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Chairman

Dr M.Manzoor Alam

Advisors

Justice VR Krishna Iyer

Justice A.M. Ahmadi

Prof.Amrik Singh

Dr Rajni Kothari

Editor

Iqbal. A Ansari

The Editor:Professor Iqbal A. Ansari, retired from Aligarh Muslim University as Professor of English in 1995, is Visiting Professor at Centre for Federal Studies, Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi.

His publications include the following:

• Human Rights In India : Some Issues, I.O.S., New Delhi, 1998.

• Communal Riots, the State and Law In India, I.O.S., New Delhi, 1997.

• Concept of Man In Comparative Perspective, I.O.S., New Delhi, 1997.

• Readings On Minorities : Perspectives & Documents, Vols. I and II, I.O.S., New Delhi, 1996.

• Muslim Situation In India, Sterling Publications, New Delhi, 1989.

• Uses of English, New Statesman Publications, 1978.

Professor Ansari has contributed a large number of articles to books, periodicals and newspapers. He is actively associated with the human rights movement in India. He has been a member of the UGC Panel On Human Rights Education. He is the founder Secretary – General of the Minorities Council. He prepared a Report on Communal Riots: Prevention and Control, which the National Commission For Minorities, approved and sent for action to the Union & State Governments in March 1999.

Professor Ansari edits a quarterly bulletin Human Rights Today.

Editorial Correspondence

Prof Iqbal A Ansari

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OBJECTIVES OF THE  BULLETIN

To The Readers

The first issue of the quarterly Bulletin is in your hand.Our effort will be to publish it regularly raising human right issues and concerns in their proper perspective,paying special attention to the rights of the disadvantaged and vulnerable groups.We are committed to the view that human rights are universal,indivisible,interdependent and interrelated,though in certain areas of cultural rights it must be born in mind that in the name of universalism we are not extending support to imposition of one particular set of preferred social-cultural norm of any dominated group.Moreover every country or even segment of the large society in a country like India has to adopt its own strategy of implementation of the scheme of right fixing its own priorities through the Constitutional legal and institutional mechanism for protection of rights will be common.This position is in consonance with the Vienna Declaration,1993,which says "While the significance of the national and regional particularities and various historical cultural and religious background must be borne in mind,it is the duty of States,regardless of their political economic and cultural systems,to protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms."

Human Rights Movement like every universal ideology,has to face this problem of the universal and particular.The two have to be harmonized,which requires defining the legitimate area of national ,ethnic and religious particularities.In our view,while there is no scope for crude relativism of human rights   often championed by certain governments including that of India,the domain of the family belongs to the area of universal-specific accommodation.Moreover reasonable limits to freedom of expression may vary from society to society,though not in the name of social,economic or political conditions,but in the domain of. what is viewed as sacred.

Given this framework of universal-particular,Indian human rights movement has to rethink and reformulate its entire methodology of work.Even the unquestionable universal right to equality requires a country specific strategy of equalisation of status and opportunity for all through a sustained process of empowerment of the weak and vulnerable in India.This will require making "Discrimination "an important issue,which is absent from the scene.

It will be our endeavour to make the Bulletin a forum for discussion on all relevant issues including intra-societal violations of rights and the issues related to human rights education.In this issue there are numerous pieces in my name,for which I seek your indulgence.The reason lies in our not receiving in time articles from friends who were expected to write.We invite you especially those involved in human right activism,social work or teaching and research in the area of human rights,to contribute articles based on data,analysis,reports field work or scholarly research,or just well informed opinions and critiques.We should like to introduce from the next issue columns like Book Review &Forum/Letters for the readers to express their opinion and comment on what appears in the Bulletin or what happens around.

All contributors must be of appropriate length depending on the topic,from 400 words to 2500 words.It may be even longer if required.

(Vol.1 No.1 July-September 1998)

Iqbal.A.Ansari 

 

 

List of  books on Human Rights

HUMAN RIGHTS IN INDIA SOME ISSUES

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COMMUNAL RIOTS: THE STATE AND LAW IN INDIA

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READINGS ON MINORITIES: PERSPECTIVES & DOCUMENTS (VOL.I & II)

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READINGS ON MINORITIES: PERSPECTIVES & DOCUMENTS (VOL.III)

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MUSLIM SITUATION IN INDIA 

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CONCEPT OF MAN IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE 

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CONTENTS

IOS BULLETIN

HUMAN RIGHTS TODAY 

 

Vol. 1 No.1 (July – September 1998)

Article(s)

Author    [Page No] Rights & Wrongs V.R. Krishna Iyer [1] Social Violations R.M Pal[2-3] Nuclear Weapons

Use of Lethal Weapons by the Police

 

Iqbal A. Ansari[4-7]

Abolish Death Penalty

NHRC Performance

[8]

[9-10]

Save the Child Abu Yusuf[11] UDHR Text [12-13] Human Rights Education Iqbal A. Ansari[14] Eradicate Torture [15-17] State’s Abdication & Terrorization [18-19] Coimbatore Riots Irfan & Sandhya[20-24]

 

 

 

Vol.1 No.3 (April 1999)
Article(s)	Author    [Page No]
Gender Inequality	Gauri B. Malik [2]
Human Rights Education	A.S. Desai[3-4]
HR and India’s Foreign Policy	A.R. Vijapur[5-7]
Societal Violation	R.M. Pal[8]
HRC & India’s Third Report	I.A.A[9-10]
HR Situation in U.P.	Ravi K. Jain[11]
Amnesty Reports	A.I.[12-13]
Human Rights Act	I.A.A[14]
UDHR 50th Anniversary	IOS[15-16]
PUCL – An Introduction	Y.P. Chhibbar[17-20]
Forum	[21]
Book Review	[22-23]

 

 

Autumn 1999
Article(s)	Author    [Page No]
Universal Human Rights	Balraj Puri[2-3]
Reflection on UDHR	Shrin Sinnar[4-6]
India’s HR Record	R.P. Saraf[7]
Parliament of World’s Religions	I.A.A. & N.A.M.[8-9]
NHRC’s Credibility	R.M. Pal[10]
Compensation to Riot Victims	[11]
Geneva Conventions	Iqbal. A. Ansari[12-13]
NCM Report on Riots	[15-16]
Forgotten Massacres	[17-18]
V.M. Tarkunde Felicitated	[23]

 

 

Winter 1999-2000
Article(s)	Author    [Page No]
Freedom of Information-Edit	[1]
Declining Female Ratio	Gauri Malik [2]
Dalit Human Rights	[3-4]
Agenda for Minorities	Iqbal A Ansari [5-7]
Inquiry into 1984 killings	Amrik Singh [8]
Liberal Agenda and Minorities	[9-10]
Justice for Victims of Crime	[12]
Multi-culturalism policy of Canada	[13]
AI Report (India 1999 )	[14-15]
Freedom from Torture	AS Narang {16-17]
Rajiv Gandhi Murder Case	[18-19]
Law of War	Afzal Wani [21]
Violence against Christians	[22]
Forum- GM Siddiqi	[22]

 

 

Vol.III (No.1 Jan.-March 2001/No.2 April – June 2001)
Article(s)	Author    [Page No]
Caste & Race – Edit	[1]
Kanpur Riots	Text of Representation to NHRC by the IOS Committee on Human Rights,New Delhi [2-4]
Rustamji on Riots	Letter Addressed to the Editor [5]
Rights on Muslim Women	Iqbal A Ansari[6]
Hindu-Muslim Conciliation	Iqbal A Ansari[7]
Inter Community Peace Initiative	Draft Mission Statement [8-10]
Ayodhya & the Course of Law	Iqbal A Ansari[11]
Hashimpura Killings	Iqbal A Ansari [12-13]
Prevent Ayodh-II	Statement issued by Minority Council[14]
Human Rights Situation in India(Sources of Violation of Rights	Iqbal A.Ansari[15-16]
Preventive Detention	Human Rights Features[17]
Sovereign Immunity	Human Rights Features [18-19]
PIL. On Diverse Human Rights Issues	[20]
Constitution Review	Iqbal A Ansari[21-27]
Lawlessness of Police	N.D Pancholi[28]
Public Violence	Iqbal A.Ansari[29]
Amnesty’s Campaign Against Torture	Excerpts from the document ot Amnesty International India:Word s into Action[30]
Human Rights Periodical	Abdur Rahim P.Vijapur [31]
Book Review	Abdur Rahim P.Vijapur /A Yusuf [32]

 

 

Vol.III (No.3 July-September 2001/No. 4 October-December 2001)
Article(s)	Author    [Page No]
Religious Conversion  Edit	[1]
Peace War &Terrorism	Iqbal A Ansari [2-3]
Reports on Malegaon Riots	Asghar A Engineer [4]
Milli Councils Convention & other Reports on POTO	[6-8]
Inter Community Peace Initiative	[9]
Response to Terrorism & War	[10-16]
Human Rights in Palestine	I.A.A [17-18]
Constitution Review & Minorities	[19]
Report on Discrimination Against Muslims	I.A.A [21-24]
Durban Declaration & PoA	[25-31]
Human Rights & Anti-People Policies	Prakash Louis [32-33]

 

 

Vol. IV No. 1  (January-March 2002)
Article(s)	Author    [Page No]
Rule of Law in Ayodhya	Iqbal A. Ansari [2-5]
Anti-Terrorism Undermining Human Rights	M. Ziyaul Haque [6]
Terrorist Law	K.G. Kannabiran[7-9]
Is India Governed Democratically?	HR Features [10]
Plight of Urdu	Iqbal A. Ansari[11-12]
Police Atrocities	P.B. D’sa[13]
J.P. ON Kashmir	J.P. Narayan[14-17]
Fernandes On Kashmir	George Fernandes[15]
SAARC on Terrorism	[18]
Indo Pak Conflict	[19]
Dalit Rights – Bhopal Declaration	[20-21]
Human Rights Situation	Mary Robinson[22-25]
Broken Lives	Amnesty International [26-28]
Book Release	Louis Prakash etal[29]
Forum	Vipin K. Tripathi Tapan K. Bose [30]

 

Vol. IV No. 2 (April-June  2002)
Article(s)	Author    [Page No]
Loss of Hope in Gujarat	Julio Ribeiro
Hindutva Exclusion	Harish Khare  [3]
Autopsy of a Riot	Dipanker Gupta [4]
Cry beloved Country	Harsh Mander [5]
A call to Conscience	V.N.Rai
The Gujarat Syndrome	V.R.Krishna Iyer[7]
Riot & Partisan Law Enforcement	Iqbal A.Ansari[8]
A Law on Genocide	VS Mani[10]
International Accountability	B.Rajgopal [12]
Reports
Editors Guild	[14-15]
Human Rights Watch	[17-20]
NHRC	[21]
Amnesty International	[22-23]
Communalism combat	[28]
CPI(M)-AIDWA	[29]
Women's Panel	[30]
Independent Fact Finding Mission	[30]
NCRWC Report & Minorities	[32-35]
Kannabiran's Statements	[24]
Book Review	[40]
Forum	[41]