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To have a nationality is a human right. But between the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, virtually every country in the world adopted laws that stripped citizenship from women who married foreign men. Despite the resulting hardships and even statelessness experienced by married women, it took until 1957 for the international community to condemn the practice, with the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Nationality of Married Women. Citizenship, Alienage, and the Modern Constitutional State tells the important yet neglected story of marital denaturalization from a comparative perspective. Examining denaturalization laws and their impact on women around the world, with a focus on Australia, Britain, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States, it advances a concept of citizenship as profoundly personal and existential. In doing so, it sheds light on both a specific chapter of legal history and the theory of citizenship in general.

Examines the status of women in Greek society; education, participation in the labor force, decreasing fertility rates, stereotypes, divorce, and other issues.

Examines status and cultural revival of ethnic and national minorities in Poland since 1989; covers the Ukrainian, Belarussian, Lithuanian, Roma, Jewish, Slovak, and Czech minorities.

This handbook draws together leading and emerging scholars to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of international refugee law. This book provides an account as well as a critique of the status quo, setting the agenda for future research in the field

Preliminary Material -- Chapter I. The Dimension and Purposes of Enforced Disappearance -- Chapter II. Overview of International Case Law on Enforced Disappearance -- Chapter III. The Existing International Legal Framework on Enforced Disappearance -- Chapter IV. The 2007 Convention and Its Main Legal Issues -- Conclusions -- Post Scriptum -- Text of the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance -- Bibliography -- Index.

This thoroughly updated and revised version of Gordon's classic history Woman's Body, Woman's Right, (originally published in 1976) is the only book to cover the entire history of birth control and the intense controversies about reproduction rights that have raged in the United States for more than 150 years. Arguing that reproduction control has always been central to women's status, Gordon shows how opposition to it has long been part of the conservative opposition to gender equality.

This study of the rights of indigenous peoples looks at the historical, cultural, and legal background to the position of indigenous peoples in different cultures, including America, Africa and Australia. It defines "indigenous peoples" and looks at their position in international law

1. "Convention" and critique -- 2. Pragmatism, recollective imagination, and transformative legal interpretation -- 3. "Disastrologies" -- 4. The doubly-prized world : myth, allegory, and the feminine -- 5. Sexual difference, the feminine, and equivalency -- 6. Sex-discrimination law and equivalent rights -- 7. Gender hierarchy, equality, and the possibility of democracy -- 8. What takes place in the dark.

1. Key concepts -- 2. Fairness -- 3. The legal framework -- 4. The ethical framework -- 5. Freedom and society -- 6. End of life decisions -- 7. Choices, capacity and competence -- 8. Responsibility and circumstances -- 9. Responsibility and blame -- 10. Crime, punishment and protection -- 11. Culture and difference -- 12. Confidentiality, information-sharing and openness -- 13. Organisations and individuals.

"This book explores the relationship between illegal migration and globalization. Under globalizing forces, migration law has been transformed into the last bastion of sovereignty. This explains the worldwide crackdown on extra-legal migration, and informs the shape this crackdown is taking, liven as states ratchet up provisions to end illegal migration, the phenomenon becomes increasingly significant legally, politically, ethically, and numerically. This book makes the innovative argument that the current state of migration law is vital to understanding globalization. It shows the intertwining of refugee law, security, trafficking and smuggling, and new citizenship laws, with particular attention to how the United States and the European Union define and defy what counts as global. Making People Illegal evaluates why migration law in the twenty-first century is markedly different from even the recent past, and argues that this is a harbinger of paradigm shift in the rule of law."--Jacket

This publication reproduces the new core universal human rights treaties in pocket-size. By issuing the latest core instruments in this format, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights wishes to make them more accessible, in particular to government officials, civil society, human rights defenders, legal practitioners, scholars, individual citizens and others with an interest in human rights norms and standards.--Publisher's description

Cover -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Does the LGBTQ Community Enjoy Equal Rights? -- Overview: LGBTQ Rights Are Improving Around the World -- The LGBTQ Community Has Political Power -- LGBTQ Individuals Have Reasons to Cheer -- The LGBTQ Community Still Suffers from Injustices -- LGBTQ People Post Both Gains and Losses in Human Rights Worldwide -- LGBTQ People Are Not Safe in America -- Chapter 2: Does the Promotion of LGBTQ Rights Threaten the Freedom of Others? -- Overview: Rights for LGBTQ Americans May Threaten Religious Freedom -- LGBTQ Rights Threaten Some Americans -- LGBTQ Rights Threaten Businesses -- Businesses Owners Cannot Use Religion to Discriminate -- Tolerance Is Needed to Protect LGBTQ Rights and Religious Freedoms -- Chapter 3: Is Same-Sex Marriage a Human Right? -- Overview: Same-Sex Marriage Highlights Tension over Fundamental Rights -- Same-Sex Parents Should Have Marital Rights -- The State Should Not Be Involved in Marriages of Any Kind -- Same-Sex Marriage Threatens the Entire Human Rights Framework -- Traditional Marriage Promotes the Common Good -- Chapter 4: Do Transgender Individuals Deserve Special Protection? -- Overview: US Courts Debate the Difference Between Sex Equality and Gender Equality -- Transgender People Face High Rates of Workplace Discrimination -- Restrooms Are Dangerous Places for Transgender Students -- Transgender Students Are Protected by Title IX -- Transgender Restroom Laws Protect Citizens -- Organizations to Contact -- Bibliography -- Index

Families in Europe are increasingly shaped by the mobility of persons and multicultural backgrounds. This book is focusing on the protection of children in cross-border situations. What are the fundamental rights of children in transnational families, what is in their 'best interest', and how can their rights be safeguarded? There is much controversy on these rights and the accompanying uncertainty has resulted in considerable practical difficulties for those trying to implement them. In order to provide a clearer scope and insights into the nature of children's fundamental rights and their best interests, this book examines solutions provided by both EU and international law to the questions raised by the increasing incidence of transnational families as regards the protection of minors. It covers both substantive and conflict-of-laws rules. Differences in the substantive family laws of Member States still prevent an effective protection of the child or its family unit. This includes cases of migration, asylum, forced marriage, kafalah, but also rainbow families. Further, the role of human rights (mutual recognition of status and surrogacy agreements, adoption) and procedural rights (child abduction, Brussels II bis recast) in cross-border cases must be considered carefully. Fundamental Rights and the Best Interest of the Child in Transnational Families is a timely work on the implementation of the child's interests in the EU and covers the most relevant topics emerging from the rapid internationalisation of child and family law and from the increased mobility of families. Dr Elisabetta Bergamini is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Udine, Italy. She teaches in and writes on international law, EU law and private international law, with particular emphasis on family law. From 2014 to 2016, she coordinated a Jean Monnet Module on European Family Law co-financed by the EU Commission. Dr Chiara Ragni is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Milan, Italy, where she coordinated a Jean Monnet Module on European Family Law and Human Rights. Her main areas of expertise include private international family law, international criminal law and human rights law.