Tag: Equality

Free Download Gender and equality in Muslim family law : justice and ethics in the Islamic legal process By Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Lena Larsen, Christian Moe, Kari Vogt
2013 | 279 Pages | ISBN: 1848859228 | PDF | 2 MB
Islamic family law has an immediate and direct impact on the lives of Muslim men, women and children, whose personal status continues to be defined by understandings of Islamic law codified and adapted by modern nation-states. This book examines how male authority is sustained through law and court practice, the consequences for women and the family, and the demands made by Muslim women’s groups. Examining the construction of male guardianship (qiwama, wilaya) in the Islamic tradition, it also seeks to create an argument for women’s full equality before the law. Bringing together renowned Muslim scholars and experts, anthropologists who have carried out fieldwork in family courts, and human rights and women’s rights activists from different parts of the Muslim world, from Morocco to Egypt and Iran, this book develops a framework for rethinking Islamic Law and its traditions in ways that reflect contemporary realities and understandings of justice and gender rights.

Free Download Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea, UK Edition by Darrin McMahon
English | April 11th, 2024 | ISBN: 180418683X | 528 pages | True EPUB | 9.63 MB
Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don’t understand it? As much as we have struggled for equality, we have always been profoundly sceptical about it. How much do we want, and for whom?

Free Download Supreme Court of the United States, "The U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality: The complete decision, including dissenting opinions"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 161219530X | EPUB | pages: 144 | 1.8 mb
The complete text of the landmark Supreme Court decision on marriage equality

Free Download Liberty and Equality by Raymond Aron, translated by Samuel Garrett Zeitlin
English | November 7, 2023 | ISBN: 0691226768 | True EPUB | 120 pages | 0.3 MB
An invaluable reflection on the essence of liberal democracy―and an ideal introduction to the work of political philosopher Raymond Aron

Free Download Liberty and Equality by Raymond Aron, translated by Samuel Garrett Zeitlin
English | November 7, 2023 | ISBN: 0691226768 | True EPUB | 120 pages | 0.3 MB
An invaluable reflection on the essence of liberal democracy―and an ideal introduction to the work of political philosopher Raymond Aron

Free Download Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020 by Elisabeth Griffith
English | August 2, 2022 | ISBN: 1639361898 | 416 pages | PDF | 28 Mb
"An essential history of the struggle by both Black and white women to achieve their equal rights."-Hillary Rodham Clinton

Free Download Désirée Lim, "Immigration and Social Equality: The Ethics of Skill-Selective Immigration Policy"
English | ISBN: 0197658091 | 2023 | 264 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Skill-selective immigration policies, through which states favor the admission of highly-skilled migrants over low-skilled migrants, are a familiar component of the immigration landscape. Wealthy Western states, such as the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia have explicitly declared their desire to attract the "best and the brightest". On the other hand, attitudes towards low-skilled migrants could not be more different. They have consistently been portrayed as dangerous and undesirable, a drain on social welfare, and economically threatening to citizens. Immigration and Social Equality argues that we ought to re-think this stance. Beginning from the widely-shared principle of equal respect for all persons, it proposes that equal respect requires the recognition of each person’s pro tanto right to social equality, regardless of their citizenship status. Even if states have the right to exclude non-citizens, they cannot do so in a way that is demeaning or subordinating to excluded persons. The right to social equality gives us a richer picture of why certain instances of immigrant selection, such as the US’s recent ban on citizens from Muslim-majority countries, are unjust. However, it also has troubling implications for skill-selective immigration policies, as they are currently practiced: the book reveals that they ought to be regarded as a form of wrongful discrimination. Drawing on the framework of social equality, Désirée Lim goes on to consider the problem of colonial injustice and how it may be reproduced by skill-selective immigration policies, as well as migratorial disobedience.

Free Download Peter Brian Barry, "George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality "
English | ISBN: 0197627404 | 2023 | 280 pages | EPUB, PDF | 962 KB + 12 MB
George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell’s work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by philosophy and who often revealed his philosophical sympathies. Orwell’s written works are of ethical significance, but he also affirmed and defended substantive ethical claims about humanism, well-being, normative ethics, free will and moral responsibility, moral psychology, decency, equality, liberty, justice, and political morality. In George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality, philosopher Peter Brian Barry avoids a narrow reading of Orwell that considers only a few of his best-known works and instead considers the entirety of Orwell’s corpus, including his fiction, journalism, essays, book reviews, diaries, and correspondence, contending that there are ethical commitments discernible throughout his work that ground some of his best-known pronouncements and positions.

Free Download Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World: Making Democracy Work in Business by Isabelle Engeli, Amy G. Mazur
English | October 31, 2022 | ISBN: 019886521X | 416 pages | MOBI | 1.94 Mb
Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World takes a unique approach to the issue of gender equality in corporations in the 21st century. It examines the implementation of specific policies that seek to promote women’s presence on corporate boards in 15 democracies in Western and Central Eastern Europe, North America, and Australasia through the lens of the Gender Equality Policy in Practice Approach. The thirteen empirically rich country chapters by leading country experts and two separate comparative chapter answer core questions. How were policies adopted and implemented? Did they achieve any degree of success that would allow for real and lasting equality? What were the politics of the pursuit of corporate gender equality across the 15 countries? What worked and did not work and why? What are the lessons to be drawn from these experiences?

Free Download Michael P Foran, "Equality Before the Law: Equal Dignity, Wrongful Discrimination, and the Rule of Law "
English | ISBN: 1509964940 | 2023 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 425 KB + 3 MB