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  • Values in Translation

    Human Rights and the Culture of the World Bank

    by Galit Sarfaty ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Human Rights
    The World Bank is the largest lender to developing countries, making loans worth over $20 billion per year to finance development projects around the globe. To guide its investments, the Bank has adopted a number of social and environmental policies, yet it has never instituted any overarching policy on human rights. Despite the potential human rights impact of Bank projects—the forced ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • The Lion, the Fox and the Eagle

    A Story of Generals and Justice in Rwanda and Yugoslavia

    by Carol Off ...
    Three Canadians – Lewis MacKenzie, Romeo Dallaire and Louise Arbour – were at the centre of the two greatest tragedies of the 1990s. Two of them could have stopped the killing. One was asked to bring the perpetrators to justice. In this riveting, original and explosive book, Carol Off explores the failure of peacekeeping missions in Sarajevo and Rwanda, and the international community’s attempt to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Island of Shame

    The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia

    by David Vine ...
    The American military base on the island of Diego Garcia is one of the most strategically important and secretive U.S. military installations outside the United States. Located near the remote center of the Indian Ocean and accessible only by military transport, the little-known base has been instrumental in American military operations from the Cold War to the war on terror and may house a top ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Terror in Chechnya

    Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War

    by Emma Gilligan ...
    Series series Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
    A riveting history of Russia's crimes in ChechnyaTerror in Chechnya is the definitive account of Russian war crimes in Chechnya. Emma Gilligan provides a comprehensive history of the second Chechen conflict of 1999 to 2005, revealing one of the most appalling human rights catastrophes of the modern era—one that has yet to be fully acknowledged by the international community. Drawing upon ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Between Vengeance and Forgiveness

    Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence

    by Martha Minow ...
    The rise of collective violence and genocide is the twentieth century's most terrible legacy. Martha Minow, a Harvard law professor and one of our most brilliant and humane legal minds, offers a landmark book on our attempts to heal after such large-scale tragedy. Writing with informed, searching prose of the extraordinary drama of the truth commissions in Argentina, East Germany, and most notably ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Man's Dominion

    The Rise of Religion and the Eclipse of Women's Rights

    by Sheila Jeffreys ...
    In this feminist critique of the politics of religion, Sheila Jeffreys argues that the renewed rise of religion is harmful to women’s human rights. The book seeks to rekindle the criticism of religion as the founding ideology of patriarchy.Focusing on the three monotheistic religions; Judaism, Christianity and Islam, this book examines common anti-women attitudes such as ‘male-headship’, impurity ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Political Economy of Human Rights

    Rights, Realities and Realization

    by Bas de Gaay Fortman ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    The plethora of literature produced over the past decade in response to the perceived failure of the human rights project to deliver results for billions of people living in ‘adverse’ environments has usually focused on international legal standards and mechanisms, with little regard for the root structural realities that constrain their implementation. Hence, a text that primarily focuses on the ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Amnesties, Pardons and Transitional Justice

    Spain's Pact of Forgetting

    by Roldan Jimeno ...
    Series series Transitional Justice
    In a consolidated democracy, amnesties and pardons do not sit well with equality and a separation of powers; however, these measures have proved useful in extreme circumstances, such as transitions from dictatorships to democracies, as has occurred in Greece, Portugal and Spain. Focusing on Spain, this book analyses the country's transition, from the antecedents from 1936 up to the present, within ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Equality and Discrimination Law in Australia: An Introduction

    by Beth Gaze, Belinda Smith ...
    Equality and Discrimination Law in Australia: An Introduction explores four decades of anti-discrimination laws in Australia. Beth Gaze and Belinda Smith argue that effective laws protecting against and deterring discrimination are vital for a fair future, and emphasise the theoretical and social contexts that underpin this area of the law. The text is divided into three sections: the first ... Read more

    $121.99 CAD

  • Research Methods in Conflict Settings

    A View from Below

    Edited by Dyan Mazurana, Karen Jacobsen, Lacey Andrews Gale ...
    Increasing numbers of researchers are working in regions experiencing high levels of conflict or crisis, or among populations that have fled violent conflict to become refugees or internally displaced persons. Understanding these conflicts and their aftermath should be shaped not only by the victors and their elite companions but also by the local people whose daily lives become intertwined with ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Applications of the 'Fair Hearing' Norm in ECHR Article 6(1) to Civil Proceedings

    With Special Emphasis on the Balance Between Procedural Safeguards and Efficiency

    by Ola Johan Settem ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book focuses on the most important implications of the "fair hearing" right for conducting civil proceedings. It provides a thorough and critical analysis of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (the Strasbourg Court) regarding Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. It puts forward a generally applicable framework for the analysis of the various procedural issues ... Read more

    $268.99 CAD

  • Shadow Lives

    The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror

    by Victoria Brittain, Marina Warner ...
    Shadow Lives reveals the unseen side of the '9/11 wars': their impact on the wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, or in prison or under house arrest in Britain and the US. Victoria Brittain shows how these families have been made socially invisible and a convenient scapegoat for the state in order to exercise arbitrary powers under the cover of the 'War on Terror'.A disturbing ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus