 This book provides a brief history of the development of international human rights law during this century. It situates human rights in its context by tracing social, political, and economic factors that have had a profound influence on human rights law and practice. While contextualizing human rights, it examines women’s rights struggle and discusses the question of nation-state and human rights as well as the challenges to universality of human rights including the “Asian Values” debate.
This Resource Book contains detailed information and analysis of the provisions of the four major human rights treaties: ICESC, ICCPR, CEDAW, and CRC.
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This is a manual that FORUM-ASIA has produced to make public the design, content and methods used to train human rights activists in Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Its purpose is not to be a model but to provide a framework for facilitating discussion among trainers on developing ESC Rights training programmes. 
This comprehensive compilation of basic question and answers on human rights issues and terminology is printed in 11 North East Indian languages and dialects.
Discussed in this book are some tools and techniques for human rights documentation, giving examples from those practiced by certain organizations. They work as suggestions and guides for each organization to develop their own adapted tools to suit their needs. 
This manual is prepared with a view to helping human rights organizations conduct training programmes on fact-finding and documentation of human rights violations. The manual’s main purpose is to provide a training outline for teaching the contents of the Handbook on Fact-Finding and Documentation of Human Rights Violations. The first section contains training modules on fact-finding and documentation while section two contains an introduction to the basics of training.
