Academic and Reference Books

In recent years the term social protection has gained currency in developmental discourse: encompassing the range of protective transfers, services and formal and informal safeguards that are available to protect people in need or at risk of being in need. Whilst migration offers a safety net for poorer people in search of alternative or supplementary livelihoods, it also deprives many, of access to formal and informal sources of support. Social protection concerns emerge at all stages of migration: before departure, in transit, at destination and upon return.

This book proposes an international legal regime on undocumented labor migration aimed at ensuring equitable, humane and lawful conditions of migration as well as protecting the rights of undocumented migrant workers. In this regard the book analyses the 1990 UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.

A pioneering effort, this book provides a penetrating analysis of problems facing the implementation of the Convention in the Rights of the Child (CRC) in Bangladesh, and offers, hopefully, realistic solutions. Its relevance extends to all developing countries where progress in children’s rights leaves much to be desired even after a decade of the adoption of the CRC by the international community. The book is a must for researchers, policy makers and practitioners in the field.

Human Rights in Bangladesh 1997 presents an in-depth documentation of violations of human rights by state agencies during the year. Its incisive evidence of the negligence of the state in deterring violatioñsby non-state actors point to the causes for lapses in the rule of law in Bangladesh. This report is essential for an understanding of how weaknesses in public institutions have been sustained by a political culture which tolerates violations of human rights and democratic norms.