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The hijras in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh represent a terribly marginalized minority community, to the extent that they are even ignored by human rights activists. In this book, the author argues that their situation can be compared with that of transsexuals in the west, both in terms of the psycho-social compulsions faced by a man who voluntarily decides to become a hijra or alternately a male to female transsexual as well as in terms of the complications regarding marriage, adoption and sexual status. In this book, the author has made a unique comparative study of the human rights abuses and legal problems faced by members of the third sex in the West and India.
This book is essential reading for human rights activists, social scientists, those connected with the law and the concerned citizen.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Language: English. The book presents a comparative study of the human rights abuses and legal problems faced by members of the third sex in India, complications regarding marriage adoption and sexual status, with relevant and important documents, petitions field challenging the criminalization of homosexuality, and extracts from international human rights treatise for human rights activists, social scientist, lawyers, concerned citizens About The Author: Rajesh Talwar, is a lawyer by profession, a prolific writer, and has also taught law at Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia for a period of six years. In 1996 he went to the U.K. on a British Chevening scholarship, from where he did his LL.M. in Human Rights Law from the University of of Nottingham. He has written extensively on legal and nonlegal subjects for various newspapers and magazines, and has authored several books, both nonfiction as well as fiction. Making Your Own Will (Vision Books, 1992) was followed by The Judiciary on Trial (Cosmos, 1995), How to Choose Your Lawyer (Vision Books, 1998), The Divorce Handbook (Vision Books, 1999), The Third Sex and Human Rights (Gyan Publishing House, 1999), Inside Gayland (Kalpaz Publications, 2001) and The Laws of EBusiness in India (Vision Books, 2001). Forthcoming books include a collection of childrenÕs stories. Contents: Acknowledgements ¥ Preface ¥ Introduction ¥ Judgments of Various Courts ¥ Legal/Other Problems Faced by Transsexuals ¥ Legal/Other Problems Faced by Hijras ¥ Hijars and International Human Rights Law ¥ Conclusion ¥ Appendix A?Signification Indian Documents ¥ write petition field in the Delhi High Court on behalf of the Aids Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan (A.B.V.A) challenging the constitutional validity of Section 377, Indian Penal Code and segregation and /or compulsory testing of prisoners ¥ CounterAffidavit by the National Aids Control Organization, Respondent No. 6 ¥ Extract from report by CALERI (Campaign for Lesbian Rights) in 1999 ¥ Extracts from Act no. XXVII of 1871, For the Registration of Criminal Tribes and Eunuchs ¥ A Testing Time for Prisoners ¥ A Criminal Conspiracy to Test the Aids Vaccine ¥ Appendix B?Relevant International Human Rights Instruments and Documents /Declaration in the Context of AIDS ¥ Universal Declaration of Human Rights ¥ International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ¥ International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights ¥ International Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Racial Discrimination ¥ International Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment ¥ United Nations Commission on Human Rights Resolution on HIV/AIDS (Resolution 1995/44 adopted on 3rd March, 1995) ¥ The Protection of Human Right in the Context of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) ¥ Resolution 42/8 of the FortySecond General Assembly of the United Nations ¥ Resolution WHA 42.33 of the FortySecond World health Assembly ¥ Resolution WHA 40.26 of the Fortieth World Health Assembly ¥ Bibliography ¥ Index The Title 'The Third Sex and Human Rights written/authored/edited by Rajesh Talwar', published in the year 1999. The ISBN 9788121206426 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 216 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is HumanÊRights / Sociology. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms 216. Seller Inventory # 1111008613363
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