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Amnesty international and women's rights: feminist strategies, leadership com…
Amnesty International's (AI) focus on civil and political rights has marked their work with a gender bias from the outset. In the first comprehensive look at AI's work on women's rights, Miriam Ganzfried illustrates the development of their activities regarding women's rights issues over twenty years. Through interviews with staff members and activists and unprecedented access to archive materi…
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- 9783839460085
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- 320 p.
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- Edition Politik, 128
- Call Number
- 305.42 MIR a
Monitoring state compliance with the UN convention on the rights of the child…
This open access book presents a discussion on human rights-based attributes for each article pertinent to the substantive rights of children, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). It provides the reader with a unique and clear overview of the scope and core content of the articles, together with an analysis of the latest jurisprudence of the UN Committ…
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- 9783030846473
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- xii, 431 p.
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- 320 VAG m
New technologies for human rights law and practice
New technological innovations offer significant opportunities to promote and protect human rights. At the same time, they also pose undeniable risks. In some areas, they may even be changing what we mean by human rights. The fact that new technologies are often privately controlled raises further questions about accountability and transparency and the role of human rights in regulating these ac…
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- 9781316838952
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- xiv, 334 p. ; ill
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- 342.085 LAN n
The right to science : then and now
That everyone has a human right to enjoy the benefits of the progress of science and its applications comes as a surprise to many. Nevertheless, this right is pertinent to numerous issues at the intersection of science and society: open access; 'dual use' science; access to ownership and dissemination of data, knowledge, methods and the affordances and applications thereof; as well as the role …
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- 9781108478250
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- xii, 324 p. ; ill
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- 342.0853 POR t
Towards a natural social contract : transformative social-ecological innovati…
This open access book states that the endemic societal faultlines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with challenges affecting the security and sustainability of our societies. It states that new ways of inhabiting and cultivating our planet are needed to keep it healthy for future generations. This requires a fundamental shift from the current anthropocentric and eco…
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- 9783030671303
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- xiv, 205p. : iil.
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- 303.372 HUN t
Bulk collection: systematic government access to private-sector data
In June 2013, Edward Snowden revealed a secret US government program that collected records on every phone call made in the country. Further disclosures followed, detailing mass surveillance by the UK as well. Journalists and policymakers soon began discussing large-scale programs in other countries. Over two years before the Snowden leaks began, Cate and Dempsey had started researching systema…
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- 9780190685515
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- xxxiv, 471 p.: ill
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- 342.0858 BUL b
Protecting the rights of people with autism in the fields of education and em…
European Law; Human Rights; International and Comparative Education; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law; Law and Psychology
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- 9783319137919
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- IX, 197 p.
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- 346.40138 DEL p
Culture, citizenship and human rights
"In Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights the combined analytical efforts of the fields of human rights law, conflict studies, anthropology, history, media studies, gender studies, and critical race and postcolonial studies raise a comprehensive understanding of the discursive and visual mediation of migration and manifestations of belonging and citizenship. More insight into the convergen…
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- First Edition.
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- 9780429198588
- Collation
- 1 online resource
- Series Title
- Routledge advances in sociology
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- 323.6 BUI c
Transformation and development : studies in the Organization for Security and…
This open access book features various studies on democratization, transformation, political and economic development, and security issues in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) geographical region and beyond. Written by experts and academics in the fields of human rights, security, transformation and development, particularly in post-soviet and communist countries, i…
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- 9783030427757
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- vi, 154p. : ill.
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- 338.9 TRA t
Human rights in diverse education contexts
The focus of this publication is on answering the central research question: How can Human Rights be advanced with regard to different kinds of diversities, and in different educational settings? The publication pays special attention to the advancement of human rights in a variety of education-related contexts, in keeping with human rights as a declared national priority for both society at la…
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- 9781928523031
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- 380 p.; 22 cm.
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- NWU Education and Human Rights in Diversity Series Volume 1
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- 372.8 HUM h
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