Tag: Rights

Free Download Jeremie Gilbert, "Human Rights and Natural Resources: An Appraisal"
English | ISBN: 0198795661 | 2018 | 224 pages | PDF | 11 MB
The management of natural resources is directly related to livelihoods for local communities, but is also intimately linked to broader national and regional economic development, as well as to political stability, peace and security. Natural resources and their effective management are necessary for securing the realisation of human rights. While there is some analysis regarding the emergence of specific relevant areas of human rights, such as the right to water, the right to food, or public participation, there is no systematic and comprehensive study on the potential role that human rights law can play in the management of natural resources.

Free Download Dapo Akande, "Human Rights and 21st Century Challenges: Poverty, Conflict, and the Environment"
English | ISBN: 0198824777 | 2020 | 400 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The world is faced with significant and interrelated challenges in the 21st century which threaten human rights in a number of ways. This book examines three of the largest issues of the century – armed conflict, environment, and poverty – and examines how these may be addressed using a human rights framework. It considers how these challenges threaten human rights and reassesses our understanding of human rights in the light of these issues.

Free Download Lydia Malmedie, "EU Promotion of Human Rights for LGBTI Persons in Uganda: Translating and Organizing a Wicked Problem"
English | ISBN: 3031458257 | 2023 | 385 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Examining the EU’s promotion of human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans+ and intersex (LGBTI) persons in Uganda during the period of 2009 to 2017, this book investigates how a public administration defines and deals with a wicked problem. The empirical puzzle of how the topic of human rights for LGBTI persons, despite its highly contested nature, travelled between Brussels and Kampala, became codified in form of LGBTI Guidelines (2013) and institutionalized within EU foreign policy is addressed as one of translation and sensemaking. The investigation focuses on the process of problem definition in everyday practice by EU staff and EU member states’ staff in Brussels and Kampala. This book therefore provides key insights into how public administrations deal with wicked problems, how contested ideas can become institutionalized and how an idea is translated and made sense of across time, levels and cultural boundaries. The findings are of interest especially to scholars of wicked problems, sociological new institutionalism and public administration as well as international relations and EU studies, human rights, gender and sexuality studies.

Free Download Brutality in an Age of Human Rights: Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire by Brian Drohan
English | January 15, 2018 | ISBN: 1501714651 | 256 pages | EPUB | 0.73 Mb
In Brutality in an Age of Human Rights, Brian Drohan demonstrates that British officials’ choices concerning counterinsurgency methods have long been deeply influenced or even redirected by the work of human rights activists. To reveal how that influence was manifested by military policies and practices, Drohan examines three British counterinsurgency campaigns―Cyprus (1955-1959), Aden (1963-1967), and the peak of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland (1969-1976). This book is enriched by Drohan’s use of a newly available collection of 1.2 million colonial-era files, International Committee of the Red Cross files, the extensive Troubles collection at Linen Hall Library in Belfast, and many other sources.

Free Download Australia’s Engagement with Economic and Social Rights: A Case of Institutional Avoidance
by Russell Solomon
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9811600325 | 294 Pages | True ePUB | 0.44 MB

Free Download Hope Lourie Killcoyne, "The Civil Rights Era (The African American Experience: From Slavery to the Presidency)"
English | 2015 | pages: 80 | ISBN: 1680480480 | EPUB | 10,6 mb
One of the most important chapters in American history, the civil rights era represents the path of recognition, acceptance, and lauding of one of America’s greatest assets: its black American citizenry. This resource guides readers through the key events, successes, and trials of the civil rights movement, from the Montgomery bus boycott to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Though significant racial challenges remained even after the dismantling of legal segregation, that only makes studying the civil rights era all the more relevant for students in the twenty-first century.

Free Download Emma Bernay, Emma Carlson Berne, "Understanding Your Civil Rights"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1543503233, 1543503195 | EPUB | pages: 32 | 5.7 mb
What are our civil rights, and how are they different from our legal rights? What do gender, age, discrimination, and the U.S. Constitution have to do with our civil rights? Using engaging, age-appropriate language and colorful photos, readers decipher our nation’s civil rights laws and learn how they protect our citizens.

Free Download The Path to Gay Rights: How Activism and Coming Out Changed Public Opinion By Jeremiah J. Garretson
2018 | 305 Pages | ISBN: 1479850071 | PDF | 6 MB
An innovative, data-driven explanation of how public opinion shifted on LGBTQ rightsThe Path to Gay Rights is the first social science analysis of how and why the LGBTQ movement achieved its most unexpected victory-transforming gay people from a despised group of social deviants into a minority worthy of rights and protections in the eyes of most Americans. The book weaves together a narrative of LGBTQ history with new findings from the field of political psychology to provide an understanding of how social movements affect mass attitudes in the United States and globally.Using data going back to the 1970s, the book argues that the current understanding of how social movements change mass opinion-through sympathetic media coverage and endorsements from political leaders-cannot provide an adequate explanation for the phenomenal success of the LGBTQ movement at changing the public’s views. In The Path to Gay Rights, Jeremiah Garretson argues that the LGBTQ community’s response to the AIDS crisis was a turning point for public support of gay rights. ACT-UP and related AIDS organizations strategically targeted political and media leaders, normalizing news coverage of LGBTQ issues and AIDS and signaled to LGBTQ people across the United States that their lives were valued. The net result was an increase in the number of LGBTQ people who came out and lived their lives openly, and with increased contact with gay people, public attitudes began to warm and change. Garretson goes beyond the story of LGBTQ rights to develop an evidence-based argument for how social movements can alter mass opinion on any contentious topic.

Free Download The Path to Gay Rights: How Activism and Coming Out Changed Public Opinion By Jeremiah J. Garretson
2018 | 305 Pages | ISBN: 1479850071 | PDF | 6 MB
An innovative, data-driven explanation of how public opinion shifted on LGBTQ rightsThe Path to Gay Rights is the first social science analysis of how and why the LGBTQ movement achieved its most unexpected victory-transforming gay people from a despised group of social deviants into a minority worthy of rights and protections in the eyes of most Americans. The book weaves together a narrative of LGBTQ history with new findings from the field of political psychology to provide an understanding of how social movements affect mass attitudes in the United States and globally.Using data going back to the 1970s, the book argues that the current understanding of how social movements change mass opinion-through sympathetic media coverage and endorsements from political leaders-cannot provide an adequate explanation for the phenomenal success of the LGBTQ movement at changing the public’s views. In The Path to Gay Rights, Jeremiah Garretson argues that the LGBTQ community’s response to the AIDS crisis was a turning point for public support of gay rights. ACT-UP and related AIDS organizations strategically targeted political and media leaders, normalizing news coverage of LGBTQ issues and AIDS and signaled to LGBTQ people across the United States that their lives were valued. The net result was an increase in the number of LGBTQ people who came out and lived their lives openly, and with increased contact with gay people, public attitudes began to warm and change. Garretson goes beyond the story of LGBTQ rights to develop an evidence-based argument for how social movements can alter mass opinion on any contentious topic.

Free Download Laura Barcella, "Know Your Rights!: A Modern Kid’s Guide to the American Constitution"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1454928549 | EPUB | pages: 112 | 5.9 mb
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union . . . establish this Constitution for the United States of America.