Caste Based Discrimination In International Human Rights Law

Author : David Keane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317169512

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Caste-based Discrimination in International Human Rights Law by David Keane Pdf

With particular focus on the Hindu caste system, this book represents a comprehensive analysis of the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination in international law. It evaluates the strategies that have informed the work of the United Nations in this area, mapping a new path that moves from standard-setting to implementation. Combining legal analysis with the meaning and origin of caste, it explores the remedies human rights law can propose towards the prohibition of caste-based discrimination, and the abolition of the caste system itself. The book provides a benchmark on the achievements of the international community in combating all forms of racial discrimination, and the policies that must inform future measures. With its clear and accessible style this volume will be of interest to scholars of law and human rights, as well as policy-makers and practitioners working in this area.

Author : Annapurna Waughray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317613633

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Capturing Caste in Law by Annapurna Waughray Pdf

This book is about the legal regulation of caste discrimination. It highlights the difficulty of capturing caste in international and domestic law, and suggests solutions. Its aim is to contribute to the task of understanding how to secure effective legal protection from and prevention of discrimination on grounds of caste, and why this is important and necessary. It does this by examining the legal conceptualization and regulation of caste as a social category and as a ground of discrimination, in international law and in two national jurisdictions (India and the UK), identifying their complexities, strengths, limitations and potential. Adopting a broadly chronological approach, the book aims to present an account of the role of law in the construction of caste inequality and discrimination, and the subsequent legal efforts to dismantle it. The book will be of value to lawyers and non-lawyers, academics and students of human rights, international law, equalities and discrimination, descent-based and caste-based discrimination, minority rights, and South Asia and its diaspora. It will be a resource for legal practitioners and those in the public and non-governmental sectors involved in the implementation, interpretation and enforcement of equality law in the UK – the first European country to introduce the word "caste" into domestic equality legislation – and in countries with South Asian diasporas such as the USA.

Author : Henry Thiagaraj
Publisher : Gyan Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Dalits
ISBN : UOM:39015081824982

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Human Rights from the Dalit Perspective by Henry Thiagaraj Pdf

Human Rights from the Dalit Perspective portrays the efforts taken to bring the Dalit Discrimination issues under the purview of Human Rights since 1985. India has played a leading role in the United Nations Human Rights Commission activities and meetings and for the abolition of Human Rights paradigm is therefore appropriate and relevant to deal with Dalit discrimination issues to end the violence based on caste discrimination, which is confronting our people. In order to make India truly a progressive nation in the world and to achieve the goal of the new millennium of discrimination. The collection of articles on Human Rights for Dalits will be good source material for both the academia and the activists.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : LOC:00174844811

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India's Unfinished Agenda by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations Pdf

Author : Ghanshyam Shah
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 076193507X

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Untouchability in Rural India by Ghanshyam Shah Pdf

This important book presents systematic evidence of the incidence and extent of the practice of untouchability in contemporary India. It is based on the results of a very large survey covering 560 villages in eleven states. The field data is supplemented by information concerning associated forms of discrimination which Dalits face in their daily lives./-//-/This study finds that untouchability is practised in one form or another in almost 80 per cent of the villages surveyed. It is most prevalent in the religious and personal spheres. While the evidence presented in this book suggests that the more blatant and extreme forms of untouchability appear to have declined, discrimination is still practised in one form or another. The most widespread manifestations are in access to water and to cremation or burial grounds, as also when it comes to the major life cycle rituals. The survey also found that the notion of untouchability continues to pervade the public sphere, including in a host of state institutions and the interactions that occur within them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:467193920

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Anonim Pdf

Author : Clifford Bob
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1375317584

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'Dalit Rights are Human Rights' by Clifford Bob Pdf

This article analyzes recent efforts by India's Dalits (Untouchables) to transform centuries-old caste-based discrimination into an international human rights issue. Comparing early failures and later successes in international activism, the article demonstrates that the Dalits have achieved limited but important advances among transnational NGOs, international organizations, and foreign governments since the late 1990s. What explains these successes - and what lessons does the Dalit experience hold for other groups seeking to transform domestic grievances into internationally recognized human rights issues? The article makes two primary arguments. First, organizational changes among Dalit activists played a major role in these successes, most importantly the formation of a unified Dalit network within India and the subsequent creation of a transnational solidarity network. Second, rhetorical changes played a key role, as Dalits moved from their long-standing focus on caste-based discrimination to a broader framing within the more internationally acceptable terminology of discrimination based on work and descent. The article concludes by discussing broader implications for international human rights activism by other aggrieved groups.

Author : Sukhdeo Thorat,Sukhadeo Thorat,Umakant
Publisher : Rawat Publications
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Caste
ISBN : UOM:39015061259779

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Caste, Race, and Discrimination by Sukhdeo Thorat,Sukhadeo Thorat,Umakant Pdf

Contributed articles on caste, Dalits, and racial discrimination against them.

Author : Patrick Thornberry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191669675

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The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by Patrick Thornberry Pdf

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is the centrepiece of international efforts to address racial discrimination, defined in broad terms to include discrimination based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin. Victims of discrimination within the scope of the Convention include minorities, indigenous peoples, non-citizens, and caste or descent groups. Virtually all national societies are diverse in terms of ethnicity or 'race' and none is free from discrimination, making it one of the great issues of our time. Against the background of international human rights standards and mechanisms to counter racial and ethnic discrimination, this book provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of the provisions of the Convention on an article-by article basis. The book addresses the place of the Convention within the broader framework of international action against discrimination. The different chapters analyse and discuss broad topics of race, ethnicity, and international law, the genesis and drafting of the Convention, the aims and objectives of the Convention in light of its preamble, and principles of non-discrimination and equality. In particular, the book includes a critical appraisal of the contribution of the Convention to the eradication of racial discrimination. It also reflects on whether there is scope for modification of the substance or procedures of the Convention in light of challenges arising from enhanced transnational population movements, the intersection between discrimination on the ground of race and discrimination against religious communities, and the intersection of racial and gender-based discrimination.

Author : Smita Narula,Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1564322289

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Broken People by Smita Narula,Human Rights Watch (Organization) Pdf

Women and the Law.

Author : Myres S. McDougal,Lung-Chu Chen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1137 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190882631

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Human Rights and World Public Order by Myres S. McDougal,Lung-Chu Chen Pdf

In 1980, Professors McDougal, Lasswell, and Chen published the original edition of Human Rights and World Public Order to present a "comprehensive framework of inquiry" from which to approach international human rights law, and international law, and inadequacies therein in the discourse of that time by combining theme, structure, method, and process. As a classic text of the New Haven School of International Law, this book explores human rights and international law in the broadest sense, taking into account social sciences research while embracing all values secured, or consequently fulfilled, or needed to thus be achieved. The book endured as a lasting contribution that reframed human rights within the New Haven School tradition, and as a magnificent work of scholarship freed from the confines of positivism and the static concerns of any one political or historical period. Co-author Lung-chu Chen spearheaded the re-issuance of this venerable title, complete with a contemporary, fresh Introduction to unveil this work to a new generation of scholars, students, and practitioners of international law and human rights. This Introduction surveys the major developments in human rights since 1980, including many doctrines and concepts that have emerged since. It covers contemporary events to provide today's readers with the opportunity to contextualize the chapters and to apply the book's framework to future endeavors.

Author : Natan Lerner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015019420069

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Group Rights and Discrimination in International Law by Natan Lerner Pdf

6. The Apartheid Convention.

Author : Javaid Rehman,Susan Carolyn Breau
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004158269

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Religion, Human Rights and International Law by Javaid Rehman,Susan Carolyn Breau Pdf

Freedom of religion is a subject, which has throughout human history been a source of profound disagreements and conflict. In the modern era, religious-based intolerance continues to provide lacerative and tormenting concern to the possibility of congenial human relationships. As the present study examines, religions have been relied upon to perpetuate discrimination and inequalities, and to victimise minorities to the point of forcible assimilation and genocide. The study provides an overview of the complexities inherent in the freedom of religion within international law and an analysis of the cultural-religious relativist debate in contemporary human rights law. As many of the chapters examine, Islamic State practices have been a major source of concern. In the backdrop of the events of 11 September 2001, a considerable focus of this volume is upon the Muslim world, either through the emergent State practices and existing constitutional structures within Muslim majority States or through Islamic diasporic communities resident in Europe and North-America.

Author : Nelson Mandela
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0759521042

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Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela Pdf

The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.

Author : Dag-Erik Berg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108489874

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Dynamics of Caste and Law: Dalits, Oppression and Constitutional Democracy in India by Dag-Erik Berg Pdf

The book explains how questions of caste and law involve persistent challenges concerning inequality and democracy in India's postcolonial state.