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Online-Ressource (420 p)
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9780739177358
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Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a discursive space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions in human rights, citing issues and problems from different countries in the Third World
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE THIRD WORLD; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourse; Part I Global Human Rights Standards and the Third World; 1) Universal Claim and Postcolonial Realities: The Deep Unease over Western-Centered Human Rights Standards in the Global South; 2) The Impossible Dream: Global Realization of the Human Right to Development-Now!; 3) Development and Environmental Issues vis-à-vis Current Perspectives of Human Rights; 4) Human Rights and Corruption: Indonesian Case for Reconciling Universalism and Relativism
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Part II Politics of Human Rights from Third World Perspectives5) Human Rights and Indigenous Self-Government: The Taiwanese Experience; 6) Colonial Continuities, Neoliberal Hegemony and Adivasi (Original Dweller) Space: Human Rights as Paradox and Equivocation in Contexts of Dispossession in India; 7) Hindutva Politics - Impact on Human Rights; Part III Rights of the Marginalized; 8) Human Rights Violations in India: Exploring the Societal Roots of Marginality; 9) Media, Cultural Rights and the Third World; 10) The Fault Lines in Soviet-Style Accommodation of Minority Rights in Ethiopia
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11) Human Rights and the Third World OtherPart IV Rights for Children and Genders; 12) Culture and Issues of Rights to the Eyes of the Indians with 'Other' Self-Identities of Sexuality and Gender; 13) Roots and Shoots of Female Feticide in Pockets of India-Lending Voice to the Voiceless; Part V Rights of the Disabled and Health; 14) The Rights of People Living with Disability from the Third World Perspective: The Zimbabwean Context; 15) Disability in the Third World: A Critical Mapping of the Indian Scenario; 16) "People's Health in People's Hands"-A Goal Ever-Elusive?
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Part VI Expanding Frontiers of Human Rights17) Human Rights and Information Society: Problematizing India; 18) Biotechnology and Human Rights; Index; Notes on Contributors
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ISBN 9780739177365
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780739197981
Additional Edition:
Print version Human Rights and the Third World : Issues and Discourses
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