Human rights and environmental wrongs: Integrating the right to environment and developmental justice in the Indian constitution

TitleHuman rights and environmental wrongs: Integrating the right to environment and developmental justice in the Indian constitution
Publication TypeBook Chapter
AuthorsSharma, Charu
Book TitleHuman rights, justice, and constitutional empowerment Human Rights, Justice, and Constitutional Empowerment / ed. by C. Raj Kumar, K. Chockalingam, ISBN 0195686918
EditionSecond
Pagination310-334
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN Number978-0-19-806886-0
ISBN0195686918
Abstract

With a prolegomenon by Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, this new edition explores how approaches to social justice, governance, and criminal justice in India have been influenced and defined by concepts of human rights and the directive principles of state policy of the Indian Constitution through the agency of the Supreme Court. It also examines the extent of constitutional empowerment that has been achieved in India and the relevance of the experience of other countries in understanding the process of promoting constitutionalism in India. The nineteen essays by distinguished scholars deal with, among other issues ,judicial responses to human rights violations and their relevance in transforming Indian society, the role of human rights in the development of constitutionalism in India, the horizontal applications of human rights, the relationship between freedom of the press and human rights, and the impact of corruption on human rights.

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Short TitleHuman Rights and Environmental Wrongs
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