Campaigning for Justice: Human Rights Advocacy in Practice (Becker Jo)(Paperback)

Campaigning for Justice: Human Rights Advocacy in Practice (Becker Jo)(Paperback)

Explores the strategies behind some of the most innovative human rights campaigns and exciting human rights victories of recent

Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice (Luna Zakiya)(Paperback)

Human Rights and Schooling: An Ethical Framework for Teaching for Social Justice (Osler Audrey)(Paperback)

The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Moyn Samuel)(Paperback)

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

Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-Based Practice (Ife Jim)(Paperback)

Advocacy in Family Proceedings - Theory and Practice (Bedingfield David)(Paperback / softback)

Advocacy in Family Proceedings: Theory and Practice restates the theory and established rules of good advocacy and refines them in the light of the specific needs of family lawyers. This fully updated new edition, reflecting all recent developments, explores the writing on this subject generally

Atlas of Human Rights - Mapping Violations of Freedom Worldwide (Fagan Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

Human rights have become synonymous with legal, political, social and even economic justice - as a means of overcoming oppression and discrimination irrespective of nationality, class, creed, gender, ethnicity, or ideological commitment. This title reveals the inequities within the various

Why Human Rights in Childbirth Matter (Schiller Rebecca)(Paperback)

Why Human Rights in Childbirth explores the rights of women in pregnancy and birth, and offers information and support for mothers, caregivers and campaigners working to improve birth practices and birth experiences. Rebecca Schiller is co-chair of the human rights in childbirth charity Birthrights

Human Rights in the UK - An Introduction to the Human Rights Act 1998 (Hoffman David)(Paperback / softback)

Reimagining Human Rights: Religion and the Common Good (O'Neill William R.)(Paperback)

In Reimagining Human Rights, William O'Neill presents an interpretation of human rights 'from below,' showing how victims of atrocity can embrace the rhetoric of human rights to dismantle old narratives of power and advance new ones. Topics covered include race and mass incarceration, immigration

Transformative Leadership in Action: Allyship, Advocacy & Activism (Bruce Jacklyn A.)(Paperback)

In a time when the world is facing significant challenges, leaders who work for justice and equity for all people are necessary. Transformative Leadership in Action: Allyship, Advocacy, and Activism challenges the reader to do the essential self-work required of a 21st century leader, and provides

Women's Human Rights in India (Forster Christine)(Paperback)

This book focuses on women's human rights in India. Drawing on case studies, it provides a clear overview of the key sources on gender and rights in the country. Further, it contextualizes women's rights at the critical intersection of caste, religion and class, and analyses barriers to the

Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (Donnelly Jack)(Paperback)

In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights--and the idea

War, Conflict and Human Rights: Theory and Practice (Sriram Chandra Lekha)(Paperback)

War, Conflict and Human Rights is an innovative inter-disciplinary textbook, combining aspects of law, politics and conflict analysis to examine the relationship between human rights and armed conflict. This third edition has been fully revised and updated, and contains a completely new chapter on

A Precarious Equilibrium: Human Rights and Dtente in Jimmy Carter's Soviet Policy (Tulli Umberto)(Paperback)

Human rights and d tente inextricably intertwined during Carter's years. By promoting human rights in the USSR, Carter sought to build a domestic consensus for d tente; through bipolar dialogue, he tried to advance human rights in the USSR. But, human rights contributed to the erosion of d tente

International Human Rights (Alston Philip)(Paperback)

The definitive work in the field, International Human Rights provides a comprehensive analysis of this wide and diverse subject area. Written by world-renowned scholars Philip Alston and Ryan Goodman, this book is the successor to the widely acclaimed International Human Rights in Context.Alston

A Philosophical Introduction to Human Rights (Mertens Thomas)(Paperback)

While almost everyone has heard of human rights, few will have reflected in depth on what human rights are, where they originate from and what they mean. A Philosophical Introduction to Human Rights - accessibly written without being superficial - addresses these questions and provides a

Trauma and Human Rights: Integrating Approaches to Address Human Suffering (Butler Lisa D.)(Paperback)

Human rights violations and traumatic events often comingle in victims' experiences; however, the human rights framework and trauma theory are rarely deployed together to illuminate such experiences. This edited volume explores the intersection of trauma and human rights by presenting the

International Human Rights (Donnelly Jack)(Paperback)

Fully updated, the sixth edition of International Human Rights examines the ways in which states and other international actors have addressed human rights since the end of World War II. This unique textbook features substantial attention to theory, history, international and regional institutions,

A Global Political Morality: Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism (Perry Michael J.)(Paperback)

In A Global Political Morality, Michael J. Perry addresses several related questions in human rights theory, political theory and constitutional theory. He begins by explaining what the term 'human right' means and then elaborates and defends the morality of human rights, which is the first truly

Reframing Human Rights in a Turbulent Era (de Brca Grinne)(Paperback)

In recent years, human rights have come under fire, with the rise of political illiberalism and the coming to power of populist authoritarian leaders in many parts of the world who contest and dismiss the idea of human rights. More surprisingly, scholars and public intellectuals, from both the

The Law of International Human Rights Protection (Kalin Walter)(Paperback)

At a time when human rights are coming under increasing pressure, in-depth knowledge and understanding of their foundations, conceptual underpinnings and current practice remain crucial. The second edition of Walter Kalin and Jorg Kunzli's authoritative book provides a concise but comprehensive

La Lucha: The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico (Sack Jon)(Paperback)

A front-line human rights defender fighting murderous impunity in the Mexican borderlands The Mexican border state of Chihuahua and its city Ju rez have become notorious the world over as hotbeds of violence. Drug cartel battles and official corruption result in more murders annually in Chihuahua

Educating for Peace and Human Rights: An Introduction (Hantzopoulos Maria)(Paperback)

Over the past five decades, both peace education and human rights education have emerged distinctly and separately as global fields of scholarship and practice. Promoted through multiple efforts (the United Nations, civil society, grassroots educators), both of these fields consider content,