1968) — наиболее известный афроамериканский баптистский проповедник, яркий оратор, лидер Движения за гражданские права чернокожих в США. Кинг стал национальной иконой в истории американского прогрессивизма. Мартин Лютер Кинг стал первым активным деятелем...
Кинг Мартин Лютер. Письмо из Бирмингемской тюрьмы Www.agitclub.ru. — 6 с. Выходные данные не указаны. Мартин Лютер Кинг (Martin Luther King; 1929-1968) — наиболее известный афроамериканский баптистский проповедник, яркий оратор, лидер Движения за гражданские права чернокожих в США. Кинг стал национальной иконой в истории американского прогрессивизма. Мартин Лютер Кинг стал...
Монография. — Екатеринбург: Изд-во Рос. гос. проф.-пед. ун-та, 2013. — 167 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8050-0505-4. В монографии рассмотрена идея права на достойное человеческое существование как архетипическое основание различных социально-философских и правовых концепций, её содержание, истоки, эволюция; показаны формы её юридического закрепления и практической реализации в современном...
Учебно пособие. Издано в Польше. 117 с. Норвежский Хельсинкский Комитет по правам человека. Типография: Друкарниа Валдемар Грзебыта. Издано в Польше Книга издана при поддержке Бюро по демократическим институтам и правам человека ОБСЕ (БДИПЧ). Мнения и информация, содержащиеся в настоящем издании, могут не совпадать с принципами и позицией БДИПЧ. Содержание: Виды прав Права...
Монография / пер. с польского Ленур Керимов. - Варшава, 2007. - 68 с.
Введение
Конструкция ст. 8 ЕКПЧ
Личная жизнь
Семейная жизнь
Дом и корреспонденция
Электронный ресурс, 2014.
Эта электронная книга была написана, чтобы рассказать об аксиомах защиты от уголовного преследования. Были затрачены
все усилия на то, чтобы информация была максимально полной и точной. Тем не менее, могут встречаться ошибки в
типографии или содержании. Кроме того, информация в книге актуальна на дату размещения. Поэтому, эта книга должна быть...
Отчет по результатам мониторинга 2009-2010 гг. — Б.: OcOO «Блиц», 2011. — 152 с. — ISBN: 978-9967-26-215-7. В отчет включены результаты мониторинга, проведенного ОО «Молодежная правозащитная группа» и институтом Омбудсмена (Акыйкатчы) Кыргызской Республики в 2009-2010 гг. в детских учреждениях интернатного типа для детей, постоянно или временно лишенных семейного окружения....
Учебное пособие. — Ростов-на-Дону; Таганрог: Южный федеральный университет, 2019. — 107 с. — ISBN 978-5-9275-3403-6. Учебное пособие предлагает исследование проблем теории прав человека и обеспечения национальной безопасности. В нем раскрываются теоретические вопросы, анализ российского законодательства и отдельные практические аспекты системы обеспечения национальной...
Учеб. пособие для студентов высш. учеб. заведений. Мн.: Тесей, 2002.- 256 с.
В предлагаемом пособии излагается современная концепция прав человека, основанная на представлениях об их этическом характере; раскрываются их сущность, реальное состояние и механизм защиты.
Предназначено для студентов, слушателей, аспирантов и преподавателей учебных заведений юридического профиля,...
М.-Берлин : Директ-Медиа, 2015. – 147 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4475-3971-9. Автор – заведующий кафедрой конституционного и административного права Национального исследовательского университета «Высшая школа экономики» – рассуждает о том, насколько концепт прав человека соответствует христианскому учению. Он пытается доказать, что идея прав человека вдохновляется именно христианством,...
М.: Госюриздат, 1954. — 128 с. Предисловие. США - страна рабства. Расизм - идеология американского империализма. Дискриминация в области политических прав. Дискриминация в области условий труда. Политика и практика расовой сегрегации. Убийства и истязания негров на расовой почве. Закрепление дискриминации в правовых актах.
Коллективная монография. — М.: Московский городской педагогический университет, 2016. — 212 с. — ISBN: 978-5-243-00425-1. В монографии впервые в юридической литературе исследуются теоретические и практические вопросы защиты субъективных прав участников трансграничных отношений, регулируемых международным частным правом. Данная проблема рассматривается с учетом глобальных...
Коллективная монография. — М.: Московский городской педагогический университет, 2016. — 244 с. — ISBN: 978-5-243-00425-1. В монографии впервые в юридической литературе исследуются теоретические и практические вопросы защиты субъективных прав участников трансграничных отношений, регулируемых международным частным правом. Данная проблема рассматривается с учетом глобальных...
Варшава: Изд-во ОБСЕ/БДИПЧ, 1997. Аннотация Введение Руководство по требованиям к правам человека для граждан Международные документы по защите прав человека «Бархатная революция» в Чехословакии, права человека в действии Права человека: расширение значения термина Тенденция к укреплению защитных механизмов Вклад ОБСЕ Бюро по демократическим институтам и правам человека в...
Система ГАРАНТ, 2011 г. – 158 с. Цель Закона - призван обеспечить эффективную защиту прав и свобод человека и гражданина в соответствии с основными правами и свободами, провозглашенными Конституцией РФ. В настоящем комментарии показывается важность и актуальность этого нормативно-правового акта, разъясняется практика применения норм закона. Исследуются мнения юристов и ученых,...
МОУ «Волжский институт экономики, педагогики и права». - Волгоград : Изд-во ВолГУ, 2005. - 40 с.
Одной из примечательных особенностей положения дел с правами человека в нашем обществе является все более растущий разрыв между их теорией и практикой, продекларированным и действительным Уяснению гносеологических и онтологических причин этой негативной тенденции и посвящено...
Фондовая лекция по дисциплине "Права человека". – М.: Командно–инженерный институт, 2003. – 19 с.
Становление и развитие прав человека от древнего мира до Великой Французской революции 18 в.
"Декларация прав человека и гражданина" в истории идей о правах человека.
Интернационализация прав человека.
Учебник для вузов. — М.: Норма; Инфра-М, 1999. — 573 с. — ISBN 5-89123-352-5; ISBN 5-16-000023-2. "Права человека" – первый в отечественной юридической литературе учебник по данному предмету. Авторский коллектив стремился показать всю сложность и многогранность прав человека, их сущность, генезис, социальные корни, назначение, соотношение с правовым и социальным государством. В...
М.: Институт государства и права Российской академии наук, 1996. — 519 с. "Общая теория прав человека" – первый в отечественной юридической литературе учебник по данному предмету. Авторский коллектив стремился показать всю сложность и многогранность прав человека, их сущность, генезис, социальные корни, назначение, соотношение с правовым и социальным государством. В работе...
Учебное пособие.
Авторский коллектив: Д. М. Маллаев, Н. З. Сеидов, Д. И. Гасанова, Д. М. Абдуразакова, А. В. Керимова, П. О. Омарова, М. Г. Гасанов.
Учебно-методическом пособии излагаются методика изучения прав ребенка в
русле Конвенции о правах ребенка в ходе обучения в высших педагогических учебных
заведениях (для студентов вторых курсов) и методика преподавания прав ребенка...
Доклад, Правительство РФ, МИД России, Департамент информации и печати, 28.12.2011.
119200, Москва, Г-200, Смоленская-Сенная пл., 32/34, www.mid.ru
Доклад МИД РФ «О ситуации с правами человека в ряде государств мира», 90 стр.
США, Страны Евросоюза, Болгария, Великобритания, Венгрия, Польша, Румыния, Финляндия, Франция, ФРГ, Швеция, Прибалтика, Латвия, Литва, Эстония, Грузия,...
Пер. А. Захарова. — Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2024. — 432 с. — (Библиотека журнала "Неприкосновенный запас"). — ISBN 978-5-4448-2128-2. В наши дни права человека позволяют говорить о международной справедливости на языке, понятном миллионам. Однако сама концепция, на которой основано правозащитное движение, стала известной всего несколько десятилетий назад, коренным...
Дарслик. — 2 нашр. — Тошкент: Адолат, 2013. — 691 б. Ушбу дарслик “Инсон ҳуқуқлари” ўқув фани предметини ўрганишга бағишланган бўлиб, унда инсон ҳуқуқлари тушунчаси, тарихи ва ривожланиш босқичлари, инсон ҳуқуқлари категориялари, инсон ҳуқуқлари бўйича халқаро ва миллий ҳуқуқий нормалар ва уларни амалга ошириш механизмлари, инсон ҳуқуқлари соҳасида халқаро ҳамкорлик каби...
М.: Республика, 2004. 416 с.
ISBN 5-250-01874-2
В книге всесторонне рассмотрен принцип толерантности, его возрастающее значение в современном многообразном мире и трудности его воплощения. Авторы исследуют правовые, социально-политические, межнациональные, межконфессиональные, культурные и международные аспекты проблемы.
Рассчитана на всех, кто интересуется актуальными...
2006г. 80с. Торговцы человеческими органами действительно существуют - это коммунистическая партия Китая. Начиная с 1999 года количество операций по пересадке всех видов органов в Китае возросло в десятки раз, в страну начался медицинский туризм - можно было получить новую почку через неделю, а не ожидать годами. Откуда эти органы? Берут здорового, живого человека и вырезают....
Серия материалов по вопросам профессиональной подготовки №
17. Нью-Йорк и Женева, 2010 год.
Содержание
Понимание инвалидности как правозащитной проблемы
Конвенция о правах инвалидов
Потребность в конвенции
Определение инвалидности
Принципы Конвенции
Права инвалидов
Механизмы наблюдения за осуществлением
Конвенции
Наблюдение за осуществлением прав инвалидов: Общий...
Пособие. Год издания неизвестен. 148 с. Предисловие Вводные замечания Часть первая. Общая информация Часть вторая. Теория Международное определение насилия в отношении женщин Определение домашнего насилия и его виды Мифы о насилии Последствия насилия Модели поведения пострадавшей Жестокое обращение с детьми и его последствия Мотивы и стратегии обидчика Структура личности...
Лекции Марека Новицки, президента Хельсинкского Фонда Прав Человека (Варшава) по основным понятиям относительно прав человека. Издательство неизвестно, 9 с. Что такое права и свободы? Об основных понятиях теории прав человека Отношения "человек-власть": три типа мышления Свобода и равенство: три точки зрения Равенство как запрет дискриминации Что же такое "свобода" Правовое...
Варшава: Хельсинкский фонд по правам человека; Школа умений практической общественной деятельности. – 9 с. (Год издания не указан). «Права человека - область знаний, тесно примыкающая к философии и, прежде всего, этике, юридическим наукам и политическим наукам. В своем современном виде эта область знаний возникла после Второй мировой войны, но ее истоки четко прослеживаются уже...
Издание второе. — Алматы: LEM, 2009. — 536 с. — ISBN: 9965-803-80-3. Хрестоматия по некоммерческому праву представляет собой сборник документов и аналитических материалов по международному праву, принципам и стандартам в области реализации права на свободу объединения. В Хрестоматию включены тексты основных международных договоров, содержащих гарантии реализации права на...
Автор неизвестен. Таблица.
Естественные (элементарные) права и свободы, Гражданские права и свободы, Политические права и свободы, Экологические права и свободы, Экономические права и свободы, Социальные права и свободы, Культурные права и свободы
2006 Amnesty International Nederland ISBN: 90 6463 175 1 (голл. )
ISBN/13: 978 90 6463 175 7 (русс. ) Язык оригинала: английский. Перевод на русский язык Н. Ишевской, М. Кузнецовой, О. Шарп
Полиция нередко нарушает права человека, и в то же время полицейские играют жизненно важную роль в их защите. Поэтому деятельности полиции принадлежит центральное место в полемике по самым...
Учебное пособие. - Минск: БГУ, 2005. - 195 с.
Содержание:
Понятие права прав человека
Формирование концепции прав человека и ее закрепление в национальном и международном праве
Источники и принципы права прав человека
Классификация прав, свобод и обязанностей человека
Международно-правовая защита прав человека
Универсальный механизм международного контроля в области прав...
25 страниц.
Это книга - гид, книга-путеводитель по правам человека.
"Я и милиция" - первая книга из серии подобных изданий, задуманных правозащитной организацией Фонд "Центр по защите прав человека в Приднестровье".
М.: «Права человека», 2003. – 71 стр. Настоящее издание – первое в России и странах СНГ пособие для активных людей, способных воспользоваться своим конституционным правом на публичный протест. Эта книга – не для экстремистов или радикалов, она дает возможность понять, что право выразить свой протест, публично защитить себя или своего коллегу – первый шаг к гражданскому...
М.: Международный юридический институт, 2015. — 284 с. В монографии с юридической, педагогической и социологической позиций раскрываются особенности правового регулирования отношений с участием детей и молодежи, обращено внимание на проблемы реализации их прав в современной России, представлены, на основе проведенного исследования, предложения по совершенствованию...
Интернет-издание, 2013
Книга о самом главном — для тех, кто не хочет попасть в тюрьму. Задержание и первые допросы зачастую определяют, как дальше пойдёт дело. Книга отвечает на вопросы:
Как себя вести, если на вас оказывают психологическое давление?
— Что делать если угрожают избить или начинают бить?
— Какие права у задержанного, обвиняемого, других лиц, участвующих в...
Интернет-издание, 2013. — 40 с. Данная книга уникальна тем, что в ней сочетаются юридические и психологические аспекты защиты в уголовном судопроизводстве. В книге много практики, что позволит уверенно себя чувствовать в непростой ситуации допроса. Часто, люди теряются, и не могут правильно действовать в условиях стресса, а задержание и допрос – это непростая ситуация. Как не...
Методическое пособие. — М.: Права человека, 2007. — 112 с. — ISBN 978-5-7712-0378-2. Настоящее издание — перевод с английского языка отдельной главы «Пособия по обучению правам ребенка и адвокации» (Child Rights Training and Advocacy Manual), разработанного в рамках международного проекта «Не забыть ни одного ребенка» (Leave No Child Out) в сотрудничестве и при поддержке...
Информационно-методическое пособие для детей тренеров-пропагандистов. — Ижевск: ИГОО «Центр социальных и образовательных инициатив», 2006. — 94 С.
Составители: Алена Бабушкина, Анна Варначева, Ирина Макарова, Дарья Медведева, Ольга Пишкова, Александр Радевич, Елена Рогожникова, Мария Ржевская, Анастасия Сосунова, Валентина Степанова, Ирина Федулова, Дарья Ценева
От прав...
Мариахоф (Австрия), Самиздат , 2016, количество страниц в печатном издании - 9. Записи очевидца преступлений против человечности в Австрии в 2016-2017 годах. За то, что он официально заявил об этом его подвергли карательной психиатрии. Поставив ему фальшивый диагноз паранойя, лишили его свидетельства силы и выслали из Австрии.
Сборник материалов. – М.: Институт государственно-конфессиональных отношений и права, 2007. – 222 с. Сборник посвящен важнейшему для нормального развития демократического общества вопросу соотношения свободы слова и правомерных ограничений злоупотребления этой свободой. Данная тема раскрыта на примере детального анализа многочисленных злоупотреблений свободой слова и свободой...
Институт государственно-конфессиональных отношений и права. — М.: Буки-Веди, 2016. — 232 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4465-1015. Настоящее издание посвящено вопросам правовой защиты прав ребёнка и прав общества в целом от интеллектуальных форм агрессивного растлевающего и развращающего воздействия со стороны пропагандистов идеологии гомосексуализма. Обосновывается неотъемлемое право...
Права и обязанности. Правовой статус. Потребитель и его права. Источники права. Нормы права. Правоотношения. Реализация права. Правовая культура. Правовое государство. Правонарушения.
Автор неизвестен. — М., 1999. Права человека: понятие и сущность Права человека в истории политико-правовой мысли Правовой статус человека и гражданина Гражданство Структура прав человека и гражданина Права человека и правовое государство Права человека и социальное государство Человек и государство Права человека, политика, мораль Конституционный контроль Судебная защита прав...
Практическое пособие. — Ташкент: Baktria Press, 2012. — 284 с. В настоящем пособии изложена информация об основных институтах прав человека, включая вопросы реализации права на справедливое судопроизводство, включены основные международные документы в данной сфере универсального и регионального характера, а также нормы законодательства Республики Узбекистан в сфере защиты прав...
Управление Верховного Комиссара ООН по правам человека. Изложение фактов № 32. Отпечатано в Организации Объединенных Наций, Женева. Серия Права человека: изложение фактов издается Управлением Верховного комиссара Организации Объединенных Наций по правам человека, Отделение Организации Объединенных Наций в Женеве. В ней освещаются отдельные вопросы прав человека, которые активно...
Аналитический доклад. — Article 19, Сова, 2023. — 78 с. Резюме. Введение. Международные стандарты в области прав человека. Страновые обзоры. Беларусь. Ужесточение законодательства в 2021 году. Ужесточение законодательства в 2022 году. Ужесточение законодательства в 2023 году. Статистика правоприменения. Статистика использования официальных перечней, имеющих отношение. к...
Управление Верховного Комиссара ООН по правам человека.
Изложение фактов № 21/Rev
.1. Отпечатано в Организации Объединенных Наций, Женева.
Серия Права человека: изложение фактов издается Управлением Верховного комиссара Организации Объединенных Наций по правам человека, Отделение Организации Объединенных Наций в Женеве. В ней освещаются отдельные вопросы прав человека, которые...
Управление Верховного Комиссара ООН по правам человека. Изложение фактов № 34. Отпечатано в Организации Объединенных Наций, Женева. Серия Права человека: изложение фактов издается Управлением Верховного комиссара Организации Объединенных Наций по правам человека, Отделение Организации Объединенных Наций в Женеве. В ней освещаются отдельные вопросы прав человека, которые активно...
Курс лекций. — Екатеринбург: Российский государственный профессионально-педагогический университет. — 203 с. (Год издания не указан). Автор обобщает проблемы, связанные с теорией и практикой реализации прав человека в России и мире, делает прогностические предложения о путях вхождения России в правовое поле и строительства гражданского общества, нацеливая читателя на осознание...
Учебное пособие. — Saarbrucken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2015. — 265 с. — ISBN: 978-3-659-77534-5 Настоящее учебное пособие написано на основе многолетних научных изысканий авторов, в частности, их монографического исследования «Идея человеческого достоинства в политикоюридических доктринах и праве», вышедшего в 2009 г. в издательстве Сибирского федерального университета и...
Издательские решения, 2017. — 144 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4490-1107-7 Каждый из нас ежедневно сталкивается с правовыми вопросами, будь то бизнес, работа, машина, ЖКХ, покупки, продажи… Однако, главный парадокс заключается в том, что в крайне важной сфере нашей жизни, мы разбираемся намного хуже чем во всех остальных, менее важных её сферах. Представьте, что вы, сможете освоить все...
Учебное пособие. — Краснодар: Краснодарский юридический институт МВД России, 2000. — 126 с. В учебном пособии раскрывается понятие естественного права, дается характеристика основанных на этом учении естественных прав человека. Показываются истоки формирования этих социальных институтов. Подробно анализируются противоречия между естественным и позитивным правом, которые...
Совет по правам человека. Рабочая группа по произвольным задержаниям. Мнения, принятые Рабочей группой по произвольным задержаниям, на 84 сессии, 24 апреля — 3 мая 2019 года. Мнение № 11/2019 относительно Дмитрия Михайлова (Российская Федерация). Представленные материалы. Сообщение заявителя. Предыстория дела. Задержание и заключение под стражу. Анализ нарушений. Категория II....
Римский Валентин, Пыслару Виталий, Грозев Йонко, Гурски Константин, Виеру Татьяна. – Кишинев: PRAG – 3, 2018. – 308с. С чего начинается и чем заканчивается коррупция? Как Высшая Судебная Палата Республики Молдова сумела аннулировать закон при активном содействии Европейского суда по правам человека и Комитета по правам человека ООН. Почему многие положения закона, призванные...
Учебное пособие. - Самара: Самарский университет, 2020. - 92 с. В настоящем издании рассматриваются такие темы, как: "Институт прав человека и международная правозащитная деятельность: понятия, принципы, современное состояние, основные направления развития", "История становления международных правозащитных институтов", "Международные региональные правозащитные системы и их...
Юридический центр, 2003. - 500 с. - ISBN: 5-94201-179-8. Данная работа имеет целью определить содержание права на жизнь, его структуру, особенности реализации, а также принципы ограничения в связи с возникновением его в международном и конституционном праве. Рассматривается сущность данного права, подробно раскрываются момент его возникновения, а также момент утраты. При этом...
Юридический центр, 2003. - 500 с. - ISBN: 5-94201-179-8. Данная работа имеет целью определить содержание права на жизнь, его структуру, особенности реализации, а также принципы ограничения в связи с возникновением его в международном и конституционном праве. Рассматривается сущность данного права, подробно раскрываются момент его возникновения, а также момент утраты. При этом...
Юридический центр, 2003. - 500 с. - ISBN: 5-94201-179-8. Данная работа имеет целью определить содержание права на жизнь, его структуру, особенности реализации, а также принципы ограничения в связи с возникновением его в международном и конституционном праве. Рассматривается сущность данного права, подробно раскрываются момент его возникновения, а также момент утраты. При этом...
Монография. — Архангельск: Поморский государственный университет, 2002. — 167 с. — ISBN: 5-88086-332-8. Данная работа представляет собой комплексное исследование, имеющее цель определить содержание конституционного права на жизнь, его структуру, особенности реализации, а также принципы ограничения. Значительное место уделено зарубежному опыту государственного регулирования....
Учебное пособие. — Оренбург: ОГУ, 2004. — 166 с.
В учебном пособии рассмотрены основы учения о правах человека, механизмы реализации и защиты прав человека в различных инстанциях и на различных этапах применительно к различным странам.
Настоящее учебное пособие основано на научном опыте в сфере становления и развития прав человека. В нём излагаются основные вопросы, которые...
Учебное пособие. — Оренбург: ОГУ, 2017. — 257 с. Учебное пособие посвящено актуальным вопросам защиты и соблюдения прав и свобод человека и гражданина. Анализируют основные направления дальнейшего реформирования системы защиты прав и свобод человека и гражданина как на международном уровне, так и внутри Российской Федерации. Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов,...
Учебник. - Ташкент, 2012. - 275 с. Понятие, предмет, метод и система учебной дисциплины "Общая теория прав человека" и его значение Исторические корни современной концепции прав человека Понятие прав человека и правовой статус личности Общая характеристика и содержание основных прав и свобод человека (личных, политических экономически-социальных, культурных) Характеристика...
Ташкент: Национальный центр Республики Узбекистан по правам человека 2011. — 208 с. Данное издание посвящено деятельности Национального центра Республики Узбекистан по правам человека, который был создан на основе Указа Президента Республики Узбекистан от 31 октября 1996 г. Этот национальный институт по правам человека занимает важное место в национальной системе защиты прав и...
Ташкент: Адолат, 2013. — 344 с. Данная книга освещ ает деятельность Национального центра Республики У збекистан по правам человека в 2012 году сквозь призму функционирования в стране национальной системы соблюдения и защиты прав и основных свобод человека, основы которой были залож ены Конституцией Республики Узбекистан. В ней раскрыты основные направления деятельности Центра,...
2010. - 40 с. Автором данной брошюры является Сафронов Константин Юрьевич Член Европейской ассоциации студентов-юристов. Член политической партии Единая Россия. Член организаторского комитета VI Международной научной конференции студентов, аспирантов и молодых учёных. Автор многочисленных научных работ и учебных пособий. Введение Клонирование глазами современников Запрет...
Гродно: ГрГМУ, 2009. - 70 с. Содержание Идейные истоки современной концепции прав человека Историко-культурные и теоретические предпосылки формирования концепции прав человека в европейской мысли Проблема прав человека в современной философии Материализация великих идей Теория прав человека: предмет, функции, метод Права человека как особая область философского и научного...
Гродно: ГрГМУ, 2009. - 70 с. Содержание Идейные истоки современной концепции прав человека Историко-культурные и теоретические предпосылки формирования концепции прав человека в европейской мысли Проблема прав человека в современной философии Материализация великих идей Теория прав человека: предмет, функции, метод Права человека как особая область философского и научного...
Учебное пособие. — Минск: БГПУ, 2001. — 97 с.
В учебном пособии рассматривается феномен мировой культуры и цивилизации — права человека. В нем раскрываются сущность и основные понятия этого явления, история идей и современные представления о правах человека, международные и национальные механизмы их защиты, а также анализируется ситуация с правами человека в Республике...
Учеб.-метод, пособие. Минск: БГПУ, 2009.-123 с.
В пособии актуализируются и систематизируются знания в сложном и важном феномене
мировой культуры и цивилизации - «права человека». Раскрываются основные
теоретические понятия данного явления. Адресуется студентам БГПУ, преподавателям, учителям колледжей, всем интересующимся вопросами права.
Научно-информационное издание. — Москва: Стратегия, 2006. — ISBN: 5-9234-0062-6. В этой брошюре речь пойдет о возможностях экспертного сопровождения и консультационной поддержки конкретных программ и решение затрагивающих различные аспекты национальных отношений в стране, в частности — о правовых и экономических отношениях, возникающих в связи с международными и...
М.: Статут, 2012. – 335 с. Настоящее издание посвящено сложной правовой проблеме – применению европейских правовых стандартов. Однако, несмотря на сложность поднимаемых в ней проблем, книга читается легко, поскольку автор стремился писать простым языком, доступным даже неспециалисту. В то же время затрагиваются такие острые правовые проблемы, как место постановлений...
М.: Юстицинформ, 2014. - 140 с.
Место решений и правовых позиций Европейского суда по правам человека в правовой системе России
Теоретический аспект обязательности практики ЕСПЧ
Практический аспект обязательности практики Европейского суда по правам человека
Практика Европейского суда по правам человека в области защиты индивидуальных трудовых прав граждан
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New York: Afred A. Knopf, 1977. — 224 с. Эта книга — не исследование общего характера, а лишь описание конкретного проекта, предпринятого с целью облегчения участи ряда советских граждан еврейского происхождения, которые при попытке эмигрировать в Израиль были привлечены к судебной ответственности, осуждены и лишены свободы. Американские юристы-участники планировали довести...
Монография. - М.: Новая юстиция, 2006. - 208 с.
В настоящей книге приводится общий обзор истории возникновения и распространения института омбудсмана в мире, даётся характеристика
генезиса и основных этапов развития этого института в Великобритании и Ирландии, а также содержится детальный анализ законодательства и практики назначения на должность омбудсмана, его функций,...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Волгоград: Издательство ВГУ, 2003. — ISBN 5-85534-768-0. Книга призвана дать студентам необходимый минимум систематизированных знаний основных современных проблем прав человека как научной отрасли и учебной дисциплины
Council of Europe Publishing, 2008. — 350 с. — ISBN 978-92-871-6546-6. Редактор и соавтор: Нэнси Флауэрс. Авторы: Мария Эмилия Бредероде-Сантос, Джо Клейес, Ранья Фазах, Аннет Шнайдер, Жужанна Селени. Координация и окончательное редактирование: Жужанна Селени. Иллюстрации: Диана Надь. Настоящее пособие – это результат работы нескольких экспертов и практиков. Способность жить...
В данном пособии приводятся материалы, связанные с защитой прав чернокожего населения в США. Приводятся материалы судебной практики, решений Верховного суда, который стали переломными для всех афро-американцев. Материалы иллюстрированы. Подготовлены U.S. Department of State. До Америки доходит рабство. Глобальное явление перенесено на американскую почву. Рабство укореняется....
Нью-Йорк: Хроника, 1976. — 82 с. Группа содействия соблюдению в СССР. Заключительного акта Хельсинского совещания. Осужден Андрей Твердохлебов. Суд над Мустафой Джемилевым. Заявление Виктора Красина. Положение Буковского. В защиту Валентина Мороза. Заявление Суперфина. В защиту Бориса Здоровца. Открытое письмо матерей и жен политзаключенных. Математики — в защиту Московского...
Управление Верховного Комиссара ООН по правам человека. Изложение фактов № 33. Отпечатано в Организации Объединенных Наций, Женева. Серия Права человека: изложение фактов издается Управлением Верховного комиссара Организации Объединенных Наций по правам человека, Отделение Организации Объединенных Наций в Женеве. В ней освещаются отдельные вопросы прав человека, которые активно...
Барнаул: Барнаульский юридический институт МВД России, 2018. — 131 с. — ISBN: 978-5-94552-313-5. В монографии дан анализ сущности принципа взаимной ответственности государства и личности как наиболее важного инструмента установления баланса и оптимального соотношения частных и публичных интересов. В работе обобщены теоретические взгляды на проблему взаимоотношений личности и...
Учебное пособие. - Иркутск: БГУ, 2018. - 124 с. В настоящем издании исследуются вопросы становления и развития государственных специализированных органов по содействию правам человека и их защите в зарубежных государствах. Особое внимание уделено углубленному изучению деятельности данных правозащитных органов в федеративных государствах. Рассматриваются такие темы, как: "Понятие и...
Учебное пособие. - Иркутск: БГУ, 2020. - 89 с. В настоящем издании исследованы судебные и несудебные механизмы защиты прав и свобод человека и гражданина. Особое внимание уделено углубленному изучению новых элементов внесудебной защиты прав человека и деятельности Европейского Суда по правам человека. Рассматриваются такие темы, как: "Современные формы защиты прав и свобод...
ответы на экзаменац. вопр. – 3-е изд., перераб. и доп. – Минск : Тетра-Системс, 2011. – 256 с.
Издание подготовлено в соответствии с типовой программой учебной дисциплины «Права человека (Право прав человека)» для высших учебных заведений. Содержит основополагающие вопросы современной теории прав человека, изложенные в форме ответов на экзаменационные вопросы. Позволяет...
Збірник навчальних програм викладачів і викладачок журналістики. — К.: Інститут журналістики КНУ імені Тараса Шевченка, 2018. — 174 с. Автори: Шендеровський К. (керівник), Виртосу І., Близнюк А., Бондаренко І., Бондаренко Т., Брошкова С., Бутиріна М., Василик Л., Волковинський О., Вялкова І., Глушко А., Коваль Т., Ковальова Т., Костюченко О., Кучер Н., Луць Ю., Мельникова О.,...
М.: Фонд «Общественный вердикт», 2008. — 48 с.
Пособие подготовлено и издан Фондом «Общественный вердикт» при поддержке Фонда Джона Д. и Кэтрин Т. Макартуров. Пособие содержит структурированное описание международных стандартов эффективного расследования сообщений о пытках и предназначено для должностных лиц и юристов, работающих в сфере уголовного права и процесса.
Выходные данные не указаны. 32 стр. 8-10 июня 2006 года в г. Дербенте (Российская Федерация, Республика Дагестан) состоялась Международная конференция «Женщины Кавказа за гражданское образование, против дискриминации, ксенофобии и расизма». Инициаторами и организаторами проведения данного мероприятия выступили: Национальная Комиссия Российской Федерации по делам ЮНЕСКО, Бюро...
Монография. — Душанбе: РТСУ, 2009. — 224 с. Монография посвящена актуальным проблемам защиты прав и свобод человека и гражданина в Республике Таджикистан. В работе рассматриваются вопросы, связанные с конституционно-правовым институтом защиты прав и свобод человека и гражданина в Республике Таджикистан, его сущностью и структурой, содержанием, особенностями юридической природы...
М: Юрайт, 2007, 192с. В книге рассказывается о правах граждан, задержанных сотрудниками милиции как за совершение административных правонарушений, так и по подозрению в совершении уголовного преступления. Также содержатся рекомендации о том, как правильно себя вести при контакте с милиционерами, и практические советы об обжаловании незаконных действий работников милиции....
Воронеж: Издательство Профсоюза литераторов, 2006. — 36 с. В издании подробно рассмотрены базовые понятия концепции прав человека: что есть "факт нарушения прав человека", чем являются сами "права человека", в чем разница между "правами человека" и "общественными интересами", "правами человека" и "политической деятельностью". Книга помогает разобраться с основами общепринятого...
Пособие предлагает читателю комментарии и практические рекомендации по применению российского законодательства, гарантирующего право на информацию и на его судебную защиту. В пособии приводятся образцы правовых документов, необходимых для истребования информации и ведения судебных дел по оспариванию отказов в информации.
Поддерживаю. Также следует создать перекрёстные ссылки с разделами "Конституционное право зарубежных стран", "Конституционное право России", "Конституционное право стран СНГ"
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