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Book SynopsisThis book brings the quandaries that many minority groups confront in Latin America, Asia and Africa into the limelight. The chapters in this volumewritten by experts on this subject-matterexamine and provide invaluable solutions to the human rights infractions in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, Angola, Cameroon, Gabon, Nigeria and South Africa.
Trade ReviewUdogu and Ghatak’s edited volume presents a compelling and credible story for making the protection of human rights, including especially those of indigenous peoples and other minorities, the center of a country’s poverty alleviation and development policy. This is a refreshing, rigorous, informative and multidisciplinary analysis of human rights and political development in developing societies. Students of developing countries, policymakers, and anyone interested in human development in the developing world should find this study especially useful. -- John Mukum Mbaku, Weber State University
Drawing on authoritative studies from many Global South countries, Human Rights Dilemmas in the Developing World is a landmark volume on a subject of great importance—the human rights of vulnerable indigenous and minority populations in modern states. Informed by a distinctive cross-disciplinary perspective, the impressive chapters contained in this volume will have notable pedagogical and scholarly implications for years to come. -- Olufemi Vaughan, Amherst College
The book makes a major contribution to the extant literature on human rights by focusing on marginalized groups that have not received much attention. This has implications for theory-building in human rights studies, and advocacy, as well as hopefully lead to the formulation of the requisite policies in the states concerned that would seek to correct the injustices that are being done against these marginalized groups. -- George Klay Kieh Jr., University of West Georgia
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Indigenous and Minority Groups in Latin America: History, Fragmentation and Struggle for Human Rights, by David R. Davila-Villers Chapter 2: Human Rights Issues of Minorities in Contemporary India: A Concise Analysis, by Sambuddha Ghatak and E. Ike Udogu Chapter 3: Theoretical and Analytical Discourses on Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples of Africa, by E. Ike Udogu Chapter 4: Human Rights Violations of Minorities in South-East Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia, by Sambuddha Ghatak Chapter 5: Minority Quandaries and Jihadist Terrorism in India, 1985–2013: An Overview, by Sambuddha Ghatak and E. Ike Udogu Chapter 6: Minority Rights and Environmental Justice in Developing Countries, by Onah P. Thompson Appendix A: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Appendix B: UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic Religious and Linguistic Minorities—Annex About the Contributors
