Meaning and Definition of Human Rights
  Nature, Importance and Characteristics of Human Rights
  Basis and Sources of Human Rights
  Legal and Philosophical Conceptions of Human Rights; (i) Nature Law and Nature Rights

      (ii) Legal Rights
            (a) Constitutional
            (b) Fundamental
      (iii) Ancient Indian Concept of Duty

 Kinds of Rights

      (i) First Generation Rights
           (a) Civil
           (b) Political
      (ii) Second Generation Rights
           (a) Economic
           (b) Social
           (c) Cultural
     (iii) Third Generation of Rights
           (a) People’s Rights
           (b) Group Rights

 Other Major Rights Issues

    (i) Right to Self-Determination
    (ii) Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
    (iii) Right to Development
    (iv) Elimination of All Forms of Religious Intolerance
    (v) Human Rights and Scientific and technological Development
    (vi) The Rights of the Child
    (vii) Protection of Migrant Workers
    (viii) Protection of Indigenous Populations
    (ix) Rights of Aliens

     (i) Natural Rights Theory
     (ii) Legal/Positive Theory
     (iii) Sociological theory of Rights
     (iv) Ideological theory of Rights
     (v) Cultural Theory of Rights

  Principles of Human Rights

     (i) Western Principles
     (ii) Non-Western Principles

  Role of Law

     (i) Concept, Origin and Importance
     (ii) Patterns of Rule of Law Societies
     (iii) Relation of Human Rights and Good Governance

   Civil Political Rights

     (i) Rights to life
     (ii) Rights to Liberty and Security of Individual
     (iii) Right to Privacy, Right to Respect
             (a) Interception to Mail
             (b) Telephone Tapping
     (iv) Rights to Dignity, Personality and Name
     (v) Right to Die
     (vi) Freedom of Movement and Residence, Freedom to Leave Country,
             Right to seek Asylum, Right to Nationality
     (vii) Freedom to Thought and Expression
     (viii) Right to Equality and Non –discrimination
     (ix) Right to Minorities
     (x) Freedom of Conscience and Religion
     (xi) Right against Inhuman and Degrading Treatment
     (xii) Rights of Accused persons, Treatment of Prisoners
     (xiii) Administration of Juvenile Justice
     (xiv) Right to property, Right to Own Property, Deprivation of Property

    (i) Privacy
    (ii) Redistribution
    (iii) Alliance
    (iv) Cultural Diversity Issue

Intercultural Background and Indigenous Wisdom
Indian (Hindu) Tradition and Western Imagination
Social Movements and Human Rights in India
Islam and Religious Pluralism
Concept of Human Rights in Buddhism

Concept of Human Rights in Hindu Philosophy

   (i) Hindus Ideas
   (ii) Hindu Concept of Right
   (iii) Caste System

Concept of Human Rights in Islam

   (i) Concepts of Rights
   (ii) Concepts of Duties

Concept of Human Rights in Christianity

   (i) Concept of Rights
   (ii) Concept of Duties

Concept of Human Rights in Sikkism
Concept of Human Rights in other Religions

      (i) Democracy
      (ii) Developmental Rights
      (iii) Economic, Cultural, Social, Civil and Political Rights

   Role of People’s Movements, Community Orgnisations and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)
   Democracy and Human Rights
       (i) Law Enforcement
       (ii) Police-Community Partnership
       (iii) Police Training
       (iv) Community Policing

   Rights of peoples and Nationals to Self-Determination
      (i) Decolonisation
           (a) International Trusteeship System
           (b) Declaration on Decolonisation
           (c) Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories
           (d) Liberation Movements
           (e) Assistance
     (ii) Permanent Sovereignty
     (iii) Racist Regimes
     (iv) Territorial Integrity

 National Freedom Struggle and Constitutional Development
      (i) French Revolution and Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen,1789.
      (ii) American Independence and Bill of Rights
      (iii) Bill of Rights in United Kingdom
      (iv) Human Rights in Pre-Independent India
             (a) Swaraj Bill (1895)
             (b) Congress Resolutions at Bombay (1918) on “Declaration of Rights of the people of India”
             (c) Motilal Nehru Report (1928)
             (d) Congress Resolution on Karachi (1931)
             (e) Sapru Committee Report (1944-45)
             (f) Objective Resolution in Constituent Assembly (1946-47)

Liberal Democratic Practice
Capitalism and Socialism
Successionist Movements
Wars of National Liberation

      (i) El Salvador
      (ii) Chile
      (iii) Afghanistan
      (iv) South Africa
      (v) Israel and Occupied Territory
      (vi) Romania
      (vii) Guatemala
      (viii) Haiti
      (ix) Cuba
      (x) Panama
      (xi) Cyprus
      (xii) Albania
      (xiii) Iraq
      (xiv) Bolivia
      (xv) Democratic Kampuchea
      (xvi) Iran
      (xvii) Malawi
      (xviii) Ni caragua
      (xix) Poland
      (xx) Kosovo
      (xxi) Rwada
      (xxii) China
      (xxiii) Sri Lanka
      (xxiv) Pakistan

State of Human Rights in Ancient India
State of Human Rights in Muslim India
State of Human Rights in British India
Human Rights during Partition(1946-47)
Indian Constitution and Human Rights

      (i) Fundamental Rights and Duties
      (ii) Directive Principles of State Policy
               (a) Equality Clauses
               (b) Right to Freedom
               (c) Right Against Exploitation
               (d) Right to Freedom of Religion
               (e) Cultural and Educational Rights
               (f) Rights to Property

Rights of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (Sts)/Dalits
Rights of Minorities
Rights of Women
(i) Dowry Deaths
Crimes and Criminal Laws
Criminal Justice Administration
Human Rights in Pre-Trial Detention
National Standards on Pre-Trial Detention
Prisoners and Human Rights
Terrorism/Insurgency Movements
Indian Police: Values, Personality Development, Understanding of Human Behavior and Practical Law Enforcement
Police Atrocities
Police Violations
(i) Encounter Deaths
(ii) Custodial Deaths
(iii) Communal Rights
(iv) Torture
(v) Third Degree Methods
Prevention and Cure of Human Rights Violations by Indian Police
Towards Human Rights Friendly Police
Repressive Laws
(a) PDA
(b) NSA
(c) MISA
(d) TADA
(e) Emergency Laws
Indian Army and Human Rights
National Standards against Torture and Custodial Death
National Standards on Protection of Juveniles
Children and Human Rights

Female Foeticide
Infanticide
Child Murder
Contemporary Indian Problems and Human Rights
(i) Reservation for Scs and Sts and Mandal Commission
(ii) Uniform Civil Code vis-à-vis Personal Law
(iii) Right of Self-determination
(iv) Liberation or Independence to Ethnic Minority
(v) Liberation or Independence to Linguistic Minority
(vi) Liberation or Independence to Religious Minority
(vii) Problems of Jammu & Kashmir
(viii) Problems of Punjab
(ix) Problems of Assam (North-East)
(x) Problems of Bihar

Current Human Rights Discourse
Positioning Human Rights in Contemporary Global Conjuncture
Rethinking Human Rights

      (i) Personal Security
      (ii) National Security
      (iii) Security for Whom
      (iv) Security Against What
      (v) Security by What Means
      (vi) Security Beyond the State

Renewing the United Nation System Itself
       (i) Problems with Existing System
       (ii) The High Commissioner
       (iii) Ombudsman for the United Nation System
       (iv) Orientations
       (v) The Three Voices of Existing Human Rights Practical Discourse
       (vi) Philosophical Basis
       (vii) Global Capitalism as a Case of Original Contaminatin
       (viii) Normativity
From Human Rights to the Rights to be Human
Rights to be Loved and Right to Learn
Visions of Good Society
       (i) Peace and Harmony
       (ii) Material Well-being
       (iii) Justice and Equality
       (iv) Community Life
       (v) Rationality