Implementing Human Rights in the Third World: Essays on Human Rights Dalits and Minorities

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Human rights in modern international relations represent both the best of times and the worst of times. During the half century following the Second World War revolutionary developments occurred in the legal theory and diplomatic practice of internationally recognized human rights. Human rights language was written into the UN charter and the constitutions of many countries. More than two hundred multilateral human rights treaties exist today. The United Nations system alone has adopted more than 100 human rights instruments on various facets of human rights, covering the entire gamut of human relationship. The world community has adopted the international Bill of Human rights and core human rights instruments on elimination of racial discrimination, discrimination against women, prevention of torture, rights of children and migrant workers. These core treaties have monitoring bodies to supervise international human rights obligations of the states ratifying them. Many third world states are parties to these instruments. Thus, human rights now have become the common language of mankind. Notwithstanding these revolutionary evolution and domestic implementation of various human rights treaties, this period on the other hand represents the worst of times. Many instances of gross and systematic violations of human rights and inhumanity have occurred in almost all countries the developed West and the under-development Third World. In the 20th century more people have been killed by the states or in the inter-ethnic and communal strife than in two World wars. The essays contained in the book recapture this paradox of the 20th century the gap between theory and practice of human rights norms. It examines the problem of implementing international human rights obligations in Third World States. The main focus of the essays is to evaluate the rights of Dalits, minorities, socio-economic rights, rights of women, children and marginalized groups. It also deals with human rights situation in Central Asia, Gulf, Sierra Leone and Turkey. The learned contributors provide candid and graphic accounts of human rights violations. Specialists and non-specialists alike will find ideas, arguments and analyses of high quality in these essays.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Abdulrahim P Vijapur

Abdulrahim P. Vijapur is Professor of Political Sciences at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He has been the Director (1996-1999), Centre for Federal Studies, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, and Professor, Ford Foundation Endowed Chair in Dalit Studies, Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (2005-2007).Prof. Vijapur received M.A. in Political Science from Karnatak University, M.phil. and Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and LL.M. in (in International Human Rights Law) from the University of Essex,U.K. He was the 21th Century Trust (London) Fellow in 1992. He was Fellow-designate, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, for the year 1992-93.He has authored and edited five books and has published around 50 research papers in refereed national and international journals. Besides, he has also contributed many chapters to edited books. His publications cover fields such as Dalit Studies, Human Rights and the United Nations, Minority Rights, Human Rights issues in Islam, India and the Third World, and the Federal Nation Building.