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Pakistan and Human Rights

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Pakistan and Human Rights consists of a series of innovative and carefully chosen chapters by leading experts and specialists in the field of human rights law. With insightful contributions from a number of young emerging scholars, many of whom based in Pakistan itself, the volume provides a critical perspective on the legal ordering of human rights issues, at a time when the legitimacy and politics of national regulatory governance over the lives of people is in question as never before in that troubled country. into three sections.
Satvinder S. Juss teaches law at King's College London.
Part I Chapter 1: The Law & Economy of Human Rights in Pakistan by Uzair J. Kayani Chapter 2: The Plight of Minority Rights in Pakistan by Javaid Rehman and Adrija Ghosh Chapter 3: Poverty, Bonded Labor and Unaccountable Supply Chains: The Case of Brick Kiln Workers in Pakistan by Maleeha Sattar and Adnan Sattar Chapter 4: Pakistan's Constitution and The Right to Health by Muhammad Khan Part II Chapter 5: Crime and Punishment in Pakistan by Satvinder S. Juss Chapter 6: The Legal Status of Ahmadis in Pakistan by Yasser Latif Hamdani Chapter 7: Honour Crimes in Pakistan: A Human Rights Critique of Swara Practice by Neha Ali Gauhar Chapter 8: Taking Children's Rights Seriously: Is Pakistan Ready? by Adnan Sattar Part III Chapter 9: Pakistan's Death Penalty Law by Satvinder S. Juss Chapter 10: Enforced Disappearances in Pakistan: A Tool of Terror? by Reema Omer Chapter 11: The Use of Special Criminal Courts and Tribunals in Pakistan by Marva Khan Chapter 12: The Pakistani Judiciary and the Suo Motu Jurisdiction by Waris Husain
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