Anthropology and human rights : Challenges and opportunities in the new millennium / Edited by Buddhadeb Chaudhuri, Subir Biswas.

"The present edition is an outcome of an international conference organized by the Commission on Human Rights and Commission on Urban Anthropology and the Department of Anthropology, West Bengal State University in collaboration with the Anthropological Survey of India, the Indira GandhiRashtriya Manac Sangrahalaya, the Indian Council of Social Science Research, the Indian Council of Medical Research, Indian Museum and Centre for Alternative Research in Development... held in Kolkata. The theme of the conference was 'Mega Urbanization and Human Rights: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities'"--Preface.

From sites of violent struggle to shrines of learning : the recovery of truth and the recovery of justice / Clarence J. Dias --
Unrest, conflict and the issue of human rights in Nepal / Tilottam Paudel --
Who cares for human rights when social unrest turns violent? The context of Junglemahal / Dipak K. Midya --
Depletion of resources and social exclusion of the displaced people / Somenath Bhattacharjee --
Minimizing development-induced displacement : a study among the Santals of Raniganj / Abhijit Ghosal --
Incessant induced suicide / Samar Kumar Biswas --
Human rights, human security and sustainable development / Buddhadeb Chaudhuri --
The Cerro de San Pedro case : grassroots movements to stop a living town from disappearing / José G. Vargas-Hernandez --
Urban poor : a vulnerable issue of human rights in Bangladesh / Muhammed Shamsuddin --
Urbanization and problems of slum dwellers in India : rights' perspective / Sanjoy Roy --
Does women empowerment ensure mitigation of domestic violence in India? / Jhilam Rudra De --
Decision making in family planning practices : a human rights issue / Homprabha Biswas and Subha Ray --
Plight of the elderly females in old age homes of Kolkata : human rights perspective / Saumitra Basu --
Human rights and the Bengali women in Vrindavan / Rajesh Kumar Sharma --
Land alienation and indigenous rights : the Toto context / Subhankar Roy and Pinak Tarafdar --
Right to education : status of tribal women in India / Swati Chakraborty --
Right to education and empowerment of tribal girls : a case study of Binapani Ashram of Mouldanga, Sriniketan / Swapna Bhattacharya (Chakraborti) --
Citizenship and human rights : challenges for the recognition of indigenous rights in Latin American cities / Milka Castro Lucic --
Second class citizens? Human rights for indigenous people in Mexico City / Laura R. Valladares de la Cruz --
A profile of bidi binder with special reference to their problems and rights / Samik Roy --
Poverty and crisis in daily life : a study on migrant people / Biswanath Gan and Samar Kumar Biswas --
Negotiation of rights in the process of urbanization : a case of migrant construction workers of Chennai City / Arunkumar, A.S. and Jesurathnam Devarapalli --
Issues of conflict among working and non-working mothers in an urban set-up / Binita Basu --
Legal horizons : the legal hopes and realities regarding mass migration in America / Sarah Rogers --
Migration, legality and rights : the case of undocumented mexican youth in the state of Oklahoma (USA) / Victoria Chenaut

Contributed articles cheifly with reference to South Asia.

Includes bibliographical references and index.