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Islamists, civil rights, and civility: the contribution of the brotherhood siras
From the 1980s, revisionist Sunni Islamist thinkers have engaged in a hermeneutical effort to argue for the full acceptance of non-Muslims as equal...
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“Crusade” for African American Civil Rights: Female Rhetoric and Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells is the inspirational autobiography of an African American civil rights leader and black...
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Religious Freedom, Civil Rights, and Islam in Spain
Despite legislative attempts to facilitate freedom of religious practice for Muslims in Spain, the current challenges exceed the scope of legal...
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Only the Ques Would Debate Malcolm X: the Civil Rights Movement’s Big Six and the Safe Distance at Which They Kept America’s Foremost Militant
This article examines the relationship between the Honorable Minister Malcolm X and the modern Civil Rights Movement’s Big Six. Despite being...
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Disability Rights Advocacy in China: Inclusive Education, Civil Society, and Mobilizing Ideas
This chapter examines the impact of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the human rights model of disability...
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Does Economic Growth Bound Political Rights in Non-democracies? An Empirical Evaluation
The present paper aims to examine whether the impact of economic growth on political rights/civil liberties depends on the political environment. The...
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Quantifications of the Rights of the Child: Lessons Learned and Moving Forward
Research on human rights has often focused on civil, political, and personal integrity rights to the exclusion of other categories of rights....
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Civil society elites: managers of civic capital
The article takes the first steps towards a general theory of civil society elites, a concept not fully developed in either elite or civil society...
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The Paradox of Elites in Civil Society: A Comparative Study on Civil Society Leaders’ Satisfaction with Democracy in the UK and Sweden
The presence of an elite group in civil society elicits a discursive friction between the long-standing normative understanding of civil society,...
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Book Review: The Twentieth Century Civil Rights Movement: An Africana Studies Perspective by Mark Christian
There are many histories on the US Civil Right Movement, but none approaches the familiar saga of the Black freedom struggle with the intent to...
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Civil Society, Volunteerism, and Youth Citizenship in Fiji
Fiji’s multi-ethnic society is historically characterised by low levels of inter-ethnic trust and a segregated civil society, typified by low...
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COVID-19 and Civil Society in Southeast Asia: Beyond Shrinking Civic Space
In this article we challenge the conventional wisdom that COVID-19 and related legal restrictions invariably reinforce a global trend of shrinking...
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Gig Economy Riders on Social Media in Thailand: Contested Identities and Emergent Civil Society Organisations
The emergence of the gig economy has generated a new class of workers who are categorised as independent “partners” instead of employees with rights...
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Capacity Trajectory in the Context of Dementia: A Case of Exercising Rights in Troubled Civil Life
For years, Common law and Civil Code have determined the legal age as majority which defines adulthood, giving a presumption of legal capacity to...
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Perceptions of Deservingness: Civil and Social Rights for Same-Sex Families
In this chapter, we use cross-national data from a pilot study fielded in 2014 and 2015 among students in Denmark, Spain, Croatia, Italy, and the...
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Reimagining Transcalar Civil Society Advocacy Collaborations: Starting from the Global South
Addressing the currently highly salient topic of power in civil society collaborations, this article seeks to contribute to reimagining advocacy...
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An International Perspective on the Human Rights of Women
The welfare and well-being of women worldwide continues to depend on the respect for basic human rights. Research on the rights of the vulnerable...