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    JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Volume 1, 2002 Editor P.C. Sen Secretary General, NHRC Editorial Assistance National Institute of Human Rights NLSIU, Bangalore National Human Rights Conimission { Sardar Patel Bhawan, Parliament Street, New Delhi--110, 901, India... ta Editorial Board Justice J.S. Verma, Chairperson, NHRC Shri Virendra Dayal, Member, NHRC Shri Dipankar P. Gupta, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court Shri Fali S. Nariman, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court Dr. G. Mohan Gopal, Dis ‘ector, NLSIU, Bangalore - Dr. Rajeev Dhavan,, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court Shri P.C. Sen, Secretary General, NHRC Shri A.K. Sharma, Director (Retired), NCERT Prof. M.C. Sharma, Advisor (Research), NHRC The Journal of The National Human Rights Commission Published by Shri P.C. Sen for The National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi. Cover Design: 360 Communications New Delhi. sy 5 eset ‘& Printed at: Jayangh Printers Bangalore -560 018 Ph : 6758874 ESOT a are Preface wi Justice J.S. Verma, Chairperson, NHRC i . oe, i HUMAN RIGHTS: NEW DIMENSIONS Human Rights Redefined: The New Universe of Human Rights “4 Justice J.S. VerMA, ... -, oo o Lae The Constitution and Huinan Rights: Ar Overview 18 Fa S. NaRIMAN, Evolution of the National Human Rights Commission, 40 1993-2002: A Decennial View , ' VIRENDRA DAYAL | STRUGGLES FOR HUMAN DIGNITY - “4 Domestic Violence and the Law : body 72, INDIRA JAISING Rights of Tribals 79 B.D. SHARMA Rights of Dalits 133 G. HARaGOPAL Rights of the Disabled 160 ANURADHA Monit Gujarat Gujarat Intervention 198 Dipankar Gurta Some Important Orders of the NHRC on Gujarat 203 Right to Know Right to Know : 248 Kamint Jaiswal Opinion of the National Human Rights Commissionon 251 The Freedom of Information Bill, 2000 Racism and Casteism Statement of the NHRC at the World Conference on 253 Racism, held at Durban BOOK REVIEWS | Future of Human Rights 260 G. Moun Gora et i Justice J.S. Verma f ‘ Chairperson i y re é (Former Chief Justice of India) %, ae Mena wa PREFACE It gives me great pleasure to write this introductory note to the inaugural issue of our Commission's Journal. Itis the hope of the Commission that the Journal will catalyze new thinking on the cause of protection of human rights and promotion of human dignity in our country. The Journal should facilitate sharing of ideas, experience and information on human tights issues, both national and international. By facilitating research and publication, the Journal should also provide an important platform for building a body of high quality scholarship on human rights and bringing together a community of human rights scholars. It is my hope that the Journal will, in course of time, contribute to the symposia and seminars on important human rights issues. The Journal should also be a source of new ideas and inspiration for policy makers and offer critical commentary on judicial pronouncements on human rights law in the best academic traditions. The Journal will be brought out annually. ft will focus on three broad themes. First, each issue will discuss in depth selected new developments in Indian human rights law. Second, the Journal will highlight different ongoing struggles for human dignity. Third, the Journal will discuss important developments on selected human rights issues. In addition, the Journal will also review leading books published on human rights nationally and internationally. Tam confident that the Journal will receive the support and cooperation of legal scholars in India and abroad and that they will contribute to the Journal in the years to come. The Journal must always maintain the highest academic quality. In all its work, itmust promote the cause of human dignity, which lies at the core of the struggle for human rights. \ $e November 30, 2002 U.S. Verma) Journal of the NHRC, Vol. 1, 2002, 1-17 " ' Human Rights Redefined: The New Universe of Human Rights Justice J.S. Verma uman dignity is the quintessence 6f human rights. It is the wide comprehension of this aspect and appreciation of the amplitude of dignity of the individual, unit of the human family, which must define the true scope of human rights. ‘All human rights for all’ and ‘the world is one family’ are concepts which have dépended on the expanded meaning of human rights assuring full human dignity to every member of the human race in the global village. Globalization of human rights by making it universally accepted and eradicating global inequities is the

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