Human Rights : Social Justice and Political Challenge

Contents: Preface. 1. Issues and concerns in human rights: a worldview. 2. Human rights: perspective on covenants. 3. Political dimensions of human rights. 4. Right to education: cornerstone of social justice. 5. Human rights and conflicts: principles of war. 6. United Nations initiatives: independence and human rights. 7. Approaches to resolution of human rights cases. 8. Human rights awareness and illiteracy. 9. Human Rights Institution: Amnesty International. 10. Struggle against oppression and state injustice: country studies in Asia. 11. Capital punishment and social parameters. Index.

"This book represents a timely effort of focus attention on a vital subject that touches the hearts and minds, even the future, of all peoples of the world. It brings together articles, papers, excerpts comments and abstracts from a wide variety of sources, both Indian and foreign. The purpose is to provide the reader, including the student of sociology and political science, a comprehensive yet non-scholastic profile of the parameters of the form, content, direction and debate in the area of human rights. Thus, the reader will become, acquainted with the basis of origins of the Human Rights Movement, the celebrated Stockholm Convention Declaration, the Indian approach to human rights activism and the debates that rage, the role of the United Nations in the promotion of human rights and the perceptions of various countries in the sensitive and debated issues of the day. Of particular interest are the excerpts from the views of Former UN Secretary General U. Thant and the United Nations declared objective in the matter. Present will be a valuable and useful asset to all social science libraries." (jacket)