In the last few decades, human rights has emerged as an important area of teaching and research. Human rights are inalienable rights of individuals irrespective of their age, caste, gender, colour, social and economic status.

Such rights are violated every day in India at individual and group level, both within the family and across social systems. Human rights violation of such marginalised population, including women, children and disabled persons, often go unnoticed. On the other hand, social groups such as dalits, tribal population and masses from poor backgrounds experience social segregation and are prone to face human rights violation at a larger level. One of the fundamental reasons for this violation is insensitiveness and lack of awareness about rights of the ‘others’. State, which is supposed to protect the rights of the weakest, is also seen as a violator.

It in this context the book makes an attempt to discuss about the role of judiciary, criminal justice system, police, NGOs and their developmental interventions. This book is a significant contribution to the ongoing discourse on human rights.

Introduction / Sudarshanam Gankidi

1 Beyond Global Human Rights / Ajay Gudavarthy

2 Role of Judiciary in Humanising the Criminal Justice System in India / G.B. Reddy

3 Police and Human Rights Observance: Dilemmas and Interventions / Chaitanya Pradeep Nemalikanti

4 Human Rights NGOs in Manipur: Contexts, Roles and Challenges / Khaikholen Haokip

5 Displacement and Tribal Resistance to Development in Kalinganagar, Jajpur District of Odisha: A Concern 

for the Rights of Indigenous People / Rafiq Ullah Sheikh and Jayaram Singh Samal

6 Hearing Children’s Voices: A Study of Jammu & Kashmir State / Moksha Singh

7 A Human Rights Perspective on Education and Research in Science and Technology / Astha Saxena

8 Learning Disability and the Indian School: A Study in Delhi / Jasleen Kaur and Neerja Sharma

9 Equal ‘Human’ Status to Women and Girls with Disabilities: Gender-Disability Dimension of Human Rights / 

10 Disability Space in News and Entertainment Media in India: A Case Study / Santosh Kumar Biswal

G. Sudarshanam is presently ICSSR Senior Fellow, Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad. He worked as Professor and Head, Department of Political Science and Coordinator/Head, Centre for Human Rights, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. His research interest are education, panchayati raj and public administration. He has published widely in these areas, including a book Rural Education: A Study of Universalisation of Education in India. 

Dr Sudarshanam made a significant contribution to human rights education by coordinating a PG Diploma in Human Rights at University of Hyderabad and was also an Associate Editor of Indian Journal of Human Rights. He attended conferences and presented research papers in India and abroad. He was also a visiting fellow at Kakatiya University, Warangal and Uppsala University, Sweden.