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Review of Challenges to Civil Rights Guarantees in India

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The State and Citizenship | Mona Das | The Book Review, October 2012

CHALLENGES TO CIVIL RIGHTS GUARANTEE IN INDIA | By A.G. Noorani

South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre| Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2012, pp. 283

 

Rights delineate relationship between the State and the individual hence; they are some sort of parameters to determine the nature of any State. Individual and group rights, including a gamut of second generation rights called civil and political rights, when guaranteed by a State serve as milestones to mark democratization of society. Advocacy for protection of Civil Rights, in the present era of hegemonic discourses on cross-border terrorism, insurgency, everyday commonplace security threats, is more complex than ever before.

Rights are the smallest price that a Nation State is more than willing to pay in return for security and peace. In this context the book under review is an attempt to empower citizens of India through dissemination of information and educating them on civil rights, as admitted in the preface to the book which quotes Francis Bacon’s aphorism ‘Foreknowledge itself is power’.

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Challenges to Civil Rights Guarantees in India

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XXXXX Title:– Challenges to Civil Rights Guarantees in India
About the book:– This volume by A.G. Noorani and SAHRDC thoroughly examines the status of civil rights guarantees as enshrined in the Constitution of India. Discussing the contemporary social and political issues, and their handling by the state, it foregrounds different challenges faced by the civil rights framework in India. The nine essays elaborately analyse civil and criminal justice system, and cover topics, such as the death penalty, counter-terrorism activities, anti conversion laws, and freedom of speech. The work also brings out the complex relationship between curtailment of democratic tools of protest and enjoyment of civil rights, Keeping in view recent international and national developments, the book focuses upon the threat faced by the civil rights regime from the state authorities. Further, this volume provides an overview of available national and international legal material on important contemporary issues in India. This timely and seminal work will not only be invaluable to the teachers, scholars, and students of law, but also appeal to general readers. The essays include:

– Preventative Detention
– Extra-Judicial Killings
– Counter-terrorism and Human Rights
– The Death Penalty in India
– Narcoanalysis
– Undertrials and Videoconferencing
– Acts of Bad Faith: Anti-conversion Laws
– Impunity
– Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act: Urgency of Review

Publisher:– Oxford University Press
Publication date:-  January 2012
Price (India):– Rs 695

Ordering Information:– THIS IS A NEW PUBLICATION – CONTACT OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS FOR FURTHER DETAILS ON PURCHASING
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Human Rights and Humanitarian Law:Developments in Indian and International Law

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XXXXX Title:– Human Rights and Humanitarian Law:Developments in Indian and International Law
About the book:– Designed as a basic text for MA and LLM students pursuing courses in human rights and related courses, including criminology and legal administration, this book has been developed using the UGC course outline. Divided into eight chapters, it covers a wide range of topics including

– the philosophy of human rights
– theories of rights and freedom and their implications
– the Indian constitutional framework relating to human rights
– the interrelationship of domestic law and India’s obligations under international law
– the criminal justice system
– the debate about human rights and cultural rights
– regional associations and human rights
– environmental protection and development issues
– international humanitarian and refugee law
The methodology adopted in the book aims to integrate the theoretical and practical aspects of learning. Every chapter includes
– cross-references and a list of recommended reading
– case law wherever relevant

Apart from advanced level law students, this volume will be of interest also to scholars and students of international relations and politics, media personnel, and professionals in the fields of law and criminal justice.

Publisher:– Oxford University Press
Publication date:-  2007
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The National Security Act of 1980: Time to end the abuses

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XXXXX Title:– The National Security Act of 1980: Time to end the abuses
About the book:– Since the early days of British colonial rule, India has lived under a series of draconian preventive detention laws. Currently, the National Security Act of 1980 (NSA) is the broadest and most widely abused of these laws. SAHRDC recognizes that India faces a number of external and domestic threats to its security and that narrowly tailored and ethically applied preventive detention laws can be effective ways to counter such threats.  However, preventive detention as it is used and abused under tha National Security Act violates a number of fundamental human rights norms provided under the Indian Constitution and international human rights law. SAHRDC examines the National Security Act, abuses under the Act and makes appropriate recommendations.

Publisher:– South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
Publication date:– May 2000
Page:- 68p.
Size:– 8.5″ X 5.5″
Price (India):- Rs.130.00
Price (International):-US $4.00
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The Sri Lanka Refugee Conundrum

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XXXXX Title:– The Sri Lanka Refugee Conundrum
About the book:– Since 1983, Sri Lanka’s civil war has claimed the lives of over 40,000 people, more than one million people have been internally displaced by the conflict between the Government and the LTTE and over 200,000 have fled to India since the early 1990s. This report examines the condition of (1) the Tamil Refugees in Indian State of Tamil Nadu, (2) Internally Displaced Persons in Sri Lanka and (3) Asylum and Migration of the Tamils.

Publisher:- South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
Publication date:- August 1999
Page:– 63p.
Size:– 8.5″ X 5.5″
Price (India):– Rs.130.00
Price (International):-US $4.00
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Special Powers Act, 1974: Big Brother Exercises the Big Stick in Bangladesh

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XXXXX Title:– Special Powers Act, 1974: Big Brother Exercises the Big Stick in Bangladesh
About the book:– The use of preventive detention laws in Bangladesh has a history longer than that of the Republic itself. From its inception, the Special Powers Act  has been used as a tool by military administrators and allegedly democratic leaders to silence political dissent. The preventive detention as it is used and abused under the Special Powers Act violates a number of fundamental human rights norms provided under the Bangladesh Constitution and International human rights law. This report examines the Special Powers Act, 1974, abuses under the Act and makes appropriate recommendations.

Publisher:- South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
Publication date:– May 2000
Page:- 46p.
Size:– 8.5″ X 5.5″
Price (India):– Rs.120.00
Price (International):-US $3.00
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