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  • Abortion Rights Backlash

    The Struggle for Democracy in Europe and the Americas

    by Alison Brysk ...
    Reproductive rights are fundamental for the life, freedom, health, and safety of over half the world's population. Yet reproductive freedoms are under attack worldwide, even where women have achieved political rights and workplace participation. According to the World Health Organization, about a third of pregnancies end in abortion--but about half of abortions are unsafe, resulting in tens of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Global Good Samaritans

    Human Rights as Foreign Policy

    by Alison Brysk ...
    In a troubled world where millions die at the hands of their own governments and societies, some states risk their citizens' lives, considerable portions of their national budgets, and repercussions from opposing states to protect helpless foreigners. Dozens of Canadian peacekeepers have died in Afghanistan defending humanitarian reconstruction in a shattered faraway land with no ties to their own ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Globalization and Human Rights

    Edited by Alison Brysk ...
    In this landmark volume, Alison Brysk has assembled an impressive array of scholars to address new questions about globalization and human rights. Is globalization generating both problems and opportunities? Are new problems replacing or intensifying state repression? How effective are new forms of human rights accountability?These essays include theoretical analyses by Richard Falk, Jack Donnelly ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Future of Human Rights

    by Alison Brysk ...
    Human rights have fallen on hard times, yet they are more necessary than ever. People all over the world – from Amazonian villages to Iranian prisons – need human rights to gain recognition, campaign for justice, and save lives. But how can we secure a brighter future for human rights? What changes are required to confront the regime’s weaknesses and emerging global challenges?In this cutting-edge ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • Speaking Rights to Power

    Constructing Political Will

    by Alison Brysk ...
    This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. How can "Speaking Rights to Power" construct political will to respond to human rights abuse worldwide? Examining dozens of cases of human rights campaigns and using an innovative analysis of the politics ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Human Rights and Private Wrongs

    Constructing Global Civil Society

    by Alison Brysk ...
    Series series Global Horizons
    Human Rights and Private Wrongs breaks new ground by considering a series of fascinating issues that are normally ignored by human rights specialists because they are too "private" to consider as policy issues: children's labor migration; refugee policy towards unaccompanied minors; financial matters of investor and business responsibility; and complex questions involving access to the benefits of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • From Human Trafficking to Human Rights

    Reframing Contemporary Slavery

    Edited by Alison Brysk, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Over the last decade, public, political, and scholarly attention has focused on human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery. Yet as human rights scholars Alison Brysk and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick argue, most current work tends to be more descriptive and focused on trafficking for sexual exploitation.In From Human Trafficking to Human Rights, Brysk, Choi-Fitzpatrick, and a cast of experts ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Politics of the Globalization of Law

    Getting from Rights to Justice

    Edited by Alison Brysk ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    How does the globalization of law, the emergence of multiple and shifting venues of legal accountability, enhance or evade the fulfillment of international human rights? Alison Brysk’s edited volume aims to assess the institutional and political factors that determine the influence of the globalization of law on the realization of human rights.The globalization of law has the potential to move the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • From Human Trafficking to Human Rights

    Reframing Contemporary Slavery

    Edited by Alison Brysk, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Over the last decade, public, political, and scholarly attention has focused on human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery. Yet as human rights scholars Alison Brysk and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick argue, most current work tends to be more descriptive and focused on trafficking for sexual exploitation.In From Human Trafficking to Human Rights, Brysk, Choi-Fitzpatrick, and a cast of experts ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Struggle for Freedom from Fear

    Contesting Violence against Women at the Frontiers of Globalization

    by Alison Brysk ...
    How can we understand and contest the global wave of violence against women? In this book, Alison Brysk shows that gender violence across countries tends to change as countries develop and liberalize, but not in the ways that we might predict. She shows how liberalizing authoritarian countries and transitional democracies may experience more shifting patterns and greater levels of violence than ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • People Out of Place

    Globalization, Human Rights and the Citizenship Gap

    Edited by Alison Brysk, Gershon Shafir ...
    Globalization pushes people "out of place"--across borders, out of traditions, into markets, and away from the rights of national citizenship. But globalization also contributes to the spread of international human rights ideas and institutions. This book analyzes the impact of these contradictory trends, with a focus on vulnerable groups such as migrants, laborers, women, and children. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Global Good Samaritans

    Human Rights as Foreign Policy

    by Alison Brysk ...
    In a troubled world where millions die at the hands of their own governments and societies, some states risk their citizens' lives, considerable portions of their national budgets, and repercussions from opposing states to protect helpless foreigners. Dozens of Canadian peacekeepers have died in Afghanistan defending humanitarian reconstruction in a shattered faraway land with no ties to their own ... Read more

    $35.99 USD