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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 centers on the embedded nature of social policy within the broader legal system, whilst looking at the significance of human rights within social welfare....
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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 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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...