HUMAN RIGHTS : THE NEW AWAKENING BY RAJBANS SINGH GILL [HARDCOVER] OLD BOOK

Contents: Foreward. 1. The concept of human rights/Rajbans Singh Gill. 2. Human rights what the mass media can do?/Mohinder Singh. 3. Child combatants: from warriors to Heros to criminals/Anuradha Saibaba Rajesh. 4. Human rights for secular human value systems/Anil R. Nair. 5. Organic linkages between human rights and right to information to realize the dreams of good governance/Rajkumar Siwach. 6. Police and human rights in India/S.C. Arora and S.S. Dahiya. 7. Child sacrifice: a gross violation of childs rights/Soma Battacharjya. 8. Human rights of prisoners in India: a grim reality/Gagan Preet. 9. India: far from the human rights/Ravish Kumar. 10. Women behind bars: a human rights perspective/Madhurima. 11. Globalising human rights by regionalising: a South Asian perspective/Shveta Dhaliwal. 12. Supreme courts brush with personality/Sunanda Bharti. 13. Human rights: the international scenario/Avinash and Alankar Arora. 14. Disability and the law: a human rights perspective/Tejinder Kaur Soni. 15. Right to shelter: a human rights issue for destitute women/Satinder Kaur. 16. Human rights of indigenous peoples/Renuka Salathia and Vivek Salathia. 17. Culture violence against women and women\'s human rights/Manvinder Kaur and Ameer Sultana. 18. Appraisal of institutional treatment of neglected children in Punjab/Pushpinder Kaur Dhillon. 19. Identity of homosexuals in the era of human rights/Geetika Walia. 20. Human rights and media: an introspection/Rajbir Singh Dalal. 21. A case study of Suo Motu action taken by the National human rights Commission for the protection of the human rights violations/Sangeeta Taak. 22. Budget as a toll of Governance of human rights/Sanjeev 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)