Human Rights Perspectives and Social Justice

Human Rights and Social Justice has been the cry of the nations all over the world after the two world wars. Human Rights should always be contextual and is universal, indivisive and inalienable. Most Human Rights framework have a focus on individual rights which n turn are protected by a web of procedures and laws. Human Rights evolved through various stages over the time. The book is a knowledgeable collection of twenty-one research articles written by subjects experts in their respective fields. These articles delineate subject content in a thought provoking manner. These articles had also presented on several seminars and international forums. In addition to Human Rights, Human rights as applied in other disciplines have been discussed here e.g. Consumer rights, educational issues and women's development, rights of girl child, Child labor scenario in Bangladesh and India, Migrant labor rights, political participation of women through Panchayati Raj Institutions, Human Rights Awareness among the tribal/ non-tribal population, tribal children education rights, Right to education, ethnic and religious minorities situation in Bangladesh and so on. The selection of articles is very judicious and relevant to the present day need which have been lucidly discussed along with relevant statistics on Human Rights, and all UN Conventions, Labour Laws Indian as well as at International level have been discussed. These articles are obviously very informative and contain uptodate information. The Research scholars and students of political science will find this compendium of articles extremely useful in their study. The book can also serve as a partial reference book on the Human Rights. All the information centers, documentation centers and other academic and public libraries will find the book relevant to be added to their collection on Human Rights.