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Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism
Av Glenda Sluga
Häftad, 2015
402 kr
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The twentieth century, a time of profound disillusionment with nationalism, was also the great age of internationalism. To the twenty-first-century historian, the period from the late nineteenth century until the end of the Cold War is distinctive for its nationalist preoccupations, while …
Necropolitics
Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights
Av Francisco Ferrándiz, Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Häftad, 2017
390 kr
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The unmarked mass graves left by war and acts of terror are lasting traces of violence in communities traumatized by fear, conflict, and unfinished mourning. Like silent testimonies to the wounds of history, these graves continue to inflict harm on communities and families that wish to bury or …
Reversing the Rivers
A Memoir of History, Hope, and Human Rights
Inbunden, 2023
485 kr
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From 1994 to 2006, William F. Schulz headed Amnesty International USA. During this time, he and the organization confronted some of the greatest challenges to human rights, including genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Sudan; controversies over the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the use of …
Looting and Rape in Wartime
Law and Change in International Relations
Av Tuba Inal
Häftad, 2016
334 kr
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Women were historically treated in wartime as property. Yet in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, prohibitions against pillaging property did not extend to the female body. There is a gap of nearly a hundred years between those early prohibitions of pillage and the prohibition of rape finally …
Chile Under Pinochet
Recovering the Truth
Häftad, 2025
331 kr
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"When the army comes out, it is to kill."-Augusto PinochetFollowing his bloody September 1973 coup d'État that overthrew President Salvador Allende, Augusto Pinochet, commander-in-chief of the Chilean Armed Forces and National Police, became head of a military junta that would rule Chile for the …
Chile Under Pinochet
Recovering the Truth
E-bok, 2010
1058 kr
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"When the army comes out, it is to kill."-Augusto PinochetFollowing his bloody September 1973 coup d'État that overthrew President Salvador Allende, Augusto Pinochet, commander-in-chief of the Chilean Armed Forces and National Police, became head of a military junta that would rule Chile for the …
Women's Human Rights
The International and Comparative Law Casebook
E-bok, 2013
1042 kr
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According to Susan Deller Ross, many human rights advocates still do not see women's rights as human rights. Yet women in many countries suffer from laws, practices, customs, and cultural and religious norms that consign them to a deeply inferior status. Advocates might conceive of human rights as …
Educating for Human Dignity
Learning About Rights and Responsibilities
E-bok, 2010
489 kr
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Issues of universal human rights are critically important topics in education today. Educators, scholars, and activists urge schools to promote awareness and understanding of human rights in their curricula from the earliest levels. Written by by Betty A. Reardon, one of the foremost scholars on …
Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
A Quest for Consensus
E-bok, 2010
603 kr
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Human rights violations are perpetrated in all parts of the world, and the universal reaction to such atrocities is overwhelmingly one of horror and sadness. Yet, as Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and his contributors attest, our viewpoint is clouded and biased by the expectations native to our own …
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Origins, Drafting, and Intent
E-bok, 2010
668 kr
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999Born of a shared revulsion against the horrors of the Holocaust, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has become the single most important statement of international ethics. It was inspired by and reflects the full scope of …
Guatemalan Military Project
A Violence Called Democracy
E-bok, 2010
571 kr
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In 1999, the Guatemala truth commission issued its report on human rights violations during Guatemala's thirty-six-year civil war that ended in 1996. The commission, sponsored by the UN, estimates the conflict resulted in 200,000 deaths and disappearances. The commission holds the Guatemalan …
Female Circumcision
Multicultural Perspectives
E-bok, 2013
424 kr
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Bolokoli, khifad, tahara, tahoor, qudiin, irua, bondo, kuruna, negekorsigin, and kene-kene are a few of the terms used in local African languages to denote a set of cultural practices collectively known as female circumcision. Practiced in many countries across Africa and Asia, this ritual is hotly …
Human Rights in Iran
The Abuse of Cultural Relativism
Av Reza Afshari
E-bok, 2011
554 kr
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleAre the principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights truly universal? Or, as some have argued, are they derived exclusively from Western philosophic traditions and therefore irrelevant to many non-Western cultures? …
Creating Human Rights
How Noncitizens Made Sex Persecution Matter to the World
E-bok, 2013
1132 kr
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleCreating Human Rights offers the first systematic study of a pioneering women's refugee movement and its challenge, as an international trigger case, to more conventional paths toward human rights policy development. Lisa S. Alfredson …
Human Rights Under African Constitutions
Realizing the Promise for Ourselves
E-bok, 2013
1110 kr
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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 …
African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam
E-bok, 2010
1027 kr
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Constitutionalism is steadily becoming the prevalent form of governance in Africa. But how does constitutionalism deal with the lingering effects of colonialism? And how does constitutional law deal with Islamic principles in the region? African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam seeks to …
Human Rights in Turkey
E-bok, 2013
1157 kr
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Turkey's mixed human rights record has been highly politicized in the debate surrounding the country's probable ascendance to membership in the European Union. Beginning with the foundation of a secular republic in 1923, and continuing with founding membership in the United Nations and …
International Struggle for New Human Rights
Av Clifford Bob
E-bok, 2011
424 kr
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In recent years, aggrieved groups around the world have routinely portrayed themselves as victims of human rights abuses. Physically and mentally disabled people, indigenous peoples, AIDS patients, and many others have chosen to protect and promote their interests by advancing new human rights …
Conflict and Compliance
State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure
E-bok, 2011
424 kr
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International human rights pressure has been applied to numerous states with varying results. In Conflict and Compliance, Sonia Cardenas examines responses to such pressure and challenges conventional views of the reasons states do-or do not-comply with international law. Data from disparate bodies …
Human Rights in Latin America
A Politics of Terror and Hope
E-bok, 2012
424 kr
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For the last half century, Latin America has been plagued by civil wars, dictatorships, torture, legacies of colonialism and racism, and other evils. The region has also experienced dramatic-if uneven-human rights improvements. The accounts of how Latin America's people have dealt with the …
Behind the Killing Fields
A Khmer Rouge Leader and One of His Victims
E-bok, 2011
782 kr
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In recent history, atrocities have often been committed in the name of lofty ideals. One of the most disturbing examples took place in Cambodia's Killing Fields, where tens of thousands of victims were executed and hastily disposed of by Khmer Rouge cadres. Nearly thirty years after these bloody …
Freedom from Poverty
NGOs and Human Rights Praxis
E-bok, 2011
913 kr
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Human rights advocacy in the West is changing. Before the turn of the century, access to goods such as food, housing, and health care-while essential to human survival-were deemed outside of the human rights sphere. Traditional human rights institutions focused on rights in the political arena that …
Human Rights of Women
National and International Perspectives
E-bok, 2012
1157 kr
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Rebecca J. Cook and the contributors to this volume seek to analyze how international human rights law applies specifically to women in various cultures worldwide, and to develop strategies to promote equitable application of human rights law at the international, regional, and domestic levels. …
Freedom's Ordeal
The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Post-Soviet States
E-bok, 2010
1027 kr
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Fifteen countries have emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union. Freedom's Ordeal recounts the struggles of these newly independent nations to achieve freedom and to establish support for fundamental human rights. Although history has shown that states emerging from collapsed empires rarely …
Force Profonde
The Power, Politics, and Promise of Human Rights
E-bok, 2013
1157 kr
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Presenting detailed portraits by leading authorities of the politics of human rights across the major regions of the globe, A Force Profonde: The Power, Politics, and Promise of Human Rights reveals human rights to be a force as powerful as capitalist markets and technological innovation in shaping …
Crimes of the Holocaust
The Law Confronts Hard Cases
E-bok, 2013
945 kr
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The problem of prosecuting individuals complicit in the Nazi regime's "Final Solution" is almost insurmountably complex and has produced ever less satisfying results as time has passed. In Crimes of the Holocaust, Stephan Landsman provides detailed analysis of the International Military Tribunal …
Muslims in Global Politics
Identities, Interests, and Human Rights
E-bok, 2011
479 kr
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In Egypt Islamists clash with secularists over religious and national identity, while in Turkey secularist ruling elites have chosen to accommodate Islamists in the name of democracy and reconciliation. As Islam spreads throughout the world, Muslims living in their traditional homelands and in the …
Inherent Human Rights
Philosophical Roots of the Universal Declaration
E-bok, 2012
924 kr
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Confronting the evils of World War II and building on the legacy of the 1776 Declaration of Independence and the 1789 French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a group of world citizens including Eleanor Roosevelt drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Adopted by the …
Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations
Defining and Defending National Interests
Av Ming Wan
E-bok, 2013
1027 kr
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Few issues in the relations between China and the West invoke as much passion as human rights. At stake, however, are much more than moral concerns and hurt national feelings. To Washington, the undemocratic nature of the Chinese government makes it ultimately suspect on all issues. To Beijing, the …
Pinochet Effect
Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights
E-bok, 2010
450 kr
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The 1998 arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in London and subsequent extradition proceedings sent an electrifying wave through the international community. This legal precedent for bringing a former head of state to trial outside his home country signaled that neither the immunity of a former head …
