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Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. This book discusses Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions in the field, citing issues and problems from different countries in the Third World:
Should alternative perspectives be taken as the standard for human rights in the Third ...
Child Labour in a Third World Urban Situation is based on author’s decade long fieldwork in Kolkata and contains ethnographic details on the child labour situation in Kolkata. The study was done in the backdrop of globalisation in India which made huge proportion of population marginalized during the last two decades. This work revealed that a strong correlation could be found between the child labour problem and marginalization of population in the urban ...
Human right have been the focus of study since ancient times as we find mentions of human right in the Babylonian Cods of Hammurabi, the Juridical rulings of Israeli Sanhedrin, the Islamic legislation and our own Vedic tradition of seeing the opponent’s logic before our own. The English Magna Carta, which stated the political and legal rights of the English people, is referred to as the basis for modern English law. With the Universal Declaration of Human ...