Concerted efforts have been made by United Nations Organization and international law to protect, nurture and improve the economic, social and political conditions of man, woman and child world over. There is tremendous pressure on States to provide a minimum standard of life alongwith personal, social and economic freedoms. Thus, people need to be made aware of the Human Rights, newly recognized status, rights and remedies available to them under international law and social polity. Correspondingly, the States are also under new obligations to make human rights real proposition through definitions and enforcement. This book is intended to give the source material on the wide-ranging Human Rights comprising of Conventions, Treaties or Resolutions of UNO among others. Now there is a viable regime of human rights in a distinguishable form. The book makes an in-depth presentation of Human Rights, spread in wide ranging twenty-one sections: • Those that are directly under international law or UNO sanction, viz. the International Bills on Human Rights, the Right of Self-determination and Proactive Humanitarian Law through World Conference and Millennium Assembly, Environment Protection, Protection of Human Rights through International Human Rights Commission. • Those that operate through States, viz. Protective Treatment of Indigenous People, Minorities, Women, Family, Marriage, Children, Older Persons, Persons under Disability, Labour Welfare, Freedom from Slavery, Humane Treatment of Aliens or Prisoners, Traffic in Human Beings, Freedom of Association. • Human Rights that give or deny Status to Individuals, viz. Nationality, Statelessness, Asylum and Refugees, Migrants, including processes for Justice against Arbitrariness, Denial of Human Rights or Discrimination, Extradition and Surrender of Fugitives. • Wars cause catastrophe for Human Rights. This book presents Documents and Conventions on War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity and International Criminal Court. All the elemental principles emanating from the various Documents on Human Rights incorporated in this book have been summarized in the “Introduction” for the convenience of the readers.

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VOLUME IV HUMANITARIAN LAW 91. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II) 92. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) 93. Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 94. Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War INDIA’S RESPONSE TO HUMAN RIGHTS 95. Agenda Item 5: The Right of People to Selfdetermination and its Application to Peoples under Colonial or Alien Domination or Foreign Occupation 96. Human Right Act, 1993 97. Conference for Human Rights Institutions at Seoul on 15th September 2004 98. Address of Dr. Justice A.S. Anand, Chairperson, NHRC on Human Rights Day on 10th December 2003 99. Statement of Dr. Justice A.S. Anand, Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission of India 100. Speech Delivered by H.E. The President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 101. Statement of Justice Shri J.S. Verma, Chairperson, National Human Rights 102. Message of the UN Secretary-General Mr. Kofi Annan on the Occasion of Human Rights Day, 10 December 2002 103. Address by Shri K.R. Narayanan, President of India at the ‘Human Rights Day’ Function Organized by the National Human Rights Commission of India on Monday, December 10, 2001