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The National Human Rights Commission of India, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India and the World Health Organization, organized the Regional Consultation on Public Health and Human Rights in New Delhi on 10-11 April 2001. The Consultation sought to identify avenues of action conforming to human rights principles to advance public health objective in three priority areas, viz., access to health care, nutrition and tobacco control.

This manual has been prepared by Karnataka Women’s Information and Resource Centre, Bangalore by distilling material from a set of 10 dossiers prepared for University students. It covers articles on Rights of the Child, Rights of Disabled, Rights of the Dalits, Reproductive Rights, Human Rights and Environment, Land and Housing Rights, The Rights of Home based Workers, Gandhian Struggles for Land Rights, Rights of the Fish Workers and the Right to Information. They have been authored by eminent activist and academicians involved in their respective fields.

This is Third issue of the Nai Dishayein.

Provides an overview of the Commission's role, function and areas of concern.

Contains the Act under which the Commission was constituted.

Volume I comprises documents pertaining to Universal Instruments adopted as on 31 March 1993.
The first part of this volume covers International Bill on Human Rights. Tehran Declaration, Right to self Determination, Rights of Women and Children, Forced Labour etc.
The second part deliberates upon issue like employment, marriage, family, social welfare, culture etc.

The Declaration was adopted at the National Colloquium on Population Policy: Development and Human Rights jointly organized by the Commission, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in January 2003.

The Commission asked Mr. K.B. Saxena, a retired IAS Officer to prepare a status report on atrocities committed on Scheduled Castes and the initiatives which NHRC could take to check them. His report, which is now published, draws upon the reports of National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and some of the researched documents prepared by Human Rights Organisations and Dalit NGOs. As a matter of deliberate design, academic orientation has been avoided and the perspective of implementing agency has been kept in view.

The Guidebook developed and designed jointly by Prasar Bharti Corporation and UNICEF aims to facilitate media intervention to protect the rights of children against sexual violence.

It is meant for professionals working in the media and hopes to encourage them to address the issue of sexual violence against children in a consistent, sensitive and effective manner, consonant with the rights and best interests of children.

This publication is a compilation of visit reports undertaken by the Special Rapporteur of the Commission to mental health care institutions from 2009 to 2011. The compilation will give us an opportunity to assess the improvements that have taken place in the field of mental health care and treatment in India during these recent years.

This is compilation of Hindi articles on human rights.

This book will, therefore, be important as it conveys his ideas regarding human rights in the form of articles, impeccably researched and put in precise form. making an interesting reading. The issues covered in these articles are of vital important and they also convey and effective role played by the National Human Rights in addressing them.