Human Rights

NGO Leadership and Human Rights
Richard K. Ghere

Richard Ghere provides a comprehensive survey of NGO involvement in a human rights based approach to leadership, organization, management, and performance. Ghere points to how any NGO,    More >

Non-State Actors in the Human Rights Universe
George Andreopoulos, Zehra Kabasakal Arat, and Peter Juviler, editors

Departing from analyses that focus on the role of the state in the arena of human rights, the authors of this original collection offer conceptually sophisticated, but accessible,    More >

Renegotiating the Liberal Order: Evidence from the UN Security Council
Brian Frederking

Is the liberal order in decline? Can we see evidence of that decline in the UN Security Council? Brian Frederking challenges the increasingly popular "decline" narrative by    More >

Rights-Based Approaches to Development: Exploring the Potential Pitfalls
Sam Hickey and Diana Mitlin, editors

Rights-Based Approaches to Development explores the impact of the shift from a market-based to a rights-based framework for development efforts. Drawing on their own experiences, the    More >

Terrorism, Security, and Human Rights: Harnessing the Rule of Law
Mahmood Monshipouri

Scholars and policymakers disagree on the most effective way to counter transnational terrorism, generating debate on a range of questions: Do military interventions increase or decrease the    More >

Trapped: Modern-Day Slavery in the Brazilian Amazon
Binka Le Breton

In huge ranches deep in the Amazon, thousands of migrant workers are trapped in a web of debt-bondage and deceit. Binka Le Breton sheds light on the lives of these workers, many of whom have    More >

Unarmed Bodyguards: International Accompaniment for the Protection of Human Rights
Liam Mahony and Luis Enrique Eguren

For years international accompaniment has been successfully implemented as a way to protect threatened human rights activists throughout the world. In this book, Mahoney and Eguren present    More >

War Crimes: Confronting Atrocity in the Modern World
David Chuter

War crimes typically are discussed in sensational terms or in the dry language of international law. In contrast, David Chuter brings clarity to this complex subject, exploring why    More >

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