Human Rights

The armed forces are one of the most powerful tools to ensure safety and security of the state from external aggressions. This duty may call upon armed forces personnel to undertake missions with a very high risk to life. To motivate a human being to perform the allocated duty even at the peril of his/her life is an art that armed forces across the globe have mastered. For sustaining such a high level of motivation and to undertake missions in a very organised fashion, military discipline is a key attribute.

• Kishore Kumar Khera
• July-September 2020
• Journal of Defence Studies

The movement of the Baloch people is likely to continue because of the strong undercurrent of popular disaffection in the province against the Pakistan state, and the sustained enthusiasm of the people to fight for their freedom, autonomy and rights

• Nazir Ahmad Mir
• May 30, 2020
• IDSA Comments

The context and timing of this policy document is significant as it surveys the wide spectrum of social issues and the challenges facing China.

• Avinash Godbole
• May 28, 2013
• IDSA Comments

Chen’s departure from the US embassy in Beijing points to the unwillingness and inability of the US to bring to bear any pressure on China on human rights issues.

• Rukmani Gupta
• May 03, 2012
• IDSA Comments

The issue of Chen Guangcheng will require much time and many rounds of negotiations so that neither China nor the US “lose face”.

• Rukmani Gupta
• May 01, 2012
• IDSA Comments

Though the original focus of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was primarily economic cooperation, the adoption of the ASEAN charter in November 2007 officially included cooperation on human rights. This article examines three hypotheses to determine the causes of cooperation problems: regime type, non-interference policy, and absence of an enforcement mechanism in the ASEAN charter.

• Nehginpao Kipgen
• January 2012
• Strategic Analysis

The Indian Army’s Doctrine for Sub Conventional Operations does an admirable job in balancing human rights protection with operational demands. However, there is a degree of dissonance in the approach to human rights brought about by the perspective that protecting human rights is a means to an end.

• Ali Ahmed
• November 14, 2011
• Policy Brief

A multilateral framework of regional cooperation, human rights based strategy, addressing the root causes and a higher priority for the issue in foreign policy are necessary to comprehensively deal with the challenge of human trafficking.

• Shristi Pukhrem
• August 05, 2011
• IDSA Comments

The Doctrine for Sub Conventional Operations (DSCO) is due for review this year. This Brief suggests directions in which the Doctrine can better address the Human Rights factor.

• Ali Ahmed
• March 22, 2011
• Policy Brief

It is obvious today that realpolitik is shaping the relationship between the world powers and China. There was hardly any debate on the Tiananmen Square Incident barring a few newspaper articles. It appears is that the world order has accepted the way China behaves and is also ready to make concessions on the Human Rights issues as seen during the Tibetan Uprising last year. The question is why is the world ready to make so many compromises when it comes to China?

• Gunjan Singh
• June 19, 2009
• IDSA Comments