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  • Human Rights in China

    A Social Practice in the Shadows of Authoritarianism

    by Eva Pils ...
    Series series China Today
    How can we make sense of human rights in China's authoritarian Party-State system? Eva Pils offers a nuanced account of this contentious area, examining human rights as a set of social practices. Drawing on a wide range of resources including years of interaction with Chinese human rights defenders, Pils discusses what gives rise to systematic human rights violations, what institutional avenues of ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • China's Human Rights Lawyers

    Advocacy and Resistance

    by Eva Pils ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
    This book offers a unique insight into the role of human rights lawyers in Chinese law and politics. In her extensive account, Eva Pils shows how these practitioners are important as legal advocates for victims of injustice and how bureaucratic systems of control operate to subdue and marginalise them. The book also discusses how human rights lawyers and the social forces they work for and with ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • The Burglary

    The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

    by Betty Medsger ...
    **INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS (IRE) BOOK AWARD WINNER • The story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists—quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans—that made clear the shocking truth that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, his own shadow Bureau of Investigation.“Impeccably ... Read more

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  • Why I March

    Images from The Women's March Around the World

    by Abrams Books ...
    An inspiring photographic account of the worldwide Women's March of 2017—one of the biggest peaceful protests in history.On January 21, 2017, five million people in eighty-two countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women's March began with one cause, women's rights, but quickly became a movement around the many issues that were hotly debated during the 2016 U.S. ... Read more

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  • The Rights of Indians and Tribes

    by Stephen L. Pevar ...
    The Rights of Indians and Tribes, first published in 1983, has sold over 100,000 copies and is the most popular resource in the field of Federal Indian Law. The book, which explains this complex subject in a clear and easy-to-understand way, is particularly useful for tribal advocates, government officials, students, practitioners of Indian law, and the general public. Numerous tribal leaders ... Read more

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  • The European Convention on Human Rights and the Conflict in Northern Ireland

    by Brice Dickson ...
    This book provides the first comprehensive account of the role played by the European Convention on Human Rights during the conflict in Northern Ireland from 1968. Brice Dickson studies the effectiveness of the Convention in protecting human rights in a society wracked by terrorism and deep political conflict, detailing the numerous applications lodged at Strasbourg relating to the conflict and ... Read more

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  • The Deportation Regime

    Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement

    by William Walters, Galina Cornelisse ...
    This important collection examines deportation as an increasingly global mechanism of state control. Anthropologists, historians, legal scholars, and sociologists consider not only the physical expulsion of noncitizens but also the social discipline and labor subordination resulting from deportability, the threat of forced removal. They explore practices and experiences of deportation in regional ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Migration and Human Rights

    The United Nations Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights

    Edited by Ryszard Cholewinski, Paul de Guchteneire, Antoine Pecoud ...
    The UN Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights is the most comprehensive international treaty in the field of migration and human rights. Adopted in 1990 and entered into force in 2003, it sets a standard in terms of access to human rights for migrants. However, it suffers from a marked indifference: only forty states have ratified it and no major immigration country has done so. This highlights how ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Captive Genders

    Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

    Edited by Nat Smith, Eric A. Stanley ...
    While other titles have explored gender in the context of the American prison population, Captive Genders is the first book to explicitly examine self-identified trans-folk and gender-queer individuals inside US prisons.Composed largely of first-hand accounts of the policing of trans and gender-queer folks, this book is suitable for readers in the GLBTQ community, as well as for readers who are ... Read more

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  • The Rule of Law in Crisis and Conflict Grey Zones

    Regulating the Use of Force in a Global Information Environment

    by Michael John-Hopkins ...
    This book responds to ongoing calls for clarification and consensus regarding the meaning, scope and interplay of humanitarian law and human rights law in the ‘grey zones’ of unconventional operational environments such as counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations. It contributes to the debate in this area by developing objective criteria for determining where the shift from the legal ... Read more

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  • The Business of Human Rights

    An Evolving Agenda for Corporate Responsibility

    by Klaus Dieter Wolf, Doctor Fiona Harris, Doctor Keren Bright, Professor John Hatchard, Mark J. Smith, Doctor Piya Pangsapa, Olufemi Amao, Gary Slapper, Lois Muraguri ...
    In a time when multinational corporations have become truly globalised, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult to dismiss. Work conditions in sweatshops, widespread destruction of the environment, and pharmaceutical trials in third world countries are only the tip of the iceberg.This timely collection of essays addresses the interface between the calls for ... Read more

    $28.99 USD