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The local relevance of human rights
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K. de Feyter |
"Do human rights offer real protection when disadvantaged groups invoke them at the local level in an attempt to improve their living conditions? If so, how can we make sure that the experiences of t… |
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The impact of the UK Human Rights Act on private law
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Hoffman, David |
"The Human Rights Act 1998 has had a profound effect in numerous private law decisions and has been the subject of extensive academic debate, in particular, on the issue of the extent to which it has… |
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Human rights, state compliance, and social change
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Ryan Goodman |
"This book critically examines the significance of National Human Rights Institutions by collecting work from experts spanning international law, political science, sociology, and human rights practi… |
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The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights
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Hsien-Li Tan |
"This assessment of progress in Southeast Asia on human rights begins in the wake of the 'Asian values' debate and culminates in the formal regional institutionalisation of the ASEAN Intergovernmenta… |
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Arab Spring Dreams
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Sohrab Ahmari |
"During the Arab Spring, the world saw a long-suppressed group in the Middle East--young people--assert itself and demand its rights. But youthful dissent did not appear overnight; for decades it has… |
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On Rawls, development and global justice
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Huw Lloyd Williams |
"Huw Lloyd Williams looks at the critical debate surrounding John Rawls' The Law of Peoples. He responds to the work of cosmopolitan theorists and Amartya Sen, arguing that Rawls offers a persuasive … |
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The slaughter
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Ethan Gutmann |
"The inside story of China's organ transplant business and its macabre connection with internment camps and killing fields for arrested dissidents, especially the adherents of Falun Gong. Mass murder… |
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13 ways of looking at the death penalty
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Mario Marazziti |
"Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is an … |
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Police state
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Gerry Spence |
"We all want to feel safe. But safe from what, and from whom? In his 60-plus years as a trial lawyer, Gerry Spence has never represented a person accused of a crime in which the police hadn't themsel… |
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The last thousand
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Stern, Jeffrey E. (Reporter) |
"There, a few thousand students are learning not just to read and write and add, but to question, criticize, make provocative art. To sing, poke fun at one another, to protest. The Teacher named the … |
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The straight line
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Tom Waidzunas |
"To be taken seriously, therapies that claim to "cure" homosexuality wrap themselves in lab coats. Even though the fit is bad, and such therapies and their theorists now inhabit the scientific fringe… |
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Chechnya's terrorist network
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Elena Pokalova |
"This expert's view into the strategic directions, tactics, leaders, and significant attacks connected to Chechen and North Caucasus terrorists examines the network's operations as well as the succes… |
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A Vindication of Rights of Woman
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Mary Wollstonecraft,Graphyco Editions,Jan Cramer |
From Goodreads:
Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. P… |
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