Human rights, civil rights Books
Springer Human Rights of the Transgender Community in India
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Conceptualizing Violence, Victimisation And Human Rights In Perspective Of Transgender Community In West Bengal.- Chapter 2: Transgender Jurisprudence: History, Development, And Intervention Of Courts.- Chapter 3: Analysing The Transgender Community.- Chapter 4: Transgender Jurisprudence: History, Development And Intervention Of Courts.- Chapter 5: Violence Against Transgender Persons: Global Scenario.- Chapter 6: Indian Scenario Of Violence: Empirical Study Of West Bengal.- Chapter 7: Human Rights Derogation And Victimisation Of Transgender Persons: Empirical Data.- Chapter 8: Revelations From The Field: Interpretation Of Quantitative And Qualitative Data.- Chapter 9: Conclusion And Suggestions.
£109.99
Palgrave Macmillan Refugees and Asylum Seekers in East Asia
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Part I: Regulation and legal protection of refugees and asylum seekers in Japan and Taiwan.- Chapter 1. South Korea's dual asylum system as a model for Taiwan?.- Chapter 2. How refugee protection is handled in non-UN member states: Lessons for Taiwan.- Chapter 3. Human rights issues in the Japanese refugee recognition process and the legal progress towards a more inclusive refugee system.- Chapter 4. Japanese and Taiwanese Approaches to Future Climate Refugees.- Part II: Social construction of refugees and asylum seekers in Japan and Taiwan.- Chapter 5. Pictures of Hong Kongers in Japan and Taiwan: A text-mining analysis of news media.- Chapter 6. Kurdish community in Japan and the representation of Kurdish identity and activism on social media.- Chapter 7. Japan's refugee policy and public opinion: Nationalism as a factor in Japanese public opinion on refugees.- Part III: Lived experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in Japan and Taiwan.- Chapter 8. Asylum seeking
£42.74
Springer Verlag, Singapore Legalising Prostitution in Thailand: A
Book SynopsisThis book problematises the socioeconomic and institutional construction of prostitution in Thai contexts, identifying the root causes that propel underprivileged, discriminated and deprived women and girls to enter the sex industry. The author considers Thailand’s tolerance of prostitution and sex trafficking, despite criminalising prostitution since 1960. In doing so, they explain how criminalising prostitution does not lower the odds of women and girls engaging in commercial sex, but rather, legally marginalises them from receiving the necessary social and healthcare support. The book highlights that neither can Thailand pragmatically practice a zero-tolerance stance against prostitution - primarily due to severe police corruption and its heavy reliance on the sex tourism economy to support the national economic growth - nor is Thailand willing to fully crack down on the domestic sex industry. Engaging in an evaluation of how legalising and decriminalising prostitution, along with continuing to implement policies and interventions that alleviate the root causes of prostitution, can help Thailand build a more inclusive society and less-prostitution-reliant economy in the long term, the book provides a nuanced understanding of the relationships between society, inequality, governance, criminality, and policy in Southeast Asian contexts. It is relevant to students and researchers in sociology, socio-criminology, public policy, government and Southeast Asian studies.Table of ContentsAn Overview of Legalising Prostitution in Thailand.- Socioeconomic Construction of Prostitution in Thailand.- Institutional Construction of Prostitution in Thailand.- Revisiting Thailand’s Contemporary Policies on Tolerating “Illegal” Sex Work.- Comprehensive Social, Healthcare and Human Interventions in Curbing Prostitution.- Conclusions: How to Curtail the Legalised Prostitution Rates and Protect Sex Workers’ Rights.
£37.99
Springer Nature Singapore Declaration of Peace for Indigenous Australians
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£107.99
Hong Kong University Press The New Politics of BeijingHong Kong Relations
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£20.70
Fountain Publishers Aboke Girls: Children Abducted in Northern Uganda
£29.85
NUS Press Aware Saga: Civil Society and Public Morality in Singapore
Book SynopsisIn March 2009, the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) was briefly taken over by a Christian faction. Their coup was overturned within a matter of weeks, but the episode highlighted a variety of issues, including the role of religion in civil society, sex education, homosexuality, state intervention and media engagement. Although the immediate issue was control of an activist group concerned with women's rights, it has implications for the agendas and concerns of NGOs, 'culture wars', the processes of citizenry mobilization, mass participation and noisy democracy, and liberal voices in contemporary Singapore. In this book, academics and public intellectuals examine the AWARE saga within the context of Singapore's civil society, considering the political and historical background and how the issues it raised relate to contemporary societal trends. In addition to documenting a milestone event for Singapore's civil society, the authors offer provocative interpretations that will interest a broad range of readers.
£19.29
NUS Press Abolitions as a Global Experience
Book SynopsisThe abolition of slavery and similar institutions of servitude was an important global experience of the nineteenth century. Considering how tightly bonded into each local society and economy were these institutions, why and how did people decide to abolish them? This collection of essays examines the ways this globally shared experience appeared and developed. Chapters cover a variety of different settings, from West Africa to East Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean, with close consideration of the British, French and Dutch colonial contexts, as well as internal developments in Russia and Japan. What elements of the abolition decision were due to international pressure, and which to local factors? Furthermore, this collection does not solely focus on the moment of formal abolition, but looks hard at the aftermath of abolition, and also at the ways abolition was commemorated and remembered in later years.This book complicates the conventional story that global abilition was essentially a British moralizing effort, “among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations”. Using comparison and connection, this book tells a story of dynamic encounters between local and global contexts, of which the local efforts of British abolition campaigns were a part.Looking at abolitions as a globally shared experience provides an important perspective, not only to the field of slavery and abolition studies, but also the field of global or world history.
£23.76
Thorndike Press Large Print Waging a Good War: A Military History of the
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£37.53
Nova Science Publishers Inc Freedom of Speech in Schools and on College
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£163.19
Nova Science Publishers Inc Free Speech and the Internet
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£113.59
Nova Science Publishers Inc Free Speech: Threats, Limits and Challenges
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£67.99
Haymarket Books Our History Is the Future
Book SynopsisAwards:One Book South Dakota Common Read, South Dakota Humanities Council, 2022.PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, PEN America, 2020.One Book One Tribe Book Award, First Nations Development Institute, 2020.Finalist, Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, 2019.Shortlist, Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, 2019.Our History Is the Future is at once a work of history, a personal story, and a manifesto. Now available in paperback on the fifth anniversary of its original publication, Our History Is the Future features a new afterword by Nick Estes about the rising indigenous campaigns to protect our environment from extractive industries and to shape new ways of relating to one another and the world.In this award-winning book, Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance leading to the present campaigns against fossil fuel pipelines, such as the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, from the days of the Missouri River trading forts through the Indian Wars, the Pick-Sloan dams, the American Indian Movement, and the campaign for Indigenous rights at the United Nations.In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous and non-Native allies from around the world. Its slogan “Mni Wiconi”—Water Is Life—was about more than just a pipeline. Water Protectors knew this battle for Native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that, even with the encampment gone, their anti-colonial struggle would continue.While a historian by trade, Estes draws on observations from the encampments and from growing up as a citizen of the Oceti Sakowin (the Nation of the Seven Council Fires) and his own family’s rich history of struggle.
£52.00
ALA Editions The Civil Rights Movement
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£21.95
Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Human Rights and the Reality Gap
£138.39
Unbound Edition Press Adult Human Male
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£20.25
