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  • Human Rights

    The Hard Questions

    Edición de Cindy Holder, David Reidy ...
    The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. A burgeoning human rights movement followed, yielding many treaties and new international institutions and shaping the constitutions and laws of many states. Yet human rights continue to be contested politically and legally and there is substantial philosophical and theoretical debate over their ... Leer más

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  • That Sinking Feeling

    Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution; Quarterly Essay 53

    de Paul Toohey ...
    Series Libro 53 - Quarterly Essay
    Paul Toohey searches for the solution our politicians have been unwilling or unable to find, and asks whether, amid the diplomatic turmoil, we’ve now missed our chance.Tony Abbott promised to stop the boats. With the help of Kevin Rudd's 'PNG solution,' he has. But at what cost?In Quarterly Essay 53, Paul Toohey tells the dramatic stories of asylum seekers heading from Java to Australia, ... Leer más

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  • Why Law Matters

    de Alon Harel ...
    Series series Oxford Legal Philosophy
    Contemporary political and legal theory typically justifies the value of political and legal institutions on the grounds that such institutions bring about desirable outcomes - such as justice, security, and prosperity. In the popular imagination, however, many people seem to value public institutions for their own sake. The idea that political and legal institutions might be intrinsically ... Leer más

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  • Thomas Paine on Liberty

    Common Sense and Other Writings

    de Thomas Paine ...
    Thomas Paine is most famous for writing Common Sense, a pamphlet distributed during the American Revolution advocating for colonial America’s independence from Great Britain. Now, collected here in a beautiful gift book volume are excerpts from this important historical American document, as well as several of his other writings.Paine believed in more than just freedom in the form of revolution ... Leer más

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  • The Death Penalty

    A Worldwide Perspective

    The fifth edition of this highly praised study charts and explains the progress that continues to be made towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty. The majority of nations have now abolished the death penalty and the number of executions has dropped in almost all countries where abolition has not yet taken place. Emphasising the impact of international human rights principles ... Leer más

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  • Migration and Human Rights

    The United Nations Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights

    The UN Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights is the most comprehensive international treaty in the field of migration and human rights. Adopted in 1990 and entered into force in 2003, it sets a standard in terms of access to human rights for migrants. However, it suffers from a marked indifference: only forty states have ratified it and no major immigration country has done so. This highlights how ... Leer más

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  • Philosophical Foundations of Discrimination Law

    Edición de Deborah Hellman, Sophia Moreau ...
    Series series Philosophical Foundations of Law
    How do we understand and justify the particular partialities that discrimination law tries to protect against? Are different discrimination laws from around the world grounded in a single set of norms? And does discrimination law fail to treat people as individuals? The philosophical study around discrimination law in the private and public sector is a relatively young field of inquiry. This is ... Leer más

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  • The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal

    A Life in the Balance

    Series series Open Media Series
    Mumia Abu-Jamal has been incarcerated on Pennsylvania's death row for over two decades. His case has generated more controversy and received more attention, both national and international, than that of any other inmate currently under sentence of death in the United States of America.Mumia Abu Jamal, black, was convicted and sentenced to death in July 1982 for the murder of white police officer ... Leer más

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  • Immigration Law Handbook 2013

    Now in its eighth edition, the Immigration Law Handbook continues to bring together all the key materials relevant to immigration and asylum law in one volume, providing an essential reference tool for those working in the area. This new edition maintains the strengths of the handbook as a reference tool and is fully updated to allow the reader access to all new developments. Legislative changes ... Leer más

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  • Criminal Disenfranchisement in an International Perspective

    This collection of original essays by leading scholars and advocates offers the first international examination of the nature, causes, and effects of laws regulating voting by people with criminal convictions. In deciding whether prisoners shall retain the right to vote, a country faces vital questions about democratic self-definition and constitutional values - and, increasingly, about the scope ... Leer más

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  • Inside Immigration Detention

    de Mary Bosworth ...
    On any given day nearly 3000 foreign national citizens are detained under immigration powers in UK detention centres alone. Around the world immigrants are routinely detained in similar conditions. The institutions charged with immigrant detention are volatile and contested sites. They are also places about which we know very little. What is their goal? How do they operate? How are they justified? ... Leer más

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  • Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

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