The New Egalitarianism explores the rise of modern egalitarian theories and their impact on political and social life in the United States. Edited by David Lewis Schaefer, the book compiles essays that critically examine issues such as civil rights, affirmative action, equality, social justice, and the evolving nature of political thought. Through a series of scholarly analyses, the contributor…
The War on Our Freedoms is a collection of essays examining the impact of U.S. government policies on civil liberties following the attacks of September 11, 2001. Edited by Richard C. Leone and Greg Anrig, Jr., the book presents analyses by legal experts, journalists, and academics on major changes in law enforcement, national security, and privacy protections. The authors critique the expansio…
This Amnesty International Report documents a range of human rights abuses in 142 countries and territories, including the imprisonment of prisoners of conscience, unfair trials of political prisoners, torture, "disappearances", political killings and the death penalty. It shows that abuses by governments and armed political groups are continuing in all regions of the world. It also shows what …
International human rights, now more than ever, is at the forefront of global politics and encompasses a broad and diverse range of subjects, issues and geographical jurisdictions.
Groups around the world are increasingly successful in maintaining or winning autonomy. However, what happens to individuals within the groups who find that their group discriminates against them? This volume brings together sixteen distinguished scholars who examine the balance between group autonomy and individual rights in relation to conflicts involving gender, religion, culture, and indige…
This primer introduces the concept of RTD as well as discusses its practical application in the Indian setting. It is divided accordingly into two sections, the first of which traces the origins and the evolution of the idea of RTD. This section identifies the defining parameters and content of RTD and focuses especially on the three rights―the rights to food, education and health―that have…
In what may be the best analysis of how international relations affected any domestic issue, Mary Dudziak interprets postwar civil rights as a Cold War feature. She argues that the Cold War helped facilitate key social reforms, including desegregation. Civil rights activists gained tremendous advantage as the government sought to polish its international image. But improving the nation's reputa…
The purpose of this volume is thus to untangle some of the key issues surrounding liberation and human rights in a number of central areas of debate.
In each generation, for different reasons, America witnesses a tug of war between the instinct to suppress and the instinct for openness. Today, with the perception of a mortal threat from terrorists, the instinct to suppress is in the ascendancy. Part of the reason for this is the trauma that our country experienced on September 11, 2001, and part of the reason is that the people who are in ch…
Fundamental Rights are of great importance for individual freedom, but these fundamental rights are a very minimal set of rights and therefore, human rights, which are derived from the inherent dignity of the human person and cover every aspect of life and not just a small number of preferred freedom against the State, have tremendous significance. For the large number of people in a developing…