Title: Human rights in Bangladesh :
Authors: Ahmed, Imtiaz,
Date: 2014
Publisher: The University Press Limited,
Physical description: xvi, 373 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: J
Abstract: A compilation of twelve essays on the state of human rights in Bangladesh, present, past and future trend.
Contents: Imtiaz Ahmed -- Human rights in Bengal : Atish Dipankar to Sufis / Syed Anwar Husain -- Akbar : Bengal and the rights of the subjects / Md. Akhtaruzzaman -- Aurangzeb, intolerance and other misunderstandings / Mohammad Sajjadur Rahman -- Colonial contribution to human rights : progressive or regressive / Iftekhar Iqbal -- Human rights in the nation state / Hameeda Hossain -- Electoral democracy and human rights in Bangladesh / Ali Riaz -- Extrajudicial killings and human rights / A.S.M. Ali Ashraf -- Rights based approach to development and right to land / M.M. Akash -- Refusing the doctrine of human rights : retrieving signs of "plurality of resistance" / Syed Jamil Ahmed -- Rooting women's rights as humane rights / Amena Mohsin -- Rethinking human rights education / Saima Ahmed -- Managing diversity in a dystopian world : can post-national politics make a difference? / Imtiaz Ahmed.
Notes: Contributed articles.
Subject headings (LCSH): Human rights--Bangladesh.