Human Rights in India : Issues and Challenges

Contents Preface 1 Introduction emerging discourse on human rightsAftab Alam 2 The emerging human rights situation in India in the context of recent socio-political and economic changesRavi Kiran Jain 3 Women development and human rightsJayanti Alam 4 Offences against womenMamta Rao 5 Victims of rape and their right to live with human dignityKI Vibhute 6 How far personal laws have hampered dispensation of justice to womenParul Modi 7 Muslim girl child domestics in the child rights perspectiveNadeem Mohsin 8 Minorities and human rightsPD Mathew SJ 9 Rights of Dalits a human rights perspectiveMohammad Shadan Zeb Khan 10 Basic rights of refugees issues in the global and Indian contextM Afzal Wani 11 Human rights abuses in pre-trial detention sensitising police and judicial personnelSubhram Rajkhowa 12 Human right to environment in India from legality to realityMd Zafar Mahfooz Nomani 13 Healthy environment a human rightMohiuddin Ahmad Farooqui 14 Human rights in north-east India a contemporary perspectiveKunja Medhi Appendices IndexThis book deals with the important subject of human rights which has been crucial element of philosophical social and political debates in the second half of the twentieth century and will probably also constitute a dominant discourse of the twenty first century While there is increasingly wide-spread concern for universal respect and observance of human rights gross violation of internationally recognised norms continue unabated in almost all parts of the world India is no exception to this Though in large parts of the world we boast of a democratic set-up with a comprehensive charter of rights enshrined in the constitution protected by an independent judiciary yet large scale violation of peoples rights has become a routine affair Cases of human rights violation in India are innumerable repetitive enduring and have almost become a permanent feature of the state systemThe present volume is a modest attempt to highlight some of these issues which deserve special attention and also offers suggestions for improving the existing conditions The book covers a wide range of issues like human rights violation of women and child of Dalits and minorities and of refugees It also deals with human rights abuses in pre-trial detention and covers the issue of environmental degradation and human rights It also gives insight into the human rights situation in north-east India The book also provides a historical perspective of the conceptual evolution of human rights and endeavours to unfold the controversies gathering around its universality and its misuse by the west as a diplomatic tool for establishing their hegemony over the third world jacket 400 pp.…