Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties

Exploring the key legal issues in combating race discrimination, Race Matters provides readers with a detailed understanding of the issue of inequality. By providing a comprehensive examination of the relationship between race and the law, the book will be an important resource for those concerned w..

This volume offers a wide-ranging, contemporary critique of the significance of human rights matters in the areas of Asia-Europe relations and the European Union's Asia policies...

Presents a new framework for social justice that will change the way people think about social justice and change the way people implement social justice. This book carves out an intellectual and practical space for social justice that is distinct from political, legal, and economic spheres. While e..

Presents a new framework for social justice that will change the way people think about social justice and change the way people implement social justice. This book carves out an intellectual and practical space for social justice that is distinct from political, legal, and economic spheres. While e..

This book examines the harm that ‘everyday’ discrimination can cause and proposes ways in which it can be redressed. It draws on critical and feminist theory in order to forge a theoretical analysis of this harm created. Arguing that anti-discrimination law can and should be extended as a tool to of..

This volume examines the development of refugee law and policy in Japan. The book discusses systemic weaknesses and compares the evolution of law in other states to highlight problems in Japan's refugee determination system. Ultimately, the book calls for Japan to reform failing systems and take inn..

This volume examines the development of refugee law and policy in Japan. The book discusses systemic weaknesses and compares the evolution of law in other states to highlight problems in Japan's refugee determination system. Ultimately, the book calls for Japan to reform failing systems and take inn..

The essays selected for this volume examine the structure and functioning of the principal regional human rights systems in the world today. These systems guarantee primarily civil and political rights, although not all governments and parties to these regional treaties are democracies. These artic..

The adoption of digital technology has resulted in the convergence of broadcasting, cable, satellite, the Internet and mobile telephony, enabling each of them to deliver the same kinds of content and allowing users to exercise much greater choice over the kind of material that they receive and when..

One major issue that confronts contemporary multicultural societies in Europe and North America is the regulation of speech and writing deemed offensive to ethnic or religious minorities. Should such speech be subject to legal restrictions or should the principle of free speech be considered paramou..

This book examines the origins of Australia’s constitutional religious freedom provision. It explores the political activities and motives of religious leaders seeking to give the Australian Constitution a religious character and the political activities and motives of a religious minority seeking t..

This book contributes to a feminist understanding of international human rights by examining restrictions on reproductive freedom through the lens of the right to be free from torture. Ronli Sifris challenges the view that torture only takes place within the traditional paradigm of interrogation, pu..