Human Rights Literacy
16 November 2002
Economic & Political Weekly, Vol.37 No.46
Knowledge is power. In few other fields is the saying as true as in the struggle for rights and justice. News about global developments in human rights is sparse. A recent issue of Human Rights Features (HRF) (July-September 2002) brings this home all too clearly. It is published by the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre at New Delhi. Its executive director, Ravi Nair, began as a trade unionist and braved police harassment to emerge as not only India’s foremost expert on human rights, but as one with an international repute.
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