The right of life is a non-negotiable right to live with dignity, happiness and prosperity and not a mere right to exist in misery", the author has dedicated the book to the movement of human rights. Precisely and concisely, he recounts moving episodes of violation of human rights resulting in enslavement and genocide of millions of human beings, particularly, during the colonial period. The author has chronicled the various stages of struggle for human rights resulting in eventual universal declaration of human rights, ratified and enshrined by various countries in their respective constitutions. With intensive research and extensive study he has devoted considerable part of the book to the various topics, particularly human rights and international conflicts, environmental pollution, degrading poverty in the ‘Third World’, women’s movement for equality of rights, child labour, alarming decline in girl population, after the end of colonial era.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M.S. Gill
Manmohan S. Gill is Reader in the Department of Sociology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. He has also served in the capacity of Reader, Academic Staff College and Programme Coordinator, NSS, in the same university. He has worked as Social Scientist with Operation Research Group, a division of Sarabhai Chemicals Ltd., New Delhi in 1982. Dr. Gill has over 18 years of teaching and research experience. His area of specialization is Rural Sociology and Social Ecology. He has completed three research projects in the subject of untouchability and land relations. He has published numerous papers in the research journals, besides making presentations in various academic forums at national and international levels. He has authored a book Spatial Patterns: A Sociological Analysis. Dr. Gill is life member of Indian Sociological Society and North-West Indian Sociological Association. He is also the Associate Editor of Guru Nanak Journal of Sociology.
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