The issue of human rights has in our time come to dominate headlines and profoundly affect relations among nations and peoples. Drawing from the work of top authorities from the fields of international law, political science, international relations, and advocacy studies, volumes in the series shed light on a complex array of human rights topics, from genocide to reproductive freedom, from education to statistical measurement, in regions from China to Guatemala.
Series Editor:
Bert B. Lockwood
Professor and Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, University of Cincinnati College of Law
Staff Editorial Contact:
Walter Biggins, Editor-in-Chief wbiggins@upenn.edu
For decades, Latin America has been plagued by civil wars, dictatorships, torture, legacies of colonialism, racism, and inequality. The region has also experienced dramatic—if uneven—human rights...
Can human rights be claimed against agents other than states, such as transnational corporations and global governance institutions? Does the authority of human rights depend on international law-making,...
Drawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources, this book offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human...
On February 15, 2003, millions of people around the world demonstrated against the war that the United States, the United Kingdom, and their allies were planning to wage in Iraq. Despite this being...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights for a New Generation
Johannes Morsink
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812225037
Pub Date: December 2021
Format: Paperback
208 Pages
The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is one of the most important and debated sociopolitical documents of the twentieth century. A leading authority on the UDHR, Johannes Morsink...
Lethal autonomous weapons are weapon systems that can select and destroy targets without intervention by a human operator. Fighting Machines explores the relationship between lethal autonomous...
The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and repeated in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, recognizes everyone’s...
Edited by Jacqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache and Caroline Elkins
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812225044
Pub Date: September 2021
Format: Paperback
384 Pages
In this sweeping international perspective on reparations, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injustice—be it slavery or colonization, forced sterilization or widespread...
Edited by Daniel Brinks, Julia Dehm, Karen Engle and Kate Taylor
Price: $37.50
ISBN: 9780812253313
Pub Date: July 2021
Format: Paperback
368 Pages
From unsafe working conditions in garment manufacturing to the failure to consult indigenous communities with regard to extractive industries that affect them, human rights violations remain a pervasive...
Transitional justice, commonly defined as the process of confronting the legacies of past human rights abuses and atrocities, often does not produce the kinds of results that are imagined. In multiethnic,...
