SUGGESTED READINGS

Contents
Introduction
Basic rights
Discrimination
Reporting Human Rights
Press clippings
Links and resources
Suggested readings

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Human Rights and Society

Human Rights, The New Consensus (1994).
Regency Press in association with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. New York.

Understanding Human Rights
Voices for Change, Vol 2 No. 3, (1998). Benson Town, Bangalore.

National Human Rights Commission Reports
Annual Reports: 1995-96, 1996-97 and 1997-98, New Delhi.

Many Voices, One World, UNESCO, Paris

Entering the 21st Century (1999)
World Development Report 1999/2000

Mary Robinson (1998); UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Human Rights : Challenges for the 21st century in
Development Dialogue, Dag Hammarskjold Foundation,
Uppsala First Dag Hammarskjold Lecture (on 1 October 1998) by
Palkhivala A Nani (1994). Human Rights and Legal responsibilities in
We, the Nation, speech at International Bar Association,
New York, 15 September 1986.

Tarkunde VM (1980). Human Rights, Basis of Human Rights in
Political Philosophy in For Freedom .

Iyer, V.R. Krishna, The Laws Zigzag Course, in India at 50,
Bliss of Hope and Burden of Reality (eds) V.N. Narayanan and
Jyoti Sabharwal, Sterling Publishers Private Limited, New Delhi.

Papers published in Media Asia, AMIC, Singapore.

Kishore Mahbubani (1993).Media Asia, Singapore 20:3,
An Asian perspective on Human Rights and Freedom of the Press.

Media use and the Saliency of UN - Advocated Issues in
Asia (1997)Media Asia 24:4, AMIC Singapore.

B.G. Verghese (1996) Media Asia, 23:3 Freedom of Expression,
AMIC, Singapore.

Paul L. Murphy - Certain Unalienable Rights in Issues and Themes - Essays in American History and Civilization.

Singh A. K.(1999).
Development Journalism in India (a study of leading newspapers) unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

Shaheen Sardar Ali (1995).
Women's Rights as Human Rights in: Voices (III, 2), Bangalore.

AMCB (2000) 30:1:
Bangkok Seminar looks at Media and Human Rights,
Reporting on Asia's rural poor.


Right To Life

1. Female Infanticide [Search Bulletin Vol. xiii, issue #3 , July-Sept. '98].

2. Watering the Neighbour's Plant
Media Perspectives on Female Infanticide in Tamilnadu
[Sharada Natarajan Monograph #6 MSSRF.]

3. 'Let Her Die' a 50-minute presentation on film of the BBC News and Current Affairs programme filmed in 1993.

4. Human Development in South Asia 2000: The Gender Question. Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Centre, October 2000


Right to Shelter

Urbanisation, Poverty and Employment - Ajit Singh
Migration, Urbanisation and Development - A.S.Oberai ['87, ILO., Geneva.]
Urban Crisis in India--Dr.Rashmi Mayur.

Urbanisation, Poverty and Employment
Ajit Singh, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University, England.
World Employment Programme Research Working Paper with the support of the UN Development Fund

Migration, Urbanisation and Development
A.S.Oberai [ILO, Geneva, 1987]

Urban Crisis in India
Rashmi Mayur (1983)

The Earth First
Pub. By International Institute for Sustainable Future,
73 A , Mittal Towers, Nariman Point, Mumbai 400 021 (1995)


Right To Education

Mahbub ul Haq (1998). Human Development in South Asia (1998).
Oxford University Press, Karachi.

Report of the International Commission on Education for 21st Century (1996). Learning, the Treasure Within. UNESCO. Paris.

Learning to Be, The World of Education Today and Tomorrow.
(1972) UNESCO. Paris.

The World Bank (1998-99). World Development Report.
Knowledge for Development. Washington. D.C.. U.S.A.

Seminar (464) April 1998. Right to Education, New Delhi.

The UNESCO Courier, May 1983, Education - The Way Ahead. Paris.

Frederick Noronha (1999). A Second Chance at Education, Encounter.

Right to Representation

Social Justice and the Constitution, IIAS 1998. (ed). Ajit Bhattacharjea

1. The Impact of Electoral Politics in Social Justice and the Constitution, (ed.), Ajit Bhattacharjea, Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla,1997

2. Indian Journal of Human Rights, July-December 1997

Right to Information

World Development Report 2000
Walking the Tightrope - Press Freedom and Professional Standards in Asia (AMIC 1999)

Rights of Aged

A New Dawn for the Old:
Publication of Probus Club of Madras (available on request)

Rights of Children

Child and Law: K. Chandru, Geetha Ramaseshan and Chandra Thanikachalam, ICCW, 1998

Bitter Chocolate: Child Sexual Abuse in India: Pinki Virani, Penguin, 2000

Rights of Disabled

Understanding Disability by Michael Oliver
Newsletters of the Ability Foundation, Chennai.

Rights of Refugees
Changing Perspectives in Refugee Protection in South Asia.
Published in the Bulletin of IHL & Refugee Law - Jan to June 1997