This book looks at the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Contributors examine the meaning of each article of the Declaration, the extent to which the law in South Africa fails to recognize particular standards, and how individual South Africans, and South African society as a whole, would benefit from the recognition of rights or freedoms claimed in the article. Includes bibliographical references ...

"February 2009"--Page following title page 44 pages ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references. iii, 120 pages ; 21 cm.

"July 1991, AI Index:AFR 30/06/91." 41 pages ; 28 cm

It has often been argued that the concept of human rights is an artefact of modern Western civilisation, that human rights in the South are privileges conferred. These approaches have taken little cognisance of the place accorded to the societal rights held in such esteem as complementary to individual rights in traditional African society. In contrast, this study argues that human rights in Africa ...

Peacekeeping in the late 1990s is a complex and diverse task. Missions involve military, political and humanitarian aspects and, as a result, civilian and military personnel are working together to a greater degree than ever before. Peacekeeping operations in the 1990s have been marked by insufficient military input at the strategic level; unclear mandates; and weak command and control by the UN. In ...

In exploring the narratives of people involved in the sex trade around the world, this book seeks to undermine the crude stereotypes often employed to characterize them. It documents the movements organized to uphold their legal and human rights. Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-278) and index. 294 pages : maps ; 24 cm

"October 2009"--Page following title page 25 pages ; 27 cm

"A Fund for Free Expression report." v, 149 pages ; 23 cm

Caption title. 76 pages ; 28 cm.

Fountain Publishers ed. vii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

"March 1995." xiii, 170 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

The impact of environmental damage on human rights - civil, political or welfare and labour rights - is becoming ever-more widely appreciated and has direct bearing on the behaviour of companies and their norms of conduct. This text analyzes the issues, showing how new standards can be established. Includes bibliographical references and index. xvi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Protecting Human Rights in Africa is the first major comparative study of how human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have brought revolutionary change south of the Sahara. Governments are both the most important protectors and abusers of human rights, while NGOs have become the most effective detectives in discovering abuses and the most active advocates in seeking solutions. Claude E. ...

Includes bibliographical references to New Zealand. xiii, 200 pages ; 23 cm

"The last decades of the 20th century witnessed a massive wave of human rights activities, which was positively received by both the general public and the ruling elites of several societies. Many African governments recognized the human rights groups, although the latter were often placed under tight security surveillance, or incorporated into government-controlled structures at the expense of their ...

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Traces the history of the African-American struggle for racial equality, from the anti-lynching campaign launched by Ida B. Wells in the 1890s, through the leadership of Jesse Jackson, focusing on events in the American South. Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-369) and index. xiv, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"In the mid-1990s, civil war and genocide ravaged Rwanda. Since then, the country's new leadership has undertaken a highly ambitious effort to refashion Rwanda's politics, economy, and society, and the country's accomplishments have garnered widespread praise. Remaking Rwanda is the first book to examine Rwanda's remarkable post- genocide recovery in a comprehensive and critical fashion. By paying ...

Independence from colonial rule did not usher in the halcyon days many North Africans had hoped for, as the new governments in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria soon came to rely on repression to reinforce and maintain power. In response to widespread human rights abuses, individuals across the Maghrib began to form groups in the late 1970s to challenge the political practices and structures in the region, ...

"Truth and Justice Can't Wait examines recent human rights developments in Libya, focusing on areas of limited progress, and the institutional barriers that attempts to improve human rights protection run up against. New newspapers have expanded the space for free expression, but penal code provisions continue to criminalize free speech; journalists face harassment and litigation for expressing critical ...

Cover title. 109 pages : maps ; 28 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-283) and index. 289 pages ; 19 cm

"In this sophisticated study, Antonio Míguez Macho and his team of expert scholars explore the connections between violence and memory in modern Spain. Most importantly for a nation with an uncomfortable relationship with its own past, this book reveals how sites of violence also became sites of forgetting. Centred around places of violence such as concentration camps and military courts where prisoners ...