Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Human Rights

Writing from the perspective of a student of life, history, law,
politics, and theology, Don Hutchinson draws on all of these areas in
Under Siege to offer perceptive insight into the Christian
Church of today's Canada. The reader will receive the benefit of his
thirty years of church leadership, Christian witness, constitutional
law, and public policy experience to gain a practical understanding
of how we, the Church, may cast the deciding votes on the future of
Christianity in our constitutionally guaranteed -free and democratic
...

Drawing on large-scale public opinion surveys and interviews with human rights practitioners in India, Mexico, Morocco, and Nigeria, Taking Root finds that most people are in fact broadly supportive of human rights discourse,...

Do the Geneva Conventions Matter? provides a rich, comparative analysis of the laws that govern...

Drawing on large-scale public opinion surveys and interviews with human rights practitioners in India, Mexico, Morocco, and Nigeria, Taking Root finds that most people are in fact broadly supportive of human rights discourse,...

This book examines the mobilization, role, and trajectory of women rescuers and perpetrators during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

While much has been written about the victimization of women during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, very little has been said about women who rescued targeted victims or perpetrated crimes against humanity. This book explores and analyzes the role played by women who exercised agency as rescuers and as perpetrators during the genocide in Rwanda. As women, they took actions and decisions within the context of a deeply entrenched patriarchal system that...

In writing Necessary Evil, eminent human rights law scholar David Kinley spent ten years...

The first in-depth account of the historic diplomatic agreement that served as a blueprint for ending the Cold War

The Helsinki Final Act was a watershed of the Cold War. Signed by thirty-five European and North American leaders at a summit in Finland in the summer of 1975, the agreement presented a vision for peace based on common principles and cooperation across the Iron Curtain. The Final Act is the first in-depth account of the diplomatic saga that produced this historic agreement. Drawing on research in eight countries and multiple languages, this gripping book...