Democracy and Human Rights

Contents: Preface. 1. Human Rights--democracy interface: a critique of the rhetoric reality/Mohammad Yasin and Srinanda Dasgupta. 2. Human rights in the context of the globalisation/P. Arun Kumar. 3. Social justice and the agency of women: the Kerala Story/Renuka Pillay, Meenakshi Rishi and Kishore G. Kulkarni. 4. Understanding IPRs Protection Implications for Indian economy/Sib Ranjan Misra. 5. Human rights and Indian democracy/Manas Chakrabarty and Ruchita Chakrabarty. 6. Democracy and development an Indian example/G. Bhaskar. 7. Role of Micro Finance Programmes and Self-Help Groups in promoting human rights and empowerment among women/R. Ranjit. 8. Women rights vs violence against women in India: an analysis/D. Pulla Rao. 9. Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger: investing in reproductive health and rights/Siddhartha Sarkar. 10. Women\'s autonomy in India: an empirical study based on National Family Health Survey-2/Amlan Majumder. 11. Social forestry--a lens on rural development: a case study/Swapan Kumar Rakshit. 12. Human rights of the accused and Constitutional Guarantees: Bangladesh Perspective/Mohammad Abdul Hannan and M. Sekander Zulker Nayeen.

"Democracy is a form of government in which a large number of citizens of a country have to development, social forestry and rural development, and human rights of the accuparticipate in the affairs of the state. India has a long tradition of public reasoning and democracy especially since the time of early Indian Buddhists. This book presents some twelve articles contributed by eminent social scientists and educationists on issues such as human rights and democracy, human rights and globalisation, social justice and women agency, IPRs protection and its implications, democracy and development, Self-Help Groups and human rights, women rights and violence against women, poverty and hunger, women\'s autonomy and accused and constitutional guarantees. This book, it is expected, is to highlight some important contemporary issues on democracy and human rights in the context of Indian sub-continent." (jacket)