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The 'War on Terror' and the Framework of International Lawby Helen Duffy
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 62.00The acts of lawlessness committed on September 11 were followed by a 'war on terror'. This book sets out the essential features of the international legal framework against which the 9/11 attacks and the lawfulness of measures taken in response thereto fall to be assessed. more...
The Means of Reproductionby Michelle Goldberg
Penguin Group Inc. 2010; US$ 12.99A groundbreaking new work on the global battle over reproductive rights by the author of The New York Times bestseller Kingdom Coming Award-winning journalist Michelle Goldberg shows how the emancipation of women has become the key human rights struggle of the twenty-first century in The Means of Reproduction . Deeply reported across four continents, the book explores issues such as abortion, female circumcision, and Asia's missing girls to dramatize the connections between international policymaking and individual lives. Goldberg demonstrates how women's rights are key to addressing both overpopulation and rapid population decline, reducing world poverty, and retarding the spread of AIDS. Sweeping and ambitious, this is a must-read... more...
Pathologies of Powerby Paul Farmer
University of California Press 2003; US$ 12.95Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. more...
Mobilizing for Human Rightsby Beth A. Simmons
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 25.00Demonstrates that the ratification of treaties generally leads to better human rights practices on average. more...
The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africaby Richard A. Wilson
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 38.00This book shows the impact of the TRC in urban African communities in Johannesburg. more...
The Politics of Human Rightsby Andrew Vincent
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 35.00The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their relationship with politics. The author argues that human rights have only a slight relation to natural rights and they are historically novel. In large part they are a post-1945 reaction to genocide which is, in turn, linked directly to the lethal potentialities of thenation-state. He suggests that an understanding of human rights should nonetheless focus primarily on politics and that there are no universally agreed moral or religious standards to uphold them, they exist rather in the context of social recognition within a political association.... more...
International Human Rights Lawby Olivier De Schutter
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 54.00Authoritative survey of international human rights law offers innovative treatment of the law as a global 'legal system'. more...
Thurgood Marshallby Juan Williams
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 17.00This New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 1998, is now in trade paper. From the bestselling author of Eyes on the Prize, here is the definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
The Aquariums of Pyongyangby Chol-hwan Kang; Pierre Rigoulot
Basic Books 2005; US$ 16.95Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history. more...
Environmental Protection and Human Rightsby Donald K. Anton; Dinah Shelton
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 79.00Provides an introduction to the relationship between environmental protection and human rights, being formalized into law in many legal systems. more...