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  • Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights

    Edited by Rob Dickinson, Elena Katselli, Colin Murray, Ole W. Pedersen ...
    Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights sets out a practical and theoretical overview of the future of human rights within the United Kingdom and beyond. A number of internationally renowned scholars respond to David Kennedy's contribution 'The International Human Rights Movement: Still Part of the Problem?' from a range of different perspectives. With its combination of theory and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk

    by Palden Gyatso ...
    "With this memoir by a 'simple monk' who spent 33 years in prisons and labor camps for resisting the Chinese, a rare Tibetan voice is heard." — The New York Times Book ReviewPalden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at eighteen—just as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of ... Read more

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  • The Way of Tea and Justice

    Rescuing the World's Favorite Beverage from Its Violent History

    by Becca Stevens ...
    What started as an impossible dream-to build a café that employs women recovering from prostitution and addiction-is helping to fuel an astonishing movement to bring freedom and fair wages to women producers worldwide where tea and trafficking are linked by oppression and the opiate wars.Becca Stevens started the Thistle Stop Café to empower women survivors. But when she discovered a connection ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Clan Cleansing in Somalia

    The Ruinous Legacy of 1991

    by Lidwien Kapteijns ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    In 1991, certain political and military leaders in Somalia, wishing to gain exclusive control over the state, mobilized their followers to use terror—wounding, raping, and killing—to expel a vast number of Somalis from the capital city of Mogadishu and south-central and southern Somalia. Manipulating clan sentiment, they succeeded in turning ordinary civilians against neighbors, friends, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Keepers of the Flame

    Understanding Amnesty International

    by Stephen Hopgood ...
    "If one organization is synonymous with keeping hope alive, even as a faint glimmer in the darkness of a prison, it is Amnesty International. Amnesty has been the light, and that light was truth—bearing witness to suffering hidden from the eyes of the world."—from the PrefaceThe first in-depth look at working life inside a major human rights organization, Keepers of the Flame charts the history of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities

    National and International Perspectives

    by Arie Rimmerman ...
    Series series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    Social inclusion is often used interchangeably with the terms social cohesion, social integration and social participation, positioning social exclusion as the opposite. The latter is a contested term that refers to a wide range of phenomena and processes related to poverty and deprivation, but it is also used in relation to marginalised people and places. This book consists of two parts: the ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Refugees of the Revolution

    Experiences of Palestinian Exile

    by Diana Allan ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "right of return." Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended abruptly with "the catastrophe" of 1948 and their camps—inhabited now for four ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • International Human Rights and Islamic Law

    by Mashood A. Baderin ...
    Series series Oxford Monographs in International Law
    This volume examines the important question of whether or not international human rights and Islamic law are compatible. It asks whether Muslim States can comply with international human rights law whilst adhering to Islamic law. The traditional arguments on this subject are examined and responded to from both international human rights and Islamic legal perspectives. The volume engages ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • The Business and Human Rights Landscape

    Moving Forward, Looking Back

    Edited by Jena Martin, Karen E. Bravo ...
    The adoption of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in 2011 marked a watershed moment, establishing the first global standards for preventing human rights abuses by business. In light of this paradigm shift, The Business and Human Rights Landscape offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the current legal framework. It includes in-depth explorations of the ... Read more

    $164.99 USD

  • Immigration Law Handbook 2013

    by Margaret Phelan, James Gillespie ...
    Now in its eighth edition, the Immigration Law Handbook continues to bring together all the key materials relevant to immigration and asylum law in one volume, providing an essential reference tool for those working in the area. This new edition maintains the strengths of the handbook as a reference tool and is fully updated to allow the reader access to all new developments. Legislative changes ... Read more

    $112.99 USD

  • Dancing in Shadows

    Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia

    by Benny Widyono ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    This fascinating book recounts the remarkable tale of a career UN official from Indonesia caught in the turmoil of international and domestic politics swirling around Cambodia during the tumultuous period after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Writing from his experience first as a member of the UN transitional authority and then as a personal envoy to the UN secretary-general, Benny Widyono re ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Human Rights, Inc.

    The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law

    by Joseph R. Slaughter ...
    In this timely study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, Joseph Slaughter demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of “world literature” and international human rights law are related phenomena.Slaughter argues that international law shares with the modern novel a particular conception of the human individual. The Bildungsroman, the novel ... Read more

    $43.99 USD