This book offers a comprehensive examination of global human rights challenges by leading experts. Covers contemporary issues from water rights to climate displacement, refugee protection to constitutional frameworks. Essential resource for students, scholars, and practitioners.
This book presents expert analysis of contemporary issues including water rights, refugee protection, climate displacement, and constitutional frameworks. Contributors examine legal developments, policy responses, and protection mechanisms across Asia, conflict zones, and emerging global challenges, and also includes:
- Comprehensive examination of global human rights challenges across multiple regions and contexts
- Expert contributions from leading scholars, activists, and practitioners in human rights law
- Analysis of contemporary issues including climate displacement, cybersecurity, and conflict situations
- Comparative perspectives on constitutional frameworks and international legal instruments
- Focus on marginalized communities including refugees, minorities, and vulnerable populations
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This book comprehensively enquires and delves deep into varied shades and dimensions of human rights challenges encompassing both peacetime and humanitarian emergencies. Its significant and has enriched the current international and regional human rights discourse. (Dr) Arvind Jasrotia, Professor, Department of Law & Registrar, University of Jammu, India.
Truly the work encapsulates the guarantee of those inherent rights which give strength to an individual to grow holistically with the faith and assurance that in any crisis, whether war or emergency such rights will not be taken away. Dr Shruti Bisht, Advocate on Record, Supreme Court of India.
Written by leading experts in the field, this compelling compilation explores the essentials of international human rights law, humanitarian law and refugee law from foundational issues to substantive rights and systems of protection. A variety of perspectives bring this multifaceted subject to life, making it an ideal companion for students of human rights. Maj Gen Devendra Kapur, VSM (RETD.), India
Besides emphasising the emerging issues and the challenges to human rights, the book offers focused, practical recommendations for international and regional policymakers, activists, and scholars for concrete actions to protect human rights as well as improve public understanding of why doing so is essential. Mr Sachin Kalra, Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, HT Media Limited (Group), India
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Tables, Figures and Map
About the Editors and Contributors
HUMAN RIGHTS CHALLENGES IN ASIA
1. Water as a Human Right: A Case Study of the Water Stress among the Uyghur
in China
Pintu Kumar Mahla
2. North Korean Refugees in China: A Humanitarian Perspective
Kriti Chopra and Neeti Chowdhury
3. Promulgation and Amendment of Anti-Racial Laws for Northeast Indians
Living Across India
Poonam Patel
HUMAN RIGHTS IN CONFLICT AND CRISIS SITUATIONS
4. An Assessment of the Human Rights Situation in Afghanistan Post August
2021
Rushita Shetty and Vasu Sharma
5. Human Rights in Global Health Crises and Disease Outbreaks
Tanya Goyal
6. Migration and Human Rights Abuses in War-Torn Countries: Syria and
Ukraine
Vivek Pathak
7. New Frontiers of Human Rights: Cybersecurity Challenges and International
Law
Tarazi Mohammed Sheikh
HUMAN RIGHTS AND EMERGING ISSUES
8. The Sinking of the Land in Joshimath and the Indian Constitutions Human
Rights Guarantees
Sahibnoor Singh Sidhu and Shruti Pathania
9. The Human Rights Implications of Toxic Waste Colonialism: An Overview
Monica Narang and Monika Bhardwaj
10. From Ambiguity to Protection: The Case of Climate Change-Induced
Displacement
Kartika Bakshi and Hardik Sharma
HUMAN RIGHTS AND DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
11. Right to the City: Understanding the City as a Site of Human Rights
Atanu Bose
12. Strengthening Human Rights through Good Governance Practices
Paridhi Billore
13. The Rights of Transgender: The Battle of Egalitarianism
Richa Yadav
14. Womens Rights are Human Rights: Status and Protection under
International Law
Vijay Saigal and Shivangi Sharma
HUMAN RIGHTS AND ITS COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
15. Specific Provisions Relating to Certain Special Classes in the
Constitutions of India and the United States: A Comparative Study
Priyansh Shukla
16. Maintenance of Human Rights by Regulating the Use of Force by States: An
Interrelationship between Jus ad Bellum and Jus Cogens
Kanika Sharma and Adisree Telem
17. Environmental Protection During Armed Conflicts: A Human Rights
Perspective
E. Prema, V. Shyam Sundar and S. Parthiban
18. Refugee Rights and Problems in India: A Legal Study
Arun Kumar Singh and Upendra Grewal
19. Migrant Workers and Human Rights: An Extended Briefing
Sheeba Ahad and Waseeq-ul-Rashid
20. Gender-Based Discrimination against Women in India: A Violation of Human
Rights in the Present Scenario
Yogendra Singh and Sani Kumar Misra
21. From Zero Tolerance to a Case for Human Rights Protection: Addressing the
Issue of Family Separation at the USMexico Border
Lakshmi Subramanian
22. A Continual Exit: Understanding Venezuelas Development through the
Recurring Migrant Crisis
Kirti Koushika
23. Social Media Activism and Advocacy for Hindu Human Rights: A Case Study
of Twitter
Kaveri Madhak and Nidhi Shendurnikar
Index
Neeraj Singh Manhas is Director of Research at the Indo-Pacific Consortium, Raisina House, New Delhi. He has authored and edited four books with research interests spanning Sino-Indian border issues, China in the Indian Ocean, India-China foreign policy, water security, defence studies, and Indo-Pacific affairs.
Dr Nitan Sharma is an alumnus of the Department of Law, University of Jammu, and currently teaches at Amity Law School, Amity University, Noida. He has authored and edited books on contemporary socio-legal issues including environmental law, transgender rights, women and law, and human rights.
Dr Abhinav Tomer holds a BA LLB (Hons) from Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, an LLM in Banking and Finance from National Law University, Jodhpur, and a PhD from Institute of Foreign Trade and Management University.
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