The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, Paperback

This book explores the potential responsibilities to respect, protect and fulfill international human rights law (IHRL) of a particular class of no...

China's 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation. Its leaders, however, were not rebellious troublemakers on the periphery of imper...

Acclaimed scholar Kathryn Sikkink examines the important and controversial new trend of holding political leaders criminally accountable for human ...

David Boyd shows that recognition of the right to a healthy environment is not only growing, it is having a profound influence on public policy and...

Reducere. This pioneering volume explores the long-neglected history of social rights, from the Middle Ages to the present. It debunks the myth that social r...

Reducere. From the First National People of Color Congress on Environmental Leadership to WTO street protests of the new millennium, environmental justice ac...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Luke W. ColeAuthor: Sheila R. FosterWhen Bill Clinton signed an Executive Order on Environmental Justice in 1994, the pheno...

Reducere. When it was first published in 2003, Rebel Musics sought to explore how musical activism resonates as resistance to the dominant culture, and how p...

International human rights have been an important matter for study, policy, and activism since the end of World War II. However, as William H. Meye...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Michael Rodriguez-MunizIllustration(s): 22 b/w illus.Number of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dime...

A timely, accessible examination of regional human rights court deterrence that combines data analysis with illustrative examples. It will appeal t...

Reducere. In the 1970s, queer Americans demanded access not only to health and social services but also to mainstream Democratic and Republican Party politic...

This volume analyses the prospects and challenges of the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights in context. The book is for all rea...

Reducere. Vanessa Walker's Principles in Power explores the relationship between policy makers and nongovernment advocates in Latin America and the United St...

Demands of Justice draws on original interviews and the documents of leading advocacy organizations, to show how global appeals for human rights de...

This Element is for practitioners, policy-makers and researchers interested in the rights-culture-politics nexus in Southeast Asia. It investigates...

What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of histo...

This book combines U.S.-based case studies with examples from other regions of the world to explore important human rights themes - the equality, u...

This book tells the dramatic story of how ordinary Kurds and their lawyers tried to mobilize the European Court of Human Rights against state viole...

A deep dive into the history and philosophy of isonomy, a system of equal rights for all, as an alternative to the concept of democracy.Publisher: ...

Reducere. With a new preface by the authors, this companion book to The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, dissects the aftermath of the war in S...

Advocates within the human rights movement have had remarkable success establishing new international laws, securing concrete changes in human righ...

A deep dive into the history and philosophy of isonomy, a system of equal rights for all, as an alternative to the concept of democracy.Publisher: ...

This book traces the development of the discourse used by the pro-life movement since the 1970s, and its relationship to public policy efforts at t...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Gordon (University of Lancaster, UK) WalkerIllustration(s): 24 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Halftone...

Reducere. The industrial-port belt of Los Angeles is home to eleven of the top twenty oil refineries in California, the largest ports in the country, and tho...

This edited collection provides a balanced conceptual framework to demonstrate not only the power of autonomous communication networks, but also th...

Reducere. This magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished historians, will be the first to explore the impact fugiti...

Reducere. Rights of Nature Rights of Nature Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics a History of Environmental Ethics a History of Environmental ...

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Reducere. This book fundamentally reinterprets the history of international human rights in the post-1945 era by documenting how pivotal the Global South was...

Most of the struggles for equitable schooling, including multicultural curricula and culturally responsive teaching, have largely taken place on a ...

Torture doctors administer and invent techniques to inflict pain and suffering without leaving scars.Their knowledge of the body and its breaking p...

Reckonings documents how Holocaust victims have sought justice over the decades and the haunting disparity between crime and punishment.

Reducere. The story of Clarence Henderson, a Black sharecropper convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn't commit The Three Death Se...

Reducere. A brilliant, shattering, and convincing account of United States-backed suppression of political and human rights in Latin America, Asia, and Afric...

Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air. By placing Indi...

Reducere. A shocking expos of sexual abuse and the struggle for justice at one of America's most prestigious schoolsIn June 2012, Amos Kamil's New York Times...

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Reducere. Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is base...

This book describes how environmental destruction and extreme inequality are the result of the human economy becoming ultrasocial: a society dedica...