Representing all regions of the world, a wide range of contributors that are leaders in their fields have put together an exhaustive collection that represents the state-of-play of international social work today.
Tells the story of threats to our freedoms and a highly personal, impassioned plea in defence of fundamental rights. Drawing on her own work in high-profile campaigns, from privacy laws to anti-terror legislation, the author shows the threats to our democratic institutions and w…
This is a broad and comprehensive collection that shows how women activists across the globe are responding to the forces of the "new world order" in their communities. The first person accounts and regional case studies provide a truly global view of women working in their comm…
With this book, Charlotte Walker-Said and John D. Kelly have assembled an essential toolkit to better understand how the notoriously ambiguous concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) functions in practice within different disciplines and settings. Bringing together cutt…
Letters from prison, songs, poems, and courtroom statements, plus tributes to the punk band that shook the world
Part I: Setting universal rights 2 Changing rights, changing culture, Sally Engle Merry 3 Following the movement of a pendulum: between universalism and 4 Imposing rights? A case study of child prostitution in Thailand, 5 Gendering culture: towards a plural perspective on Kw…
In mapping out the field of human rights for those studying and researching within both humanities and social science disciplines, the Handbook of Human Rights not only provides a solid foundation for the reader who wants to learn the basic parameters of the field, but also prom…
En analyse og diskussion om folkemordets "anatomi" og historie.