What are human rights? Can theology acknowledge human rights discourse? Is theological engagement with human rights justified? What place should this discourse occupy within ethics? The author seeks to answer these questions about human rights, Christian theology, and philosophical ethics.
Argues that reconciliation needs honest talk to promote trust building and enable former enemies and adversaries to explore joint solutions to the cause of their conflicts. This book offers a critical assessment of the South African experiment in transitional justice as captured in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Exploring why America has failed to compensate Black Americans for the wrongs of slavery, this book provides a history of the racial reparations movement and shows why it is an idea whose time has come.
The unbanning of the African National Congress and the release of Nelson Mandela in February of 1990 cleared the way for negotiations toward a new, post-apartheid political order in South Africa. In this revealing study, Marina Ottaway examines the new conflicts emerging in South Africa, the factors influencing them, and the probable outcome.
Focuses on case studies ranging from sex education to AIDS to race to illustrate how sexuality is at the heart of many political controversies. This book reveals how moral and sexual panics have become a mainstay of certain kinds of conservative efforts to win elections and gain power in moral, social, and political arenas.
Focuses on case studies ranging from sex education to AIDS to race to illustrate how sexuality is at the heart of many political controversies. This book reveals how moral and sexual panics have become a mainstay of certain kinds of conservative efforts to win elections and gain power in moral, social, and political arenas.
Its Constitutional History and the Contempory Debate
How did freedom of the press evolve over the centuries? What values does American press freedom claim to serve? This volume addresses these and other questions. It also offers selections from other cultures on freedom of the press and examines the unprecedented challenges to a free press in the twenty-first century.
Young seventeen-year-old Joelito Filartiga was taken from his family home in Asuncion, Paraguay, brutally tortured, and murdered by the Paraguayan police. This title tells the inside story of the quest for justice by his father - the true target of the police - Paraguayan artist and philanthropist Dr Joel Filartiga.
Presents an analytical framework for advocacy on behalf of refugees and internally displaced people. This book identifies the social and political conditions integral to the plight of refugees and displaced persons. It discusses the fundamental right to freedom of movement, sender roles and the rights of women, and the effects of war.
