Anthropology and Human Rights : Challenges and Opportunities in the New Millennium

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. From sites of violent struggle to shrines of learning: the recovery of truth and the recovery of justice/Clarence J. Dias. 2. Unrest, conflict and the issue of human rights in Nepal/Tilottam Paudel. 3. Who cares for human rights when social unrest turns violent? The context of junglemahal/Dipak K. Midya. 4. Depletion of resources and social exclusion of the displaced people/Somenath Bhattacharjee. 5. Minimizing development-induced displacement: a study among the santals of Raniganj/Abhijit Ghosal. 6. Incessant induced suicide/Samar Kumar Biswas. 7. Human rights, human security and sustainable development/Buddhadeb Chaudhuri. 8. The cerro de San Pedro case: grassroots movements to stop a living town from disappearing/Jose G. Vargas Hernandez. 9. Urban poor: a vulnerable issue of human rights in Bangladesh/Muhammed Shamsuddin. 10. Urbanization and problems of slum dwellers in India: rights perspective/Sanjoy Roy. 11. Does women empowerment ensure mitigation of domestic violence in India?/Jhilam Rudra De. 12. Decision making in family planning practices: a human rights issue/Homprabha Biswas and Subha Ray. 13. Plight of the elderly females in old age homes of Kolkata: Human rights perspective/Saumitra Basu. 14. Human rights and the Bengali women in Vrindavan/Rajesh Kumar Sharma. 15. Land alienation and indigenous rights: the Toto context/Subhankar Roy and Pinak Tarafdar. 16. Right to education: status of tribal women in India/Swati Chakraborty. 17. Right to education and empowerment of tribal girls: a case study of Binapani Ashram of Mouldanga, Sriniketan/Swapna Bhattacharya (Chakraborti). 18. Citizenship and human rights: challenges for the recognition of indigenous rights in Latin American cities/Milka Castro Lucic. 19. Second class citizens? Human rights for indigenous people in Mexico city/Laura R. Valladres de la Cruz. 20. A profile of Bidi Binder with special reference to their problems and rights/Samik Roy. 21. Poverty and crisis in daily life: a study on migrant people/Biswanath Gan and Samar Kumar Biswas. 22. Negotiation of rights in the process of urbanization: a case of migrant construction workers of Chennai city/Arunkumar, A.S. and Jesurathnam Devarapalli. 23. Issues of conflict among working and non-working mothers in an urban set-up/Binita Basu. 24. Legal horizons: the legal hopes and realities regarding mass migration in America/Sarah Rogers. 25. Migration, legality and rights: the case of undocumented Mexican Youth in the State of Oklahoma (USA)/Victoria Chenaut. Index.