New Human Rights Books in Babbidge Library

Here are the latest additions to the human rights holdings at Babbidge Library.   

Justice and Law 

SOCIAL JUSTICE: THEORIES, ISSUES, AND MOVEMENTS.  By Loretta Capeheart, 2007

 

GLOBAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT: CROSS-NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES.  Ed. Donatella Della Porta, 2007

 

HOW TO MAKE OPPORTUNITY EQUAL: RACE AND CONTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE, by Paul Gomberg, 2007

 

VIOLENCE, CONFLICT, AND WORLD ORDER: CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS ON STATE-SANCTIONED JUSTICE, by Gregg Barak, 2007

 

CONSTRUCTING JUSTICE AND SECURITY AFTER WAR, by Charles T. Call, 2007

 

EXPLORING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS: ESSENTIAL READINGS, by Rhonda L. Callaway, 2007

 

JUDGES, TRANSITION, AND HUMAN RIGHTS, by John Morison, 2007

 

EXTRAORDINARY JUSTICE: MILITARY TRIBUNALS IN HISTORICAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT, by Peter Judson Richards, 2007

 

ATROCITY, PUNISHMENT, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, by Mark A. Drumbl, 2007

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY: THE STRUGGLE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE, by Geoffrey Robertson, 2006

CONFLICT AND COMPLIANCE: STATE RESPONSES TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PRESSURE, by Sonia Cardenas, 2007

WHEN THE STATE NO LONGER KILLS: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS NORMS AND ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, by San Gmin Bae, 2007

SLAVERY, FREEDOM, AND THE LAW IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD: A BRIEF HISTORY WITH DOCUMENTS, by Sue Peabody, 2007

  Poverty and Economic Rights 

ECONOMIC RIGHTS: CONCEPTUAL, MEASUREMENT, AND POLICY ISSUES, by Shareen Hertel and Lanse Minker, 2007

 

FREEDOM FROM POVERTY AS A HUMAN RIGHT: WHO OWES WHAT TO THE VERY POOR?, ed. Thomas Pogge, 2007

 

ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS IN ACTION, ed, Mashood A. Baderin, 2007

 

MEMBERSHIP-BASED ORGANIZATIONS OF THE POOR, ed. Martha Chen, 2007

 

BATTLE FOR WELFARE RIGHTS: POLITICS AND POVERTY IN MODERN AMERICA, by Felicia Kornbluh, 2007

 

UNDER COVER OF SCIENCE: AMERICAN LEGAL-ECONOMIC THEORY AND THE QUEST FOR OBJECTIVITY, by James R. Hackney, 2007

 

  Human Rights General 

BLOOD AND SOIL: A WORLD HISTORY OF GENOCIDE AND EXTERMINATION FROM SPARTA TO DARFUR, by Ben Kiernan, 2007

 

WHITE MAN’S BURDEN: WHY THE WEST’S EFFORTS TO AID THE REST HAVE DONE SO MUCH ILL AND SO LITTLE GOOD, by William Easterly, 2007

 

POSITION OF ALIENS IN RELATION TO THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, by Helene Lambert, 2006

 

CRIME, SOCIAL CONTROL AND HUMAN RIGHTS: FROM MORAL PANICS TO STATES OF DENIAL: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF STANLEY COHEN, ed. David Downes, 2007

 

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF MARGINALISED GROUPS: PERSPECTIVES AND STRATEGIES, ed. Debal K. Singharoy, 2001

 

INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT: CONCEPTUALIZATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, by Thomas George Weiss, 2006

 

HUMANITARIAN DIPLOMACY: PRACTITIONERS AND THEIR CRAFT, ed. Larry Minear, 2007

 

 Indigenous People 

TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT ABORIGINAL HISTORY, by Bain Attwood, 2005

 

HONOUR AMONG NATIONS?: TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, ed. Marcia Langton, 2005

 

INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCE: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES, ed. Roger C.A. Maaka, 2006

 

INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AND UNITED NATIONS STANDARDS: SELF-DETERMINATION, CULTURE AND LAND, by Alexandra Xanthaki, 2007

 

 Torture 

PHENOMENON OF TORTURE: READINGS AND COMMENTARY, ed. William F. Schulz, 2007

 

AMERICAN TORTURE: FROM THE COLD WAR TO ABU GHRAIB AND BEYOND, by Michael Otterman, 2007

 

 Russia and Chechnya 

RUSSIA’S ISLAMIC THREAT, by Gordon M. Hahn, 2007

 

CHECHNYA: FROM NATIONALISM TO JIHAD, by James Hughes, 2007

 

CHECHNYA: LIFE IN A WAR-TORN SOCIETY, by Valerii Aleksandrovich Tishkov, 2004

 

  Health 

READINGS IN COMPARATIVE HEALTH LAW AND BIOETHICS, by Timothy S. Jost, 2007

 

Sex and Gender 

LIMITS OF BODILY INTEGRITY: ABORTION, ADULTERY, AND RAPE LEGISLATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, by Ruth Austin Miller, 2007

 

SEXUAL POLITICS AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE NEW FEMINIST CHALLENGE, ed. R. Amy Elman, 1996

 

SEXUAL SUBORDINATION AND STATE INTERVENTION: COM- PARING SWEDEN AND THE UNITED STATES, by R. Amy Elman, 1996

 

LAW AND SEXUALITY: THE GLOBAL ARENA, ed. Carl F. Stychin, 2001

 

POLITICS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES, THE EUROPEAN UNION, AND GERMANY, by Kathrin S. Zippel, 2006

 

SEXUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A GLOBAL OVERVIEW, ed. Helmut Graupner, 2005

 

  Nigeria 

WOMEN AND CONFLICT IN THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR, by Egodi Uchendu, 2007

 

BIAFRA REVISITED, by Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe, 2007

 

SURVIVING IN BIAFRA: THE STORY OF THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR, by Alfred Obiora, Uzokwe, 2003