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...Farida Shaheed; Khawar Mumtaz Copyright 1991: South Asia Bulletin 1990 South Asia BuZZetin, volume 10 number 2 (1990). The Rise of the Religious Right and its Impact On Women. Farida Shaheed Khawar Mumtaz Islami (JI) which...

...Aniket Aga; Chitrangada Choudhury This article explores how transparency laws reconfigure work practices and relations within the bureaucracy, and between bureaucrats and citizens. In a bureaucratic setup where a culture of secrecy looms large, India’s Right to Information (RTI) Act (2005...

...Susanna Ferguson Ferguson reads a 2009–11 debate over the proposed reissue of Syria's Personal Status Code in the Syrian feminist journal al-Thara to highlight the role women's rights discourse plays in disciplining and producing political subjects. She draws on Talal Asad's observation...

...C. M. Naim Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1992 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI1 No. 2, Fall 1992. Minority Rights or Human Rights? C. M. Naim Though a concern with human rights in universal newed Galaration of the original spirit. In his percep- terms was expressed...

...Suad Joseph © 1993: South Asia Bulletin 1993 References Nedelsky , Jennifer , 1990 . “Law, Boundaries, and the Bounded Self,” Representations , Spring (30), pp. 162 –189. United Nations , 1993a . “Final Document on the Women's Human Rights Session at the Asia NGO...

...Jean H. Quataert This article pieces together a complex genealogy of the multiple contexts that helped reshape women’s international organizing and create a global women’s human rights movement following the United Nations (UN) Decade for Women, 1975–85. It maps a multilayered history consisting...

...Soma Chaudhuri This article seeks to demonstrate how, in the movement for property rights for women in India, changes in the composition of the movement—audience, supporters, and counter actors—at various time periods in a movement's history influence the change in selection of frames...

...Claudia Yaghoobi The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran Osanloo Arzoo . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2009 xix + 258 pp., $24.95 (paper) © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran ernment and a republican state...

... Copyright 1991: South Asia Bulletin 1990 Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 3 Article 25 When.au iccugnitivti of tlic inherent Everyone has the right to life...

... Copyright 1991: South Asia Bulletin 1990 South Asia Bulletin, volume 10 number 2 (1990). (Excerpted from the News Bulletin of the International Union of Food and Allied Workers’ Associations, volume 61 numbers 3-4, 1991). International Conference on Trade Union Rights in South Asia...

...Jonathan T. Reynolds © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 Islam, Politics and Women’s Rights Jonathan T Reynolds From 1950 to 1966, politics in Nigeria’s predomi- political question, the debate itself was carried out al- nantly Muslim...

...Bonny Ibhawoh © 1999: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1999 Structural Adjustment ,Authoritarianism and Human Rights in Miica Bonny Ibhawoh The effects of Structural...

... n h oiiso Memory of Politics the and Trials, Rights Human Commissions, Truth n oteCueo utc,”pesrlae ac 2003, March 4 2003). release, March 14 press (accessed Justice of pr040303a.pdfok www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unmiset/ Cause Mas- the Church to Reconciliation “Suai...

... A nPhaiIran Pahlavi in Modernization and Class, Activism, Rights: Women’s Negotiating .Se o xml,Aa aaiadNhdYgnh eds., Yeganeh, Nahid and Tabari Azar example, for See, 2. government. Islamic an dethroning establishing be- was than rather Anti...

...Rochona Majumdar Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 “Self-Sacrifice” versus “Self-Interest”: A Non-Historicist Reading of the History of Women’s Rights in India Rochona Majumdar - Srimati Basu’s important study...

...Henry F. Carey Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 The Postcolonial State and the Protection of Human Rights Henry F. Carey Take up the White Man’s burden— and conquered (South Africa).10 There were also English The savage...

...Ariella Azoulay Azoulay argues that human rights discourse is based on a separation between a closed past, in which what was robbed is no longer contested because the violent dispossession has been legalized and naturalized, and an indefinite future in which the rights of “everyman,” as it were...

...Ila Pathak Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1991 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI, Nos. 1 & 2 (1W1). The Legal Machinery and Its Inability to Guarantee Democratic Rights Ila Pathak Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been used by supporting evidence to report...

... Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1991 South Asia Bullein, Vol. XI, NOS.1 8c 2 (1991). Human Rights in Sri Lanka: An Interview with Barnett Rubin Barnett Rubin, Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, member of the Asia Watch Committee and author...

... , No. 23 (June 7): 1002 –1003. Desai , A. R. 1987 . ‘Rural Development and Human Rights in Independent India,’ Economic and Political Weekly 22 , No. 31 (August 1): 1291 –1296. Economic and Political Weekly . 1986 . ‘Arwal Massacre: A Government Conspiracy? Report...