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  • International Disaster Response Law

    Edited by Marco Gestri, Gabriella Venturini, Andrea de Guttry ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    With a Foreword by Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis ResponseOver the last decades natural and man-made disasters have been increasing in terms of frequency, size, number of people affected and material damage caused. There is growing awareness of the importance of adequate national and international legal frameworks for disaster ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Security Archipelago

    Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism

    by Paul Amar ...
    Series series Social text books
    In The Security Archipelago, Paul Amar provides an alternative historical and theoretical framing of the refashioning of free-market states and the rise of humanitarian security regimes in the Global South by examining the pivotal, trendsetting cases of Brazil and Egypt. Addressing gaps in the study of neoliberalism and biopolitics, Amar describes how coercive security operations and cultural ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law

    by Jenny S. Martinez ...
    There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this narrative, the nineteenth century's absence is conspicuous--few have considered that era seriously, much less written books on it. But as Jenny Martinez shows in ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Access to Asylum

    International Refugee Law and the Globalisation of Migration Control

    by Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen ...
    Series Book 77 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Is there still a right to seek asylum in a globalised world? Migration control has increasingly moved to the high seas or the territory of transit and origin countries, and is now commonly outsourced to private actors. Under threat of financial penalties airlines today reject any passenger not in possession of a valid visa, and private contractors are used to run detention centres and man border ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • To Plead Our Own Cause

    Personal Stories by Today's Slaves

    Edited by Kevin Bales, Zoe Trodd ...
    Boys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into bondage in Mauritania, and migrants imprisoned at gunpoint in the United States are just a few of the many forms slavery takes in the twenty-first century. There are twenty-seven million slaves alive today, more than at any point in history, and they are found on every continent in the world ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Sex Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice

    Edited by Tiantian Zheng ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights
    The recognition of women’s human rights to migrate and work as sex workers is disregarded and dismissed by anti-trafficking discourses of rescue in the latest United Nation’s definition of trafficking.This volume explores the life experiences, agency, and human rights of trafficked women in order to shed light on the complicated processes in which anti-trafficking, human rights and social justice ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Weapon of the Strong

    Conversations on US State Terrorism

    Edited by Jon Bailes, Cihan Aksan ...
    The term ‘terrorism’ is often applied exclusively to non-state groups or specific ‘rogue states’. Far less attention is given to state terrorism carried out or sponsored by democracies, most notably the United States. History shows that this state terrorism has been responsible for the deaths of millions of people.Weapon of the Strong analyses the forms of US state terrorism through exclusive, ... Read more

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  • Human Rights as Social Construction

    by Benjamin Gregg ...
    Most conceptions of human rights rely on metaphysical or theological assumptions that construe them as possible only as something imposed from outside existing communities. Most people, in other words, presume that human rights come from nature, God, or the United Nations. This book argues that reliance on such putative sources actually undermines human rights. Benjamin Gregg envisions an ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Shaping Rights in the ECHR

    The Role of the European Court of Human Rights in Determining the Scope of Human Rights

    Edited by Eva Brems, Janneke Gerards ...
    In fundamental rights adjudication, a court first has to determine whether the interest at stake falls within the scope of the fundamental right invoked. Whether or not an individual interest falls within the scope or ambit of one of the fundamental rights protected by the European Convention on Human Rights determines whether or not the European Court of Human Rights can decide on the merits of a ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Truth Commissions and Criminal Courts

    by Alison Bisset ...
    This detailed evaluation of the relationship between trials and truth commissions challenges their assumed compatibility through an analysis of their operational features at national, inter-state and international levels. Alison Bisset conducts case-study analyses of national practice in South Africa, East Timor and Sierra Leone, evaluates the problems posed by the International Criminal Court and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • War and the Politics of Ethics

    by Maja Zehfuss ...
    Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West's ability and responsibility to help make the world a better place for others, in particular to protect them from oppression and serious human rights abuses. That is, war has become permissible again, indeed even required, as ethical war. At the same time, however, Western war kills and destroys. This creates a paradox: Western war risks ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions in Latin America

    A Legal and Anthropological Study

    by Anna Friederike Busch ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book analyses the topic of protecting traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) in Latin America. It questions classic legal approaches and involves the interface of anthropology and law. The study analyses regional, national and local particularities of law on paper and law in reality. It includes personal fieldwork research in selected countries and puts light on the political, socio-economic ... Read more

    $89.09 USD