Human Rights : The New Awakening

Contents Foreward 1 The concept of human rightsRajbans Singh Gill 2 Human rights what the mass media can doMohinder Singh 3 Child combatants from warriors to Heros to criminalsAnuradha Saibaba Rajesh 4 Human rights for secular human value systemsAnil R Nair 5 Organic linkages between human rights and right to information to realize the dreams of good governanceRajkumar Siwach 6 Police and human rights in IndiaSC Arora and SS Dahiya 7 Child sacrifice a gross violation of childs rightsSoma Battacharjya 8 Human rights of prisoners in India a grim realityGagan Preet 9 India far from the human rightsRavish Kumar 10 Women behind bars a human rights perspectiveMadhurima 11 Globalising human rights by regionalising a South Asian perspectiveShveta Dhaliwal 12 Supreme courts brush with personalitySunanda Bharti 13 Human rights the international scenarioAvinash and Alankar Arora 14 Disability and the law a human rights perspectiveTejinder Kaur Soni 15 Right to shelter a human rights issue for destitute womenSatinder Kaur 16 Human rights of indigenous peoplesRenuka Salathia and Vivek Salathia 17 Culture violence against women and womens human rightsManvinder Kaur and Ameer Sultana 18 Appraisal of institutional treatment of neglected children in PunjabPushpinder Kaur Dhillon 19 Identity of homosexuals in the era of human rightsGeetika Walia 20 Human rights and media an introspectionRajbir Singh Dalal 21 A case study of Suo Motu action taken by the National human rights Commission for the protection of the human rights violationsSangeeta Taak 22 Budget as a toll of Governance of human rightsSanjeev K Mahajan "As the title suggests this edited work contains the conceptual foundations of the idea of human rights It seeks to explain the basic ideas arguments and controversies behind the human rights in a way that is both clear and comprehensive The book  deals with the real world of human rights from their origins to their latest manifestations and implications There we move from ancient and medieval sources of the rights idea to the realities of the twentieth century and the challenges of the twenty first This combination of theory and practical of concept and context is rare in a book on human rights While drawing on the latest contributions it explains the conceptual issues in clear language explores the new trends in human rights and suggests sources for further research on the core issues surrounding human rights in our time" jacket 355 pp.…