Human Rights in Changing Times

This book is an outcome of a two-day international conference convened to discuss the changing notion of human rights from different perspectives. While focusing on the increasing relevance of human rights in an era of globalization, the book analyses the various legal-political, socio-economic, gender, ecological and international dimensions of this issue. From the large number of papers presented at the conference, sixteen articles have been selected for this volume. These are presented in four parts: namely, politico-legal, socio-economic, ecological and gender, and the transnational. The introductory section presents the major issues and concerns highlighted by the editors and carries the keynote address by Professor Yogesh Atal. Written by both young and veteran social scientists, the book presents a unique combination of theoretical and practical studies of human rights in comparative perspectives. The book will attract readership from the academe, human rights activists, and the concerned citizenry, and will be useful to students of law, political science, public administration, and sociology. Dr Gyan P. Agarwal has recently retired as the Principal of Shyam Lal College (Evening), University of Delhi, India. An alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi (1967), he has several books and research papers published in different journals of national and international repute to his credit. Dr Sunil K. Choudhary has been teaching Political Science at the University of Delhi, India since 1991. A Post-Doctoral Fellow in Israel and a Commonwealth Fellow at Oxford University, Dr Choudhary has written extensively on issues of Indian politics and comparative politics which have been published not only as books but also as research papers in various national and international journals. Dr Reenu Gupta is currently Assistant Professor at Shyam Lal College (Evening), University of Delhi, India. She has published several research papers in journals and magazines of national and international repute. She has worked on an innovation project under a grant from University of Delhi which has recently taken the shape of an edited book, titled Consumption Culture, Market and Childhood (in Hindi), published by Apple Books, Delhi.