TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saksena, K.P.
TI  - Human rights: fifty years of India's independence
SN  - 8121206057
U1  - 341.48154 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Gyan Publishing House
KW  - India
KW  - Children--Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Children's rights
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Human rights
N1  - 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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