Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties

This volume brings together the leading research articles on the development of human rights law by the United Nations. It includes articles on the law of the Charter and its evolution; the UN law-making process; an assessment of the UN efforts to strengthen the ability of individuals and groups to ..

The Use of Force in Humanitarian Intervention..

This collection breaks new ground by offering a comprehensive, philosophical exploration of the value and limits of rights. Since the issues it covers are some of the most vital that we face today, its relevance to contemporary social and political debates cannot be overstated._x000D_ It was publish..

This Ability..

This collection of essays from an international field of experts offers a timely reassessment of the idea of toleration. Against recent sceptical challenges, the essays emphasise the continuing importance of toleration in the public life of contemporary democratic society. _x005F_x000D_ This book wa..

This volume explores the factors that give rise to the number of people seeking asylum and examines the barriers they continue to face. The authors explore the causality that generates displacement, discuss how migrants are received and the problems they face on arrival, and conclude by confronting ..

This title was first published in 2002: Addressing the critical issues where commercializm and human rights converge, this insightful addition to the literature on US foreign policy on human rights makes a valuable contribution to the field of international relations...

Examining legal approaches to cultural differences from a comparative perspective and across a wide range of locations, this book investigates how the construction and evolution of human rights norms are transferred in transnational legal settings and asks whether law should reflect, express or cont..

Notwithstanding the widespread and persistent affirmation of the indivisibility and equal worth of all human rights, socio-economic rights continue to be treated as the Cinderella of the human rights corpus. At a domestic level this has frequently resulted in little appetite for the explicit recogni..

Using international human rights norms as a touchstone, examining the state of 'rights-talk' about children in the US, this collection explores the presence, participation and treatment of children, in many contexts of US society...

Using international human rights norms as a touchstone, examining the state of 'rights-talk' about children in the US, this collection explores the presence, participation and treatment of children, in many contexts of US society...

Brocklehurst's impressive work breaks new ground in normative international political theory. The author develops a new theoretical framework which exposes how children are present in international relations and security practices...