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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michele grigolo”
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  • The Human Rights City

    New York, San Francisco, Barcelona

    by Michele Grigolo ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    We are used to thinking of human rights as a matter for state governments to deal with. Much less investigated is the question of what cities do with them, even though urban communities and municipalities have been discussing human rights for quite some time.In this volume, Grigolo borrows the concept of ‘the human rights city’ to invite us to think about a new urban utopia: a place where human ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Global Urban Justice

    The Rise of Human Rights Cities

    Edited by Barbara Oomen, Martha F. Davis, Michele Grigolo ...
    Cities increasingly base their local policies on human rights. Human rights cities promise to forge new alliances between urban actors and international organizations, to enable the 'translation' of the abstract language of human rights to the local level, and to develop new practices designed to bring about global urban justice. This book brings together academics and practitioners at the ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

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  • Bold Scientists

    Dispatches from the Battle for Honest Science

    by Michael Riordon ...
    As governments and corporations scramble to pull the plug on research that proves that they are poisoning our planet and rush to muzzle the scientists who dare to share their disturbing data, it seems the powerful have declared a war on science.Michael Riordon asks deep questions of bold scientists who defy the status quo including: an Indigenous biologist who integrates traditional knowledge and ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Clapham ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. An appeal to human rights in the face of injustice can be a heartfelt and morally justified demand for some, while for others it remains merely an empty slogan. Taking an international perspective and focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, health and discrimination, this ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Root and Branch

    Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation

    by Rawn James, Jr. ...
    Although widely viewed as the beginning of the legal struggle to end segregation, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Brown v. Board of Education was in fact the culmination of decades of legal challenges led by a band of lawyers intent on dismantling segregation one statute at a time. Root and Branch is the compelling story of the fiercely committed lawyers that constructed the legal foundation for ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Viral Hate

    Containing Its Spread on the Internet

    by Abraham H. Foxman, Christopher Wolf ...
    Emboldened by anonymity, individuals and organizations from both left and right are freely spewing hateful vitriol on the Internet without worrying about repercussions.Lies, bullying, conspiracy theories, bigoted and racist rants, and calls for violence targeting the most vulnerable circulate openly on the web.And thanks to the guarantees of the First Amendment and the borderless nature of the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • A NEW DEAL FOR THE WORLD

    by Elizabeth Borgwardt ...
    In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime. Borgwardt finds the key in the 1941 Atlantic Charter and its Anglo-American vision of "war and peace aims." In attempting to globalize what U.S. planners heralded as domestic ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The European Convention on Human Rights and the Conflict in Northern Ireland

    by Brice Dickson ...
    This book provides the first comprehensive account of the role played by the European Convention on Human Rights during the conflict in Northern Ireland from 1968. Brice Dickson studies the effectiveness of the Convention in protecting human rights in a society wracked by terrorism and deep political conflict, detailing the numerous applications lodged at Strasbourg relating to the conflict and ... Read more

    $46.99 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

  • 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

  • Law and the Gay Rights Story

    The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy

    by Walter Frank ...
    For much of the 20th century, American gays and lesbians lived in fear that public exposure of their sexualities might cause them to be fired, blackmailed, or even arrested. Today, they are enjoying an unprecedented number of legal rights and protections. Clearly, the tides have shifted for gays and lesbians, but what caused this enormous sea change?In his gripping new book, Walter Frank offers an ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann ...
    Series series Human Rights in History
    Has there always been an inalienable 'right to have rights' as part of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued? The contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality in the course of the political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century. Although human rights are often viewed as a self-evident outcome of this history, the ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD