New technology offers opportunities both to expand and to limit the freedom to communicate and the opportunity to protect private life. They enables anonymous transactions over the Internet so that individuals can obtain access to information and purchase products without disclosing actual identity. This book attempts to describe the state of human dignity in the digitised world. It will serve …
India's World is a collection of news- paper columns and essays on India's immediate foreign policy and security. concerns written between 1999 and 2005. Each of these essays is a carefully researched and in-depth look at a critical issue. As the author says in the preface, India's world is a very small place, but the problems neve- rtheless are thorny and many. Above all, they are not going to…
This book examines recent humanitarian catastrophes involving such groups and suggests how the society of states may develop a col- lective capacity for human-rights enforcement.
Groups around the world are increasingly successful in maintaining or winning autonomy. However, what happens to individuals within the groups who find that their group discriminates against them? This volume brings together sixteen distinguished scholars who examine the balance between group autonomy and individual rights in relation to conflicts involving gender, religion, culture, and indige…
This primer introduces the concept of RTD as well as discusses its practical application in the Indian setting. It is divided accordingly into two sections, the first of which traces the origins and the evolution of the idea of RTD. This section identifies the defining parameters and content of RTD and focuses especially on the three rights―the rights to food, education and health―that have…
Divine Violence is a major contribution to our understanding of the process by which the State's discourses can elaborate the enemy and thus 'reason' a practice of torture and ritualized destruction of the 'other.' Graziano explains how and why denial underlines this nexus of religious, sexual, and violent impulses in the politics of atrocity. A chilling account.
Who Will Tell the People is a passionate, eye-opening challenge to American democracy. Here is a tough-minded exploration of why we're in trouble, starting with the basic issues of who gets heard, who gets ignored, and why. Greider shows us the realities of power in Washington today, uncovering the hidden relationships that link politicians with corporations and the rich, and that subvert the n…
In what may be the best analysis of how international relations affected any domestic issue, Mary Dudziak interprets postwar civil rights as a Cold War feature. She argues that the Cold War helped facilitate key social reforms, including desegregation. Civil rights activists gained tremendous advantage as the government sought to polish its international image. But improving the nation's reputa…
This book is one of the first studies in the new field of the sociology of human rights, and it centres its analysis on labour rights. Such rights are of critical importance in this field, work being the defining aspect of many people's lives and a central concern of sociology.
Persoalan HAM sampai kapanpun akan tetap krusial dan menarik dibahas Pasalnya, hingga kini, masih ada asumsi bahwa HAM yang dapat diakui oleh Dunia Internasional adalah Deklarasi HAM Universal PBB Asumsi ini, mau tidak mau, akan berbenturan dengan beberapa komitmen dasar mengenai HAM yang telah mengakar dalam masyarakat, baik dalam koridor ideologis maupun kultural.