Syllabus (POLITICAL SCIENCE)

Course Type: MAJ-17

Semester: 8

Course Code: BPLSMAJ17T

Course Title: Human Rights in India

(L-P-Tu): 5-0-1

Credit: 6

Practical/Theory: Theory

Course Objective:

Learning Outcome: Course Outcome: o The course provides the students with the capacity to identify issues and problems relating to the realization of human rights. o Students will be able to contribute to the resolution of human rights issues and problems. o This paper a

Learning Objectives:

• Promote respect and observance of human rights and democracy.
• Promote respect and observance of the rule of law and due processes.
• Create networks with public interest and human rights organizations, nongovernmental organisations, universities, relevant research institutions, religious associations and legal associations’ societies.
• To enable the students to qualify the competitive examination like UPSC, MPSC, NET/SET examination.

• Course Content: 6*6= 36 Classes (6 Classes per topic)

• Human Rights and Duties: Concept, generational classification of human rights. Difference between rights and human rights.
• Institutional aspects of Human rights in India: National and State Human Rights Commission, Constitutional provisions of Human Rights.
• Human Rights & Women in contemporary society: Gender discrimination with special reference to female feticide, Domestic violence, Sexual harassment in workplace(with special reference to Bishaka guideline).
• Human Rights and children in contemporary Indian society: Child Labour, Child abuse inside and outside home and Child trafficking.
• Human rights and minority groups in India: LGBTQIA.
• Environmental rights in India: right to healthy environment, and principles of Sustainable Development.

• Suggested Readings:

• Conor Greaty and Adam Tomkins (Eds).Understanding Human Rights, London: Manshell, 1996.
• David Beetham, Politics and Human Rights, Oxford: Blackwell, 1995
• Gurpreet Mahajan Ed., Democracy, Difference and Social Justice, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.
• James Nickel, Making Sense of Human Rights: Philosophical Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
• Michael Freeman, Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Oxford: Polity, 2002.
• R.J. Vincent, Human Rights and International Relations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 198
• Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously, London: Duckworth, 1978
• SAHRDC, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, New Delhi: South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre, 2002
• Stephen Shute and Susan Herley (Eds), On Human Rights, New York: Basic Books, 1993
• Upendra Baxi: The Future of Human Rights, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.