Human Rights Reporting

Contents: Preface. 1. The purposes of reporting. 2. Freedom, democracy and discrimination. 3. Human rights and justice. 4. The international system of human rights. 5. Regional intervention and human rights. 6. Human rights and international actions. 7. Human rights, foreign policy, and religious belief. 8. Caste discrimination. 9. Human rights violations against sexuality minorities in India. 10. War in Iraq: not a humanitarian intervention. 11. Human rights on Postwar Iraq. 12. Convention against torture and other cruel, Inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Bibliography. Index.

"Human rights are aimed to preserve democracy and the rights the people to govern themselves. All governments today engage regularly in diplomatic and other exchanges about their domestic human rights situations. The process of periodic human rights reporting to international bodies has come to be seen as a constructive and potentially rewarding means by which governments can seek to achieve a variety of objectives.

This book narrates the pros and cons of human rights reporting. It will prove ideal and dependable reference tool for academics, policy-planners, human rights reporting agencies and human rights activists alike." (jacket)