Sociology and Human Rights is the first collection to focus on the contribution that sociological approaches can make to the analysis of human rights. Taking forward the sociology of human rights which emerged from the 1990s, it presents innovative analyses of global human rights struggles by new and established authors. The collection includes a range of new work addressing a variety of issues such as the meanings of a ~cultural genocidea (TM) in relation to indigenous peoples, of a ~rights-based approachesa (TM) in development work, and of childhood and a ~childrena (TM)s rightsa (TM) in...

Human trafficking constitutes one of the most serious human rights violations of our time. However, many social work practitioners still have a poor and incomplete understanding of the experiences of children and young people who have been trafficked. In this volume, the authors call for a more sophisticated, informed and better developed understanding of the range of issues facing trafficked young people.