Human rights dilemmas in the developing world : the case of marginalized populations at risk / [edited by] E. Ike Udogu and Sambuddha Ghatak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Udogu, E. Ike, editor.

Ghatak, Sambuddha, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc--Developing countries.

Indigenous peoples.

Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--Developing countries.

Minorities.

Human rights--Developing countries.

Human rights.

Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.

Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 208 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]

Summary:

Human Rights Dilemmas in the Developing World: The Case of Marginalized Populations at Risk brings into the limelight the quandaries that many minority groups confront in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. The chapters in this volume-written by experts on this subject-matter-examine and provide invaluable solutions to the human rights infractions in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, Angola, Cameroon, Gabon, Nigeria, and South Africa. Book jacket.

Contents:

Indigenous and minority groups in Latin America: history, fragmentation and struggle for human rights / by David R. Davila-Villers

Human rights issues of minorities in contemporary India: a concise analysis / by Sambuddha Ghatak and E. Ike Udogu

Theoretical and analytical discourses on human rights of indigenous peoples of Africa / by E. Ike Udogu

Human rights violations of minorities in South-East Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia / by Sambuddha Ghatak

Minority quandaries and jihadist terrorism in India, 1985-2013: an overview / by Sambuddha Ghatak and E. Ike Udogu

Minority rights and environmental justice in developing countries / by Onah P. Thompson

Appendix A: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Appendix B: UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic Religious and Linguistic Minorities-Annex.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Human rights dilemmas in the developing world.

ISBN:

9781498559997

1498559999

OCLC:

1004636100