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  • Armed Conflict and International Law: In Search of the Human Face

    Liber Amicorum in Memory of Avril McDonald

    Edited by Mariëlle Matthee, Brigit Toebes, Marcel Brus ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book is written in memory of Avril McDonald, who passed away in April 2010. Avril was an inspired and passionate scholar in the fields of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, human rights law and law in the field of arms control and disarmament. What in particular made Avril’s work special, was her strong commitment with the human aspects throughout. Fourteen scholars ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • National Security, Public Health: Exceptions to Human Rights?

    Edited by Myriam Feinberg, Laura Niada-Avshalom, Brigit Toebes ...
    The book deals with the complicated relationships between national security and human rights, and between public health and human rights. Its premise is the fact that national security and public health are both included in human rights instruments as ‘exceptions’ to the human rights therein sanctioned, yet they can arguably be considered as human rights themselves and be equally valuable. The ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Right to Health

    A Multi-Country Study of Law, Policy and Practice

    Edited by Rhonda Ferguson, Brigit Toebes, Milan M. Markovic, Obiajulu Nnamuchi ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This interdisciplinary study engages with the fields of human rights law, health law, and public health. It analyses how the internationally guaranteed human ‘right to health’ is realized by States at a national level. It brings together scholars from more than ten different countries, with each of them analyzing the right to health in their country or region. They all focus on a particular theme ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Socio-Economic Human Rights in Essential Public Services Provision

    Edited by Marlies Hesselman, Antenor Hallo de Wolf, Brigit Toebes ...
    Series series Human Rights and International Law
    There is a clear overlap between securing socio-economic human rights for all persons and arranging adequate access to essential public services across society**.** Both are necessary to realise thriving, inclusive societies, with adequate living standards for all, based on human dignity. This edited volume brings together the two topics for the first time. In particular, it identifies the common ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Clapham ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attention internationally, and must move quickly in order to keep up with a social world that changes so rapidly. This Very Short Introduction, in its second edition, brings the issue of human rights up to date, considering the current controversies ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Globalization

    Edited by Paul Battersby, Manfred B. Steger, Joseph M Siracusa ...
    Global studies is a fresh and dynamic discipline area that promises to reinvigorate undergraduate and postgraduate education in the social sciences and humanities. In the Australian context, the interdisciplinary pedagogy that defines global studies is gaining wider acceptance as a coherent and necessary approach to the study of global change. Through the Global Studies Consortium (GSC), this new ... Read more

    $280.79 USD

  • Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Clapham ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. An appeal to human rights in the face of injustice can be a heartfelt and morally justified demand for some, while for others it remains merely an empty slogan. Taking an international perspective and focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, health and discrimination, this ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Politics of Human Rights

    The Quest for Dignity

    by Sabine C. Carey, Mark Gibney, Steven C. Poe ...
    Human rights is an important issue in contemporary politics, and the last few decades have also seen a remarkable increase in research and teaching on the subject. This book introduces students to the study of human rights and aims to build on their interest while simultaneously offering an alternative vision of the subject. Many texts focus on the theoretical and legal issues surrounding human ... Read more

    $41.89 USD

  • International Migration

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Khalid Koser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In recent years, global migration has transformed in terms of its numbers and reach, its political significance, and its impact. The rising rates of international migration have been matched by growing public and media interest around the world. Today, the political and media attention on migration and greater public interest and concern feed into an international debate that is all too often ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights

    by Olivia Ball, Paul Gready ...
    Series series No-Nonsense Guides
    Since the Declaration of Human Rights over fifty years ago, we acknowledge that universal rights exist, but what does this mean to someone who is tortured or denied education, work, or asylum?This No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights looks at the theories of rights and universalism. It explores the difficult task of trying to protect human rights in war, the legal advances that have led to some ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Politics as Usual

    What Lies Behind the Pro-Poor Rhetoric

    by Thomas W. Pogge ...
    Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health-care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, empowering human beings everywhere to enjoy security, economic sufficiency, equal citizenship, and a life in dignity. To be sure, there are some specially difficult areas disfavoured by climate, geography, local diseases, unenlightened cultures or ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law

    Edited by Conor Gearty, Costas Douzinas ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Law
    Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the early twenty-first century. This book presents in an authoritative and readable form the variety of platforms on which human rights law is practiced today, reflecting also on the dynamic inter-relationships that exist between these various levels. The collection has a critical edge. The chapters engage with how human rights law has developed ... Read more

    $36.09 USD