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Female Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Detention: An Exploratory Review of Research
Recent trends suggest that arbitrary detention of female asylum seekers and refugees is increasing globally, with reports of serious human rights...
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Forced Internal Migration in Mexico: Displacement, Stigmatization, and Expectations in Chichihualco, Guerrero
The War on Drugs and the militarization of public security are widely regarded as catalysts for the violation of human rights in Mexico. Forced...
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Displacement of Human Smuggling: An Exploratory Analysis of the Effects of Law 82/2016 in Egypt
Although crime displacement has been extensively investigated, there is a relative dearth of studies on the displacement of transnational crime....
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Introduction
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the historical and contemporary context of human rights violations in Mexico. The single-party rule...
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Male-Directed Conflict-Related Sexual and Reproductive Violence Against Human and Nonhuman Animals
In this chapter Banwell reviews male-directed, conflict-related sexual and reproductive violence against human and nonhuman animals: genital...
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Nature’s Rights & Develo** Remedies: Enabling Substantive and Restorative Relief in Civil Litigation
Wessels explores the feasibility of existing delictual (or tort) remedies, in the context of civil or private litigation, to accommodate the...
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Definitions and Core Concepts: Animal Maltreatment and the Human-Animal Connection
The introduction to the brief highlights the increasing importance and timeliness of understanding animal maltreatment and the human-animal...
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Police and Protestors: Motives and Responses
This chapter examines the law and human rights relating to public protests based on international instruments and discussion around coverage of the...
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Criminalization of Asylum Seekers in Israel: Toward an Agentic Research Perspective that Opposes Othering and Estrangement
At the start of the millennium, asylum seekers (ASs) from Eritrea and South Sudan began arriving in Israel as a consequence of armed conflicts in...
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Individuals’ experiences in U.S. immigration detention during the early period of the COVID-19 pandemic: major challenges and public health implications
BackgroundIndividuals held in carceral settings were significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, limited research exists of the direct...
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Assaults on Fertility and Motherhood: Gendered Reproductive Violence and Reproductive Coercion Against Human and Nonhuman Animals
Drawing on case studies across human and nonhuman animal populations, this chapter offers a fresh analysis of reproductive violence and reproductive...
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Legal Remedies for Victims of Unlawful Police Stops: European and Domestic Contexts
The aim of the chapter is to analyse from international and national perspectives legal remedies accessible to the individual, whose rights were...
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Digital Media and Democracy
Despite the privatization of the online public sphere, innovative and creative use of the internet has allowed social movements to successfully...
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Life Imprisonment in Australia: Restoring a Hope of Release and the Phuong Ngo Case
In this chapter, following an overview of the differential schemes of life imprisonment in the several Australian jurisdictions there is a specific...
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Exploring Perceptions of Portuguese Police about Human Trafficking Victims and Perpetrators
The present study uses a qualitative approach to explore how Portuguese police perceive human trafficking and the individuals involved. Three hundred...
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Human Smuggling in North Africa: A Preliminary Exploration of Macro- and Micro-level Displacement Effects
This chapter offers a preliminary assessment of displacement effects in the context of human smuggling from North Africa to Italy and Spain. Overall,...
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The politics of criminal violence in Brazil: State violence, gang and the plebs
The argument of this article is that state violence and the criminalization of human rights in post-authoritarian Brazil (1985–) have stifled...
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Double Prosecution of Illicit Organ Removal as Organ Trafficking and Human Trafficking, with the Example of Belgium
In 2015 the Council of Europe introduced a new criminal law convention to address organ trafficking. The main focus of the Council of Europe...
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Is It Time to Open a Conversation About a New United Nations Treaty to Fight Human Trafficking That Focuses on Victim Protection and Human Rights?
This chapter makes the case for negotiating a new UN Treaty on Human Trafficking that takes account of accumulated knowledge and good practice, with...
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The Praxis of Protection: Working with – And Against – Human Trafficking Discourse
This chapter approaches trafficking discourse as a form of symbolic power being imposed on social phenomena, vulnerable groups, and the praxis of...