Women and Human Rights offers abundant information and significant analysis to our understanding of the complex and dynamic struggle for women’s human rights. It is an encyclopedia on women and human rights, their violations and remedies. It has touched upon every aspect of women and human rights in a beautiful manner to meet the requirements of the students of Indian universities. It is written by referring to different books on Women’s Studies, on Human Rights, books on Constitutions, UNESCO reports, and some dailies, weeklies, and monthly magazines. It consists of twenty chapters dealing with women and human rights. It examines Status of Role of Women, Traditional Indian Society, Movements for Women in the 19th and 20th Centuries, International Women’s Year, Women and the Law, Human Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Indian Constitutional Guarantee on Human Rights, Civil and Political Rights, Women’s Rights, Right to Dissent by Women, Dalits and Tribals, Women’s Rights—Indian Context, Press and Human Rights, Atrocities Against Women, Violation of Human Rights, Sexual Harassment and Suppression, The National Human Rights Commission, Human Rights and International Organisations, Human Rights and National Level Organisations, and Organisations in Safeguarding Human Rights in India. At the end of the book, a Bibliography and Index are given for ready references. Abbreviations of important terms are also given for the ease of the readers.
The book will be found useful not only by the students but also by the academicians, lawyers, social workers, and others interested in women’s human rights.
Prof. N. Jayapalan, M.A. (History and Political Science), M.Phil. (History), Ph.D. (History), has retired from Government Arts College (Autonomous), Karur, Tamil Nadu. A keen participant at seminars and conferences connected with Indian History and Political Science, Prof. Jayapalan has authored several books on History and Political Science including Indian Society and Social Institutions, History of India, History of World Civilisation, Problems of Indian Education, Comprehensive Modern Political Analysis, Comprehensive Study of Aristotle, Comprehensive Study of Plato, Comprehensive History of Political Thought, Social and Cultural History of India Since 1556, Sociological Theories, History of English Literature, Indian Administration, History of the United State of America, Human Rights, and Historiography. He is one of the most popular authors in Tamil Nadu.
