Bücher der Reihe Oxford Amnesty Lectures in Reihenfolge

Based on the Oxford Amnesty lecture series, this text investigates the relationship between globalization and human rights. The contributors challenge the view that the development of global markets and investment, together with the circulation of information, makes human rights abuses less likely.

This book, based on the prestigious Oxford Amnesty Lecture series, focuses on human rights abuses, and the ways in which they are interpreted. The collection includes contributions by Tzvetan Todorov, Michael Ignatieff, Peter Singer, Gitta Sereny, Susan Sontag, and Eva Hoffman, with commentaries on their essays by Niall Fergusson, Timothy Garton Ash, John Broome, Hermione Lee and others.

The 2002 volume of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures series. This volume seeks to explore the role and limitations of ideas of human rights in the area of gender and sexuality; in particular, when considering the social position of women (straight or gay), gay men, trans-gendered and transsexual persons.

Addresses various contemporary issues, including impact of globalization and migration on the urban environment, the consequences of the 'war on terror' for those living in cities, the development paradigm being adopted by international institutions in the developing world, and more.

This volume is based on the 2004 series of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures, one of the world's leading name lecture series. In it major figures in philosophy, political science, law, psychoanalysis, sociology, and literature address the challenges that displacement, asylum, and migration pose to our notions of human rights.

A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights. Poets, practitioners, academics and theorists offer an illuminating range of perspectives for specialists and the general reader. -- .

This book covers the many topics of `the war on terror' from legal, philosophical, economic and historical perspectives. The dialogue form of the book (essay-response) allows a broad representation of views, covering the situation in the Middle East, national security, politics of intervention, human rights, torture and the motives of the Iraq War. -- .

In this authoritative book, a number of eminent and respected figures in the fields of theology, sociology, anthropology and political activism set out their vision for a society in which the competing truths must be accommodated not peacefully but without violence. -- .