Mänskliga rättigheter

Cities increasingly base their local policies on human rights. Human rights cities promise to forge new alliances between urban actors and international organizations, to enable the 'translation' of the abstract language of human rights to the loc...

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Climate Change, Disasters and the Refugee Convention is concerned with refugee status determination (RSD) in the context of disasters and climate change. It demonstrates that the legal predicament of people who seek refugee status in this connecti...

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A detailed examination of EU legislation and case law on criminal law, policing, and civil law, this book discusses the impact and development of EU law in these complex and controversial areas. It also provides an overview of EU legislation on ci...

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Religionsfriheten är en omdebatterad rättighet runt om i världen. I Sverige har frågor om religionsfrihetens betydelse och gränser aktualiserats under senare år ur såväl ett politiskt som ett rättsligt perspektiv. I den här boken diskuteras religi...

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Barn är inte framtiden, barn är nu. Boken Barnets rättigheter vägleder på ett enkelt och lättförståeligt sätt till några av konventionens mest angelägna artiklar för förskolan. Med ökad förståelse för hur och varför barnkonventionen kom till och v...

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A Financial Times Best Economics Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year"e;A highly intelligent, fact-based defense of the virtues of an open, competitive economy and society."e;-Fareed Zakaria, Global Public Square, CNN&qu...

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International human rights law has expanded remarkably since the 1990s. It is therefore more important than ever to identify, beyond specific controversies, its deeper structure and the general pattern of evolution. Moreover, it has a logic of its...

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Research Methods in Human Rights introduces the reader to key methodological approaches to Human Rights research in a clear and accessible way. Drawing on the expertise of a panel of contributors, the text clearly explains the key theories and met...

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The book provides in-depth insight to scholars, practitioners, and activists dealing with human rights, their expansion, and the emergence of 'new' human rights. Whereas legal theory tends to neglect the development of concrete individual rights, ...

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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,...

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The study and teaching of international human rights law is dominated by the doctrinal method. A wealth of alternative approaches exists, but they tend to be discussed in isolation from one another. This collection focuses on cross-theoretical dis...

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This book offers an in-depth and critical analysis of the Istanbul Convention, along with discussions on its impact and implications. The work highlights the place of the Convention in the landscape of international law and policies on violence ag...

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Over the past seven decades, human rights education has blossomed into a global movement. A field of scholarship that utilizes teaching and learning processes, human rights education addresses basic rights and broadens the respect for the dignity ...

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Examining both the theory and practice of human rights in China, this Handbook provides an important analysis of rights in China in comparison to international standards and China's international engagements concerning human rights. A wide range o...

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This index to the definitive reference work on international law contains detailed references to over 1,600 articles covering the full history and breadth of public international law, as well as other information to facilitate its use, such as tab...

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Barnets rättigheter rör hela barnets liv, från rätten att leka, vila och utvecklas till rätten till delaktighet och inflytande samt att skyddas från övergrepp eller diskriminering. Att arbeta med mänskliga rättigheter i förskolan ska vara lekfullt...

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This book covers the developing field of open source research and discusses how to use social media, satellite imagery, big data analytics, and user-generated content to strengthen human rights research and investigations. The topics are presented...

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This book analyses the UN's contribution to international human rights, and the desire to ensure that governments are held accountable for their treatment of citizens and others. It offers a comprehensive and expert analysis and critique of UN ins...

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Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, over 165 countries have incorporated human rights standards into their legal systems: the resulting jurisprudence from diverse cultural traditions creates new dimensions to conce...

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International humanitarian law (IHL) protects persons and property affected by armed conflicts. Focusing on the controversies that impact IHL in practice, this much-anticipated book from leading expert Marco Sassoli discusses when IHL applies, its...

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in 2015. The SDGs make the central promise to Leave No One Behind and include a dedicated goal to reduce inequalities. Human rights advocates have put great hopes in the SDGs as an instrument f...

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År 2020 blir FN:s konvention för barnets rättigheter, "Barnkonventionen", svensk lag. Det är första gången som riksdagen har bestämt sig för att inkorporera en av FN:s konventioner för mänskliga rättigheter i svensk rätt. Detta är en utm...

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This book explores the nature and scope of the provision requiring States to 'ensure respect' for international humanitarian law (IHL) contained within Common Article 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. It examines the interpretation and application...

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"Energin sprakar från samtliga bidrag och de inbjuder till reflektion och handling." Svenska Dagbladet År 2020 blir barnkonventionen svensk lag. Det är ett stort steg och ett stort ansvar. Journalisten Ylva Mårtens har i boken Vi måste b...

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'An indispensable resource for white people who want to challenge white supremacy but don't know where to begin' Robin DiAngelo, author of New York Times bestseller WHITE FRAGILITY'It should be mandatory reading ... Buy the book, do the work and t...

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I denna antologi fokuseras och diskuteras barnkonventionen som rättsligt och praktiskt verktyg utifrån olika forskningsområden och praktiska verksamheter. Bokens författare är forskare tillhörande olika vetenskapliga discipliner, varmed barnkonven...

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Written to commemorate 30 years since the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), The Routledge International Handbook of Young Children's Rights reflects upon the status of children aged 0-8 years around the world, whether t...

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Yttrandefriheten har inte varit så här hotad på länge. En mänsklig rättighet och själva fundamentet för demokratin påstås vara för fri, folk måste skyddas från ord. Bakom hoten lurar många olika slags makthavare: den mäktiga mediebranschen som ser...

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Impoverishment and Asylum argues that a shift has taken place in recent decades towards construing asylum as primarily a political and/or humanitarian phenomenon, to construing it as primarily an economic phenomenon, and that this shift has had le...

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This monograph could not be more timely, as discourses relating to refugees' access to territory, rescue at sea, push-back, and push-back by proxy dominate political debate. Looking at the questions which lie at the junction of migration control a...

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