Books of Political Science / Human Rights
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Shadow of Death: An Analytical Bibliography on Political Violence, Terrorism, and Low-intensity Conflict
By Hank Prunckun, Henry W. PrunckunAn annotated bibliography for students as well as a reference work for policy makers, this book contains dozens of illustrations, tables of terrorist data, a name and pseudonym index, lists...
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Secondary Education in England
By Council of Europe. Council for Cultural Co-operation, John SinghThe aim of this series is to give the public not only systematic & coherent information on the educational systems & traditions in all signatory states to the European Cultural Convention, but also to outline the essential problems these ...
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Secondary Education in Italy
By Council of Europe. Council for Cultural Co-operation, Giovanni PedriniThe aim of this series is to give the public not only systematic & coherent information on the educational systems & traditions in all signatory states to the European Cultural Convention, but also to outline the essential problems these ...
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Secondary Education in Switzerland
By Council of Europe. Council for Cultural Co-operation, Roger SauthierThe aim of this series is to give the public not only systematic & coherent information on the educational systems & traditions in all signatory states to the European Cultural Convention, but also to outline the essential problems these ...
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Race, Crime, and the Law
By Randall KennedyExamines the issues of race, crime, and the legal system, showing the failure of the criminal justice system to protect Blacks from criminals, and debating the wisdom of using racial criteria in jury selection
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女性的时刻: 如何赋权女性, 改变世界
By Melinda Gates本书分为以下几个版块:女性生育与新生儿健康,科学避孕,女性受教育权,被漠视的家务劳动,童婚问题,女性农民的境遇,职场中的女性,团结的力量.所针对的都是女性最基本的权利问题.
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Human Rights and Democracy in Kuwait: Hearing Before the Subcommittees on Europe and the Middle East and on Human Rights...
By United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle EastHuman Rights and Democracy in Kuwait: Hearing Before the Subcommittees on Europe and the Middle East and on Human Rights...
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Human Rights in Asia: A Reassessment of the Asian Values Debate
By Damien Kingsbury, Leena AvoniusThis book offers a critical reassessment of the "Asian values" debate, which dominated the human rights discourse in the late 1990s, and a reappraisal of the human rights situation in...
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The Human Rights Encyclopedia: Countries
By James R. LewisThe Human Rights Encyclopedia was compiled with special emphasis on the impact of the 1948 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. It provides a country-by-country analysis of over 175 nations...
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Security, Citizenship and Human Rights: Shared Values in Uncertain Times
By Derek McGheeSecurity, Citizenship and Human Rights examines counter-terrorism, immigration, citizenship, human rights, 'equalities' and the shifting discourses of 'shared values' and human rights in contemporary Britain. The book argues that British...
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Off Target: The Conduct of the War and Civilian Casualties in Iraq
By Human Rights WatchThousands of Iraqi civilians were killed or injured during the three weeks of fighting from the first air strikes on March 20 to April 9, 2003, when Baghdad fell to...
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Bad Men: Guantánamo Bay and the Secret Prisons
By Clive Stafford SmithClive Stafford Smith is the 46-year-old human-rights lawyer who has famously - some would say notoriously - spent more than twenty years in the United States representing prisoners on Death...
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Challenging Human Rights Violations: Using International Law in U.S. Courts
By Francisco Forrest MartinThis book guides civil rights lawyers-and informs judges, legislators, and academics-in the effective use of international law in U.S. federal and state cases. The author highlights many concrete areas in...
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Ill-equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness
By Human Rights Watch, Sasha Abramsky, Jamie FellnerWoefully deficient mental health services in many prisons leave prisoners undertreated - or not treated at all. Based on more than two years of research and hundreds of interviews with...
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Realizing Human Rights: "take Hold of it Boldly and Duly-- "
By Mary RobinsonAs the United Nations approaches the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1998, Mary Robinson's theme is the need for fresh approaches in protecting human rights....
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台灣人權教育二十年
By 但昭偉, 李立旻, 李仰桓1994年，聯合國發表「聯合國人權教育十年」，敦促各國政府推動人權教育。我國由於被阻於聯合國門外，未能參加十年計畫，但在學術界的努力下，終究還是經由該計畫的啟發，邁開人權教育的腳步；一路走來，至今已逾20個年頭。本書的目的，即在於檢視這20年來人權教育政策的發展與落實，以作為展望下一個20年的基礎。 本書的作者群包括在20多年前即積極推動人權教育的資深學者，以及近年來陸續投入的青壯世代，更邀請非政府組織人士分享其經驗。涉及的主題包括：1. 我國人權教育推動的歷程以及未來展望的分析；2. 國民基本教育中的人權教育規劃與實踐；3. 人權教育的教學方法；4. 兒童權利公約的教育；5. 非政府組織推動的人權教育。
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Human Rights, Perestroika, and the End of the Cold War
By A. L. Adamishin, Richard SchifterA diplomatic memoir unlike any other, this volume takes the reader behind the scenes on both sides of the Cold War as two men form an unlikely partnership to help...
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Monitoring Child Well-being: A South African Rights-based Approach
By Andrew Dawes, Rachel Bray, Amelia Van der MerweTaking a rights-based approach, this comprehensive study develops a conceptual framework and a definitive set of holistic indicators for monitoring the well-being of children in South Africa. Taking cues from...
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A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights
By Elizabeth BorgwardtAn analysis of America's modern international human rights regime illuminates the broader history of human rights, trade and the global economy, collective security, and international law.
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Between the Fences: Before Guantanamo, There was the Port Isabel Service Processing Center
By Tony HefnerSomething at the Texas detention facility is terribly wrong, and Tony Hefner knows it. But the guards are repeatedly instructed not to speak of anything they witness. In the Rio...