BA 6 th semester syllabus ( GAUHATI UNIVERSITY)

Four Year Undergraduate Programme

Subject: Political Science

Course Name: POL 06-01: Human Rights: Traditions and Debates ( Compulsory)

Unit -1: HUMAN RIGHTS : THEORIES AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION

a) Growth and Evolution of Human Rights

b) Three Generations of Human Rights

c) Are Human Rights Universal? Issues of Cultural Relativism.

d) Institutionalization: UDHR, ICCPR, ICESCR, Human Rights Council

Unit -II: TRADITIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

a) European Tradition: European Convention on Human Rights, 1953

b) American Tradition : American Convention on Human Rights ,1969

c) African Tradition :African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights 1986

d) Islamic Tradition :Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam ,1990

Unit -III: STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

a) Caste Question : India

b) Gender and Domestic Violence : India

c) Migration and Refugee : South Asia

d) Race : South Africa

Unit - IV: CONTEMPORARY DEBATES ,ISSUES AND POSSIBILITIES

a) Challenges : Markets Economy & Ecological Crisis

b) State : Authoritarianism.

c) Issues : Human Development and Human Security

d) Possibilities: MDGs , SDGs