Chinese Complaint Systems: Natural Resistance (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

Grievance structures have existed in China for a few years, and in 2004, a debate happened within the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over the Letters and Visits method (xinfang zhidu), which was once designed to permit humans to sign in court cases with the higher degrees of the govt. even if, either events in most cases ignored a number of various grievance platforms that had preceded the Letters and Visits procedure in the course of China’s background.

The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire

This ebook argues that there's a tremendous connection among moral resistance to British imperialism and the moral discovery of homosexual rights. by way of heavily reading the roots of liberal resistance in Britain and resistance to patriarchy within the usa, this publication exhibits that combating the calls for of patriarchal manhood and womanhood performs a massive function in countering imperialism.

Human Rights and Revolutions

Now in a revised and up to date version with additional unique chapters, this acclaimed booklet offers an interdisciplinary viewpoint at the complicated hyperlinks among progressive struggles and human rights discourses and practices. overlaying occasions as a long way faraway from each other in time and house because the English Civil battle, the Parisian upheavals of 1789, Latin American independence struggles, and protests in past due twentieth-century China, the individuals discover the paradoxes of innovative and human rights initiatives.

Der gezähmte Diktator: Die Wirkung von Menschenrechtsverfahren auf das Repressionslevel in Autokratien (Schriften zu Ordnungsfragen der Wirtschaft) (German Edition)

Der Umgang mit staatlich verantworteten Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Autokratien stellt die Weltgemeinschaft noch immer vor große Herausforderungen. Weder über militärische (humanitäre) Interventionen, Wirtschaftssanktionen noch über die edition bei den Entwicklungshilfeleistungen konnte in der Vergangenheit die angestrebte Verbesserung der Menschenrechte erzielt werden.