• ISBN13: 9788126906635
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: May 25, 2006
• Pages: 1488
• Original Price: INR 3000.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1000 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): International

Concerted efforts have been made by United Nations Organization and international law to protect, nurture and improve the economic, social and political conditions of man, woman and child world over. There is tremendous pressure on States to provide a minimum standard of life alongwith personal, social and economic freedoms. Thus, people need to be made aware of the Human Rights, newly recognized status, rights and remedies available to them under international law and social polity. Correspondingly, the States are also under new obligations to make human rights real proposition through definitions and enforcement. This book is intended to give the source material on the wide-ranging Human Rights comprising of Conventions, Treaties or Resolutions of UNO among others. Now there is a viable regime of human rights in a distinguishable form. The book makes an in-depth presentation of Human Rights, spread in wide ranging twenty-one sections: • Those that are directly under international law or UNO sanction, viz. the International Bills on Human Rights, the Right of Self-determination and Proactive Humanitarian Law through World Conference and Millennium Assembly, Environment Protection, Protection of Human Rights through International Human Rights Commission. • Those that operate through States, viz. Protective Treatment of Indigenous People, Minorities, Women, Family, Marriage, Children, Older Persons, Persons under Disability, Labour Welfare, Freedom from Slavery, Humane Treatment of Aliens or Prisoners, Traffic in Human Beings, Freedom of Association. • Human Rights that give or deny Status to Individuals, viz. Nationality, Statelessness, Asylum and Refugees, Migrants, including processes for Justice against Arbitrariness, Denial of Human Rights or Discrimination, Extradition and Surrender of Fugitives. • Wars cause catastrophe for Human Rights. This book presents Documents and Conventions on War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity and International Criminal Court. All the elemental principles emanating from the various Documents on Human Rights incorporated in this book have been summarized in the “Introduction” for the convenience of the readers.

U.N. Gupta, LL.M., D.Phil., has been Vice Chancellor of the Allahabad University. Earlier, he was Professor of Law, Head of Law Department and Dean of Law Faculty in the Allahabad University. Specialized in Constitutional Law and Public International Law, he has authored five books: (i) Constitutional Protection of Personal Liberty in India, 1969; (ii) Developments on the Frontiers of International Law, 1981; (iii) Indian Federalism and Unity of Nation, 1986; (iv) Indian Parliamentary Democracy, 2003; and (v) The Human Rights: Conventions and Indian Law, 2004. In addition, he has to his credit publication of scores of research papers.

• VOLUME I

• THE INTERNATIONAL BILL OF HUMAN RIGHTS
• 1. Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty
• 2. Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• 3. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• 4. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• 5. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• WORLD CONFERENCE AND MILLENNIUM ASSEMBLY
• 6. United Nations Millennium Declaration
• 7. Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
• THE RIGHT OF SELF-DETERMINATION
• 8. International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries
• 9. General Assembly resolution 1803 (XVII) of 14 December 1962, “Permanent sovereignty over natural resources”
• 10. Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
• RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND MINORITIES
• 11. Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
• 12. Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169)
• PREVENTION OF DISCRIMINATION
• 13. Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief
• 14. Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice
• 15. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
• 16. Protocol Instituting a Conciliation and Good Offices Commission to be Responsible for Seeking a Settlement of Any Disputes which may arise between States Parties to the Convention against Discrimination in Education
• 17. Convention against Discrimination in Education
• 18. Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111)
• 19. Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100)
• RIGHTS OF WOMEN
• 20. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
• 21. Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women
• 22. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
• 23. Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict
• RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
• 24. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography
• 25. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict
• 26. Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182)
• 27. Convention on the Rights of the Child
• 28. Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138)
• RIGHTS OF OLDER PERSONS
• 29. United Nations Principles for Older Persons

• VOLUME II

• RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
• 30. Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities
• 31. Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care
• 32. Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons
• 33. Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons
• HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE: PROTECTION OF PERSONS SUBJECTED TO DETENTION OR IMPRISONMENT
• 34. Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• 35. Principles on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• 36. Guidelines for Action on Children in the Criminal Justice System
• 37. Declaration on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance
• 38. United Nations Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (The Riyadh Guidelines)
• 39. United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for Non-custodial Measures (The Tokyo Rules)
• 40. United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty
• 41. Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners
• 42. Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials
• 43. Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers
• 44. Guidelines on the Role of Prosecutors
• 45. Principles on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions
• 46. Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment
• 47. Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary
• 48. Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power
• 49. United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (“The Beijing Rules”)
• 50. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• 51. Safeguards Guaranteeing Protection of the Rights of those facing the Death Penalty
• 52. Principles of Medical Ethics Relevant to the Role of Health Personnel, particularly Physicians, in the Protection of Prisoners and Detainees against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• 53. Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials
• 54. Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
• 55. Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Being Subjected to Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• SOCIAL WELFARE, PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT
• 56. Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity
• 57. Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights
• 58. Declaration on the Right to Development
• 59. Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace
• 60. Declaration on the Use of Scientific and Technological Progress in the Interests of Peace and for the Benefit of Mankind
• 61. Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition
• 62. Declaration on Social Progress and Development
• PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
• 63. Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
• 64. Principles Relating to the Status of National Institutions (The Paris Principles)
• MARRIAGE
• 65. Recommendation on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages
• 66. Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages
• THE RIGHT TO HEALTH
• 67. Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS

• VOLUME III

• THE RIGHT TO WORK AND TO FAIR CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
• 68. Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122)
• FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION
• 69. Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98)
• 70. Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize Convention, 1948 (No. 87)
• SLAVERY, SLAVERY-LIKE PRACTICES AND FORCED LABOUR
• 71. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
• 72. Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105)
• 73. Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery
• 74. Protocol amending the Slavery Convention Signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926
• 75. Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others
• 76. Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)
• 77. Slavery Convention
• THE RIGHTS OF MIGRANTS
• 78. Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
• 79. International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
• NATIONALITY, STATELESSNESS, ASYLUM AND REFUGEES
• 80. Declaration on the Human Rights of Individuals who are not Nationals of the Country in which they Live
• 81. Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees
• 82. Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
• 83. Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
• 84. Convention relating to the Status of Refugees
• WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, INCLUDING GENOCIDE
• 85. Statute of the International Tribunal for Rwanda (Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States, between 1 January 1994 and 31 December 1994
• 86. Statute of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 (International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia)
• 87. Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
• 88. Principles of International Co-operation in the Detection, Arrest, Extradition and Punishment of Persons Guilty of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
• 89. Convention on the Non-applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
• 90. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

• VOLUME IV

• HUMANITARIAN LAW
• 91. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II)
• 92. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I)
• 93. Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
• 94. Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
• INDIA’S RESPONSE TO HUMAN RIGHTS
• 95. Agenda Item 5: The Right of People to Selfdetermination and its Application to Peoples under Colonial or Alien Domination or Foreign Occupation
• 96. Human Right Act, 1993
• 97. Conference for Human Rights Institutions at Seoul on 15th September 2004
• 98. Address of Dr. Justice A.S. Anand, Chairperson, NHRC on Human Rights Day on 10th December 2003
• 99. Statement of Dr. Justice A.S. Anand, Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission of India
• 100. Speech Delivered by H.E. The President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
• 101. Statement of Justice Shri J.S. Verma, Chairperson, National Human Rights
• 102. Message of the UN Secretary-General Mr. Kofi Annan on the Occasion of Human Rights Day,
• 10 December 2002
• 103. Address by Shri K.R. Narayanan, President of India at the ‘Human Rights Day’ Function Organized by the National Human Rights Commission of India on Monday, December 10, 2001