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“eibe riedel”

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  • Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Law

    Contemporary Issues and Challenges

    Edited by Eibe Riedel, Gilles Giacca, Christophe Golay ...
    Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in the scale and importance of economic, social, and cultural rights (ESC rights), culminating in the adoption of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in December 2008. The Protocol gives individuals and groups the ability to bring complaints about rights violations before the UN Committee on ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

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  • Cruel and Usual Punishment

    The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

    by Nonie Darwish ...
    Nonie Darwish lived for thirty years in a majority Muslim nation. Everything about her life?family, sexuality, hygiene, business, banking, contracts, economics, politics, social issues, everything?was dictated by the Islamic law code known as Sharia.But Sharia isn't staying in majority Muslim nations. Darwish now lives in the West and brings a warning; the goal of radical Islam is to bring Sharia ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Way of Tea and Justice

    Rescuing the World's Favorite Beverage from Its Violent History

    by Becca Stevens ...
    What started as an impossible dream-to build a café that employs women recovering from prostitution and addiction-is helping to fuel an astonishing movement to bring freedom and fair wages to women producers worldwide where tea and trafficking are linked by oppression and the opiate wars.Becca Stevens started the Thistle Stop Café to empower women survivors. But when she discovered a connection ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Humanitarian Imperialism

    Using Human Rights to Sell War

    by Jean Bricmont ...
    Translated by Diana Johnstone ...
    Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading economic and military powers—above all, the United States—in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks. The criteria for such intervention have become more arbitrary and self-serving, and their form more destructive, from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan to Iraq. Until ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Bleeding Edge

    Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World

    by Bob Hughes ...
    Capitalism likes us to believe in the steady, inevitable march of progress, from the abacus to the iPad. But the historical record tells of innumerable roads not taken, all of which could have led to better, more equal worlds, and still can.Academic and activist Bob Hughes puts flesh on the bones of the idea that 'another world is possible', using as evidence the technology that capitalism claims ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Bin Laden, Islam, & America's New War on Terrorism

    by As'Ad Abukhalil ...
    Lebanese scholar As'ad AbuKhalil examines the roots of the September 11 crisis, the causes for antipathy toward the United States, and the historical relations between the U.S. and the Islamic world. AbuKhalil also reviews the background of U.S. entanglement with the Middle East, and how it catalyzed militant fundamentalist networks that came to perceive the United States as an enemy. Beginning ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 2048

    Humanity's Agreement To Live Together: The International Movement for Enforceable Human Rights

    by J. Kirk Boyd ...
    Creating an enforceable international guarantee of basic human rightsOutlines the basics of a universally acceptable agreementShows what everyone can do to make this agreement a realityIn 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a deeply inspiring document that has been translated into over 300 languages and dialects. But because its provisions ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saving Gary McKinnon

    A Mother's Story

    by Janis Sharp ...
    The ordinary lives of Gary McKinnon and his mother Janis changed dramatically one morning in 2002 when police interviewed Gary about hacking into US government computers. Three years later, on 7 June 2005, he was arrested. Extradition seemed certain and so, fearing that Gary would take his own life rather than be taken away, Janis began her extraordinary battle. Facing up to sixty years' ... Read more

    $5.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gacaca Courts, Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda

    Justice without Lawyers

    by Phil Clark ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    Since 2001, the Gacaca community courts have been the centrepiece of Rwanda's justice and reconciliation programme. Nearly every adult Rwandan has participated in the trials, principally by providing eyewitness testimony concerning genocide crimes. Lawyers are banned from any official involvement, an issue that has generated sustained criticism from human rights organisations and international ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Dancing in Shadows

    Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia

    by Benny Widyono ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    This fascinating book recounts the remarkable tale of a career UN official from Indonesia caught in the turmoil of international and domestic politics swirling around Cambodia during the tumultuous period after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Writing from his experience first as a member of the UN transitional authority and then as a personal envoy to the UN secretary-general, Benny Widyono re ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The United Nations and the Politics of Selective Humanitarian Intervention

    by Martin Binder ...
    This book offers the first book-length explanation of the UN’s politics of selective humanitarian intervention. Over the past 20 years the United Nations has imposed economic sanctions, deployed peacekeeping operations, and even conducted or authorized military intervention in Somalia, Bosnia, or Libya. Yet no such measures were taken in other similar cases such as Colombia, Myanmar, Darfur—or ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Changing Nature of Religious Rights under International Law

    Edited by Malcolm Evans, Peter Petkoff, Julian Rivers ...
    The Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1981, is the only universal human rights instrument specifically focusing on religious intolerance and discrimination. However, recent years have seen increasing controversy surrounding this right, in both political and legal ... Read more

    $140.39 USD