Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Human Rights Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
Syllabus for Human Rights
Part of this reading list is printed in Devanagari, which the University's own PDF does not release as reliable text. Those entries are not set here; they are in the document above, as she printed them. The University sets this paper under Scheme II only, so your college may not run it.
Module 1: INTRODUCTION AND INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK
- 1 Meaning and Classification
- 2 Evolution of human rights: Magna Carta to Modern era
- 3 Role of United Nations and major covenants and conventions
Module 2: HUMAN RIGHTS IN INDIA
- 1 Human Rights and Indian Constitution
- 2 National and State Human Rights Commissions
- 3 Role of Judiciary in protection of Human Rights-landmark judgements
Module 3: CONTEMPORARY HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES
- 1 Rights issues related to Gender, Human trafficking, and children
- 2 Climate change and vulnerable communities, Rights of Development induced displaced people, Right to clean environment
- 3 Right to Privacy including digital privacy
Module 4: HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY AND ACTIVISM
- 1 Role of civil society organizations- national and international
- 2 Public Interest Litigations and legal aid
- 3 Role of traditional and social media, citizen journalism
Reference Books
- 1 Baxi, U. (2002). The future of human rights (2nd ed.). New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- 2 Basu, D. D. (2015). Human rights in constitutional law. New Delhi: LexisNexis
- 3 Donnelly, J. (2013). Universal human rights in theory and practice (3rd ed.). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
- 4 Forsythe, D. P. (2017). Human rights in international relations (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.