Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 32,24 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Civil rights
ISBN :
World Report 2019
Author : Human Rights Watch
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1609808851
Book Description
The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.
World Report 2020
Author : Human Rights Watch
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 813 pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1644210061
Book Description
The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.
Freedom in the World 2006
Author : Freedom House
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742558038
Book Description
Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The survey ratings and narrative reports on 192 countries and a group of select territories are used by policy makers, the media, international corporations, and civic activists and human rights defenders to monitor trends in democracy and track improvements and setbacks in freedom worldwide. Press accounts of the survey findings appear in hundreds of influential newspapers in the United States and abroad and form the basis of numerous radio and television reports. The Freedom in the World political rights and civil liberties ratings are determined through a multi-layered process of research and evaluation by a team of regional analysts and eminent scholars. The analysts used a broad range of sources of information, including foreign and domestic news reports, academic studies, nongovernmental organizations, think tanks, individual professional contacts, and visits to the region, in conducting their research. The methodology of the survey is derived in large measure from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and these standards are applied to all countries and territories, irrespective of geographical location, ethnic or religious composition, or level of economic development.
Confronting Past Human Rights Violations
Author : Chandra Lekha Sriram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 2004-08-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 113576820X
Book Description
This book examines what makes accountability for previous violations more or less possible for transitional regimes to achieve. It closely examines the other vital goals of such regimes against which accountability is often balanced. The options available are not simply prosecution or pardon, as the most heated polemics of the debate over transitional justice suggest, but a range of options from complete amnesty through truth commissions and lustration or purification to prosecutions. The question, then, is not whether or not accountability can be achieved, but what degree of accountability can be achieved by a given country. The focus of the book is on the politics of transition: what makes accountability more or less feasible and what strategies are deployed by regimes to achieve greater accountability (or alternatively, greater reform). The result is a more nuanced understanding of the different conditions and possibilities that countries face, and the lesson that there is no one-size-fits-all prescription that can be handed to transitional regimes.
The Encyclopedia of Child Abuse
Author : Robin E. Clark
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 49,83 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0816075069
Book Description
An A to Z reference containing over 400 entries with information on key issues related to child abuse.
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2008 Vol.1
Author :
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 2942 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9780160875151
Book Description
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2005
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
Page : 1788 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Civil rights
ISBN :
Book Description
Protest, Policy, and the Problem of Violence against Women
Author : S. Laurel Weldon
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 2013-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0822972344
Book Description
Violence against women is one of the most insidious social ills facing the world today. Yet governmental response is inconsistent, ranging from dismissal to aggressive implementation of policies and programs to combat the problem. In her comparative study of thirty-six democratic governments, Laurel Weldon examines the root causes and consequences of the differences in public policy from Northern Europe to Latin America. She reveals that factors that often influence the development of social policies do not determine policies on violence against women. Neither economic level, religion, region, nor the number of women in government determine governmental responsiveness to this problem. Weldon demonstrates, for example, that Nordic governments take no more action to combat violence against women than Latin American governments, even though the Swedish welfare state is often considered a leader in social policy, particularly with regard to women’s issues. Instead, the presence of independently organized, active women’s movements plays a greater role in placing violence against women on the public agenda. The breadth and scope of governmental response is greatly enhanced by the presence of an office dedicated to promoting women’s status. Weldon closes with practical lessons and insights to improve government action on violence against women and other important issues of social justice and democracy.
Historical Guide to World Media Freedom
Author : Jenifer Whitten-Woodring
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 1023 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1483359867
Book Description
Scholars of international relations and international communications view the extent of media freedom from country to country as a key comparative indicator either by itself or in correlation with other indices of national political and economic development. This indicator serves as a bellwether for gauging the health and spread of democracy. Historical Guide to World Media Freedom brings together comprehensive historical data on media freedom since World War II, providing consistent and comparable measures of media freedom in all independent countries for the years 1948 to the present. The work also includes country-by country summaries, analyses of historical and regional trends in media freedom, and extensive reliability analyses of media freedom measures. The book’s detailed information helps researchers connect historical measures of media freedom to Freedom House’s annual Freedom of the Press survey release, enabling them to extend their studies back before the 1980s when Freedom House began compiling global press freedom measures. Key Features: A-to-Z, country-by-country summaries of the ebb and flow of media freedom are paired with national media freedom measures over time. Introductory chapters discuss such topics as the theoretical premises behind the nature and importance of media freedom, historical trends, and the challenges of coding for media freedom in a way that ensures consistency for comparison. Concluding material covers the historical patterns in media freedom, how media freedom tracks with other cross-national indicators, and more. Accessible to students and scholars alike, this groundbreaking reference is essential to collections in political science, international studies, and journalism and communications.
