Protection of Minorities

Protection of Minorities
Title Protection of Minorities PDF eBook
Author Borhan Uddin Khan
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 165
Release 2013-01-16
Genre Political Science
ISBN 144384571X

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We live in a world that not only sets standards for, but also professes its commitment to promoting and protecting ‘rights’. Since ours is an age of heightened public interest in auditing the actual realisation of such standards and commitment, the first major focus of this book is a critical account of international standards aimed at the protection of minorities. To that end, it concentrates on four key dimensions. Firstly, it addresses the issue of the identification of minorities as understood by international law. Secondly, it outlines a brief history on the development of international law towards improving the protection of minorities. Thirdly, it gives an overview of international instruments and mechanisms on minorities. Finally, it analyses the rights of minorities under international standards. All these dimensions point to the fact that international minority rights lag behind the development of other branches of rights. The second major focus of this book is to relate international standards on minority protection to South Asian regimes. Concentrating on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, the Maldives, and Afghanistan, an endeavor is made to examine the state of minorities and their protection under the domestic regimes. It emerges that the normative commitments of these states are more or less compatible with international standards. Nevertheless, majority-minority syndrome persistently remains as one of the causes behind multidimensional deprivation and victimization of South Asian minorities. The present book also assesses the extent to which regional cooperation in South Asia has so far contributed to extending protection to minorities. This ends with an argument that SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) has the potential to play a far greater role in this regard.

Political Governance and Minority Rights

Political Governance and Minority Rights
Title Political Governance and Minority Rights PDF eBook
Author Lipi Ghosh
Publisher Routledge India
Pages 400
Release 2009
Genre History
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Based on in-depth investigation of some of the lasting minority majority conflicts of the postcolonial period, this book analyses the current scenario in South and Southeast Asia with respect to the position of minority groups.

Regional Minorities and Development in Asia

Regional Minorities and Development in Asia
Title Regional Minorities and Development in Asia PDF eBook
Author Huhua Cao
Publisher
Pages 224
Release 2010
Genre Business & Economics
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Bringing together perspectives from Economics, Development and Area Studies, Geography, Anthropology, and Sociology, the book provides local narratives that shed light on some of the different needs, situations, and realities of minority region development among countries in East and Southeast Asia.

Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Asia

Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Asia
Title Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Asia PDF eBook
Author Fernand de Varennes
Publisher Routledge
Pages 452
Release 2018-12-12
Genre Law
ISBN 1317518195

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The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Asia provides a rich study of human rights challenges facing some of the most vulnerable people in Asia. While formal accession to core international human rights instruments is commonplace across the region, the realisation of human rights for many remains elusive as development pressure, violent conflict, limited political will and discrimination maintain human rights volatility. This Handbook explores the underlying causes of human rights abuse in a range of contexts, considers lessons learnt from global, regional and domestic initiatives and provides recommendations and justifications for reform. Comprising 23 chapters, it examines the strengths and weaknesses of human rights institutions in Asia and covers issues such as: Participation, marginalisation, detention and exclusion Private sector responsibility and security Conflict and post-conflict rehabilitation Trafficking, displacement and citizenship Ageing populations, identity and sexuality. Drawing together a remarkable collection of leading and emerging scholars, advisers and practitioners, this Handbook is essential reading for students, scholars, policy makers and advocates of human rights in Asia and the world.

Promoting and Protecting Minority Rights

Promoting and Protecting Minority Rights
Title Promoting and Protecting Minority Rights PDF eBook
Author United Nations
Publisher
Pages 188
Release 2012
Genre Business & Economics
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"The present guide offers information related to norms and mechanisms developed to protect the rights of persons belonging to national, ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities. It includes detailed information about procedures and forums in which minority issues may be raised to minorities and by also covering selected specialized agencies and regional mechanisms, the present Guide complements information contained in Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society"--Introduction.

Minority Rights in Asia

Minority Rights in Asia
Title Minority Rights in Asia PDF eBook
Author Joshua Castellino
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 326
Release 2006
Genre History
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Countries in Asia, with their diverse populations, struggle with constructing legal systems that will deliver on the promise of equal rights to all its citizens. This book evaluates these attempts in four Asian states: India, China, Malaysia and Singapore.

Nation-state and Minority Rights in India

Nation-state and Minority Rights in India
Title Nation-state and Minority Rights in India PDF eBook
Author Tanweer Fazal
Publisher Routledge
Pages 289
Release 2014-08-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1317751787

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The blood-laden birth-pangs of the Indian "nation-state" undoubtedly had a bearing on the contentious issue of group rights for cultural minorities. Indeed, the trajectory of the concept ‘minority rights’ evolved amidst multiple conceptualizations, political posturing and violent mobilizations and outbursts. Accommodating minority groups posed a predicament for the fledgling "nation-state" of post-colonial India. This book compares and contrasts Muslim and Sikh communities in pre- and post-Partition India. Mapping the evolving discourse on minority rights, the author looks at the overlaps between the Constitutional and the majoritarian discourse being articulated in the public sphere and poses questions about the guaranteeing of minority rights. The book suggests that through historical ruptures and breaks , communities oscillate between being minorities and nations. Combining archival material with ethnographic fieldwork, it studies the identity groups and their vexed relationship to the ideas of nation and nationalism. It captures meanings attributed to otherwise politically loaded concepts such as nation, nation-state and minority rights in the everyday world of Muslims and Sikhs and thus tries to make sense of the patterns of accommodation, adaptation and contestation in the life-world. Successfully confronting and illuminating the challenge of reconciling representation and equality both for groups and within groups, this exploration of South Asian nationalisms and communal relations will be of interest to academics in the field of South Asian Studies, in particular Sociology and Politics.