Human rights: fifty years of India's independence/
edited by K.P. Saksena
- New Delhi: Gyan Publishing House, 1999.
- 304 p. ; 22 cm.
Part I -- Introduction / K.P. Saksena -- 1. Fifty years of independence: some observation / K.C. Pant -- 2. Human rights in India: a balance sheet / M.N. Venkatachaliah.
Part II -- 3. Rights of the child / Ranganath Misra -- 4. Wrong and rights of the child / R.M. Pal -- 5. Right to education / Joseph Gathia -- 6. Recent Supreme Court judgments on child labour: a critique / K.P. Saksena -- 7. Childrens rights in India / Pritam Arora -- 8. Role of media / Regina Mulay Parakh.
Part III -- 9. Undertrials: their rights and reality / Rajinder Sachar -- 10. Indian prisons: a survey / Sankar Sen.
Part IV -- 11. National Human Rights Commission: an assessment of its functioning / G.S. Bhargava -- 12. National Human Rights Commission: a view from Peoples Front / Y.P. Chhibbar. Part V -- 13. Human rights: an overview / V.M. Tarkunde -- 14. Fundamental rights and the reality / Shanti Sadiq Ali -- 15. State of economic and social rights / N.R. Madhava Menon -- 16. Role of institutions of higher education / K.P. Saksena -- 17. Human rights in India: a survey / V.S. Mani -- 18. Human rights and globalisation / K.P. Saksena. Appendices -- (i) Excerpts from the Constitution of India -- (ii) Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- (iii) International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- (iv) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- (v) Convention on the Rights of the Child -- (vi) Status of international human rights instruments, ratifications, accessions etc.
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