Human Rights in Global Context

Paper Code: 
MIR 324- A
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The objectives of this course are to: 1. Develop analytical skills to question and appraise human rights policies and practices at the international levels; 2. Perceive improvements, discern ambiguities and identify contradictions in the human rights movement; and 3. Gain the understanding of the key contemporary challenges in international human rights

12.00

Human Rights- conceptual concerns- Definitions, Characteristics, Natural Rights

12.00

Approaches:, Classification- Generations of Human Rights: First; Second, Third

12.00

Approaches:, Classification- Generations of Human Rights: First; Second, Third

12.00

Universalisation of Human Rights: United Nations Charter, UNDHR, Internatio nal Bodies for the protection of Human Rights; Regional Arrangements and relation with domestic law , Role of NGOs

12.00

Contemporary issues: women& child, war prisoners, refugees and displaced persons

Essential Readings: 

Books Recommended: Essential Readings:  Encyclopedia of Human Rights : 5 volumes; (2009)Oxford University Press  ABC Teaching of Human Rights: Centre for Human Rights,(1989), New York: UN Publication,  Biswal, T. (2006) Human Rights Gender and Environment. New Delhi: Viva Books Private Limited  O' Byrne, D. J. (2005) Human Rights: An Introduction. Singapore: Pearson Education,  Mishra, P. (2000) Human Rights Global Issues. Delhi: Kalpaz Publications,  Baxi, U.,(2006) The Future of Human Rights, New Delhi: Oxford University Press,

References: 

Reference Books:  Coicaud, J. M.; Doyle, M.W. and Marie, A. (eds.) (2003) The Globalization of Human Rights. New York: United Nations University Press,  Lewis, J. R. and Skutsch, C. (2001) TheEncyclopedia of Human Rights. New York: Sharpe Reference,  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2005) Human Rights: The New Consensus. London: The Regency Press  Donnelly, J. (2003). Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (2nd edn). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.  Forsythe, D. P. (ed.) (2000). Human Rights and Comparative Foreign Policy. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.  Forsythe, D. P. (2006). Human Rights and International Relations (2nd edn). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 267  Freeman, M. (2002). Human Rights: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Cambridge: Polity Press.  Weiss, T. G. (2007). Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action. Cambridge: Polity Press.  Welsh, J. M. (ed.) (2004). Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  Basu, L.N., Human Rights: Practice and Limitations, Pointer Publications, Jaipur, 2006.  Brysk, A. (Ed.), Globalization and Human Rights, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA., 2002.  Donnelly, J. International Human Rights, Third Edition, Westview Press,  Evans, T.(2006) The Politics of Human Rights: A Global Perspective. Second Edition, Colorado: Pluto Press  Aswal, B. S.(2007), Human Rights Select International Instruments, New Delhi: Cyber Tech Publications

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