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
Vulnerability, Failed Systems, and the Case for Prevention
Alicia W. Peters
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9781512827835
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
Centering the lived realities of domestic sex trafficking survivors in New England, Trafficking Trajectories highlights the role of structural violence before, during, and after trafficking. Alicia Peters reveals opportunities for rethinking and broadening the response to trafficking to make it more focused on prevention, and thus more effective.
Drawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources, Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970s.
Ensalaco spent five years in Chile investigating the impact of Pinochet's rule and interviewing members of the truth commission created to investigate the human rights violations under Pinochet.
Building Peace in War-Affected Communities of Uganda and Sierra Leone
Jennifer Moore
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512827279
Pub Date: March 2025
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
Drawing on seven years of interviews with women activists across communities in Northern Uganda and Sierra Leone, Jennifer Moore shows that when women have full socioeconomic citizenship as well as equitable and respectful partnerships with men, transformative justice can be sustained in postconflict societies.
Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials
Edited by Jennifer Barrett, Avril Alba and Dirk Moses
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9780812253221
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
Spanning six continents—Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia, North America, and South America—this collection offers a transnational study of Holocaust and human rights museums that foregrounds the overlapping and often contested work these institutions do in narrating and memorializing histories of genocide and human rights abuses for the public.
Unmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists and ethnographers studying the global garment industry's impact on workers' well-being and examines the relationship between the politics of labor and initiatives to protect workers' health and safety.
This book tells the story of the astonishing uptake of International Conflict Feminism (ICF) in the most powerful institutions of global governance. Vasuki Nesiah argues that grappling with ICF’s power is essential to achieving solidarity with dissident feminist traditions with priorities and interests that challenge the dominant world order.
Domestic Courts and the Selective Enforcement of International Human Rights
Chris Kendall
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512826210
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Between Possibility and Peril explains how the highest courts in three young democracies—Colombia, Mexico, and South Africa—used international law to protect human rights while building their own institutional legitimacy, carefully balancing the demands of advocates, politicians, and international law itself.
One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris
Colette Brull-Ulmann and Jean-Christophe Portes
Translated by Anne Landau and Margaret Sinclair
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512825589
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
A young Jewish medical intern finds, to her horror, that the Rothschild Hospital has become a waystation for the death trains to Auschwitz—but not for the children she helps whisk away to safety through a clandestine hospital network. A true account of the ignominious assault on the Jewish spirit in 1940s Paris and the life of a courageous woman.
P. C. Chang and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the first biography of P. C. Chang (1892-1957), who lived an eventful and cosmopolitan life and was one of the key writers of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, responsible for its defining features of universality and religious ecumenism.
