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Discusses ways that participatory democracy could work in United States and elsewhere, and lays out possibilities for economic democracy and worker ownership. This book shows how human rights, democracy, and protection of common goods can be embedded in social practices and processes.

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Unlike most leading works that focus on a broad spectrum of the woman's rights movement, Israel Kugler's volume provides an in-depth analysis of the drive for equalty for women during a specific, influential era in American history: the pioneering efforts of woman's rights organizations in the post-Civil War period.

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Gandhi showed the world that steadfastly and nonviolently adhering to the truth gave the world a practical alternative to the madness of war and violence.

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Based on the litigation strategy and court papers filed in the case of Joseph C Steffan v Richard Cheney, Secretary of Defense, et al, this title argues that gays constitute a politically powerless class that has been unjustly deprived of its constitutional right to equal protection under the law.

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Gendering the State is a ground-breaking collection of studies that examines the efforts of women in countries all over the world to frame public policy debates on nationally critical issues in gendered terms. The overall study is grouped into three distinct patterns of state ...

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Challenging the conventional view of Vietnam as the aggressor, this volume vindicates Vietnam's role in the Cambodian conflict, while at the same time revealing the treachery of U.S. foreign policy toward Cambodia.

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This volume provides a cross-disciplinary examination of hate speech. Beginning with the decision of the US Supreme Court in RAV versus St Paul, the book analyses the problem from historical, anthropological, comparative-legal and US constitutional law perspectives.

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While recognizing their fears, Nicholas Wolfson argues that it is impossible to separate bad speech from good speech without fatally compromising the uniquely American concept of free speech, and that efforts to modify our concept of free speech for a greater egalitarian good can only result in undue state influence over private speech.

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While recognizing their fears, Nicholas Wolfson argues that it is impossible to separate bad speech from good speech without fatally compromising the uniquely American concept of free speech, and that efforts to modify our concept of free speech for a greater egalitarian good can only result in undue state influence over private speech.

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McGuire's study fills a major gap in social histories of the Second World War by placing Hastie's role in proper historical perspective.

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A significant and timely study of Hegel's social theory - there has been a resurgence of scholarly interest in Hegel in recent years.

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Presents a study of Hegel's social theory. This book outlines an alternative approach to a liberal politics of difference. It begins by constructing a definition of oppression that illuminates, from a liberal perspective, its salient features.

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"This book grew out of a workshop, Heritage, Culture and Rights: Challenging Discourses, which we convened under the auspices of the Australian Human Rights Centre at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney and the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, with financial and infrastructure support from UNSW Law and a grant from the Australian National Commission for UNESCO."

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This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on human rights concepts, major pieces of international law on human rights and humanitarian issues.

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Contains contributions from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors from Australia, New Zealand and North America including Marcia Langton, Gillian Triggs, Joe Williams, Paul Chartrand and Noel Pearson. This book also covers topics as diverse as treaty and agreement making in Australia, New Zealand and British Columbia.

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How Do I Save My Honor is a powerful exploration of individual moral responsibility in a time of war. When individuals conclude that their leaders have violated fundamental ethical principles, what are they to do Through the compelling personal stories of those in the U.S. a...

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What are human rights She asks whether or not human rights can be said to be universal, and whether human rights can encompass global justice, environmental rights and global security for future generations.

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He further argues that respect for human rights involves a duty on the part of advantaged nations to address the Third World predicament with practical measures fully consistent with human rights, and for each of these three country cases, Smith recommends direct locally specific minimalist aid.

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Todd Landman offers an engaged, accessible and upbeat account of developments in democracy and human rights in the 20th and 21st century, drawing on the literature from politics, international relations and international law.

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Examines the roots of economic and social human rights in the Enlightenment thinking of Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Kant. This book observes how these thinkers' ideas have been neglected since the nineteenth century and discusses issues, such as ownership of the product of labour, strikes and lockouts in light of these ideas.

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This unique book looks at medical law from a human rights perspective and will be of value to all students and academics studying medical law.

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Case studies are combined with quantitative studies that use aggregate cross-national data, and theories that link MNCs to human rights are subjected to empirical testing.

As Meyer illustrates, at the national level, human rights violations are associated with U.S. MNCs in Chile, Honduras, India, Indonesia, and Mexico.