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  • Climate Adaptation Through Environmental Justice

    Comparative Approaches to Enhance the Resilience of Indigenous Peoples and Minority Groups

    by Jeremy Sarkin ...
    This interdisciplinary socio-legal book explores the effects of climate change on Indigenous Peoples and minority groups. Jeremy Julian Sarkin argues that an integrated approach to deal with climate change, that also incorporates dealing with environmental justice matters, is needed. This is because dealing with environmental injustices must be prioritized in order to achieve the necessary climate ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Intersectionality and Environmental Justice for Indigenous Peoples and Minorities

    A Comparative Assessment of the Role of National Courts

    by Jeremy Julian Sarkin ...
    This book presents a deeply researched, extensively referenced, innovative, and critical socio-legal analysis of how the concept of intersectionality could be used more effectively by national courts in environmental justice cases, especially concerning minorities and Indigenous Peoples.A wide range of environmental injustices are being committed against minorities and Indigenous Peoples around ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Conflict in Syria and the Failure of International Law to Protect People Globally

    Mass Atrocities, Enforced Disappearances and Arbitrary Detentions

    by Jeremy Julian Sarkin ...
    This book explores, through the lens of the conflict in Syria, why international law and the United Nations have failed to halt conflict and massive human rights violations in many places around the world which has allowed tens of millions of people to be killed and hundreds of millions more to be harmed.The work presents a critical socio-legal analysis of the failures of international law and the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice

    Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling

    by Nanci Adler, Vladimir Petrovic, William A. Schabas, Jeremy Sarkin, Stephan Parmentier, Mina Rauschenbach, Maarten van Craen, Richard Ashby Wilson, Thijs B Bouwknegt, Nicole L Immler0, Christian Axboe Nielsen1, Timothy Williams2, Kjell Anderson3 ...
    Series series Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
    Since the 1980s, an array of legal and non-legal practices—labeled Transitional Justice—has been developed to support post-repressive, post-authoritarian, and post-conflict societies in dealing with their traumatic past. In Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice, the contributors analyze the processes, products, and efficacy of a number of transitional justice mechanisms and look at how ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

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  • Humanitarian Intervention

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  • Crimes Against Humanity

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