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Corruption and Human Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Corruption and Human Rights

This book establishes the link between human rights and corruption. The contributors of this book are well known academicians, civil servants, judges, lawyers and social activists. Corruption is so pervasive in India that it has turned public service for many into a kind of criminal enterprise. The human rights based approach with its main elements of linkage to rights, accountability, empowerment and attention to disadvantaged groups, has been developed specifically to address these inequalities and to ensure that the poor and disadvantaged are also equal partners in development.

Twenty Years of CRC
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 567

Twenty Years of CRC

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Human Rights and Legal Services for Children and Youth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Human Rights and Legal Services for Children and Youth

  • Categories: Law

This book discusses legal services clinics and various other access-to-justice initiatives that are established to protect and represent the rights and interests of children and youth in several countries across the globe. These could include legal services or access-to-justice clinics run by government or universities or community. The book has contributions from academicians, lawyers, researchers and legal professionals from several counties including India, UK, USA, Brazil, Australia, Indonesia, Poland, and Spain, which discuss how they represent children and youth in their countries. The book looks at how these access-to-justice initiatives currently provide assistance, what are the chil...

Responses to Serious Offending by Children
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Responses to Serious Offending by Children

This book explores the principles, practice and challenges in determining justice system responses to serious offending by children globally. Divided into four parts, the book provides a balance of theoretical and empirical insights. Anchored in a theoretical framework based on the human rights of children, as set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, it considers the relationship between scientific evidence (such as brain development) and the human rights framework, before going to explore the diversity of responses to children who are found responsible for serious offences. It brings together experts from various disciplines to fill a gap relating to serious offending by chi...

Of Dim Futures and Hope: Global Rise in Child Labour during the Pandemic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Of Dim Futures and Hope: Global Rise in Child Labour during the Pandemic

The Indian Centre for Child and Human Rights started off with the intent to induce sensitivity in its target audience regarding issues relating to the development of children, the rights of women and encouragement to create an environment for their combined growth since both women and children are coupled with each other through some common needs. According to a notification published by UNICEF in June 10, 2021, "The number of children in child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide – an increase of 8.4 million children in the last four years – with millions more at risk due to the impacts of COVID-19, according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UNICEF...

Still Out of Focus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Still Out of Focus

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Violence against Women and Girls
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Violence against Women and Girls

This report documents the dynamics of violence against women in South Asia across the life cycle, from early childhood to old age. It explores the different types of violence that women may face throughout their lives, as well as the associated perpetrators (male and female), risk and protective factors for both victims and perpetrators, and interventions to address violence across all life cycle stages. The report also analyzes the societal factors that drive the primarily male — but also female — perpetrators to commit violence against women in the region. For each stage and type of violence, the report critically reviews existing research from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, M...

Children in Globalising India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 398

Children in Globalising India

Contributed articles.

Human Rights and Budgets in India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 737

Human Rights and Budgets in India

Papers presented at the conference held at Shimla in India from 28-30 May 2008.

Momordica genus in Asia - An Overview
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 159

Momordica genus in Asia - An Overview

Asiatic Momordica comprises 10 species of which 3 are monoecious and rest dioecious. They are unique in the sense that all are wild or cultivated vegetables with medicinal uses. Barring bitter gourd, all are under utilized vegetables with little research and conservation efforts. In this book, the authors have presented the available information on various aspects of Asiatic Momordica like taxonomy, cytogenetics, crop improvement, origin, ethnobotany and crop production at one place. The book is well illustrated with color maps and photographs depicting habit, morphology and distribution of individual taxa. Species distribution map for all Indian taxa, descriptor for characterization and preliminary evaluation of dioecious and monoecious group available varieties, keys for botanical identification are some of the unique features of the book. The book will be useful to botanists, horticulturists, foresters, environment educators, conservation biologists, plant science students in general and all interested in agrobiodiversity.