Product Description: The fall of communism in the late 1980s and the end of the Cold War seemed to signal a new international social order built on pluralist democracy, the rule of law, and universal human rights. But the window of opportunity for creating this more just, more equal, and more secure world slammed shut just as quickly as it opened...read more

Product Description: Stressreaktionen bewusst wahrnehmen und durch Selbstregulation kontrollierenDieses Praxisbuch zeigt die Behandlungsmöglichkeiten von psychischen und durch Stress verursachte Erkrankungen mithilfe von Biofeedback und Neurofeedback...read more

Product Description: This survey of human rights in Europe and beyond identifies an increased tension in the protection of economic, social, and cultural rights. Vulnerable groups - from migrants to children, from victims of human trafficking to victims of gender-based violence - have also moved squarely into the center of both the discourse and practice of human rights protection...read more

Product Description: On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the World Conference of Human Rights in 1993 and the adoption of the Vienna Declaration and Program of Action (VDPA), an international high-level conference took place in Vienna in June 2013...read more

Product Description: In terms of both human rights and democracy, 2011 was a revolutionary year. The Arab Spring has put into sharp focus some long held assumptions of the international community. But, this was not the only revolution in human rights thinking in 2011...read more

Product Description: In the human rights field, 2010 was a year both of continuity and reform, from the 10th anniversary of the European Charter on Fundamental Rights and the quickening pace of the EU's accession to the European Convention on Human Rights, to the reform of the Human Rights Council...read more

Product Description: In Europe, from the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty to policy changes in countering terrorism, 2009 was a year rich in legal and political developments that directly implicate human rights. Among the growing intensity of human rights practice and scholarship, even experienced scholars find it difficult to keep track...read more

Product Description: The prohibition of torture- the right to physical and mental integrity- is guaranteed in the strongest terms under international law. It is protected as an absolute right, non-derogable even in times of war or public emergency. The problem of torture resurfaced in the second half of the 20th Century, and more recently in the contexts of the war in Iraq, the situation of detainees in Guantanamo Bay, and of attempts to extradite persons considered to be 'threats to national security' to States where they may be at risk of torture...read more

'It was from Argentina, in the years 1976 to1983, that the world first heard the cries of the families of los desaparecidos, the disappeared.The scope and range of governmentally sanctioned kidnappings has spread, making enforced disappearances a truly global problem. This volume provides an in-depth legal investigation of involuntary disappearances as defined by national and international law'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: This volume constitutes a commentary on Article 6 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, guaranteeing the right to life, survival and development. It is part of the series, A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which provides an article by article analysis of all substantive, organizational and procedural provisions of the CRC and its two Optional Protocols...read more

Product Description: Human rights are the only universally recognized system of contemporary values which, during the last 50 years, has been gradually developed and defined by all States in a comprehensive international legal framework. The international human rights regime is closely related to international peace and security, development and a global trend towards pluralist democracy, good governance and the rule of law...read more

Product Description: This is the third annual report on academic freedom from the World University Service. It reports on the implementation of educational rights of girls and women, and ethnic and religious minorities. A contribution by the American Association for the Advancement of Science provides an overview of the UN mechanisms that monitor educational rights, and offers guidance for NGOs and individuals in monitoring and reporting on educational rights...read more

Product Description: This is the second volume in the World University Service's annual survey of educational rights and academic freedom worldwide. It concentrates on those countries where the education sector is under pressure, governments are not making significant progress in realizing the right to education, and teachers and students have been victims of human rights abuses...read more

Product Description: Book by Fernando, Laksiri, Hartley, Nigel, Nowak, Manfred, Swinehart, Theresa

Product Description: Die politischen Grundrechte garantieren dem Bürger einen verfassungsrechtlichen Anspruch auf Mitwirkung an der staatlichen Willensbildung. Sie formen mit den bürgerlichen Rechten das klassische Menschenrechtskonzept der Aufklärung, beruhen jedoch nicht auf der Idee einer liberalen Freiheit vom Staat, sondern auf jener einer demokratischen Freiheit zum Staat...read more