World Of All Human Rights

Questions of use and abuse of power have been very much in the news, be it the scams surrounding the Commonwealth Games or corruption in the higher judiciary, or the demand for environmental accountability in the case of Vedanta, or the more recent Adarsh Housing Society. This relationship between power and accountability is at the heart of human rights issues, or rather human rights are a vehicle for securing responsible exercise of power. How human rights can serve this purpose and how individuals can advance this exercise are effectively brought out in the World of Human Rights, a volume published in honour of Soli Sorabjee, the leading human rights lawyer, to mark his 80th birthday.