This Compelling textbook explores the essentials of international human rights law, from foundational issues to substantive rights and systems of protection. It also addresses contemporary challenges such as development, Sustainability and health in the paradigm of human rights. Thematically organized and lucid, this book provides extremely useful reference material for human rights law practitioners and judges and also for police and other government officials undergoing training on human rights issues in relation to their work. The books is useful not only to LLB and LLM students but to the students of Political Science, Human rights, Women’s Studies, Sociology, Military Science and others as well.