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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “andrea schapper”
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  • Human Rights and the Environment

    Key Issues

    by Sumudu Atapattu, Andrea Schapper ...
    Series series Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability
    The field of human rights and the environment has grown phenomenally during the last few years and this textbook will be one of the first to encourage students to think critically about how many environmental issues lead to a violation of existing rights.Taking a socio-legal approach, this book will provide a good understanding of both human rights and environmental issues, as well as the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • From the Global to the Local

    How International Rights Reach Bangladesh's Children

    by Andrea Schapper ...
    Series series Law, Development and Globalization
    From the Global to the Local develops a unique perspective on human rights governance in developing countries, where the state often lacks the required resources, capacities and expertise for implementing rights. Considering how rights that have been agreed upon in the global arena of world politics are locally implemented, this book then specifically explores how they reach the local children of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Ordinary Resurrections

    Children in the Years of Hope

    by Jonathan Kozol ...
    In a stirring departure from his earlier work, Jonathan Kozol has written his most personal and hopeful book to date, an energized and unexpected answer to the bleakness of Death at an Early Age, the prize-winning classic that he published more than 30 years ago.Like his most recent book, Amazing Grace, this work also takes place in New York's South Bronx; but it is a markedly different book in ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Aid on the Edge of Chaos

    Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World

    by Ben Ramalingam ...
    It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system - which today involves every country in the world - is in need of drastic change. But there are conflicting opinions as to what is needed. Some call for dramatic increases in resources, to meet long-overdue commitments, and to scale up what is already being done around the world. Others point to the flaws in aid, and bang the drum for cutting it ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Who Takes This Child?

    A Parents’ Guide to Child Protection in Canada

    by Allan Dare Pearce ...
    Canadian parents facing the removal of children from their home are in for an uphill battle, and its important that their interests be protected. In Who Takes This Child?, author Allan Dare Pearce discusses the child protection laws, agencies, and processes in Canada. For more than thirty years, he has counseled and represented parents in their battles with the child protection authorities, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Kazakhstan's Assassinated Democracy

    by Yerzhan Dosmukhamedov ...
    Kazakhstan's Assassinated Democracy describes how the highest levels of government in Kazakhstan are attempting to suppress the country's genuine democratization particularly through the case of a political party Atameken. It is based on extensive interviews with Dr. Yerzhan K. Dosmukhamedov Chairman of the Atameken Party. These interviews and articles — most of which were originally published in ... Read more

    $37.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Children and Young People's Participation and Its Transformative Potential

    Learning from across Countries

    Edited by E.K.M. Tisdall, Andressa M. Gadda, Udi Mandel Butler ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Crimes against Children

    Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960

    by Stephen Robertson ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    In the first half of the twentieth century, Americans' intense concern with sex crimes against children led to a wave of public discussion, legislative action, and criminal prosecution. Stephen Robertson provides the first large-scale, long-term study of how American criminal courts dealt with the prosecution of sexual violence against children.Robertson describes how the nineteenth-century ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Children and Borders

    Edited by S. Spyrou, M. Christou ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Youth
    This collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children's lives and how children play a constitutive role in the social life of borders. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • European Asylum Law and the Rights of the Child

    by Ciara Smyth ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Asylum, Migration and Refugee Law
    The child asylum seeker poses unique challenges for reception and refugee status determination systems, not least because the child is entitled to have his or her rights as a child respected as a matter of international and regional human rights law. In the last decade the European Union has increasingly engaged with children’s rights, with the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty in December ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Child and Youth Migration

    Mobility-in-Migration in an Era of Globalization

    Edited by A. Veale, G. Donà ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection captures the intersection between migration, mobility and childhood studies. Contributors explore under-researched child and youth short-term and micro movements within major migration fluxes that occur in response to migration and global change. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Failure to Flourish

    How Law Undermines Family Relationships

    by Clare Huntington ...
    Exploring the connection between families and inequality, Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships argues that the legal regulation of families stands fundamentally at odds with the needs of families. Strong, stable, positive relationships are essential for both individuals and society to flourish, but from transportation policy to the criminal justice system, and from divorce ... Read more

    $30.59 USD