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Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the crisis of homeless youth--told through the stories of a woman on the frontlines and the kids themselves."--
"They hide in plain sight. They survive on school breakfasts and lunches, join sports teams in order to shower, sleep on friends' couches, in parks, or on the streets. Their official designation is "unaccompanied homeless youth" -- they are not "runaways" breaking free from strict parenting; these are kids seeking safety....
63) Defining civil and political rights: the jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee
Author
Publisher
Ashgate
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The ethical issues we face in healthcare, justice, and human rights extend beyond national boundaries-they are global and cross-cultural in scope. Editors Wanda Teays, John-Stewart Gordon, and Alison Dundes Renteln have assembled the works of an interdisciplinary, international team of experts in bioethics into a comprehensive, innovative and accessible book. It opens with theoretical frameworks that inform a Global Bioethics, followed by three units...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"The European Court of Human Rights has been a vital part of European democratic consolidation and integration for over half a century, setting meaningful standards and offering legal remedies to the individually repressed, the politically vulnerable, and the socially excluded. After their emancipation from Soviet influence in the 1990s, and with membership of the European Union in mind for many, the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe flocked...
Author
Series
Nijhoff law specials volume 74
Publisher
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Series
Human rights law in perspective volume 15
Publisher
Hart Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
Every generation inherits the problems created by the ones before them, but no generation will inherit as many problems--as many crises--as the current generation of young people. From the devastations of climate change to the horrors of gun violence, from rampant transphobia to the widening wealth gap, from the lack of health care to the lack of housing, the challenges facing the next generation can feel insurmountable. But change, even revolution,...
79) The judicial application of human rights law: national, regional, and international jurisprudence
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English