Human rights, civil rights Books

Book SynopsisThis multi-disciplinary book addresses the ever-expanding notion of human rights within the 21st century. By analyzing the global dynamics of the mobilization of new actors, claims, institutions and modes of accountability, Brysk and Stohl assess the potential and limitations of global reforms. Expanding Human Rights gives a comprehensive overview of current human rights issues and the outlook for the future. The contributors present evidence of new methods for enforcing existing rights and new strategies for further development through in-depth analysis of campaigns and reforms from Eastern Europe, Japan, India, Africa and the US. These include rights of indigenous peoples, food and water rights, violence against women, child mortality and international financial and corporate responsibility. This book will interest academics and advanced students in human rights, international affairs, political science and law. Policy makers and global human rights activists will find the analyses and insights concerning the expansion of rights and the often accompanying backlash to be of great use when approaching their next human rights campaign.Contributors include: J. Alley, C. Apodaca, P. Ayoub, M. Baer, A. Brysk, S. Hertel, R. Howard-Hassmann, V. Hudson, F.G. Isa, H. Jo, W. Sandholtz, C. Stohl, M. Stohl, K. TsutsuiTrade Review'Rather than focus on states, international and regional organizations, and major nongovernmental organizations, this volume looks more to the edges and margins of the struggle for human rights. An excellent group of authors offer a diverse but coherent set of perspectives on how new actors, new claims, and new responsibilities are (and in a few cases are not) expanding the meaning and range of human rights in order to make human rights a more effective tool in a greater range of struggles for social justice.' --Jack Donnelly, University of Denver, US'This volume brings together first-rate, novel approaches to the myriad of changes and challenges operative in human rights practice unfolding in diverse thematic and geographic arenas. By pushing scholars to expand the parameters of their focus and guiding queries, and to attend more to process and leverage in normative change about rights, it enriches our scholarship significantly. And it presents the reader with an ongoing agenda for both disciplinary and multidisciplinary human rights research in the future.' --George A. Lopez, University of Notre Dame, US'A prevalent view holds that internationally recognized human rights are currently much violated, hence one should institute a moratorium on new rights claims until existing norms become more effective. By comparison, in this volume Brysk, Stohl, and their colleagues argue mostly for new perspectives, new rights, and new or newly invigorated procedures for implementation. At the same time some authors here continue to emphasize the power of the repressive state to block progress. The resulting mix of views provides a stimulating commentary on human rights in our times.' --David P. Forsythe, University of Nebraska, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I Introduction 1. Expanding Human Rights Alison Brysk PART II Expanding Actors 2. A Struggle for Recognition and Rights: Expanding LGBT Activism Philip M. Ayoub 3. How Do Global Human Rights Expand? A Case of Japan’s Burakumin Going Global Kiyoteru Tsutsui 4. Indigenous Peoples: From Objects Of Protection To Subjects Of Rights Felipe Gómez Isa PART III Expanding Claims 5. Expanding Rights: New Frames For Violence Against Women Alison Brysk 6. The Human Right to Water and Sanitation: Champions and Challengers in the Fight for New Rights Acceptance Madeline Baer 7. Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility Michael Stohl and Cynthia Stohl PART IV Expanding Mechanisms 8. Forging Alternative Routes to Norms Change: Economic Rights Protagonists Shareen Hertel 9. Expanding Rights: Norm Innovation in the European and Inter-American Courts Wayne Sandholtz 10. Feminist Foreign Policy as State-Led Expansion of Human Rights Valerie M. Hudson PART V Expanding Responsibilities 11. Janus-faced: Rebel Groups and Human Rights Responsibility Hyeran Jo and Joshua Alley 12. Expanding Responsibilities: The Consequences of World Bank and IMF Policies on Child Welfare Clair Apodaca 13. Human Rights Contraction: Sovereignty and Denial of the Right to Food Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann PART VI Conclusion 14. Conclusions on Norms, Institutions and Processes Michael Stohl Index

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Book SynopsisThis important Research Handbook explores the nexus between human rights, poverty and inequality as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key challenges of the coming decades, including the objectives set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. The Research Handbook starts from the premise that poverty is not solely an issue of minimum income and explores the profound ways that deprivation and distributive inequality of power and capability relate to economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.Leading experts in the human rights field representing a range of disciplines outline a future research agenda to address poverty and inequality head on. Beginning with an interrogation of the definition of poverty, subsequent chapters analyse the dynamics of poverty and inequality in relation to matters such as race, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, geography and migration status. The rights to housing, land, health, work, education, protest and access to justice are also explored, with a recognition of the challenges posed by corruption, climate change and new technologies.The Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty is an essential reference guide for those who teach in these areas and for scholars and students developing future research agendas of their own. This will also be a much-needed resource for people working practically to address poverty in both the Global North and Global South.Trade Review'The Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty is a timely and welcome addition to the growing literature on poverty, economic inequality and human rights. Coming at a propitious global moment, in the wake of a crushing pandemic that has reinforced and exacerbated the historical causes, impacts and patterns of poverty, this volume provides cogent and innovative insights into confronting poverty as a core human rights issue. An impressively interdisciplinary exploration by a collection of thoughtful and informed scholars and advocates who are well versed in the issues of poverty and human rights, the Handbook is a compelling and useful text for educators. Hopefully, it may also spawn commitments from policy makers and governments worldwide to confront the urgent need to eradicate poverty and inequality.' -- – Penelope Andrews, President, Law & Society Association (2019-2021); Professor of Law and Director, Racial Justice Project, New York Law SchoolTable of ContentsContents: Opening Note Michelle Bachelet Forward Philip Alston xix Introduction to the Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty xxv PART I DEFINITIONS, MEASUREMENTS AND STANDARDS 1 A human rights-based approach to measuring poverty 2 Olivier De Schutter 2 From stigma to rights: uncovering the hidden dimension of poverty 21 Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona 3 Current perspectives on global poverty: rights, capabilities and social exclusion 37 Ayşe Buğra 4 Is economic inequality a violation of human rights? 53 Gillian MacNaughton 5 Poverty and political rights: an exercise of recovery from oblivion 69 Karolina Miriam Januszewski and Manfred Nowak 6 Human rights and poverty reduction: what are the linkages? 88 Hans-Otto Sano PART II CROSS-CURRENTS A. POVERTY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND IDENTITY 7 Breaking the link between poverty and disability: re-purposing human rights in the 21st century 106 Gerard Quinn 8 Poverty, older persons and human rights 125 Andrew Byrnes 9 Child impoverishment and the human rights of children 141 Wouter Vandenhole 10 Capping motherhood 156 Meghan Campbell 11 The price that is paid: violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and poverty 171 Victor Madrigal-Borloz 12 Assessing racialized poverty: the case of Romani people in the European Union 192 Margareta Matache and Simona Barbu 13 Rights, racism, and poverty: failures of the global commitment to leave no one behind 211 Gay McDougall B. POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERSECTING WITH GEOGRAPHY AND PLACE 14 Immigration, poverty and human rights 230 Tally Kritzman-Amir 15 Human rights and a-legality: destitution of persons seeking asylum in the EU 247 Eleni Karageorgiou 16 Seeing human rights like a city: the prospects and perils of the ‘urban turn’ 264 Natalia Ángel-Cabo and Luisa Sotomayor 17 The role of local authorities in addressing poverty and implementing human rights norms 279 Moritz Baumgärtel 18 Addressing poverty at its base: the housing and land rights approach 295 Miloon Kothari 19 The land rights-poverty nexus 310 Alfred Lahai Gbabai Brownell Sr. 20 Indigenous Peoples’ land rights: a culturally sensitive strategy for poverty eradication and sustainable development 324 Alejandro Fuentes C. POVERTY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND PARTICIPATION 21 Human rights, poverty and mobilizations 339 Domingo A. Lovera-Parmo 22 Advancing human rights through legal empowerment of the disadvantaged 355 Lisa Hilbink and Valentina Salas PART III MECHANISMS AND POLICIES 23 A human rights critique of contemporary social policy paradigms: new behaviourism, social investment and new universalism 371 Volkan Yilmaz 24 The human right to housing in the age of financialization 386 Leilani Farha and Kaitlin Schwan 25 The right to health for people living in poverty: a human rights perspective 402 Mette Hartlev 26 Human rights and abortion access for people living in poverty: implications for the United States and globally 417 Risa E. Kaufman and Diana Kasdan 27 What is wrong with the privatization of education as anti-poverty policy from a human rights perspective? 433 Antonio Barboza-Vergara and Esteban Hoyos-Ceballos 28 Poverty, labour law and human rights: a necessary connection 447 Lee Swepston and Constance Thomas 29 Minimum wage, poverty reduction and human rights in Cambodia: a case study 464 Sophal Chea 30 Fair taxes to end poverty 476 Åsa Gunnarsson PART IV STRUCTURAL BARRIERS 31 Climate change, human rights and poverty: intersections and challenges 491 Sumudu Atapattu 32 Corruption as a human rights violation 508 Khulekani Moyo 33 Conflict, poverty and human rights violations 523 Zafer Kizilkaya 34 Human rights, technology and poverty 537 Linnet Taylor and Hellen Mukiri-Smith 35 Beyond the state: holding international institutions and private entities accountable for poverty alleviation 552 Lucy Williams Index

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Book SynopsisUsing the metaphor of 'constitutional space', this thought-provoking book describes the confluence and convergence of powers in a constitutional system, comprised of the principled exercise of the legislative, executive and judicial powers of constitutional government. The book asserts that when governance is guided by principle, convergence creates greater space for all human rights and fundamental freedoms; both community and individuals thrive. Conversely when any right or freedom is given precedence over any other for reasons of political expediency, this results in the loss or diminution of human rights and fundamental freedoms. Addressing the issues surrounding the freedom of religion or belief, this timely book explores the dimensions of constitutional space and the content of this freedom, as well as comparative approaches to defining and protecting this freedom. Freedom of Religion or Belief will be a key resource for academics working in the fields of law and religion, law and society and human rights law. It will also appeal to practitioners and policy-makers working on the issue of religious freedom. Contributors include: P.T. Babie, R. Barker, A.P. Bhanu, A. Deagon, C. Evans, J. Forrester, N. Foster, M. Fowler, J. Harrison, M. Hill, J. Neoh, E.U. Ochab, J. Patrick, C. Read, N.G. Rochow, V.-I. Savic, B.G. Scharffs, P. Taylor, P. XiongTrade Review'Freedom of Religion or Belief is an exceptional contribution to the important debate over the potential conflicts between the freedom of religion and belief and other important freedoms. The book does a beautiful job of balancing chapters that explore the nature and importance of religious freedom and those that address the problems that can arise when religious freedom conflicts with the rights of others. Significantly, the book as a whole shows that these conflicts can be navigated without destroying religious freedom or other important freedoms.' --Frank S. Ravitch, Michigan State University, US'In this book, an impressive international cast of scholars provides an informative look at the protections for religious freedom in a variety of legal systems worldwide, together with a probing consideration of contemporary challenges to this freedom. The book constitutes a valuable contribution to the global discussion of the ''first freedom''.' --Steven Smith, University of San Diego, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Creating and conserving constitutional space 1 Paul T. Babie, Neville G. Rochow QC and Brett G. Scharffs PART I THE CONCEPT OF CONSTITUTIONAL SPACE AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION OR BELIEF 2 Religious freedom as an element of the human rights framework 20 Carolyn Evans and Cate Read 3 The problem and the promise of religious liberty 40 Joel Harrison 4 ‘A la carte’ spirituality and the future of freedom of religion 58 Jeremy Patrick 5 Towards a constitutional definition of religion: challenges and prospects 92 Alex Deagon 6 Freedom of religion without a bill of rights: Australia’s peculiar approach to tackling freedom of religion and other human rights issues 109 Renae Barker 7 The effect of s 116 of the Australian Constitution on the implied freedom of political communication 131 Joshua Forrester 8 Conceptualising reasonable accommodation 164 Brett G. Scharffs vi Freedom of religion or belief 9 Protection of religious freedom under Australia’s amended marriage law: constitutional and other issues 184 Neil Foster 10 Identifying faith-based entities for the purposes of antidiscrimination law 207 Mark Fowler PART II COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES 11 Reconciling democracy and human rights: implementing the expressive freedoms of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in Australian law 232 Paul M. Taylor 12 It works better if it is not too secularised: the Croatian constitutional model for regulating state–church relations 260 Vanja-Ivan Savić 13 Locating freedom of religion within the qualified rights of the European Convention on Human Rights and in the jurisprudence of Strasbourg 283 Mark Hill QC 14 The Iraqi constitutional failure to protect the right to freedom of religion or belief 298 Ewelina U. Ochab 15 An assessment of the constitutional space for secularity and equality in India 319 Arvind P. Bhanu 16 The development trend concerning administration of religion and religious affairs in China 339 Ping Xiong 17 Apostasy and freedom of religion in Malaysia 363 Joshua Neoh Index 387

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Book SynopsisThis book delivers new conceptual and empirical studies surrounding the design and evaluation of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure and land-based gender concerns. It explores alternative approaches for land management and land tenure through international experiences. Part 1 covers Concepts, debates and perspectives on the governance and gender aspects of land. Part 2 focuses on Tenure-gender dimensions in land management, land administration and land policy. It deals with land issues within the interface of theory and practice. Part 3 covers Applications and experiences: techniques, strategies, tools, methods, and case studies. Part 4 focuses on Land governance, gender, and tenure innovations. Case studies discussed include China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Germany, Mexico, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Korea, etc. Themes include Islamic tenure, reverse migration, matriarchy/matrilineal systems, structural inequality, tenure-responsive planning, land-related instabilities and COVID-19, urban-rural land concerns, women's tenure bargaining, tenure-gender nexus concerns in developing and developed countries. This book: · Includes theoretical or empirical studies on land governance and gender from a diverse group of countries. · Provides the basis for a new land administration theory to be set against conventional land administration approaches. · Offers, in an accessible manner, a range of new tools for design and evaluation of land management interventions. The book will be valuable for students and researchers in land governance, urban and rural planning, international development,natural resource management, agriculture, community development, and gender studies. It is also useful for land practitioners, including those working within international organizations.Table of Contents1: Introducing Land Governance and Gender in the Context of Land Tenure 1: Concepts, Debates and Perspectives on the Governance and Gender Aspects of Land 2: Gender, Structural Inequality and Just Governance 3: Land Tenure and the Nuanced Gender Debates in Sub-Saharan Africa: Realities and Illusions 4: Land Governance and Gender in Support of the Global Agenda 2030 5: Governing African Land in an Era of Instability 2: Tenure–Gender Dimensions in Land Management, Land Administration and Land Policy 6: Advancing Women’s Position by Recognizing and Strengthening Customary Land Rights: Lessons from Community- Based Land Interventions in Mozambique 7: Women’s Insights on Bargaining for Land in Customary Tenure Systems: Land Access as an Individual and Collective Issue 8: Gender-Sensitivity in Land Management: Trajectory of Housing, Agriculture and Land Ownership in South Korea 9: Analysing Non-Legal Barriers to Land Ownership by Women 3: Applications and Experiences: Techniques, Strategies, Tools, Methods and Case Studies 10: The Evolvement of Land Consolidation in Rural China from the Perspective of Governing Tension between Construction Land Expansion and Farmland Protection 11: Discourse on Women and Land Tenure in Ghana: Does a Matrilineal Land Tenure System Make a Difference for Women? 12: The Gender Dimensions of Land Tenure Reforms in Ethiopia 1995–2020 13: The Paradox of Islamic Land Governance and Gender Equality 4: Land Governance, Gender and Tenure Innovations 14: Transforming Legal Status of Customary Land Rights: What this Means for Women and Men in Rural Africa 15: Women and Land Inheritance under Legal Pluralism in Lesotho 16: Tenure-Responsive Zoning Regulations for Better Gender Equality in Land Management in Kigali City, Rwanda 17: New Hope and Future for Rural Areas under COVID-19 Circumstances? Rural Development, Pandemic Liveability and Reverse Migration 18: Using Urban Literacy to Strengthen Land Governance and Women’s Empowerment in Peri-Urban Communities of San Andrés Cholula, Mexico 19: Land Governance and Gender for a Tenure-Responsive Future

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. This thought-provoking introduction provides an incisive overview of dignity law, a field of law emerging in every region of the globe that touches all significant aspects of the human experience. Through an examination of the burgeoning case law in this area, James R. May and Erin Daly reveal a strong overlapping consensus surrounding the meaning of human dignity as a legal right and a fundamental value of nations large and small, and how this global jurisprudence is redefining the relationship between individuals and the state. Key features include: Analyses of cases from a range of jurisdictions all over the world A history of the shift of the concept of dignity from a philosophical idea to a legally enforceable right Discussion of dignity as a value and a right in different major legal contexts, and its roots in African, Asian, European and Islamic traditions. This Advanced Introduction will be invaluable to scholars and students of law, particularly those interested in human rights, looking to understand this emerging area of law. It will inform lawyers, judges, policymakers and other advocates interested in how dignity and the law can be used to protect everyone, including the most vulnerable among us. Trade Review'This book offers a compelling introduction to human dignity, the organizing constitutional idea of the postwar era. Reaching beyond western religion, philosophy, and constitutional law, May and Daly expound an idea that is global in its reach and transformative in its ramifications. This book will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand what a legal order that lived up to the demands of human dignity might look like.' --Jacob Weinrib, Queen's University Faculty of Law, Canada'This book is a very complete contribution to the meaning of dignity seen as a universal value and right, with important insights on legal doctrine and policies all over the world. It demonstrates that, inherent to all of us, dignity implies that every single human being must always be treated as a person.' --Paul Cassia, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France'With this Advanced Introduction to Human Dignity and Law, Professors James R. May and Erin Daly deliver a global perspective on this ''very important idea''. A mine of legal materials gathered from around the world, this volume brings together essential knowledge on human dignity in a concise and engaging manner. Buzzing with energy, Professor May and Professor Daly's Advanced Introduction is a must read for all those promoting dignity rights, as well as all those curious about the great adventure of humanity and democracy.' --Catherine Dupré, University of Exeter, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. A very brief overview of a very important idea 2. Dignity and Human Rights 3. An Emerging Overlapping Consensus on the Meaning of Dignity Under Law 4. The Value of A Life: Intrinsic Worth, Agency, and Autonomy 5. The Life of the Mind: Intellectual and Emotional Integrity 6. Living With Dignity 7. Towards a Democratic Theory of Dignity Index

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Book SynopsisThe Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights is the most comprehensive reference work in the field of international human rights protection.Comprising over 340 entries, presented alphabetically, and available online and in print, the Encyclopedia addresses the full range of themes associated with the study and practice of human rights in the modern world. Topics range from substantive human rights to the relevant institutions, legal documents, conceptual and procedural issues of international law and a wide variety of thematic entries. The Encyclopedia has a distinct focus on international human rights law but at the same time is enriched by approaches from the broader social sciences, making it a truly unique and multi-disciplinary resource.The Encyclopedia boasts an incredibly diverse author team, featuring contributions from close to 300 scholars and practitioners from more than 65 countries, representing all regions of the world. Contributors include leading experts in their respective fields - among them current and former UN Special Rapporteurs and Independent Experts, renowned academics, judges of national, international and regional (human rights) courts, members of universal and regional human rights bodies, members of the International Law Commission, as well as legal advisors of foreign offices and international and non-governmental organizations.Key Features: Over 340 entries Entries organized alphabetically for ease of navigation Fully cross-referenced Entries written by practitioners and scholars from around the world World class editorial team

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Book SynopsisCombining the knowledge and experience of leading international researchers, practitioners and policy consultants, Knowledge for Peace discusses how we identify, claim and contest the knowledge we have in relation to designing and analysing peacebuilding and transitional justice programmes. Exploring how knowledge in the field is produced, and by whom, the book examines the research-policy-practice nexus, both empirically and conceptually, as an important part of the politics of knowledge production.This unique book centres around two core themes: that processes of producing knowledge are imbued with knowledge politics, and that research-policy-practice interaction characterises the politics of knowledge and transitional justice. Investigating the realities of, and suggested improvements for, knowledge production and policy making processes as well as research partnerships, this book demonstrates that knowledge is contingent, subjective and shaped by relationships of power, affecting what is even imagined to be possible in research, policy and practice.Providing empirical insights into previously under-researched case studies, this thought-provoking book will be an illuminating read for scholars and students of transitional justice, peacebuilding, politics and sociology.Trade Review‘In this book, Briony Jones and Ulrike Lühe have done what many academics and policy thinkers are reluctant to do - question orthodoxy in an area of thought that has acquired a high moral plateau. The book reveals a gaping chasm between what is known, and what is unknown about the theoretical underpinnings of transitional justice and the efficiency of the solutions it so confidently prescribes. It is a work that will give researchers, thinkers, and practitioners reason to pause and reflect. It opens the door to doubt and cautions against the rush to declare a final resting point in the quest for solutions to societies in deep social and political torment. This is a critical work that should become a new benchmark for anyone acting and thinking in the field of transitional justice. The book is sure to broaden the intellectual school of transitional justice.’ -- - Makau Mutua, University at Buffalo, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xii 1 Knowledge for peace: transitional justice and the politics of knowledge in theory and practice 1 Briony Jones and Ulrike Lühe PART I POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE FOR PEACE 2 Knowledge production and its politicization within International Relations and Peace Studies 21 Burak Toygar Halistoprak 3 ‘Knowledge for peace’: integrating power to increase impact 37 Laurent Goetschel 4 Producing knowledge on and for transitional justice: reflections on a collaborative research project 49 Briony Jones, Ulrike Lühe, Gilbert Fokou, Kuyang Harriet Logo, Leben Nelson Moro and Serge-Alain Yao N’Da PART II THE INTERLINKED POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND AGENDA SETTING 5 Knowledge asymmetry and transitional justice in Côte d’Ivoire 75 Serge-Alain Yao N’Da and Gilbert Fokou 6 Power struggles and the politics of knowledge production in the Burundian transitional justice process 99 Wendy Lambourne 7 The politics of knowledge in the emergence of the transitional justice industry in Zimbabwe: the case of the ‘Taking Transitional Justice to the People Programme’, 2009–10 120 Shastry Njeru and Tyanai Masiya PART III KNOWLEDGE PRODUCERS: EXPERTS AND EXPERTISE 8 Who are the members of truth commissions? 145 Dietlinde Wouters 9 Developing the African Union Transitional Justice Policy: an assemblage perspective 167 Ulrike Lühe 10 Playing politics with knowledge: the works of multiple actors within IGAD PLUS 191 Kuyang Harriet Logo 11 The meaning of violence and the violence of meaning: the politics of knowledge in Burundi 214 Stanislas Bigirimana 12 Conclusion: empirical insights on the politics of knowledge production and its transfer into policy and practice 245 Briony Jones and Ulrike Lühe Index 267

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.David P. Forsythe presents a compelling introduction to international human rights in a political context. He stresses the difficulties of interjecting human rights into foreign policy and international politics, while recognising the considerable progress that has been made over time. Focusing on international organizations, states, corporations, and private advocacy groups, Forsythe addresses key themes including war, migration, climate change, and slavery.Key features include: a multidisciplinary approach that draws on findings in political science, law, diplomacy, history, and economics discussion of a broad range of both traditional and contemporary topics from the United Nations to the internet and pandemics an assessment of the progress made in promoting human rights and humanitarian ideas, and how these ideas translate into tangible improvements for human dignity. Adopting a politically realistic and historically informed perspective, this Advanced Introduction will be a valuable resource for students of human rights, international relations, and political science.Trade Review’This is a short but learned introduction to the politics of international human rights, comprehensive and up-to-date. Forsythe is skeptical of the role of human rights in international politics, yet not pessimistic. The book contains important chapters on international humanitarian law, business and human rights, the role of NGOs, and major challenges including climate change, migration, and gender relations. Clearly written and lacking jargon, it is definitely suitable for teaching purposes.’ -- - Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights 2003-2016, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada’David Forsythe, a pioneer and leading authority in the study of international human rights politics, has now produced an up-to-date, accessible, introductory survey of the field, rich in examples, judiciously balancing the case for human rights with a structural-realist conception of international relations, thereby maintaining a safe distance from “utopian” optimism, on the one hand, and “post-human rights” pessimism, on the other.’ -- Michael Freeman, University of Essex, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Politics and Human Rights 2. Organized International Relations 3. State Foreign Policies 4. The Business World 5. Private Non-Profit Actors 6. The Special Case of War 7. Major Challenges 8. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.David P. Forsythe presents a compelling introduction to international human rights in a political context. He stresses the difficulties of interjecting human rights into foreign policy and international politics, while recognising the considerable progress that has been made over time. Focusing on international organizations, states, corporations, and private advocacy groups, Forsythe addresses key themes including war, migration, climate change, and slavery.Key features include: a multidisciplinary approach that draws on findings in political science, law, diplomacy, history, and economics discussion of a broad range of both traditional and contemporary topics from the United Nations to the internet and pandemics an assessment of the progress made in promoting human rights and humanitarian ideas, and how these ideas translate into tangible improvements for human dignity. Adopting a politically realistic and historically informed perspective, this Advanced Introduction will be a valuable resource for students of human rights, international relations, and political science.Trade Review’This is a short but learned introduction to the politics of international human rights, comprehensive and up-to-date. Forsythe is skeptical of the role of human rights in international politics, yet not pessimistic. The book contains important chapters on international humanitarian law, business and human rights, the role of NGOs, and major challenges including climate change, migration, and gender relations. Clearly written and lacking jargon, it is definitely suitable for teaching purposes.’ -- - Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights 2003-2016, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada’David Forsythe, a pioneer and leading authority in the study of international human rights politics, has now produced an up-to-date, accessible, introductory survey of the field, rich in examples, judiciously balancing the case for human rights with a structural-realist conception of international relations, thereby maintaining a safe distance from “utopian” optimism, on the one hand, and “post-human rights” pessimism, on the other.’ -- Michael Freeman, University of Essex, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Politics and Human Rights 2. Organized International Relations 3. State Foreign Policies 4. The Business World 5. Private Non-Profit Actors 6. The Special Case of War 7. Major Challenges 8. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisCritically reviewing major factors that disrupt local and regional development, Mustafa Dinc provides a transparent interpretation of the circular and cumulative relationship between these disruptions and development, highlighting ways to help interrupt this cycle. The book emphasizes the role and responsibility of individuals in the development process by exploring a humanist approach to local and regional development.Chapters analyse the impacts of information and technological revolutions, globalization, conflict and migration, the depletion of natural resources and environmental degradation, and the deterioration of traditional human values on local and regional development. Moving away from macro-perspectives, this timely book looks at how technology, competition and economic integration over the past few decades have created undeniable social, political, economic and environmental problems for every country, exploring how these may harm the political and social fabric of society to an irreparable point, unless effective action is taken.Written in an accessible style, this is an important read for development studies scholars, as well as economics and sociology scholars focusing on development. It will also benefit local and regional policy-makers needing a more in-depth understanding of the issues facing development in our modern world.Trade Review'This is a very different approach to regional economic development. Although it relies on some well known fundamental principles, it is a completely new and fresh perspective. Given the underlying changes in the new global economic system and the consequences for the restructuring of human activity and redistribution, this volume should be read by all students and professionals in the field.' -- Kingsley E. Haynes, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Development 3. Sustainability and development 4. Technological revolutions and development 5. Conflict and development 6. Disruptions in local and regional development and the way forward for a more humanitarian world References Index

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Book SynopsisThe securitization that accompanied many national responses after 11 September 2001, along with the shortfalls of neo-liberalism, created waves of opposition to the growth of the human rights regime. By chronicling the continuing contest over the reach, range, and regime of rights, Contracting Human Rights analyzes the way forward in an era of many challenges. Through an examination of both global and local challenges to human rights, including loopholes, backlash, accountability, and new opportunities to move forward, the expert contributors analyze trends across multiple-issue areas. These include; international institutions, humanitarian action, censorship and communications, discrimination, human trafficking, counter-terrorism, corporate social responsibility and civil society and social movements. The topical chapters also provide a comprehensive review of the widening citizenship gaps in human rights coverage for refugees, women?s rights in patriarchal societies, and civil liberties in chronic conflict. This timely study will be invaluable reading for academics, upper-level undergraduates, and those studying graduate courses relating to international relations, human rights, and global governance.Contributors include: K. Ainley, G. Andreopolous, C. Apodaca, P. Ayoub, Y. Bei, N. Bennett, K. Caldwell, F. Cherif, M. Etter, J. Faust, S. Ganesh, F. Gomez Isa, A. Jimenez-Bacardi, N. Katona, B. Linder, K. Lukas, J. Planitzer, W. Sandholtz, G. Shafir, C. Stohl, M. Stohl, A. Vestergaard, C. WrightTrade ReviewContracting Human Rights is an exciting collection of essays covering topics from refugee rights and the International Criminal Court to corporate responsibilities, LGBT and women's rights, and beyond. The authors show how human rights can be blocked by resistance, counter-mobilization, and the reassertion of state sovereignty. Yet they also show that there are still means to reinforce human rights rather than give in to a politics of fear. Well worth reading, and a superb collection for classroom use.' --Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Professor Emeritus, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada and Research Chair in International Human Rights, 2003-16'Brysk and Stohl bring together a diverse set of voices and perspectives in questioning long-held assumptions about the progressive expansion of international human rights norms and enforcement mechanisms. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the long-term impact of the so-called war on terror on international human rights and anyone concerned with the future of human rights.' --Michael Goodhart, University of Pittsburgh, US'In turbulent times for human rights, this volume explores why promotion and protection of rights is stalled or thwarted in a range of issue areas, in multiple countries and regions, and at varying levels of governance. Particularly impressive are the range of topics covered across the individual chapters, the depth of evidence marshalled, and the uniformly urgent call to move beyond conventional explanations.' --Shareen Hertel, University of Connecticut, USTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Contracting human rights Alison Brysk Part I Gaps 2. Contracting the refugee regime: The global citizenship gap Alison Brysk 3. Has the occupation occupied Israel? Gershon Shafir 4. Expanding extractive industries, contracting indigenous rights? Gains, setbacks and missed opportunities in Latin America Claire Wright 5. The bottom two billion: The global expansion of urban slums and second-class citizenship Natasha Bennett Part II Backlash 6. The human rights costs of NGOs’ naming and shaming campaigns Clair Apodaca 7. Perils of success: Backlash and resistance to LGBT rights in domestic and international politics Phillip M. Ayoub 8. Human rights and democracy promotion in times of contraction: EU human rights and democratization policies in Egypt Felipe Gómez Isa 9. From lawless to secret law: The United States, the CIA, and extra-judicial killings Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi Part III Accountability 10. Whither accountability? Counter-terrorism and human rights at the United Nations Security Council George Andreopoulos 11. Backlash and international human rights courts Wayne Sandholtz, Yining Bei, and Kayla Caldwell 12. Retreat or retrenchment? An analysis of the International Criminal Court’s failure to prosecute presidents Kirsten Ainley 13. Searching for accountability of the private sector: Civil liability of corporations for trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation in the European context Julia Planitzer, Nora Katona, Barbara Linder and Karin Lukas Part IV Opportunities 14. Business and human rights: Exploring the limits of an expanding agenda on corporate responsibility Anne Vestergaard and Michael Etter 15. Digital media and human rights: Loomio, Statistics New Zealand, and gender identity Cynthia Stohl, Michael Stohl and Shiv Ganesh 16. Beyond global vs. local: Islam, feminism, and women’s rights in Morocco Jesilyn Faust 17. Contesting the citizenship gap: Advocacy, core rights, and women’s rights reform Feryal M. Cherif 18. Conclusion: From hope to fear in the millennium: Human rights in an age of backlash Michael Stohl Index

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Book SynopsisInternational human rights law is undoubtedly intertwined with politics. This Research Handbook explores and provokes reflection on how politics impacts human rights legislation and, conversely, how human rights law shapes politics and the functioning of the state.Bringing together leading international scholars in human rights law and politics, the Research Handbook provides theoretical reflections and empirical analyses across the areas of governance and policies and examines the implementation mechanisms of human rights law in national and international jurisdictions. Chapters discuss issues such as the mobilization of human rights in developing countries, the politics of torture and resource allocation, and the influence of politics on international institutions. It also presents a critical analysis of the human rights regimes in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and how the state works in ways which respect the ethics and values of human rights law.Providing a comprehensive overview of the reciprocal relationship between politics and human rights legislation, this Research Handbook will be essential reading for students and academics in human rights, international politics, law and politics, and public policy.Trade Review‘Shall politics follow the law, or shall the law follow politics? This Research Handbook, edited and written by some of the world’s leading scholars of law, political science and other disciplines, provides an excellent analysis of the interdependence of law and politics in the field of human rights. International human rights treaties are drafted and adopted by diplomats and politicians and are implemented in a highly politicized process. Nevertheless, international human rights law develops an independent meaning that strongly impacts politics.’ -- Manfred Nowak, Professor of Human Rights, Vienna and Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights‘This impressive book is indispensable for anyone who wants to understand how politics are impacting and permeating human rights performances and how human rights is shaping and structuring politics. The insightful volume contributes to the understanding of the immense pressures human rights are under from perspectives of governance, distributive justice and also in international relations. Apart from offering deep analysis, each chapter contributes outlooks for the future.’ -- Morten Kjaerum, Raoul Wallenberg Institute, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Introductory essay: the politics of international human rights law 1 Bård A. Andreassen PART I GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONS 1 The closing and resilience of civic space from a human rights perspective: scope, causes, responses 29 Antoine Buyse 2 Governance and human rights: African challenges 47 Göran Hydén 3 Writing political histories of international human rights law 61 Steven L. B. Jensen 4 Power and civic action: mobilisation for human rights in developing societies 79 Gordon Crawford 5 Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association – practices and obstacles 99 Maina Kiai and Waruguru Kaguongo 6 The role of national human rights systems in the implementation of international human rights law 115 Domenico Zipoli 7 The relevance of governance and multi-level governance to the study of human rights: insights from business and human rights 145 Claire Methven O’Brien 8 The politics of torture: legal, social and political dynamics 166 Nora Sveaass 9 Rooting rights in local spaces? Transformations in gender relations and citizen engagement 194 Celestine Nyamu Musembi PART II DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND PUBLIC POLICIES 10 The SDG agenda and human rights 215 Markus Kaltenborn and Wouter Vandenhole 11 Poverty and civil and political rights 236 Philip Alston 12 Politics of resources allocation: tax, expenditure and inequality in the human rights supervisory bodies 255 Hans-Otto Sano and Carlos Villalobos PART III INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 13 Globalization and human rights 280 Siddiqur R. Osmani 14 The influence of politics on the work of the UN human rights treaty bodies 310 Gentian Zyberi and Ibrahim Salama 15 International human rights law, politics and international financial institutions: the case of the World Bank 338 Siobhán McInerney-Lankford 16 The African human rights system: a critical appraisal 364 Victor Oluwasina Ayeni 17 The quest for an (effective) Southeast Asian human right system 389 Sriprapha Petcharamesree 18 The EU human rights regime: development, actors, policy framework and effectiveness 409 Gabriel N. Toggenburg 19 Citizenship and international human rights law – enduring enigma of the Middle East 440 Nils A. Butenschøn 20 The politics of international human rights and development aid 458 Arne Tostensen Index

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book critically analyses how the implementation of the EU-Turkey Statement on Refugees affects the rights of refugees and asylum seekers. Bringing together an in-depth examination of both EU and Turkish law and fieldwork data within a theoretical human rights framework, Hülya Kaya discusses the operational realities and failures of the agreement between Turkey and the EU from a socio-legal perspective. This timely book provides important evidence that refugee protection in the region of origin is not an effective solution to the refugee protection crisis, and casts doubt on the capacity of the agreement to contribute to fair burden sharing between states. Kaya illuminates the practical and legal difficulties that refugees experience, and draws upon the political theory of Hannah Arendt to argue that the situation constitutes a further form of violence against refugees by hindering their ability to claim and exercise their fundamental human rights. Scholars and doctoral students specialising in refugee law and migration studies, as well as human rights lawyers, will find this book to be crucial reading. It will also be of interest to human rights advocates and those working in international organisations and NGOs in this area, alongside policy makers in the EU and Turkey. Trade Review'From 2015, substantially more refugees began arriving in the EU, mainly from Turkey, triggering a policy crisis regarding their reception and integration. This book meticulously examines the EU's choice of action and effective agreement with the Turkish authorities, the so-called EU-Turkey Statement. The controversy, both legal and humanitarian, which this deal sparked in the EU and Turkey is brilliantly set out, beginning with the legal frameworks relevant to the issue. This is mandatory reading for those interested in regional refugee protection regimes.' --Elspeth Guild, Queen Mary University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Violations of the Principle of Non-Refoulement and The Right to Seek Asylum Under Readmission Agreements 3. The EU-Turkey Statement: A Challenge To Human Rights? 4. Turkish Asylum Law Analysis: Turkey’s Delivery of Human Rights Obligations After The EU-Turkey Statement 5. Fieldwork Findings: The Impact of The EU-Turkey Statement on The Civil And Political Rights of Refugees 6. Fieldwork Findings: The Impact of The EU-Turkey Statement On The Socio-Economic Rights of Refugees 7. Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book explores the extent to which national security has affected the intersection between human rights and the exercise of state power. It examines how liberal democracies, long viewed as the proponents and protectors of human rights, have transformed their use of human rights on the global stage, externalizing their own internal agendas.Contextualizing human rights goals, structures and challenges in the immediate post-UDHR era, key chapters analyse the role that national security has played in driving competition between individual rights and rhetoric-laden, democracy-reinforcing approaches to collective rights of security. Internationally diverse authors offer evocative insights into the ways in which law is used to manipulate both intra and interstate relationships, and demonstrate the constant tensions raised by a human rights system that is fundamentally state-centric though defined by individuals' needs and demands. Acknowledging the challenges in contemporary human rights practice, policy and discourse as features of transitional eras in human rights, this forward-thinking book identifies opportunities to correct past inadequacies and promote a stronger system for the future.This is a hard-hitting and much needed study for students and scholars of human rights, security law, constitutional law and international relations more widely. Its practical dimensions will also greatly benefit practitioners in the field.Trade Review'The current Covid-19 pandemic, which resulted in unprecedented human rights restrictions around the globe, provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on the role of "human rights in times of transition". After a period of polarization during the Cold War, a short window of opportunity during the 1990s, the national security challenges after 9/11, and recent threats by nationalism, populism, new authoritarianism and the current public health crisis, it is high time to discuss the need for a revival of human rights to master the enormous challenges of the post-Covid-19 era.' -- Manfred Nowak, Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human RightsTable of ContentsContents: 1 Human rights, liberal democracies and challenges of national security 1 Kasey McCall-Smith, Andrea Birdsall and Elisenda Casanas Adam PART I HUMAN RIGHTS TRANSITIONS – THEORETICAL DEBATES AND DOCTRINAL CHALLENGES 2 Key challenges to human rights in democracies at a time of transition: Where to now? 16 Francesca Klug 3 The forgotten principle of fraternité : Re-interpreting the last three articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 41 Yota Negishi 4 Human rights protection and state capacity: The doctrinal implications of the statist character of international human rights law 64 Mátyás Bódig PART II CO-OPTION AND EJECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES 5 US counterterrorism and the denial of fundamental rights from torture to fair trial 90 Kasey McCall-Smith 6 Counterterrorism and challenges to human rights: Justifying drones and targeted killing as acts of self-defence 116 Andrea Birdsall 7 The alleged backlash against human rights: Evidence from Denmark and the UK 139 Jacques Hartmann and Samuel White PART III HUMAN RIGHTS AND NATIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES BEYOND THE STATE 8 Surveillance measures and the exception of national security in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights 165 Pierre Notermans 9 Constructing a right to counterterrorism: Law, politics and the Security Council 189 Vivek Bhatt 10 Non-state actors that aspire to be states: White spots on the international human rights protection map? 216 Linda Hamid 11 Reflections on human rights and contemporary challenges raised by national security discourse 242 Kasey McCall-Smith, Andrea Birdsall and Elisenda Casanas Adam Index 255

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Book SynopsisIn a digitally connected world, the question of how to respect, protect and fulfil human rights has become unavoidable. Uniting research from scholars and practitioners, this contemporary Handbook offers new insights into well-established debates surrounding digital technologies by framing them in terms of human rights.An international group of expert contributors explore the issues posed by the management of key Internet resources, the governance of its architecture, the role of different stakeholders, the legitimacy of rule-making and rule-enforcement, and the exercise of international public authority over users. Highly interdisciplinary, the Handbook draws on law, political science, and international relations, as well as computer science and science and technology studies in order to engage with human rights aspects of the digitally connected world. The chapters examine in depth current topics relating to human rights and security, internet access, surveillance, automation, trade, and freedom of expression.This comprehensive and engaging Handbook will be vital reading for both researchers and students in law, human rights, international politics, international relations and technology studies. Policy-makers seeking an understanding of the state of human rights in technology will also find this book a highly useful resource. Contributors include: W. Benedek, D. Bigo, D. Brodowski, G. Contissa, P. de Hert, M. Dunn Cavelty, T. Engelhardt, B. Farrand, M I. Franklin, M.I. Ganesh, M. Graham, S. Horth, L. Jasmontaite, R.F. Jørgensen, C. Kavanagh, M.C. Kettemann, D. Korff, G. Lansdown, E. Light, S. Livingstone, A. Millikan, J.A. Obar, G. Sartor, G. Sobliye, A. Third, M. Tuszynski, K. Vieth, B. Wagner, T. Wetzling, M. ZalnieriuteTable of ContentsContents: Part I Conceptual Approaches to Human Rights and Digital Technology 1. Human Rights Futures for the Internet M.I. Franklin 2. There Are No Rights ‘in’ Cyberspace Mark Graham 3. Beyond national security, the emergence of a digital reason of state(s) led by transnational Guilds of Sensitive Information. The case of the Five Eyes Plus Network Didier Bigo 4. Digital Copyright and Human Rights: Balancing of Competing Obligations, or Is There No Conflict? Benjamin Farrand Part II Security and Human Rights: Between Cybersecurity and Cybercrime 5. Cybersecurity and Human Rights Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Camino Kavanagh 6. Cybercrime, Human Rights and Digital Politics Dominik Brodowski 7. “This is Not a Drill”: International Law and Protection of Cybersecurity Mathias C. Kettemann 8. First Do No Harm: The Potential of Harm Caused to Fundamental Rights and Freedoms by State Cybersecurity interventions Douwe Korff Part III Internet Access and Surveillance: Assessing Human Rights in Practice 9. Access to the Internet in the EU: a Policy Priority, a Fundamental, a Human Right, or a Concern of eGovernment? Lina Jasmontaite and Paul de Hert 10. Reflections on Access to Internet in Cuba as a Human Right Raudiel F. Peña Barrios 11. Surveillance Reform: Revealing Surveillance Harm and Engaging Reform Tactics Evan Light and Jonathan A. Obar 12. Germany’s Recent Intelligence Reform revisited: A Wolf in Sheep’s clothing? Thorsten Wetzling Part IV Automation, Trade and Freedom of Expression: Embedding Rights in Technology Governance 13. Liability and Automation in Socio-Technical Systems Giuseppe Contissa and Giovanni Sartor 14. Who pays? - On Artificial Agents, Human Rights and Tort Law Tim Engelhardt 15. Digital Technologies, Human Rights and Global Trade? Expanding export controls of surveillance technologies in Europe, China and India Ben Wagner and Stéphanie Horth 16. Policing ‘online-radicalization’: The framing of Europol’s Internet Referral Unit Kilian Vieth Part V Actors’ Perspectives on Human Rights: How Can Change Happen? 17. When Private Actors Govern Human Rights Rikke Frank Jørgensen 18. International Organizations and Digital Human Rights Wolfgang Benedek 19. Recognizing Children’s Rights in Relation to Digital Technologies: Challenges of Voice and Evidence, Principle and Practice Amanda Third, Sonia Livingstone and Gerison Lansdown 20. Digital Rights of LGBTI Communities: A Roadmap for a Dual Human Rights Framework Monika Zalnieriute Index

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Book SynopsisHuman rights are at a crossroads. This book considers how these rights can be reconstructed in challenging times, with changes in the pathways to the realization of human rights and new developments in human rights law and policy, illustrated with case studies from Africa, Europe, and the Americas.Contesting Human Rights traces the balance between the dynamics of diffusion, resistance and innovation in the field. The book examines a range of issues from the effectiveness of norm-promotion by advocacy campaigns to the backlash facing human rights advocates. The expert contributors suggest that new opportunities at and below the state level, and creative contests of global governance, can help reconstruct human rights in the face of modern challenges. Critical case studies trace new pathways emerging in the United Nations' Universal Periodic Review, regional human rights courts, constitutional incorporation of international norms, and human rights cities.With its innovative approach to human rights and comprehensive coverage of global, national and regional trends, Contesting Human Rights will be an invaluable tool for scholars and students of human rights, global governance, law and politics. It will also be useful for human rights advocates with a keen interest in the evolution of the human rights landscape.Contributors include: G. Andreopoulos, C. Apodaca, P.M. Ayoub, A. Brysk, P. Elizalde, A. Feldman, M. Goodhart, C. Hillebrecht, P.C. McMahon, S. Meili, M. Mullinax, A. Murdie, B. Park, W. Sandholtz, M. StohlTrade Review‘This book will definitely serve as a good supplementary text for human rights courses and handy reference for seasoned practitioners and advocates.’ -- Kai-Chung Lo, Johnson Chun-Sing Cheung, Human Rights Review‘Contesting Human Rights is a provocative collection of essays by some of the world’s leading human rights scholars that will challenge the reader to re-think both the successes and the failures of the human rights revolution.’ -- Mark Gibney, University of North Carolina, Asheville, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Contesting Human Rights: Pathways of Change Alison Brysk PART I PATHWAYS 2. Building Momentum: Changes in Advocacy Discourse Around Early Child Marriage, 2011-2017 Amanda Murdie, Baekkwan Park, Jaqueline Hart and Margo Mullinex 3. Tensions in Rights: Navigating Emerging Contradictions in the Emerging LGBT Rights Revolution Phillip M. Ayoub 4. Better Late Than Never? The Evolving Responsibility of Internatioal Organizations George Andreopoulous PART II REGIME DEVELOPMENT 5. A Horizontal Pathway to Impact? An Assessment of the Universal Periodic Review at 10 Pilar Elizalde 6. The Trans-Regional Construction of Human Rights Wayne Sandholtz, Adam Feldman 7. The Effectiveness of an Emerging Pathway of Rights: The Constitutionalization of Human Rights Law Stephen Meili 8. Human Rights Cities: Making the Global Local Michael Goodhart PART III CONTRACTIONS AND LIMITATIONS 9. Advocacy and Accountability in the Age of Backlash: NGOs and Regional Courts Courtney Hillebrecht 10.What Went Wrong: Backlash and Contradictions in Central and Eastern Europe Patrice C. McMahon 11. Emerging Contradictions in US Human Rights Policy: The Trump Agenda The Trump Agenda Clair Apodaca 12. It Was The Best of Times, It Was The Worst of Times: Conclusions on Contesting Human Rights Michael Stohl Index

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Book SynopsisConsidering the major crises Europe has faced over the last three decades, this unique book offers a multidisciplinary examination of the ways in which law, human rights and politics have evolved and were affected by recent emergencies.Costas Douzinas assesses and critiques the ways in which governments responded to three emergencies: the 2008 economic crisis, the large flows of refugees and migrants since the 2010s, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilising Foucault’s theory of biopolitics and Douzinas’ experience as a critical scholar and politician, this insightful book reviews the law and politics of emergency and proposes a theory and future pathways of resistance. Ultimately, States of Exception asks to what extent critical legal theory can inform radical politics and argues that human rights are not the ‘last utopia’ but a combination of the unfulfilled promise of dignity with the desire to transcend inequality and exploitation.This multidimensional exploration of the intersection between critical legal theory, human rights philosophy and radical politics offers a unique insight to students, academics and researchers specialising in legal theory, human rights law, jurisprudence and politics. It will also prove beneficial for professionals and practitioners working in the legal and political sectors.Trade Review‘A tour de force. Costas Douzinas brings his unique critical acumen and extraordinary erudition to bear on his first-hand experience—as a founder of critical legal studies in the UK and an MP in Greece’s Syriza parliament in the 2010s—of the grinding dissolution of public autonomy in the relentless advance of global neoliberalism. Douzinas coins the term “neolegalism” for the curious legal architecture that has spread from interwar Vienna, wartime London, postwar Chicago and Cold War Santiago to its thorough globalisation in the “polycrisis” of the 2020s. Neolegalism, in Douzinas’s account, combines the brutal authoritarianism of a strong-arm state, stoking a cowed general public, with the freedoms of a market order for transnational plutocrats, with a growing subclass of homeless refugees caught in-between. Its normalisation is symbolised in the Covid-19 regime, premised on ‘necessity’ rather than exception. Required reading to understand our current predicament.’ -- Stephen Humphreys, London School of Economics, UK‘Costas Douzinas’s States of Exception offers a crucial diagnosis ofour troubled times. In this remarkable book, Douzinas draws t together his critical legal theory of law and life in states of exception with his political experience in Greek government to analyse our current political situation. Rather than despairing at our current political realities, States of Exception powerfully argues for the possibilities for collective action in resistance, political praxis, andStates of Exception is a compelling and eloquent book that sets out a critical legal theory for our time. The illuminating discussion of political praxis, thought provoking analysis of legal and political theory, and important account of contemporary law and emancipatory politics make States of Exception essential reading. This important book will be a vital source of theoretical and political insights for all those seeking to understand our present and build an -- alternative future.’– Kirsten Campbell, Goldsmiths College, UK‘Part intellectual autobiography, part critical legal retrospect, and part manifesto for radical human rights, this book sees “Douzinism” come of age. States of Exception provides an adroit combination of theoretical abrasiveness, hard earned political realism, and the amicable generosity of solidarity. It is the last that lingers longest. The book offers faith in critique and an unquenchable glimpse of a utopian disposition.’ -- Peter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law, US‘Douzinas at his very best! The book demonstrates the immense power of contemporary critical legal theory to help us grasp the world around us. It will be indispensable for those who seek to understand the role of law, rights, the state and international relations in the wake of the Covid pandemic.’ -- Illan Wall, University of Warwick, UK‘Costas Douzinas’ work, as a writer, teacher, mentor and editor, has been pivotal to the development of critical legal scholarship in Britain since the 80s. States of Exception, his most personal book to date, gives us a synthesis of the extraordinary range of earlier thematics, imbued now with what it has meant for him to have defended the “desire called utopia” in the “more positive tonality” of his political involvement as an MP for the radical left in Greece, during the difficult years of the conditionalities and the memoranda. This is a book that reflects Douzinas’ unwavering faith in popular resistance, in people’s acts of solidarity, sacrifice and care. From that insistent demand that rights, solidarity and justice will not be surrendered to the logic of capital, he draws a restatement of the dignity of natural law which, like in that other heretical Marxist natural lawyer, Ernst Bloch, points us beyond current political compromises and lies to the “orthopaedia” - the upright posture - of critical thinking.’ -- Emilios Christodoulidis, University of Glasgow, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: the sense of an ending PART I STATES OF EXCEPTION, STATES OF NECESSITY 1 Biopolitics, rights, subjects 2 States of exception, states of necessity 3 Protest and resistance in the pandemic 4 A theory of resistance 5 Refugees: politics, law, ethics PART II CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS 6 Human rights in history 7 Law, morality, politics 8 Neolegalism 9 Cosmopolitanism and just wars 10 The desire called utopia Index

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Book SynopsisThis forward-looking book provides an in-depth analysis of the major transformations of the right to health in Latin America over the past decades, marked by the turn towards the pharmaceuticalisation of health care. Everaldo Lamprea-Montealegre investigates how health-based litigation has deepened inequalities in the global South, exploring the practices of key actors that are reclaiming the right to health in the region. Taking a deep dive into the health care systems of Brazil and Colombia, Local Maladies, Global Remedies illustrates how transnational pharmaceutical companies are influencing the litigation of health rights, from moulding doctors’ preferences for branded drugs to controlling the availability of cheaper generics and bio-similars. The book deploys a wide range of theoretical perspectives and insights from socio-legal literature to map out the practices of stakeholders that are reclaiming the right to health in Latin America. Its concluding remarks propose a set of remedies to help alleviate the challenges faced by global South countries when trying to guarantee their population’s right to health, ultimately calling for a major shift of decision-making responsibilities from a local to a global level. The wide-ranging, interdisciplinary scope of this cutting-edge book will benefit scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and students operating at the intersections between socio-legal studies, sociology, health anthropology, public health, globalisation, and human rights.Trade Review‘Everaldo Lamprea’s book Local Maladies, Global Remedies: Reclaiming the Right to Health in Latin America is an important and insightful contribution to the literature on the right to health. The book documents the background to the crisis caused by the pharmaceutization of the right to health in Colombia and Brazil and the resulting litigation epidemics in those countries. Significantly the book shows the limitations of an individualized approach to the right to health and to make the right to health more appropriate in the pandemic context calls for supplementing the conceptualization of the right to health with a polycentric regime or responsibilities incorporating a wide array of interconnected stakeholders and mediating institutions.’ -- Audrey R. Chapman, University of Connecticut, US‘The book Local Maladies, Global Remedies: Reclaiming the Right to Health in Latin America by Everaldo Lamprea-Montealegre presents a fascinating analysis of the current problems and paradoxes regarding right to health access in the global South. The sophisticated framework proposed to interpret these problems and paradoxes (what the author calls the political economy of the right to health) meticulously unpacks an array of actors and interests present in right to health cases, particularly in the cases of Colombia and Brazil. As such, it provides a crucial contribution for policy makers, researchers, and public health academics.’ -- Helena Alviar García, Sciences Po École de droit, FranceTable of ContentsContents: The right to health in action: an introduction PART I THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE RIGHT TO HEALTH 1. The elusive search for the minimum core of the right to health 2. The political economy of the right to health: a terrain for contestation 3. The judicialization of health care in the Global South PART II LOCAL MALADIES: THE EPIDEMIC OF THE RIGHT TO HEALTH IN BRAZIL AND COLOMBIA 4. Health system reform and the rise of litigiousness in Brazil and Colombia 5. The HIV/AIDS pandemic and the plight of vulnerable patients: understanding the first wave of litigiousness in Brazil and Colombia (1990–2000) 6. Riding a second wave (2000–2020): the downstream approach and the rise of “high-cost patients” 7. A case study of patients’ organizations: between good causes and hidden clients 8. Stopping a litigation epidemic: lessons from Colombia and Brazil’s highest courts The promise of the right to health, and why we have to keep it: closing reflections Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business, and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. This insightful Advanced Introduction provides a kaleidoscopic overview of key US civil liberties, including freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion, limitations on search and seizure, due process in criminal proceedings, autonomy rights, rights of equality, and democratic participation. Key Features: Discusses the historical development and current status of core civil liberties Examines the tension between libertarian and egalitarian views of civil liberties Promotes further understanding of the role of the US Supreme Court and other actors in setting levels of protection for civil liberties Provides an overview of common themes in development and interpretation of constitutionally protected civil liberties in multiple areas, including abortion Featuring examples of how key civil liberties have been shaped by historical, legal, and philosophical forces, this Advanced Introduction will be essential reading for students and scholars in American studies, history, human rights, law and politics, and political science.Trade Review‘Professor Susan Herman has written a brilliant description of civil liberties in the United States. With remarkable clarity, she explains complicated legal concepts, tracing the history of civil rights in the United States and discussing important current issues. This book will be an invaluable resource for experts and non-experts alike, and will be enormously helpful to students, as well as lawyers, judges, and everyone interested in learning more about civil liberties.’ -- Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California, Berkeley, US‘This authoritative text is essential reading for students and practitioners of constitutional law. The author's direct experience, as President of the ACLU, adds invaluable depth and insight in confronting continuing and new constitutional challenges.’ -- Professor Emerita Geraldine Van Bueren KC, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, UK‘At a moment when rights are under threat, Herman sets out to clearly define the evolution and parameters of civil rights, civil liberties and human rights in the United States. In doing so, she does not shirk from the dark moments of US constitutional history, or from addressing how the peculiarly American approach to freedom of speech continues to present controversies around extremist speech, campus protests and campaign finance.’ -- Liam Herrick, Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Ireland‘With her extensive experience teaching Constitutional Law and as President of the ACLU, Susan Herman is the ideal person to introduce readers to U.S. civil liberties. This book provides a variety of fascinating perspectives on civil liberties generally – history, law, current conditions – and on sizzling issues ranging from abortion to voting rights.’ -- Nadine Strossen, FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), US

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business, and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. This insightful Advanced Introduction provides a kaleidoscopic overview of key US civil liberties, including freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion, limitations on search and seizure, due process in criminal proceedings, autonomy rights, rights of equality, and democratic participation. Key Features: Discusses the historical development and current status of core civil liberties Examines the tension between libertarian and egalitarian views of civil liberties Promotes further understanding of the role of the US Supreme Court and other actors in setting levels of protection for civil liberties Provides an overview of common themes in development and interpretation of constitutionally protected civil liberties in multiple areas, including abortion Featuring examples of how key civil liberties have been shaped by historical, legal, and philosophical forces, this Advanced Introduction will be essential reading for students and scholars in American studies, history, human rights, law and politics, and political science.Trade Review‘Professor Susan Herman has written a brilliant description of civil liberties in the United States. With remarkable clarity, she explains complicated legal concepts, tracing the history of civil rights in the United States and discussing important current issues. This book will be an invaluable resource for experts and non-experts alike, and will be enormously helpful to students, as well as lawyers, judges, and everyone interested in learning more about civil liberties.’ -- Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California, Berkeley, US‘This authoritative text is essential reading for students and practitioners of constitutional law. The author's direct experience, as President of the ACLU, adds invaluable depth and insight in confronting continuing and new constitutional challenges.’ -- Professor Emerita Geraldine Van Bueren KC, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, UK‘At a moment when rights are under threat, Herman sets out to clearly define the evolution and parameters of civil rights, civil liberties and human rights in the United States. In doing so, she does not shirk from the dark moments of US constitutional history, or from addressing how the peculiarly American approach to freedom of speech continues to present controversies around extremist speech, campus protests and campaign finance.’ -- Liam Herrick, Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Ireland‘With her extensive experience teaching Constitutional Law and as President of the ACLU, Susan Herman is the ideal person to introduce readers to U.S. civil liberties. This book provides a variety of fascinating perspectives on civil liberties generally – history, law, current conditions – and on sizzling issues ranging from abortion to voting rights.’ -- Nadine Strossen, FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), US

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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking Handbook explores the key legal, political and policy questions concerning the implementation of Indigenous rights across the world. An exciting mix of expert Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors analyse the complex dynamics of contestation, engagement, advocacy and refusal between governments and Indigenous peoples, presenting a profound challenge to mainstream policy scholarship.Chapters employ both country-level case studies as well as global analyses, covering key themes such as self-determination, sovereignty, culture, land and territory. They showcase the extensive evidence that policy imposed on Indigenous peoples without their involvement is at best ineffective and at worst harmful. Through examining the ongoing impacts of colonisation, contributors identify future pathways for Indigenous public policy, including truth-telling processes, resurgence movements, and international human rights law. Ultimately, the Handbook highlights the vital importance and extensive policy benefits of treating Indigenous people as rights-bearing members of sovereign and self-determining Indigenous nations.The Handbook of Indigenous Public Policy will be essential reading for students and scholars of Indigenous studies, public policy, international relations, and political science. It will also be invaluable for policy-makers looking to centre Indigenous people and their rights in the policy-making process.Trade Review‘The fields of public policy and public administration have not yet caught up with the challenge of embedded Indigenous peoples. As an antidote to this blind spot this Handbook is essential reading for administrators and policy academics alike. The very existence of Indigenous peoples within a sphere of public policy immediately questions the sovereignty on which public policy depends. As the editors and contributors of this ground-breaking and timely book show in multiple instances, the legitimacy of public policy lies on shifting sands. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples gives a framework to the chapters in this book, and the right to self-determination of Indigenous peoples within multi-sovereign states has been accepted by the UN General Assembly. Still, many Indigenous peoples go further, challenging the power of the state to regulate their lives. Each of the contributions demands recognition and respect for Indigenous peoples, with public policy generated in their own terms and reflecting their own cultures, processes and values. The many and diverse chapters of this book, from all over the world, demonstrating combined wisdom with many Indigenous contributions, mount a powerful argument for complacent governments, bureaucrats and academics to sit up and listen. They should keep this Handbook in their desk drawer, it points to the future.’ -- Patrick Sullivan, University of Notre Dame Australia‘Full of critique and aimed at healthier futures, the Handbook provides the most comprehensive and current snapshot of Indigenous policy at the global scale. It highlights a broad range of Indigenous aspirations in the face of ongoing injustice and in the process demonstrates Indigenous resilience in various contexts.’ -- John Borrows, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Indigenous public policy in global context 1 Sheryl Lightfoot and Sarah Maddison PART I INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, POLICY AND GOVERNANCE 1 Violence as care: Indigenous policy and settler colonialism 18 Elizabeth Strakosch 2 Indigeneity, national unity, modernity and public policy in Africa 35 Elifuraha Laltaika 3 Self-determination, sovereignty and policy: how does a focus on Indigenous rights transform policymaking? 53 Rauna Kuokkanen 4 Self-determination: at the heart of Indigenous humanisation 70 Aküm Longchari 5 Nation building and Indigenous institutions 98 Raymond Foxworth and Moroni Benally PART II LAND AND LAW 6 Contemporary critical legal accounts of the relationship between international law and domestic law and policy 121 Claire Charters, Fleur Te Aho and Tracey Whare 7 Treaty and public policy in the settler colonies 138 Anya Thomas and Sarah Maddison 8 Constitutional transformation and public policy for Indigenous Peoples’ rights 157 Mukta S. Tamang 9 Indigenous land and water policy 177 Justin McCaul 10 On gendered ground: land and colonialism 198 Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez 11 Indigenous political economy and public policy 214 Frances Abele PART III DOMESTIC POLICY 12 Public policy and Indigenous Peoples’ right to health in Brazil and Mali 227 Mariam Wallet Med Aboubakrine 13 Kichwa Amazonian life routes in education: foregrounding the ‘inter’ in intercultural educational policy 242 Gioconda Coello and Diana Chávez Vargas 14 Indigenous food sovereignty: embodying nuu-chah-nulth principles of ʔuʔaałuk (to take care of), ʔiisaak (to be respectful) and hišukʔiš c̓awaak (everything is interconnected) in policy and practice 253 Charlotte Coté 15 Indigenous language rights, frameworks and policies 272 Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu Galla and Amanda Holmes 16 Indigenous Peoples in the justice system 294 Valmaine Toki PART IV LEGACIES OF THE PAST, POSSIBILITIES FOR THE FUTURE 17 Indigenous rights and reconciliation: lessons from Australia 309 Samara Hand and Damien Short 18 Truth commissions and truth-telling 333 David B. MacDonald and Joanne Garcia-Moores 19 Indigenous resurgence 352 Adam J. Barker and Emma Battell Lowman 20 Quest for equality: redefining Indigenous–state relationships 373 Dalee Sambo Dorough Index 399

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Book SynopsisIn response to the recent surge in extractive natural resource investments in Africa, this insightful book explores how relations between investors, ruling elites, and local populations develop when large-scale investments in gas, minerals, and agriculture expand.Advancing a multi-level approach that encompasses rigorous theoretical analysis, fieldwork, and literature review, expert contributors examine the implementation of natural resource investments and the extent to which they respect rights of local populations. Chapters draw together bodies of literature on land-grabbing debates, the resource curse controversy and corporate social responsibility (CSR), demonstrating how the chances of large-scale investments in natural resources are at their greatest when characterised by ‘reciprocal exchange deals’ between investors and local populations, ‘compatible interests’ between ruling elites and investors, and ‘mutual recognition’ between local populations and ruling elites. Through a careful examination of case studies in Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda, the book ultimately highlights the complexity of the political economy of natural resource investments. Providing valuable theoretical and empirical insights, this book will be an invigorating read for scholars and students of political economy, political geography, sustainability, CSR, and business studies. Its valuable insights on how natural resource investments might accelerate economic growth and consolidate links between local and global economies will also be of interest to development practitioners and investors.Trade Review‘Challenging established approaches to understanding the drivers shaping large-scale investments, state policy-making and social outcomes in contemporary Africa’s extractive resources, this new collection of sectoral studies confronts head-on a critical research gap in the current literature: what role do local communities and interests play in shaping foreign investments and state regulation, and how do the evolving relations among public, private and social actors inflect the trajectory of resource based development strategies? In response, this book provides a fresh, richly-detailed body of evidence and analysis which marks an important contribution to comparative and public policy research in Africa’s key natural resources sector.’ -- Richard G. Saunders, York University, Canada‘Rights to access, control, and profit from Africa’s natural resources are continuously contested and negotiated. While the issues are linked to history, the contexts are ever changing and the challenges remain of the highest relevance for scholars, policy makers, and politicians. This book provides valuable and thought-provoking new knowledge on the interactions between the main stakeholders involved.’ -- Ellen Hillbom, Lund University, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Land, Rights and the Politics of Investments in Africa 1 Lars Buur, José J. Macuane, Faustin Maganga and Rasmus H. Pedersen 1 Community participation in Tanzania’s petroleum sector 37 Opportuna L. Kweka and Rasmus H. Pedersen 2 LNG investments in Mozambique: compensation deals and the dynamics of local state-making 58 Padil Salimo 3 The double role of the state: the state as investor and mediator in the Tanzanian coal sector 77 Thabit Jacob 4 Riding the waves of change: changing relations in the Ugandan sugar sector 99 Malin J. Nystrand, Arthur Sserwanga and Brenda Kyomuhendo 5 The politics of the smallholder–investor relationship in the Tanzanian sugar sector 124 Emmanuel Sulle, Faustin Maganga, Rose Qamara, Evans Boadu, Happiness Malle and Onesmo Minani 6 A failing local exchange deal: rights to land and resources in the WanBao rice investment in Mozambique 146 Lars Buur and Kathrin Beykirch 7 Exchange relations in rice contract farming schemes in Tanzania 173 Eileen Dyer Jarnholt, Faustin Maganga and George Schoneveld 8 Conclusion 194 Lars Buur and Rasmus H. Pedersen Index 205

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This Research Agenda explores the academic field of intelligence studies and how it is developing into an increasingly international and diverse area of study.As more governments release records, and as new generations of scholars engage with the topic from a range of perspectives, the book considers how the field is becoming richer, wider, and more global in scope. Featuring contributions by a diverse range of leading intelligence scholars, it surveys a variety of core areas in, and approaches to, the study of intelligence - including technological perspectives, gender, deception, and the ‘deep state’ - highlighting how intelligence will become a greater feature of government and security in the future. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book explores not only the established elements of intelligence studies, but analyses the cutting edge of intelligence research and proposes an agenda for the continued development of the field.Offering concise and accessible discussions of developing topics in intelligence studies, this Research Agenda will be a useful guide for scholars and students of public policy, international relations and security. It will also be of interest to professionals engaged in research into security and intelligence matters.Trade Review‘Intelligence studies now expands well beyond the realm of traditional espionage into international affairs, digital media, AI and big data, private sector analysis and many other areas. Dover, Dylan and Goodman, experienced scholars, have given us the essential guide we need to the state of modern intelligence studies and its future direction.’ -- Sir David Omand, King's College London and former Director GCHQ, UK‘Intelligence studies now expands well beyond the realm of traditional espionage into international affairs, digital media, AI and big data, private sector analysis and many other areas. Dover, Dylan and Goodman, experienced scholars, have given us the essential guide we need to the state of modern intelligence studies and its future direction.’ -- Sir David Omand, King's College London and former Director GCHQ, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Intelligence Studies and Government 1 Robert Dover, Huw Dylan and Michael S. Goodman PART I EMERGING RESEARCH TRENDS IN INTELLIGENCE STUDIES 2 Critical Security and Intelligence Studies 9 Claudia Aradau and Emma McCluskey 3 Culture in Intelligence Studies 21 Simon Willmetts 4 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Intelligence Studies 35 Huw Bennett and Claudia Hillebrand 5 AI and Ethics in Intelligence 49 Sarah Mainwaring 6 Intelligence Leadership 63 Patrick F. Walsh PART II THE GAPS IN OUR UNDERSTANDING 7 Intelligence and Biosecurity 79 Filippa Lentzos 8 Global Intelligence Studies 93 Daniela Richterova 9 Private Sector Intelligence 103 Damien Van Puyvelde and Sonia Sangiovanni 10 The Impact of Technology on Intelligence Analysis 113 Kathleen M. Vogel PART III REFRAMING INTELLIGENCE STUDIES 11 Why Intelligence Analysts Need to Write Long Papers 127 Tim Dickens 12 Deception and Intelligence in Peace and War 141 Gary Buck and Huw Dylan 13 The Deep State: Definitional Debates and Impacts 155 Robert Dover 14 Teaching Intelligence: Decolonisation, (Distance) Education and the Global Student 167 Helen Dexter 15 Post-Modern Archival Research 181 Berenice Burnett Bibliography 193 Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book investigates emerging efforts to govern artificial intelligence (AI) at an international level. It emphasizes the complex interactions involved when creating international norms related to potential and current developments in AI regulation.Organized into four parts, The International Governance of Artificial Intelligence demonstrates how formal and informal standards for AI are emerging from stakeholder interactions. With the objective of describing a nascent transnational law on AI use, chapters survey the various global realities that affect AI governance, concluding that AI law should ultimately be evaluated against the measure of international human rights.Students of law and governance will benefit from this book, particularly when studying emerging technologies, international economic law and general international law. Those researching policy creation and regulation will additionally find it to be an enlightening read.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction to The International Governance of Artificial Intelligence PART I AI AND INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE 1. The need for the international governance of AI 2. AI actors and the landscape of AI regulation PART II SOURCES OF THE INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE OF AI 3. AI and the market 4. AI developers, associations, and the academic community 5. AI, the state, and national law 6. AI and international law 7. AI and international organizations 8. AI and international civil society PART III INTERNATIONAL AI GOVERNANCE IN PERSPECTIVE 9. International AI governance in a time of retrenchment 10. International human rights as ‘ideal’ AI governance PART IV CONCLUSIONS 11. Conclusion. Index

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Book SynopsisProviding an intellectual biography of the challenging concept of genocide from inception to present day, this topical Handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach to shed new light on the events, processes, and legacies in the field.Reaching beyond the traditional study of canonical genocides and related pathologies of behaviour, this Handbook strives to spell out the multiple dimensions of genocide studies as an academic realm. In doing so, it incorporates a vast range of methods and disciplines, including historiography, archival research, listening to testimony, philosophical inquiry, film studies, and art criticism. Contributors address a broad array of episodes, including genocides of indigenous populations in the Americas and Africa, the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, twentieth-century genocides in Indonesia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and twenty-first-century genocides in Iraq, Myanmar, and China. By developing a cross-disciplinary framework, this Handbook showcases the diversity that comprises the field and creates a rich understanding of the origin, effects, and legacy of genocide.With a wide variety of perspectives, this Handbook will prove an invigorating read for students and scholars of international and human rights, public policy, and political geography and geopolitics, particularly those interested in genocide studies and the UN Genocide Convention.Trade Review‘Reflecting the multi-disciplinary nature of genocide studies, this is an advanced Handbook of Genocide Studies, which engages with challenges in the field of genocide studies by examining how particular genocides and aspects of the genocide process impact the study of genocide. Taking the reader through key concepts, such as the birth of the term “genocide”, specific genocides, particular aspects of genocide, and important practical aspects of genocide such as genocide prevention, this is a valuable text for students and scholars of any discipline seeking to explore how we research this challenging field of study.’ -- Melanie O’Brien, University of Western Australia and International Association of Genocide ScholarsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook of Genocide Studies 1 David J. Simon PART I THE BIRTH OF A CONCEPT 1 The history of Raphaël Lemkin and the UN Genocide Convention 7 Douglas Irvin-Erickson PART II GENOCIDE STUDIES: HISTORY AND IDEAS 2 Genocide of Indigenous peoples in North America 28 David MacDonald 3 Destroying to replace: reflections on motive forces behind civilian-driven violence in settler genocides of Indigenous peoples 42 Mohamed Adhikari 4 The historiography of the Armenian genocide 54 Suren Manukyan 5 Holocaust research and genocide studies: facing the problem of integration 72 Charlotte Kiechel PART III GENOCIDE STUDIES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 6 The interpretation and (non-)application of the Genocide Convention during the Cold War 85 Anton Weiss-Wendt 7 Mass murder and genocide in Indonesia and Cambodia, 1965–79: Cold War, state, and region 95 Ben Kiernan 8 The impact of genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia on genocide policy and genocide studies 106 David J. Simon PART IV GENOCIDE STUDIES AS SOCIAL SCIENCE 9 State strategies to implement (and hide) genocide in China and Myanmar since 2017 123 Magnus Fiskesjö 10 Genocide prevention: perspectives from psychological and social economic choice models 142 Charles H. Anderton 11 The potential of – and problems with – perpetrator research 158 Christian Gudehus 12 Making choices: the roles of rescuers in Rwanda and Bosnia 172 Leora Kahn 13 Trauma, grief, and bereavement after genocide: the Rwandan case 181 Amélie Faucheux 14 Religion and genocide studies 198 Kate E. Temoney 15 Gender and sexual violence in genocide 214 Anna Di Lellio PART V GENOCIDE STUDIES IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITES 16 Reframing the moment of first contact: lessons from the cinematic genre of science fiction 227 Daniel Conway 17 Music and genocide 238 Stéphanie Khoury 18 A network of witnesses: photography and genocide 249 Paul Lowe 19 Historical burden: art after genocide 263 Elmedin Žunić 20 Museums and the memory of genocide 277 Amy Sodaro PART VI GENOCIDE IN DISCOURSE 21 Questionable practices in genocide discourse 290 Aleksandar Jokic Index

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Book SynopsisSponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this book explores the complex construction of democratic public dialogue in developing countries. Case studies examine national environments defined not only by state censorship and commercial pressure, but also language differences, international influence, social divisions, and distinct value systems. With fresh portraits of new and traditional media throughout Africa, Latin America and Asia, authors delve into the essential role of the media in developing countries. Case studies illuminate the relationship between the State and the media in Russia, as well as the challenges faced by journalists working in Kurdistan. Further cases reveal bureaucratic censorship of books in Brazil, regulatory dilemmas in Australia, state policies in post-colonial Malawi, and the potential of oral culture for the strengthening of democratic conversation. Media, Development and Democracy brings the liberal democratic media model into new terrains where some of its core assumptions do not hold. In doing so, the authors' collective voices illuminate pressing issues facing our current global dialogue and our liberal and democratic expectations concerning communications and the media. This essential volume works as a magnifying glass for our current times, forcing us to question what kind of media we want todayTable of ContentsIntroduction: Overlapping communicative meshes: plural perspectives on media and development; Heloisa Pait Chapter 1. Foreign Authors, National Bans: Books and Censorship in Brazil (1964-1985); Sandra Reimão Chapter 2. Manufacturing the Liberal Media Model through Developmentality in Malawi; Suzanne Temwa Gondwe Harris Chapter 3. Toward a Framework for Studying Democratic Media Development and 'Media Capture': The Iraqi Kurdistan Case; Jeannine E. Relly, Margaret Zanger, and Paola Banchero Chapter 4. Regulating Unhealthy Food Advertising to Children under Neoliberalism: An Australian Perspective; Nipa Saha Chapter 5. How Russian Media Helped Develop the Authoritarian Tradition: Its Historical Legacy for Today; Dmitry Strovsky and Ron Schleifer Chapter 6. How to Capture the Political in Everyday Conversation? Focus Groups as a Method to Research Democratic Practices in Daily Life; ngela Cristina Salgueiro Marques and Luís Mauro Sá Martino

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Book SynopsisDeferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles interrogates Blackness and illustrates how it has been used as a basis to oppress, dismiss and exclude Blacks from societies and institutions in Europe, North America and South America. Employing uncharted analytical categories that tackle intriguing themes about borderless non-racial African ancestry, “traveling” identities and post-blackness, the essays provide new lenses for viewing the “Black” struggle worldwide. This approach directs the contributors’ focus to understudied locations and protagonists. In the volume, Charleston, South Carolina is more prominent than Little Rock Arkansas in the struggle to desegregate schools; Chicago occupies the space usually reserved for Atlanta or other southern city “bulwarks” of the civil rights movement; diverse Africans in France and Afro-descended Chileans illustrate the many facets of negotiating belonging, long articulated by examples from the Greensboro Woolworth counter sit-in or the Montgomery Bus Boycott; unknown men in the British empire, who inverted dying confessions meant to vilify their blackness, demonstrate new dimensions in the story about race and religion, often told by examples of fiery clergy of the Black Church; and the theatres and studios of dramatists and visual artists replace the Mall in Washington DC as the stage for the performance of identities and activism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsList of IllustrationsINTRODUCTION1. Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles - Violet Showers Johnson, Gundolf Graml and Patricia Williams LessaneDIASPORA, DISPLACEMENT, MARGINALIZATION AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES2. Josephine Baker’s Routes and Roots: Mobility, Belonging and Activism in the Atlantic World - Katharina Gerund3. Beyond the Ethnographic Other: Pan-African Activism at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyThomas Smith4. Black Sojourners in “La Métrople” and in the Fatherland: Challenges of Otherness in Calixthe Beyala’s Le Petit Prince de Belleville and Myriam Warner-Vieyra’s Juletane - Philip OjoPERFORMING IDENTITIES, RECLAIMING THE SELF 5. Staging the Scaffold: Criminal Conversion Narratives of the Late Eighteenth Century - Carsten Junker6. The Plays of Carlton and Barbara Molette: The Transformative Power of African American Theatre Silvia Pilar Castro BorregoMOVED TO ACT: CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISM IN THE US AND BEYOND7. “Together We Can Build a Nation of Love and Integration”: The 1965 North Shore Summer Project for Fair Housing in Chicago’s Northern Suburbs - Mary Barr8. Redrawing Borders of Belonging in a Narrow Nation: Afro-Chilean Activism at the Hinterlands of Afro-Latin America - Sara Busdiecker9. Lowcountry, High Demands: The Struggle for Quality Education in Charleston, South Carolina - Jon Hale and Clerc Cooper Index

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Book SynopsisBased on the author's first-hand experience as a UN Special Rapporteur, this thought-provoking and original book examines the values of Eastern civilisations and their contribution to the development of the UN Human Rights agenda.Offering an authoritative analysis of Hindu and Buddhist traditions, Surya P. Subedi, KC, focuses on the norms underpinning these two seminal Eastern philosophies to assess the extent to which the ancient civilisations already have human rights values embedded in them. Chapters explore the expression of values in the scriptures and practices of these philosophies, assessing their influence on the contemporary understanding of human rights. Rejecting the argument based on ''Asian Values'' that is often used to undermine the universality of human rights, the book argues that secularism, personal liberty and universalism are at the heart of both Hindu and Buddhist traditions.The unique perspective offered by Human Rights in Eastern Civilisations will appeal to students, academics and researchers in a wide range of disciplines, including human rights, international law and relations, and religious studies.Trade Review‘The author’s book is, by and large, a normative project interpreting specific discourses in Hinduism (and its spill overs to Buddhism) to trace today’s human rights law to the earliest tenets of ancient Hindu scriptures. In identifying this rare question in international human rights law scholarship, and engaging in the intellectual query and deep speculative thought required to preliminarily investigate this question, Dr Subedi’s reflections provide fertile ground for future research that widens our search for the origins of human rights, and today’s contested human rights practices.’ -- Diane A Desierto, Notre Dame Law School and Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, US'A timely and important contribution that explores the implications of the shift in economic and political power to Asia for the global human rights agenda pursued since 1948. Former UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Cambodia Surya Subedi writes from his unique perspective, including his knowledge of Hindu and Buddhist teachings, to argue that those significant religions share deeply-ingrained common values with those expressed in the UniversaI Declaration of Human Rights, and that the shift in global power will not lead to a turning away from the human rights agenda.' -- Charlotte Ku, Texas A&M University School of Law'Surya P. Subedi, now Professor of International Law at the University of Leeds, was born in a simple Nepali village and received a Sanskrit education until the age of 13. This book records his passionate and very personal attempt to bridge two worlds, to bring the world of his Brahmin ancestors, the Hindu civilization that they embodied, into harmony with the modern world of human rights and to show that there need be no contradiction, and indeed that human rights can receive succour from the well-springs of Hinduism and Buddhism.' -- David N. Gellner, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Evolution of Eastern belief systems 2. Human rights values in Eastern civilisations 3. The principles of humanitarian law in Hinduism 4. China’s approach to human rights and the UN human rights agenda 5. The impact on the universality of human rights of the shift of power to the East 6. Human rights challenges in a country with a Hindu-Buddhist heritage: A case study of Cambodia Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent years the UNCHR has expressed increasing concern at how war, violence and persecution have resulted in an age of unprecedented mass displacement. The global financial crisis, the rise of populist leaders, and the growth of anti-EU parties, raises the need to interrogate the 'refugee', 'migrant', 'citizen', 'stateless', 'legal', and 'illegal' as concepts. This Research Handbook maintains that refugees need to be seen as core indicators of the failure of national, international, economic, and political governance, and provides critical analyses of the legal ordering of refugees, and gives a glimpse at what the future of refugee law could - and should - look like. Bringing together experts in the field, the innovative and groundbreaking chapters provide a critical perspective on the legal landscape for refugees at a time when the politics and legitimacy of transnational regulatory governance are in question as never before. In an age of growing ethnic nationalism and anti-immigrant rhetoric, the contributing authors examine key issues surrounding refugees and migration, and build a new outlook on social justice, as the post-war international order ends. With its informative analysis and moving accounts, this Research Handbook will be a critical tool for students of law, especially those with an interest in human rights and migration. Its insights will also be valuable for policy practitioners and policymakers. Contributors include: S. Barichello, M. Bolhuis, E. Bruce-Jones, E. Darling, M. Giuffre, C. Higgins, Y. Holiday, N. Honkala, M. Ineli-Cigar, S. Juss, T. Khan, J. Lehman, P. Mathew, J. Mitchell, R. Moffatt, V. Moreno-Lax, B. Ni Gharainne, K. Ogg, J. Rikhoff, J. Schultz, M. Scott, J. Simeon, S. Singer, V. Stoyanova, N.F. Tan, S. Taylor, J. Wessels, J. Wijk, T. WoodTrade Review'...he has also brought into the Handbook new issues and debates that have arisen in the context of the changing politics around refugees. The book brings to the forefront the clear uncertainty surrounding many of the issues. I found the book compelling and engaging... the topics examined in the Handbook are interesting,and the Handbook is a useful reference tool or introduction to specific topics, issues and debates. The book will benefit academic researchers, postgraduate students, government officials, practising lawyers and lawyers who work in policy. I would recommend this book as a useful guide for the ongoing process of challenging and rethinking refugee law as a whole.' -- Nandi Rayner, South African Law JournalTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I Refugees, Displaced Persons & the rise of Temporary Protection 1. At the Crossroads: The 1951 Convention Today Julian Lehman 2. The 1969 OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa Tamara Wood 3. Internally Displaced Persons Bríd Ní Ghráinne 4. In-Country Programs Claire Higgins 5. Temporary Protection of Forced Migrants Meltem Ineli-Ciger Part II Burden-sharing, Internal Relocation & the shift to Cooperation Agreements 6. Burden-Sharing in Refugee Law Eddie Bruce-Jones 7. The Rise of Consensual Containment Giuffre and Moreno-Lax 8. Responsibility-Sharing in Latin America Stefania Barichello 9. The Internal Protection Alternative and its Relation to Refugee Status Jessica Schultz 10. Gatekeepers of Asylum Satvinder Juss and Jeni Mitchell 11. International Models of Deterrence and the Future of Access to Asylum Nikolas Feith Tan Part III Non-Refoulement of Refugees and their Non-Penalisation 12. What is the Future of Non-Refoulement in International Refugee Law? James Simeon 13. Constructive Refoulement Pene Mathew 14. The Prosecution of Asylum-Seekers Yewa Holiday 15. Australia & the Refugee Convention. Savitri Taylor Part IV Family Re-Union, Gender Discrimination, Gay Rights, Human Trafficking and Climate Refugees 16. The Rights to Refugee Family Reunion Emily Darling 17. The Art of Drawing Lines Janna Wessels 18. The Rights of Women Seeking Asylum Nora Honkala 19. Sexual Orientation and Refugee law Tawseef Khan 20. Human Trafficking and Refugee Law Vladislava Stoyanova 21. Climate Refugees and the 1951 Convention Matthew Scott Part V The Exclusion and Rejection of Refugees 22. New Directions in Article 1D Jurisprudence Kate Ogg 23. The War on Terror and Refugee Law Sarah Singer 24. The Exclusion Clauses in Refugee Law Joseph Rikhoff 25. The Removal of Undesirable Asylum Seekers Joris Wijk and Maarten Bolhuis 26. Reviewing Review Rowena Moffatt Index

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Book SynopsisIn this thoroughly updated second edition of what has quickly become the definitive text in the field of international humanitarian law (IHL), leading expert Marco Sassòli evaluates the application of IHL, the way in which hostilities should be conducted against an adversary, and the pertinence of traditional distinctions, such as that between international and non-international armed conflicts or civilians and combatants. Drawing on the author’s practical experience to provide unique and invaluable insights, the second edition discusses the rules protecting certain categories of persons, including prisoners of war, as well as governing different types of conduct of hostilities and the difficulties in determining whether a destruction was unlawful. Significantly, the edition takes the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine into account, discussing what remains of neutrality, defending the strict separation between the prohibition of aggression and the humanitarian rules to be respected by both sides, which must however be nuanced in the field of naval warfare. New sections explore IHL in relation to persons with disabilities, sieges and humanitarian corridors, the role of the media, IHL in outer space, and the concept of meaningful human control over lethal autonomous weapons systems. Structured in a clear and accessible manner, this new edition is essential reading for all students and scholars of international humanitarian law, as well as those in human rights, and public international law. For military practitioners and NGO lawyers, as well as those working in intergovernmental organizations, this is simply a must-have resource.Trade Review‘The return of an instant classic. As a leading expert in the field, Marco Sassòli maintains the fine and difficult balance between making IHL accessible to those that are unfamiliar with it, while offering a nuanced analysis which will satisfy its experts. A must read for everyone who is working on or is interested in IHL.’ -- Vaios Koutroulis, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium‘This 2nd edition of Marco Sassoli’s masterwork, International Humanitarian Law, could not be timelier. Offering deeper coverage of key topics, he has updated his always-insightful analysis by reference to the Russia-Ukraine war. Eminently qualified to examine its influence on our understanding of IHL, Marco has produced yet another indispensable tool for scholars and practitioners alike.’ -- Michael N. Schmitt, United States Military Academy at West Point‘Almost immediately, the first edition of Professor Sassòli’s International Humanitarian Law became an indispensable classic. With this second edition, he not only updates and refines its superb coverage. He cements its place as a sophisticated yet accessible resource for humanitarians, scholars, jurists and armed forces everywhere.’ -- Sean Watts, United States Military Academy at West Point‘There is literally no-one more qualified to write a textbook on international humanitarian law than Marco Sassòli. In its first edition this book already became a leading resource in the field, and the second edition will be no different. It does not aim to comprehensively cover all of IHL, but focuses on issues and controversies of greatest contemporary relevance, with a remarkable degree of rigour, precision, and clarity.’ -- Marko Milanovic, University of Reading, UK‘This second edition benefits from Professor Sassòli's unrivaled insights into the legal issues that have already arisen in the context of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. This means one is not only exposed to the controversies, but also treated to his evaluation of the significance of the reactions of states to tricky issues of blockade, neutrality, and arms transfers. We get a sense of where the law is heading from one of its keenest observers. In addition there are new sections on investment law and the rules that should apply in outer space. The extensive multilingual references allow the reader to remain on top of contemporary developments, while guiding one through the intricacies of just about every aspect of international humanitarian law. This is a must have for anyone thinking about or practising international humanitarian law.’ -- Andrew Clapham, Geneva Graduate Institute, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: 1 An introduction to international humanitarian law 1 2 History of international humanitarian law 5 3 A general overview of IHL based upon its major delimitations 16 4 The sources of IHL 35 5 Respect of the law 73 6 Scope of application: when does IHL apply? 186 7 International and non‑international armed conflicts 227 8 The protective regimes 255 9 IHL and other branches of international law 458 10 Selected cross-cutting issues 528 11 Conclusion and the future of international humanitarian law 704

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Book SynopsisIn comparing the ways in which China, Taiwan and Hong Kong punish religious claims and practices considered by the state to be false or fraudulent, Jianlin Chen presents a seminal contribution to the interdisciplinary study of religious freedom. The book not only reveals how these legal tools sustain a hierarchy of religion, but also the political dynamic behind the design and utilization of these legal tools.Adopting a novel, comparative approach, Chen adeptly investigates various legal tools employed to regulate religious fraud in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Through a systematic survey of court judgments, he identifies the surprising convergences among the religious fraud regulations across the three jurisdictions. He further employs public choice analysis to tease out the reasons behind these often unconstitutional religious fraud regulations, and highlights the complicity of individuals who otherwise advocate for liberal democratic values. With its wealth of legal and political analysis, the book critically interjects in the global inquiry of religious freedom and democratic backsliding.This progressive book is an important touchstone for scholars and students in Asian studies, law and religion, criminal law and justice, and law and society.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1 Introduction: Law and Politics of Religious Fraud Regulation 2 Regulating religious fraud: theory and practice around the globe 3 China 4 Taiwan 5 Hong Kong 6 Law: the differentiated religion in the constitutional right to religious freedom 7 Politics: false religion and fragility of real religious freedom 8 Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisBusiness and human rights (BHR) is a rapidly developing field at the intersection of business, law, and public policy. Teaching Business and Human Rights is a practical guide and resource for the growing community of BHR teachers, students, and practitioners – from advocates and policymakers to business managers and investors.Chapter authors explain common BHR topics, suggest teaching approaches that work in the classroom, and identify helpful teaching resources. Chapters cover the building blocks of a BHR curriculum: foundational topics including corporate responsibility, human rights, and human rights due diligence; tools, such as legislation and litigation, to provide remedy and hold companies accountable for their human rights impacts; and the specific rights affected by businesses in different industries. Teaching BHR effectively has the potential to improve the protection of human rights as more individuals in the private sector, government and civil society work to advance the corporate responsibility to respect human rights.Professors and students, practitioners in the private sector, government and civil society, and scholars of BHR will find this thorough and comprehensive resource indispensable.Trade Review‘Teaching Business and Human Rights covers a broad range of foundational topics as well as special thematic issues. It contains accessible contributions from leading scholars and practitioners. I have no doubt that this book will be a valuable resource for anyone teaching business and human rights at universities or in other settings.’ -- Surya Deva, Macquarie University, Australia‘Anthony Ewing is unquestionably one of the pioneers of the modern business and human rights movement, having taught many of the leading figures in the field. Teaching Business and Human Rights is the culmination of decades of experience in the classroom and in the field, with original contributions from distinguished experts and rising stars. The book contains throughout a masterful combination of intellectual rigor with practical, on the ground, insights and case studies. Students and teachers alike will find it a pleasure to use in the classroom.’ -- Michael A. Santoro, Santa Clara University, US, Co-Founder, Business and Human Rights JournalTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Teaching Business and Human Rights 1 Anthony Ewing PART I FOUNDATIONAL TOPICS 2 Corporate responsibility 13 Florian Wettstein 3 Human rights 26 Anthony Ewing 4 Labor rights 43 Angela B. Cornell 5 The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights 58 Anthony Ewing 6 Right to remedy 74 Lisa J. Laplante PART II BUSINESS PRACTICE 7 Corporations 88 Jena Martin 8 Human rights due diligence 100 Robert McCorquodale and Daria Davitti 9 Human rights impact assessment 113 Mark Wielga 10 Non-governmental human rights grievance mechanisms 129 Mark Wielga PART III CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY 11 Mandatory human rights due diligence 144 Claire Bright and Nicolas Bueno 12 Judicial remedy 160 Rachel Chambers 13 The Alien Tort Statute 176 Anthony Ewing 14 Complicity 187 Anthony Ewing 15 The OECD National Contact Point Mechanism 203 Elizabeth Umlas 16 Multistakeholder human rights initiatives 218 Dorothée Baumann-Pauly and Michael Posner 17 Business and human rights in the Inter-American System 229 Humberto Cantú Rivera PART IV KEY ISSUES 18 Modern slavery in supply chains 243 Justine Nolan 19 Human rights and the environment 263 Sara L. Seck 20 Land rights 278 Mina Manuchehri and Beth Roberts 21 Rights of Indigenous Peoples 292 Kendyl Salcito 22 The right to food 310 Uché Ewelukwa Ofodile 23 The right to water 324 Uché Ewelukwa Ofodile 24 Technology and human rights 339 Faris Natour and Roger McElrath 25 Engineering for human rights 352 Shareen Hertel, Davis Chacon Hurtado, and Sandra Sirota 26 Finance, investors, and human rights 364 Erika George and Ariel Meyerstein 27 Accounting for human rights 383 John Ferguson 28 Mega-sporting events and human rights 396 Daniela Heerdt 29 Trade and human rights 409 Margaret E. Roggensack and Eric R. Biel 30 Business and conflict 423 Salil Tripathi Bibliography 441 Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book addresses the links between sustainability and human rights in the context of infrastructure projects and uncovers the human rights gap in every stage of public procurement processes to deliver on infrastructure assets or services.Bringing together contributions from leading scholars and legal practitioners, this comprehensive book addresses a gap in the literature on the role of human rights within highly complex contracts, such as public-private partnerships (PPPs), in infrastructure development. Chapters analyse key human rights issues across the life cycle of projects using case studies that investigate communities, service users and workers in public procurement supply chains as human rights holders. Further, it explores the issues facing women as different role-players – namely as workers, service users, decision-makers and government suppliers. Case studies include procurement of healthcare infrastructure and megasporting events. The editors also propose solutions and new ways forward in the advancement of the sustainable public procurement agenda, both for developed and developing countries, to deliver infrastructure that brings social return without harming human rights.Developing more inclusive approaches to infrastructure that address rightsholders and stakeholders – including communities, workers, service users, and particularly women – this book will be a thought-provoking resource for scholars and students, as well as for human rights lawyers, advocates and policy makers alike.Trade Review‘The book Sustainable Public Procurement of Infrastructure and Human Rights: Beyond Building Green, edited by Olga Martin-Ortega and Laura Treviño-Lozano is a comprehensive and well-written compilation on a very important issue that has not received significant academic attention. The book considers the importance of sustainability in infrastructure procurement from a wide range of perspectives, examining the gaps in sustainable procurement, the different modalities of infrastructure procurement, different sectors (economic infrastructure, sports and health), and the human rights risks inherent in infrastructure procurement. The book in particular, considers the involvement of the private sector and donors in the provision of infrastructure, highlighting how the private sector and donor inputs can be harnessed to improve the sustainability and mitigate human rights risks in infrastructure procurement. The book considers practical ways to mitigate human rights risks in infrastructure procurement, focusing on risk assessment, a gendered analysis and a developmental perspective. In the context of Covid-19 recovery and meeting the Sustainable development goals, the book could not be more timely, needed and welcome.’ -- Sope Williams, University of Nottingham, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xii Roberto Caranta PART I LINKING HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUSTAINABILITY IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE 1 Sustainable public procurement of infrastructure and human rights: linkages and gaps 2 Laura Treviño-Lozano and Olga Martin-Ortega 2 Access to infrastructure as a human right: making public– private partnerships work for the people 28 George Nwangwu 3 A 360-degree approach to women’s inclusion in infrastructure 60 Cristina Contreras Casado 4 Financing infrastructure procurement and workers’ rights: the role of regional development banks 86 Miriam Mbah and Ama Eyo PART II BUILDING HOSPITALS FOR PEOPLE 5 Development, infrastructure and human rights: the role of human rights impact assessments 112 Josua Loots 6 Interventions in hospital construction: early action for the realisation of human rights 140 Annabel Elise Short 7 The mismatch of public–private partnerships and the right to health 160 Johanna Hoekstra and Luis Felipe Yanes PART III FOR THE GAME: INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MEGA-SPORTING EVENTS 8 Human rights risks and opportunities in mega-sporting event procurement 195 William Rook and Daniela Heerdt 9 Human rights and developmental considerations in procuring for Africa’s first World Cup 215 Geo Quinot PART IV CONCLUSIONS 10 Beyond building green: putting people at the core of sustainable procurement of infrastructure 238 Olga Martin-Ortega and Laura Treviño-Lozano Index

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Book SynopsisThis prescient Handbook examines inequalities in humanitarianism at multiple levels, highlighting the long-lasting impact of colonialism on contemporary power relations.Silke Roth, Bandana Purkayastha and Tobias Denskus bring together esteemed experts from the global north and south who introduce crucial research ethics frameworks and methodologies in order to study humanitarianism and inequality. Adopting an intersectional approach, this Handbook demonstrates the ways in which race, gender, class and other sources of inequality intersect in relation to a range of contemporary issues including the role of the media and technology, the COVID-19 pandemic, linguistic inequality, trafficking, and refugee protection and assistance. Looking ahead, the contributors stress the need for academics and practitioners to reflect on the inequalities that both underpin and are perpetuated by humanitarian contexts.Providing a detailed overview of the ways in which inequality has affected the development and transformation of humanitarianism, this Handbook will be essential reading for academics, students and researchers of humanitarian and development studies, international relations, and sociology and social policy. It will also be of interest to public policymakers focussing on humanitarianism and striving for global equality.Trade Review‘The Handbook of Humanitarianism and Inequality is a much-needed remedy to the intellectual monocropping that constitutes much of the research on transnational “helping.” By centering inequality, this Handbook grapples with the most relevant areas of contentious politics of North-South relations and their fundamental conflicts of power. This Handbook is the place to start if you want to understand what is at stake in contemporary humanitarianism(s).’ -- Lisa Ann Richey, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark‘This Handbook is a comprehensive and concise roundup of the dynamics shaping humanitarian action, interweaving humanitarianism past with its current status quo. It illustrates the diversity and complexity of humanitarians as well as the challenges and contradictions inherent to the humanitarian way of working. An equally essential read for researchers and practitioners.’ -- Andrea Steinke, Centre for Humanitarian Action, Berlin, Germany‘Despite according equal value to every life, as implied in the core principle of humanity, humanitarians have developed and sustained many inequalities in their own systems. This Handbook is a wonderful addition to the growing field of humanitarian studies and the chapters from the Global South and North highlight many long-standing, but also emerging aspects of such inequalities which deserve attention from researchers, practitioners and students of humanitarian aid.’ -- Dorothea Hilhorst, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands‘This Handbook is an excellent addition to the study of humanitarianism as a multifaceted practice with diverse histories, geographies, and indeed inequalities, unsettling conventional narratives of humanitarianism and decentring traditional Global North actors as the guardians of what it means to do humanitarianism and be a humanitarian. It is a timely intervention as we collectively face the challenges of an uncertain future, ongoing and deepening global inequalities, and demands for justice.’ -- Polly Pallister-Wilkins, University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: humanitarianism and inequality – a re-orientation 1 Silke Roth, Bandana Purkayastha, and Tobias Denskus PART I HISTORICAL AND (GEO)POLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF HUMANITARIANISM 2 Humanitarianism and colonialism 21 Aoife O’Leary McNeice 3 Humanitarianism and the global Cold War, 1945–1991 35 Margot Tudor 4 Humanitarianism and the new wars: humanitarianism, security, and securitisation 49 Michael Magcamit and Anastassiya Mahon 5 Humanitarianism, development and peace: a southern perspective 63 Priya Singh and Paula Banerjee 6 Localisation and the humanitarian sector 77 Claudia E. Youakim and Rita Stephan 7 Human rights and humanitarianism 92 Bandana Purkayastha PART II VARIETIES OF HUMANITARIAN ORGANISATIONS AND ACTORS 8 Humanitarian organisations: behemoths and butterflies 108 Sarah S. Stroup 9 Faith actors in humanitarianism: dynamics and inequalities 125 Olivia Wilkinson and Jennifer Philippa Eggert 10 Diaspora assistance 138 Anjana Narayan and Lise-Hélène Smith 11 Political solidarity movements and humanitarianism: lessons from Catalonia, Spain (1975–2020) 152 Salvador Martí i Puig and Alberto Martín Álvarez 12 Subversive humanitarianism 166 Robin Vandevoordt 13 Citizen’s groups and grassroots humanitarianism 178 Shoma Choudhury Lahiri 14 Humanitarianism and the military 192 Silke Roth PART III INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMANITARIANS AND COMMUNITIES 15 Race, racialisation, and coloniality in the humanitarian aid sector 210 Lata Narayanaswamy 16 Humanitarian organisations as gendered organisations 222 Rianka Roy 17 Sexuality and humanitarianism: colonial ‘hauntings’ 237 Shweta M. Adur 18 Class matters in humanitarianism 251 Patricia Ward and Junru Bian 19 Humanitarianism and disability 265 Dale Buscher and Emma Pearce PART IV PERSISTING AND NEWLY EMERGING ISSUES 20 Media representations of humanitarianism 281 Valérie Gorin 21 Humanitarianism and pandemics 295 Tulani Francis L. Matenga and Lwendo Moonzwe Davis 22 Humanitarian technologies 308 Reem Talhouk 23 Linguistic inequality in the humanitarian sector: unravelling English-centric multilingualism 323 Maria Rosa Garrido 24 Climate change, disasters and humanitarian action 338 Ilan Kelman and Eija Meriläinen 25 Refugee protection and assistance 352 Naoko Hashimoto 26 Trafficking in persons, long-term vulnerabilities, and humanitarianism 367 Farhan Navid Yousaf and Muhammad Makki Kakar PART V REGIONS 27 Humanitarianism and Native America 382 Barbara Gurr 28 Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Regions 396 Agnieszka Sobocinska 29 International humanitarianism in East Asia 411 Alistair D.B. Cook, Lina Gong, and Oscar A. Gómez 30 West Asia and North Africa 426 Josepha Wessels 31 Africa’s long fight for humanitarian self-sufficiency 443 Oheneba A. Boateng 32 The Latin American experience: inequality’s role in shaping humanitarianism 458 Oscar A. Gómez, Simone Lucatello, and Rodrigo Mena 33 Varieties of European humanitarianism 474 Silke Roth and Tobias Denskus PART VI METHODS AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION 34 Humanitarian research ethics and the ethics of research in humanitarian settings 495 Shashika Bandara, Elyse Rafaela A. Conde, Abeer Dakik, and Matthew Hunt 35 Archives and historical perspectives in researching humanitarianism 510 Katarzyna Nowak 36 Quantitative methods 525 Liesbet Heyse, Nina Hansen, and Rafael Wittek 37 Power dynamics in the use of qualitative methods in humanitarianism 539 Margaux Pinaud, Kristina Tschunkert, and Augusta Nannerini 38 Discussing inequalities in evaluation of humanitarian action 555 Bonaventure Gbétoho Sokpoh with Tobias Denskus 39 Pracademvism – forever unequal or the new nexus in global development and humanitarianism 567 Themrise Khan

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Book SynopsisThis timely book builds bridges between the notions of art and aesthetics, human rights, universality, and dignity. It explores a world in which art and justice enter a discussion to answer questions such as: can art translate the human experience? How does humanity link individuality and community building? How do human beings define and look for their identity? The fields of human rights and art are brought together in order to open the discussion and contribute to the promotion and protection of human rights.This interdisciplinary book brings together experts in the fields of art, cultural heritage, social justice, human rights, international law, and transitional justice, and presents the idea that a complex interplay between morality, politics, law, and aesthetics remains present in concrete settings such as the rights of cultural creators, the right to artistic expression, art as a catalyst of change in times of conflict, and post-conflict restitutions. The book offers vignettes of current debates in art and human rights, tackling issues at the confluence of these fields by providing a general framework upon which the conversation can be built, and by bringing to the discussion a diverse range of contemporary themes and concrete case analyses.This book will be an ideal read for academics interested in international law, transitional justice and human rights. Historians, lawyers, artists, and activists looking to explore the relationship between art and human rights in times of war, peace, and transition through their assessment of contemporary issues will also benefit from this comprehensive book.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Karima Bennoune x Introduction 1 Fiana Gantheret PART I PEACE: THE RIGHT TO ART SECTION 1.1 RIGHT TO CULTURE: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES 1 Legal framework: Is there a right to art? 19 Nolwenn Guibert 2 The human rights of artists: What did the pandemic teach us? 38 Elsa Stamatopoulou SECTION 1.2 RIGHT TO ARTISTIC EXPRESSION 3 Dancing in dialogue: The notion of dance in politically fragile contexts 60 Rose Martin and Shyrine Ziadeh 4 Progressive autonomy of artistic freedom in international law: The contribution of the UN in promoting new economic, social, and cultural rights-based approaches 76 Laurence Cuny SECTION 1.3 ART AND SOCIAL JUSTICE 5 Freedom and the archive 99 Germaine Ingram and Toni Shapiro-Phim PART II CONFLICT(S) SECTION 2.1 REPRESENTATION OF CONFLICT THROUGH ART 6 Seeing and unseeing war in Afghanistan: War, trauma and contestation of the human rights frame 121 Henry Redwood and Hannah Partis-Jennings 7 The forensification of propaganda in epic poetry and Serb leadership cases at the ICTY 141 Predrag Dojčinović SECTION 2.2 ART AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE IN CONFLICT 8 War on war! Artful weapons in times of war and conflict 165 Bernadette Buckley 9 Cultural diplomacy: The theory and the practice of a bridging concept 188 Roula El Derbas SECTION 2.3 ART: A TARGET OF CONFLICT 10 Preserving and protecting cultural property, art, and antiquities during conflict: Recent experiences in Syria, Iraq, and Libya 209 Michael Danti PART III POST-CONFLICT APPROACHES SECTION 3.1 ART IN NON-JUDICIARY TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE MECHANISMS 11 Art, truth, reconciliation and resistance: Reaching out in Sierra Leone and Canada 230 Rachel Kerr 12 Take me to court: Museum-making and transitional justice in Colombia 247 Sofía N. González-Ayala and Cristina Lleras SECTION 3.2 INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND ART 13 Artistic strategies by and about the International Criminal Court 266 Sofia Stolk 14 Reparations for cultural heritage destruction at the ICC and the limits of human rights 281 Marina Lostal SECTION 3.3 RESTITUTION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY 15 Restitution of WWII cultural property: Philosophical and legal approach 306 Kamil Zeidler and Agnieszka Plata 16 The return of the cultural objects displaced during the colonial era: An overview of solutions, challenges and misgivings from the perspective of international law 327 Alessandro Chechi Conclusion: Universality, dignity, and the five great elements 346 Marina Aksenova Index

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Book SynopsisHow can we interpret and respond to the rise of populist regimes that infringe on human rights? This incisive book analyses illiberal, repressive, and patriarchal logics of rule, identifying critical catalysts in the meteoric growth of populist agendas. Contributors scrutinise the records of authoritarian and nationalist leaders in Brazil, Hungary, India, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Turkey and the United States. This topical book treats populism as a multi-faceted, performative phenomenon that claims to improve social rights while suppressing civil liberties and substitutes the promise of cultural citizenship for the loss of self-determination in a turbulent era of globalization. The chapters bring attention to understudied dimensions of populism including gender dynamics, bureaucratic politics, and the co-construction of foreign policy. Going beyond normative appeals to human rights, this innovative book urges advocates to contest populism at the national, social, and ideological levels in novel ways.Interweaving historical, political, comparative, statistical and discursive analysis, this interdisciplinary book will be vital to students and scholars of human rights, comparative politics, democracy, sociology and international studies. It will also prove invaluable to policymakers looking to address future populist regimes.Trade Review‘This edited volume provides an often terrifying account of how the rise of far-right populism is quickly eroding the international human rights regime that was painstakingly built in the last century. Across regions and regimes, Brysk and the contributors put current human rights abuses in context and provide us with research-informed insights to help protect and preserve human rights in this new environment, where advocacy backlash seems to appear around every corner. A must read for students and scholars of human rights, democratic backsliding, and social movements.’ -- Amanda Murdie, University of Georgia, US‘This collection offers not only an overarching theoretical framework for analyzing populism, but also a richly detailed set of case studies that vividly illustrate why populism has burgeoned, the risks it poses, and what can be done in response to “rebuild the indivisibility of rights in a post-liberal world.” An urgently needed contribution.’ -- Shareen Hertel, University of Connecticut, US'Alison Brysk has assembled an excellent group of scholars to discuss populism, a key issue of our times, from a human rights perspective in Europe and key countries (the US, India, Turkey, the Philippines, Mexico, Brazil). The book offers a fresh perspective and is unfailingly thought-provoking.' -- Gerardo Munck, University of Southern California, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: populism and the politics of human rights 1 Alison Brysk 2 Nationalism and conservative populism in the CEE bloc: a political economy and historical institutional approach 12 Oldrich Krpec and Carol Wise 3 When do opponents of LGBT human rights mobilize in Europe? Explaining political participation in times of populism 44 Phillip M. Ayoub and Douglas Page 4 Mexico: populism versus feminism 68 Kathleen Bruhn 5 “Local and national”: the rise of populism and foreign policy as a two-dimensional process in Turkey 87 Şevin Gülfer Sağnıç 6 Democratic backsliding and threats to human rights in Duterte’s Philippines 105 Sharmila Parmanand 7 Administrative backsliding in India 126 Satyajit Singh 8 Gendering populism: the rise of right-wing populism and anti-gender politics in Brazil 148 Vitória Moreira 9 Human rights under American populism 166 Gershon Shafir Index 191

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This Research Agenda maps thought-provoking research trends for the next generation of interdisciplinary human rights scholars in this particularly troubled time. It charts the historic trajectory of scholarship on the international rights regime, looking ahead to emerging areas of inquiry and suggesting alternative methods and perspectives for studying the pursuit of human dignity.Chapters written by international experts cover a broad range of topics including humanitarianism, transitional justice, economic rights, academic freedom, women's rights, environmental justice, and business responsibility for human rights. The book highlights the importance of contemporary research agendas for human rights being centred on questions of governance and fulfilment, shifting responsibilities, rights interdependence and global inequality.This is a critical read for students and scholars of human rights law, politics and international relations. The strong forward-looking agenda and coverage of a large number of fields within human rights studies will be helpful for advanced students looking for new areas of study for research projects.Trade Review'This very timely volume looks forward to a dynamic new interdisciplinary agenda for human rights research. Including chapters on the origins of human rights, the insights economics offers for women's rights and the imminent dangers of environmental activism, it illustrates the diverse approaches to human rights scholarship as well as the urgent need for it. Michael Stohl and Alison Brysk's A Research Agenda for Human Rights is an excellent riposte to recent assertions about the end or futility of the human rights project.' -- Neil Mitchell, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Human Rights: Generations of human rights scholarship 1 Alison Brysk 2 The study of human rights history: A corpus-based linguistic approach to ’human rights‘ in the nineteenth-century British press 9 Eetu Vento 3 Humanitarianism: Coping in the void 23 David P. Forsythe 4 ‘People out of place’: Developing a human rights research agenda on internally displaced persons 37 Champa Patel 5 International human rights law: Progress and prospects 51 Kyle Rapp and Wayne Sandholtz 6 The future of transitional justice: Mercy or impunity? 75 Iosif Kovras 7 Academic freedom as a human right 89 George Andreopoulos 8 Socio-economic rights: Consolidating progress, charting future directions 111 Inga T. Winkler 9 Women’s rights: Then and now 127 Feryal Cherif 10 Inhumane environments: Global violence against environmental justice activists as a human rights violation 141 Jeff Feng, Matto Mildenberger and Leah C. Stokes 11 The public, the private, and the business-societal: A threefold approach to business responsibility for human rights 155 Janne Mende 12 Understanding human rights at the local level 173 Gerd Oberleitner and Klaus Starl Index 187

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Book SynopsisIn an age of intolerance where religious persecution is widespread, Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan explores how societies can promote freedom of religion or belief as a fundamental right of citizensExamining the extent of religious persecution throughout the world, this cutting-edge book explores mechanisms to address religious intolerance and develop religious freedom, outlining the necessary factors to measure progress on the protection of this fundamental human right. Chapters explore how freedom of religion or belief can be institutionalized in dispositions, laws, and policies through efforts which limit negative depictions of the religious (or non-religious) Other in public discourse. Rieffer-Flanagan demonstrates how reforms that enhance the ability of civil society actors to operate can also promote freedom of religion or belief, and how states and IGOs can support these efforts. Ultimately, this innovative book proves that reforms must be continually nurtured for freedom of religion or belief to exist in society.With interview-based research and a diverse range of regional case studies, this will be a vital resource for students and scholars of philosophy, religion, human rights law and political science. Considering the role of leaders in the promotion of religious tolerance, the book will also prove invaluable to policymakers concerned with human rights and freedom of religion or belief.Trade Review‘In calling for a “coherent multilayered approach” to promote religious freedom, this thoughtful and comprehensive book of keen insight details the messy process of progress, offering comparative perspectives, policies and practices from around the world that can teach us all. Promoting Religious Freedom in an Age of Intolerance is that rare read of ready reference relevant to academics and activists alike.’ -- Chris Seiple, President Emeritus, Institute for Global Engagement, US‘This innovative analysis of how to achieve religious tolerance focuses on four key actors: international organizations, US foreign policy, political leaders, and civil society. It includes fascinating sections on Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Oman, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Sweden. A key insight is that enlightened autocrats sometimes protect religious tolerance.’ -- Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada‘This is an original and substantive work based on much reading, interviewing, and reflection. For those interested in religious tolerance and religious freedom, which are not the same, Flanagan shows well the difficult challenges to be overcome as well as laying out multiple paths to progress. Religion and politics are at the center of national and international affairs. This book helps the reader understand that important and complex linkage.’ -- David P. Forsythe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Building religious freedom 2. History lessons on religious tolerance and religious freedom 3. Working collectively: multilateral approaches to the promotion of freedom of religion or belief 4. Protecting the faithful in foreign policy: Washington’s efforts on freedom of religion or belief 5. Reforming education: teaching narratives of religious tolerance 6. Tolerant leadership in Tashkent: the role of leaders in the promotion of religious tolerance 7. The role of civil society: the Institute for Global Engagement and Vietnam 8. Promoting religious freedom in Egypt 9. Tending to human dignity in the garden Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful book offers a critical reflection on the sustainability and effectiveness of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and its legacy over the last 70 years. Exploring the problems surrounding universality, proliferation and costs, it asks the provocative question, can we still afford human rights? Expert contributors illustrate the interdependence between these three key issues in an unprecedented way, addressing many of the contemporary criticisms voiced against the human rights system and the reasons for popular skepticism about human rights. In order to interrogate the deficiencies of the UDHR, chapters analyse the following questions: Can and should we keep claiming that human rights are universal? Is their proliferation rendering human rights meaningless? And have human rights become too costly? The book concludes that there is a pressing need for a renewed and lasting commitment to human rights. We cannot afford not to afford human rights. This book will be a valuable resource for academics and students of international relations, the political sciences and comparative legal studies. Covering policy and advocacy issues as well as the evolution of case law regarding particular human rights, it will also be beneficial for policy-makers and human rights practitioners.Table of ContentsContents: INTRODUCTION 1. The Interdependence of Issues Relating to the Universality, Proliferation and Costs of Human Rights Thomas Van Poecke, Marie Bourguignon, Jan Wouters and Koen Lemmens PART I: THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS 2. The Mythic Universality of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights: Revisiting the Drafting History of the UDHR in Search for a Foundational Theory Nick Goetschalckx 3. The Case for a Comprehensive Global Human Rights Treaty under UN Auspices Prof. Dr. Konstantinos D. Magliveras 4. The Universality of Human Rights: A European perspective Prof. Dr. Paul Lemmens 5. Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships under the ECHR: Till Death – or the Lack of European Consensus – Do Us Part Dr. Johan Lievens and Nele Verbrugghe Part II: THE PROLIFERATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 6. The Proliferation of Human Rights: Between Devotion and Calculation Prof. Dr. Kasey McCall-Smith 7. Human Rights Adjudication: Between Hopes and Failures Dr. Dalia Palombo 8. Sustainable Development in “New Generation” Trade Agreements of the European Union: Towards Integration or Fragmentation of the Human Rights Language?’ Michelle Meulebrouck 9. Denationalization under the EC(t)HR: A Need for an Autonomous Human Right to a Nationality? Louise Reyntjens PART III: THE COSTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS 10. Economic, Social and Political Costs of the (Non-)Realization of Human Rights: Towards a New Social Contract Prof. Dr. Felipe Gómez Isa 11. Conflicts in Human Rights-Based Development Dr. Gustavo Arosemena and Bart Kleine Deters 12. Rights and Development: The Costs of Human Rights in Ethiopia Dr. Dina Townsend and Dr. Nicky Broeckhoven 13. The Least Financially Accountable Branch? The Right to Health and the Judiciary’s Power of the Purse: An Israeli Perspective Dr. Hillel Sommer CONCLUSION 14. The Human Rights Project: Perspectives on Universality, Proliferation and Costs of Human Rights Dima Yared Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely and insightful book brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to evaluate the role of human rights in tackling the global challenges of poverty and economic inequality. Reflecting on the concrete experiences of particular countries in tackling poverty, it appraises the international success of human rights-based approaches. Drawing on insights from philosophy, history, economics and politics, contributors consider a range of questions concerning the nature of human rights and their possible relationship to poverty, inequality and development. Chapters interrogate human rights-based approaches and question whether the normative human rights framework provides a sound foundation for addressing global poverty and equitable distribution of resources. Probing practical questions concerning the extent to which international human rights institutions have been effective in combating poverty, this thought-provoking book considers possible strategies in response to the challenges that lie ahead. Offering robust and provocative guidelines for the future of human rights and development, this unique book will be indispensable for academics and researchers investigating the intersection of human rights and poverty, particularly those interested in human rights-based approaches to tackling inequality. Its practical insights will also benefit policy makers in need of novel methodologies for promoting equality.Trade Review'Suzanne Egan and Anna Chadwick have brought together a range of emergent and established voices in this collection on the tensions and contradictions inherent in the roles of human rights in combating poverty. Multidisciplinary contributions explore theoretical and practical perspectives, framing the challenges across economical, political and geographical dimensions. Upon completion, the reader has undoubtedly a more holistic view of the tensions and contradictions encountered by human rights engagement in debates on poverty. Like all good books, it makes you think.' -- Rhona Smith, Newcastle University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: Poverty and human rights – a multidimensional concept in search of multidimensional collaboration 1 Suzanne Egan PART I CRITICAL DEBATES 2 Keeping human rights out of poverty 23 Vittorio Bufacchi Poverty and the rhetoric of human rights: a reply to Bufacchi 35 Jesse Tomalty 3 China, extreme poverty and consequentialist theories of human rights 38 Graham Finlay 4 The legal construction of poverty: examining historic tensions between property rights and subsistence rights 54 Julia McClure 5 Human rights, poverty and capitalism 68 Anna Chadwick 6 (Post)human rights, poverty and inequality: problems of algocracy, pharmocracy and chemocracy 91 Su-Ming Khoo 7 Planet and people: making human rights distributive by design 105 Wouter Vandenhole 8 On the possibility of justified subsistence wars 122 Lonneke Peperkamp and Ronald Tinnevelt PART II CASE STUDIES 9 An emphasis on social rights: a boost for the UK’s popular rights discourse? 139 Aoife Daly and Alan Connolly 10 The provision of social assistance in Ireland and Spain: a human rights assessment 156 María Dalli 11 Operationalising rights-based approaches to development: chinks in the armour observed through a study of anganwadi workers in Odisha, India 171 Nita Mishra 12 Afterword: Poverty and human rights 188 Anna Chadwick Index 199

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book provides an overview and critical assessment of the current avenues and remedies available to victims seeking recourse from private military and security companies (PMSCs) for human rights violations. Kuzi Charamba explores the challenges of regulating PMSCs and the significant jurisprudential and practical difficulties that victims face in attaining recourse from PMSCs, whether through state or non-state, judicial or non-judicial mechanisms. In response to these problems, Charamba proposes the introduction of a new victim-focused grievance structure, based on international arbitration. He argues that this will provide for a more robust, inclusive, and participatory governance system to support the effective operation of a globally administered and locally accessible remedial mechanism. Taking a forward-thinking approach, the book also analyses law making and regulation by non-state actors in a globalized world and offers policy and legislative proposals for the reform of the national security sector. Hired Guns and Human Rights will be a valuable resource for students, scholars, and practitioners of international legal theory, international human rights law, global governance, business and human rights, and international dispute resolution. Its focus on both state and non-state responses to human rights grievances against corporations around the world will also benefit policy-makers and international NGOs.Trade Review'Private military and security companies rarely operate with immunity, but routinely do so with impunity. In theory, for example, they may be subject to local laws. In practice, however, the very reason for their presence is that law and order has broken down. Most attempts at regulation focus on the military and security side of this equation, analogizing them to state actors. In this provocative new book, Kuzi Charamba emphasizes their status as private companies, proposing a new regulatory architecture based on arbitration. In doing so, he makes a valuable contribution to the literature on PMSCs, as well as on business and human rights more generally.' --Simon Chesterman, National University of Singapore'This is an important book that highlights the potential of international arbitration as a method of resolving disputes involving private military and security companies (PMSCs). Kuzi Charamba argues persuasively that arbitration can deliver access to remedies for human rights abuses occurring in the context of PMSCs' global operations. He deftly combines theoretical insights with in-depth knowledge of the practical challenges posed in the PMSC sector, and comes up with a workable proposal of what arbitration can look like.' --Cedric Ryngaert, Utrecht University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Current Avenues to Recourse against PMSCs 2. Regulation in Disarray 3. The Development of a Global Regulatory Network 4. The Law of a Global Regulatory Network: Part One; The Micro View 5. The Law of a Global Regulatory Network: Part Two; The Macro View 6. The Case for Adjudicating “Business and Human Rights” Violations outside of State-Based Legal Institutions 7. Outline of the Mechanism 8. The Jurisprudential Elements 9. Addressing “Access to Justice” Concerns Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNow in its second edition, Dinah Shelton's pioneering book provides a uniquely accessible introduction to the history and the latest developments in international human rights law. Exploring the origins, customs and institutions that have emerged globally and regionally in the last two centuries, this incisive book guides readers through the major treaties and declarations that form the foundations of the discipline today. Key features of this rigorously revised second edition include: Balanced, interdisciplinary coverage of both regional and international variations in human rights law, probing current challenges to the global regime Concise yet scrupulous coverage of historical and philosophical themes that have culminated in the present legal regime Updated statistics and ratification numbers to elucidate recent developments in human rights law. Succinct and cutting-edge, this second edition will be an invaluable guide for seasoned academics and researchers in the field, as well as students at all levels who require a comprehensive introductory text. Its practical insights and key statistical data will also provide a versatile reference point for practitioners in the field.Trade Review'International human rights law has become increasingly complex in its substantive standards, institutional structures, and interface with national law. Dinah Shelton harnesses a lifetime of experience in studying and practicing human rights law to provide an exceptional overview of the field, rich with penetrating insights, fit for beginners and specialists alike.' --Sean D. Murphy, George Washington University, US'This book provides a solid understanding of international human rights law at a time of increasing complexity, fragmentation and contestation. With depth and perspective, Dinah Shelton threads critical historical moments in the development, application and enforcement of this law. An invaluable source of knowledge and inspiration for anyone interested in the power and limits of international legal argument and available remedies for defending human rights.' --Jessica Almqvist, Lund University, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Concepts and foundations 2. Historical overview 3. International institutions 4. The law of human rights 5. The rights guaranteed 6. Obligations 7. Compliance and monitoring mechanisms 8. Complaint procedures 9. Enforcement 10. Stock-taking Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNow in its second edition, Dinah Shelton's pioneering book provides a uniquely accessible introduction to the history and the latest developments in international human rights law. Exploring the origins, customs and institutions that have emerged globally and regionally in the last two centuries, this incisive book guides readers through the major treaties and declarations that form the foundations of the discipline today. Key features of this rigorously revised second edition include: Balanced, interdisciplinary coverage of both regional and international variations in human rights law, probing current challenges to the global regime Concise yet scrupulous coverage of historical and philosophical themes that have culminated in the present legal regime Updated statistics and ratification numbers to elucidate recent developments in human rights law. Succinct and cutting-edge, this second edition will be an invaluable guide for seasoned academics and researchers in the field, as well as students at all levels who require a comprehensive introductory text. Its practical insights and key statistical data will also provide a versatile reference point for practitioners in the field.Trade Review'International human rights law has become increasingly complex in its substantive standards, institutional structures, and interface with national law. Dinah Shelton harnesses a lifetime of experience in studying and practicing human rights law to provide an exceptional overview of the field, rich with penetrating insights, fit for beginners and specialists alike.' --Sean D. Murphy, George Washington University, US'This book provides a solid understanding of international human rights law at a time of increasing complexity, fragmentation and contestation. With depth and perspective, Dinah Shelton threads critical historical moments in the development, application and enforcement of this law. An invaluable source of knowledge and inspiration for anyone interested in the power and limits of international legal argument and available remedies for defending human rights.' --Jessica Almqvist, Lund University, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Concepts and foundations 2. Historical overview 3. International institutions 4. The law of human rights 5. The rights guaranteed 6. Obligations 7. Compliance and monitoring mechanisms 8. Complaint procedures 9. Enforcement 10. Stock-taking Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Research Handbook of Children and Armed Conflict adeptly explores children’s lived realities of armed conflict and its aftermath. Featuring empirical, conceptual and policy analyses, alongside moving first-hand accounts of the experiences of war-affected children and youth, it highlights the urgent need for advocacy and action on this issue.Boasting state of the art contributions by eminent scholars and practitioners from across the globe, this Research Handbook explores the theoretical, practical, and policy issues related to children affected by war. Chapters investigate the profound harms experienced by such children and youth, whether in the heat of conflict, during flight or during resettlement to a new context, underscoring the urgency and high stakes of these situations for children and families affected by war. The Handbook demonstrates that scholarly discussions and debates must ultimately contribute to real-life changes to promote more just and effective immigration legislation, policies, programmes, and practices for war-affected children.Integrating conceptual analyses with concrete policy and political engagement, this incisive Research Handbook will prove essential for scholars, researchers, and students interested in war studies, security, refugee studies, forced migration, international development, child protection and post-conflict reconstruction. Its policy and legally-oriented chapters will also benefit policymakers, civil servants and international NGOs.Trade Review‘This important and timely book addresses the unimaginable toll of war on children and the urgent need for justice, accountability, and most of all: prevention. This Research Handbook is a vital contribution to the work on children affected by armed conflict.’ -- Lieutenant-General (Ret'd) The Honourable Roméo Dallaire, led the UN mission for Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, and is founder of the Dallaire Institute for Children, Peace and Security‘This Research Handbook is a must read for everyone interested in the welfare of the more than 500 million children growing up in today’s war zones, and how children’s voices and researcher’s scholarship contribute to more just and effective humanitarian responses and immigration policies.’ -- Neil Boothby, University of Notre Dame, USTable of ContentsContents: “How do we make up for lost time?”: Tackling current questions and realities of children during and following armed conflict 1 Maya Fennig and Myriam Denov PART I VOICES OF YOUNG PEOPLE IMPACTED BY ARMED CONFLICT 1 “Days turned into nights, but we just kept on walking” 20 Arsema Teame 2 “What could have been had I not left my family?” Reflections on war, migration and family separation 29 Bior Leek Ajak PART II APPROACHES TO CHILDREN AFFECTED BY ARMED CONFLICT 3 Prioritizing prevention: the value of a locally led approach in supporting conflict-affected children 38 Michael G. Wessells 4 Participatory action research with youth displaced by war: how youth know, feel and do peace and security 53 Rebecca Sutton 5 Refusing to be victims: child soldiers in the humanitarian world 67 Sylvie Bodineau 6 Stigma and guilt among the children of amnestied ex-combatants in northern Uganda: implications for transitional justice 86 Grace Akello PART III WAR, DISPLACEMENT, AND MIGRATION 7 ‘They have locked us in’: the impact of liminality and protracted displacement on the mental health of Eritrean refugee youth living in Israel 103 Maya Fennig and Myriam Denov 8 Children and parents separated at the U.S. border: a case of human rights violations in the Global North 123 Lyn Morland and Elaine Kelley 9 Agency, resilience and vulnerability of children in contexts of conflict-induced displacement 147 Cordula von Denkowski and Ulrike Krause 10 Navigating displacement: trajecto-making among forced migrant and refugee children and youth 168 Giorgia Donà and Angela Veale PART IV CRITICAL DISCUSSIONS OF POLICY/PRACTICE 11 Child detention in armed conflict 184 Frédéric Mégret and Isabella Spano 12 The child soldier under international law and policy 200 Mark A. Drumbl 13 Preventing the recruitment and use of children as soldiers: a perspective on moral injury and the security sector 215 Shelly Whitman 14 Children without parental care in armed conflict settings: right to family life and alternative care arrangements 232 Mónica Ruiz-Casares 15 Mental health and psychosocial support interventions for conflict-affected children and adolescents: strategies, challenges, and recommendations 253 Shoshanna L. Fine and Jura L. Augustinavicius Index 280

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Book SynopsisForced migration in the 21st century is closely linked to three global developments: climate change, rapid urbanization and the lack of solutions faced by millions of displaced people. The Handbook on Forced Migration brings a critical lens to the study of these issues. By adding the often overlooked disciplines of history and philosophy, this Handbook challenges narratives on forced migration, explains contemporary challenges, and provides a call for action.Each section of the Handbook presents diverse perspectives and a range of case studies on the interaction between forced migration and climate change, urbanization and solutions. The Introduction challenges different forced migration narratives, and the Conclusion makes new arguments for standards in forced migration research. A final chapter explores potential problems for forced migrants around digital technology,This fascinating Handbook will be an important read for human rights, humanitarian and development practitioners, and for urban studies and migration scholars and students. The research-centred approach will benefit academics and policymakers undertaking new investigations.Trade Review‘As global displacement is seen to be ever increasing in scale and complexity, this collection of perspectives – from a truly remarkable group of contributors – is essential reading for anyone that seeks to more fully understand this enduring phenomenon.’ -- James Milner, Carleton University, Canada‘The Handbook on Forced Migration provides a wide-ranging and iconoclastic set of reflections on forced migration across disciplinary perspectives. The first-rate and diverse set of contributors prove excellent guides through the thicket of this fundamental issue of our time.’ -- Matthew J. Gibney, University of Oxford, UK‘The Handbook on Forced Migration is a unique resource blending the perspectives of migrants, practitioners, and many of the leading lights and rising stars of academic research. Jacobsen and Majidi have curated an excellent introduction to many of the most vexing issues in the field.’ -- David Scott FitzGerald, University of California San Diego, US‘With a focus on climate change displacement, urban areas, and solutions to displacement and through a lens that braids history and philosophy, this insightful examination of forced migration is novel, timely, and needed—highly recommended for anyone concerned with knowledge production in migration research and with today’s policy approaches.’ -- Cecilia Menjívar, University of California, Los Angeles, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xviii Nassim Majidi POEM: MAZEN SLEEPS WITH HIS FOOT ON THE FLOOR BY MARTÍN ESPADA PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Forced Migration: a critical take on forced migration today 3 Karen Jacobsen and Nassim Majidi 2 Negotiating ambiguous status: mixed migration in theory and practice 20 Katrina Burgess 3 Migrant categorization under the patchwork of international, regional, and national law 33 John Cerone PART II PHILOSOPHY 4 Philosophy of forced migration: sit at the table or knock it over 45 Hervé Nicolle 5 Labels, norms: the illusion of control 58 Interview with Oliver Bakewell 6 Thinking without ‘fixing’: towards a feminist political geography 66 Interview with Jennifer Hyndman 7 Ethics, globalization, counter-narratives: confronting structural injustice 76 Interview with Serena Parekh 8 Dissensus, fictions, emancipation: the struggle for a world to come 85 Interview with Jacques Rancière 9 Securitization, decriminalization, resistance: from old fears to new values 92 Interview with Seyla Benhabib 10 Otherness, language, exile: expressing the poem of the Relation 100 Interview with Tanella Boni POEM: FLOATERS BY MARTÍN ESPADA NARRATIVE: CROSSING BORDERS BY FIRAT BOZÇALI AND REBECCA GALEMBA PART III HISTORY 11 Historical perspectives on forced migration 117 Susan Martin 12 Historians and forced migration: a persistent feeling of disconnect? 134 Jerome Elie 13 Reckoning with refugeedom: historical perspectives 142 Peter Gatrell 14 History, memory and the ethics of asylum 149 Tony Kushner 15 The roots of asylum 155 Ninette Kelley 16 Historical process tracing and forced migration: re-examining the creation of the refugee definition 162 Phil Orchard 17 Historiographies of early modern forced migrations in Europe and the Atlantic world 168 Susanne Lachenicht 18 The antecedents of forced migration in the Middle East 176 Dawn Chatty 19 The ‘home-coming’ of the refugees: narratives of partition-induced forced migration in South Asia (1947–1971) 182 Anindita Ghoshal POEM: ASKING QUESTIONS OF THE MOON BY MARTÍN ESPADA NARRATIVE: ENCLAVE DWELLERS AND PROXY CITIZENS IN BANGLADESH AND INDIA BY MD AZMEARY FERDOUSH PART IV CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MOBILITY 20 Climate change, population, environment and forced migration 193 Jennifer Ventrella and Michael Cohen 21 Climate change, migration and inequality in contemporary India 207 Kavya Michael and Juhi Bansal 22 Climate and migration in Latin America and the Caribbean 215 Maiara Folly and Adriana Erthal Abdenur 23 Theorizing mobility justice in contexts of climate mobilities 225 Mimi Sheller 24 Challenging the “lifeboat discourse” on population and migration 232 Anne Hendrixson 25 Climate mobility and COP accountability 243 Karen Jacobsen and Susan Martin POEM: I WOULD STEAL A CAR FOR YOU BY MARTÍN ESPADA NARRATIVE: WAITING IN TRANSIT BY ANTJE MISSBACH PART V URBAN SETTINGS 26 The urbanisation of displacement 256 Lucy Earle 27 If not camps, then… cities? 270 Dyfed Aubry 28 Aid-induced informal settlement creation following disaster: the cautionary tale of Port-au-Prince’s Canaan slum 277 Christopher Ward and Louis Jadotte 29 Reconstruction as violence and forced displacement in Syria 283 Deen Sharp 30 Self-reliance in urban contexts for displaced people 291 Kellie C. Leeson, Paul Karanja, Galo Quizanga Zambrano and Dale Buscher 31 Framing urban displacement economies 298 Alison Brown, Patricia Garcia Amado, Engida Esayas Dube, Tegegne Gebre-Egziabher and Peter Mackie 32 From integration to conviviality: Syrian refugees in London and Berlin 307 Deena Dajani 33 National and local orders in the response to Venezuelan forced migration in Colombia: perspective from urban settings 314 Carolina Moreno, Gracy Pelacani and Laura Dib-Ayesta 34 The value of mayors in urban displacement settings: the case of Amman, Jordan 319 Yousef Al Shawarbeh (Mayor of Amman) and Samer Saliba POEM: NOT FOR HIM THE FIERY LAKE OF THE FALSE PROPHET BY MARTÍN ESPADA NARRATIVE: MARKETS OF DISPLACEMENT BY LUIGI ACHILLI AND KIM WILSON PART VI SOLUTIONS 35 Putting people back into place 331 Cathrine Brun 36 Rethinking solutions in never-ending displacement: what are the alternatives? 349 Cathrine Brun, Anita H. Fábos, Maha Shuayb and Nicholas Van Hear in conversation 37 Self-reliance and refugee economics in Uganda 362 Eria Serwajja and Hilde Refstie 38 Displacement limbo: durable solutions for IDPs in Georgia and Ukraine 376 Sean Loughna with Olga Ivanova and Julia Kharasvili 39 The shifting grammar of durable solutions in Latin America 388 Marcia Vera Espinoza POEM: I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU DEAD BY MARTÍN ESPADA NARRATIVE: RETURN AFTER INTERRUPTED MIGRATION CYCLES BY MAYBRITT JILL ALPES PART VII LIVED EXPERIENCES: THE VIEWS OF REFUGEES AND PRACTITIONERS REFUGEES 40 Narrative: life in South Africa: irresistible soft power meets the hard reality 412 Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti 41 Narrative: we escaped in seconds … it then takes four years to become a refugee 414 Hassan Hersi 42 Narrative: a Malawian in South Africa – the good and the bad 416 Mwaona Nyirongo 43 Narrative: I have always felt like I am not a forced migrant … enough 418 Yuliia Kabanets 44 Narrative: when a new chapter in my life began as a ‘forced migrant’ 420 Saida Azimi 45 Narrative: the second time I became a refugee 423 Zabihullah Barakzai PRACTITIONERS 46 Narrative: a few thoughts about UNHCR and the UN 426 Joel Boutroue 47 Narrative: a discredited model of refugee response 431 Jeff Crisp 48 Narrative: a more realistic conversation on solutions 434 Ninette Kelley 49 Narrative: moving beyond emergency assistance 438 Renata Dubini 50 Narrative: forced migration – a personal view 439 Richard Danziger PART VIII THE FUTURE 51 Responsibility and trust: using digital technologies in forced migration 443 Evan Easton-Calabria 52 Conclusion: a call for ethical standards in forced migration research 461 Nassim Majidi and Karen Jacobsen Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful book analyses the process of the first adoption of guiding human rights principles for education, the Abidjan Principles. It explains the development of the Abidjan Principles, including their articulation of the right to education, the state obligation to provide quality public education, and the role of private actors in education.Multidisciplinary in approach, both legal and education scholars address key issues on the right to education, including parental rights in education, the impact of school choice, and evidence about inequities arising from private involvement in education at the global level. Focusing on East African and francophone countries, as well as the global level, chapters explore the role and impact of private actors and privatization in education. The book concludes by calling for the rights outlined in the Abidjan Principles not to remain locked in text, but for states to take responsibility and be held to account for delivering them, as promised in international human rights treaties. Interpreting human rights law as requiring that states provide a quality public education, this book will be a valuable resource for academics and students of education policy, human rights, and education law. It will also be beneficial for policy makers, practitioners, and advocacy groups working on the right to education.Trade Review‘The Abidjan Principles on the right to education have become a major reference tool for all, contributing to a dynamic process towards the implementation of the right to free, public, quality and inclusive education for all and leading the way for further action. At a time when we all hope to build back better, reading Realizing the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education is a must for our common world.‘ -- Koumba Boly Barry, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to educationTable of ContentsContents: 1 Developing human rights guiding principles on State obligations regarding private education 1 Sylvain Aubry, Mireille de Koning, and Frank Adamson PART I THE CONTOURS OF THE HUMAN RIGHT TO EDUCATION 2 Human rights guiding principles: A forward-looking retrospective 25 Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona 3 Is there a right to public education? 52 Jacqueline Mowbray 4 Parental rights in education under international law: nature and scope 79 Roman Zinigrad 5 State funding of private education: the role of human rights 104 Sandra Fredman PART II WHAT EDUCATION RESEARCH REVEALS 6 Evidence on school choice and the human right to education 132 Joanna Härmä 7 How and why policy design matters: understanding the diverging effects of public–private partnerships in education 157 Antoni Verger, Mauro C. Moschetti, and Clara Fontdevila 8 The growth of private actors in education in East Africa 189 Linda Oduor-Noah 9 The evolution and forms of education privatisation within francophone countries 220 Marie-France Lange 10 Synthesizing the research to strengthen the implementation of the Abidjan Principles 244 Frank Adamson, Delphine Dorsi, and Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona Annex: the Abidjan Principles Process and the ten Overarching Principles 263 Index

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Book SynopsisUtilizing the ethos of human rights, this insightful book captures the development of the moral imagination of these rights through history, culture, politics, and society. Moving beyond the focus on legal protections, it draws attention to the foundation and understanding of rights from theoretical, philosophical, political, psychological, and spiritual perspectives.The book surveys the changing ethos of human rights in the modern world and traces its recent histories and process of change, delineating the ethical, moral, and intellectual shifts in the field. Chapters incorporate and contribute to the debates around the ethics of care, considering some of the more challenging philosophical and practical questions. It highlights how human rights thinkers have sought to translate the ideals that are embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into action and practice.Interdisciplinary in nature, this book will be critical reading for scholars and students of human rights, international relations, and philosophy. Its focus on potential answers, approaches, and practices to further the cause of human rights will also be useful for activists, NGOs, and policy makers in these fields.Trade Review‘We live in a moment of overlapping crises: in a radically unequal and dangerously warming world, populism, xenophobia, and closing space for dissent are the background conditions to which the acute calamities of a global pandemic and its dire economic consequences have been added. These intersecting emergencies have left human rights advocates searching for frameworks capable of generating new visions bold enough to tackle the challenges we face. Moving beyond legal foundations, The Changing Ethos of Human Rights, edited by Hoda Mahmoudi, Alison Brysk and Kate Seaman, offers perspectives on rights rooted in traditions such as philosophy, spirituality, and feminism. In these spaces, the contributors find an ethos of care that centers the interdependence of all human beings, offering a pathway forward in the midst of peril.’Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to The Changing Ethos of Human Rights 1 Hoda Mahmoudi 1 Values and human rights: implications of an emerging discourse on virtue ethics 14 Michael L. Penn 2 Dignity and treating others merely as means 35 Samuel Kerstein 3 Making rights rhetoric work: constructing care in a post-liberal world 52 Alison Brysk 4 Race and feminist care ethics: intersectionality as method 66 Parvati Raghuram 5 Difficult care: examining women’s efforts in the Islamic Republic of Iran 93 Hoda Mahmoudi 6 Empathy, caring, and the defense of human rights in a digital world 111 Kate Seaman 7 Cultural heritage, cultural rights and care ethics 136 Matthew S. Weinert Index 157

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