Structural Adjustment and Implications of Human Rights
Saibaba, G. & Rao, K. Sreenivasa
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Book ID : 27773
ISBN-10 : 81-86771-14-X / 818677114X
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2003
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
xviii, 260p., Tables, 23 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- I. Structural adjustment and human rights: Human rights: new challenges in 2001; Impact of structural adjustment policies on the basic human rights of vulnerable groups such as women, children, Dalits and tribals; Structural adjustment policy and human rights-a philosophical analysis; Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) and human rights; Structural imbalances-courts role in strengthening human right jurisprudence; Positivisation of human rights and responsibilities-a 21 century challenge; Human rights and judiciary; II. Human rights: labour and environment: Core labour standards, human rights and structural adjustments: the Indian experience and perspectives; Institutional labour standards on human rights-a review; New industrial labour-insecure employment, social conflict and labour rights; Human rights and structural adjustment programme with special reference to rights of workers; Human right viewpoint of environment; The rights and responsibilities of the elderly; III. Globalisation; state and human rights; Globalisation, state and human rights; Globalisation, myth and reality of human rights in India; Right to development and globalization-paradigm; Globalisation and its impact on human rights in India; Globalisation, social justice with reference to right to health of women; Structural adjustment-and MNCs; Globalisation reflects and affects the rights of child in India; SAP human rights and social justice; Empowerment of agricultural rural women labourers and human rights in the context of globalization; Capital centric development-patriarch chain of capital, state and households-the question of unfreedoms.
DESCRIPTION
This volume covers the on going economic reforms which is sweeping the nation on all fronts. Its special emphasis is one the core themes of human rights in the context of structural adjustment and its implication for human rights. Structural adjustment programme has profound influence on socio-economic transformation in India. Human right is no exemption to this principle.
Several articles focused on the various dimensions of human rights in the context of structural adjustment programme and emphasized on the perspectives of twenty first century. This volume also covers the broad contours of the need to provide legal, political, social and economic perspectives to promote the spirit of globalization, democratic values and universal principles of human rights.
