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NGOs in China and Europe: Comparisons and Contrasts

by Yuwen Li

This volume presents a comparison of the experiences of NGOs in China and Europe. The chapters on China contain the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the various types of NGOs currently active in...


Activation Policies and the Protection of Individual Rights: A Critical Assessment of the Situation in Denmark, Finland and Sweden

by Paul Van Aerschot

Activation Policies and the Protection of Individual Rights centers on the embedded nature of social policy within the broader legal system, whilst looking at the significance of human rights within social welfare....


The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession

by Lorna Fox O'Mahony & James A. Sweeney

This book explores an important set of legal and policy issues surrounding the concepts of home and homelessness, taking this growing area of legal scholarship into the new arena of human rights and international...


Rights in Context: Law and Justice in Late Modern Society

by Reza Banakar

This collection offers a snapshot of how rights are debated and employed in public discourse to reshape legal and political relations at the beginning of the twenty-first century. They explore how rights are...


International Human Rights Law: Six Decades after the UDHR and Beyond

by Mashood A. Baderin & Manisuli Ssenyonjo

This timely and valuable book explores the development of international human rights law over the last six decades. The volume brings together leading experts to reflect on different aspects of human rights...


Muslim Marriage in Western Courts: Lost in Transplantation

by Pascale Fournier

This book describes and analyzes the notion of Mahr, the Muslim custom whereby the groom has to give a gift to the bride in consideration of the marriage. It explores how Western courts, specifically in Canada,...


Issues in Human Rights Protection of Intellectually Disabled Persons

by Andreas Dimopoulos

This volume examines a wide array of issues relating to human rights and intellectual disability, such as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the case law of the ECtHR, and jurisprudential...


The Professional Identity of the Human Rights Field Officer

by Michael O'Flaherty & George Ulrich

The important and groundbreaking volume, The Professional Identity of the Human Rights Field Officer, completes the study of human rights field work begun in the earlier The Human Rights Field Operation (2007:...


Civil Rights in Wartime: The Post-9/11 Sikh Experience

by Dawinder S. Sidhu & Neha Singh Gohil

This book shares accounts of public and private discrimination involving turbaned Sikhs in America since September 11, 2001, investigates the American legal remedies available to those affected by discriminatory...


Absolute Poverty and Global Justice: Empirical Data - Moral Theories - Initiatives

by Elke Mack & Michael Schramm

It is held that absolute poverty causes approximately one third of all human deaths, some 18 million annually, and blights billions of lives with hunger and disease. This book develops universalizable norms...


Domestic Deployment of the Armed Forces: Military Powers, Law and Human Rights

by Michael Head & Scott Mann

Examining the national and international law, human rights and civil liberties issues involved in governments calling out troops to deal with civil unrest or terrorism, this book discusses the changes underway...


What Is Right for Children?: The Competing Paradigms of Religion and Human Rights

by Martha Albertson Fineman & Karen Worthington

Using international human rights norms as a touchstone, examining the state of 'rights-talk' about children in the US, this collection explores the presence, participation and treatment of children, in many...


The Child As Vulnerable Patient: Protection and Empowerment

by Lynn Hagger

This volume examines the particular ethical and legal issues raised by children in the health care setting and considers the key areas of concern in relation to the balance between protecting the welfare of...


Law's Task: The Tragic Circle of Law, Justice and Human Suffering

by Louis E. Wolcher

What is the ultimate task of law? This book places the idea of law's ultimate task in the context of what actually happens when people seek to do justice and enforce legal rights in a world that is inflected...


Human Rights in the Market Place: The Exploitation of Rights Protection by Economic Actors

by Christopher Harding & Uta Kohl

The ideology of human rights protection has gained considerable momentum and appears to be an effective lever for bringing about legal change. This book analyzes this strategy in economic and commercial policy...


Children's Rights in Africa: A Legal Perspective

by Julia Sloth-Nielsen

Providing an assessment of children's rights in Africa, this volume examines how international and regional law, policy and practice are integrated into various countries. Notwithstanding the particular challenges...


Security Versus Freedom?: A Challenge for Europe's Future

by Thierry Balzacq & Sergio Carrera

From the viewpoint of migration and asylum policy and the fight against terrorism, justice and home affairs is a key policy area. It is also an area that raises important questions with regard to the preservation...


Old Europe, New Europe and the US: Renegotiating Transatlantic Security in the Post 9/11 Era

by Tom Lansford & Blagovest Tashev

This volume takes a specific look at the core security priorities of European states and whether these interests are best served through closer security collaboration with the US or with emerging European structures....


Women, Migration and Citizenship: Making Local, National and Transnational Connections

by Evangelia Tastsoglou & Alexandra Dobrowolsky

This is a timely empirical and theoretical examination of the gendered implications of contemporary migration patterns and citizenship processes. It draws out the multiple connections between migration and citizenship...


'Innocent Women and Children': Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians

by R. Charli Carpenter

This ground-breaking study examines the influence of gender constructs on the international regime protecting war-affected civilians. R. Charli Carpenter argues that to understand the way in which laws of war...