IOSR-JHSS   Volume-4 ~ Issue-5 ~ Nov-Dec-2012

Paper Type	:	Research Paper
Title	:	Human Rights and Declining Sex-Ratio
Country	:	India
Authors	:	Ms. Asha Rani
	:	10.9790/0837-0450104
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Abstract:In India, right from her birth, a girl child is treated by the society, including her parents as a burden because of various traditional beliefs and misconceptions of the society. The reaction of the family members is different towards the girl's rights right from the birth. Often, the girl is born and brought up in an atmosphere where the family would have rather preferred a boy in her place. This attitude of acceptance to large extent affects her existence. Those who survive are also discriminated against and neglected in numerous ways. Son preference has been one of the most evident manifestations of patriarchal society. In the paper both primary and secondary data were used. The present paper is an attempt to understand the socio-cultural factors that have traditionally undervalued daughters compared to sons and how all these practices violates many rights of these innocent girls and foetuses in Kathua district of Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir).
Keywords: Traditional Beliefs, Discrimination, Neglected, Patriarchy, Socio-cultural, Foetus, Girl's Rights

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Abstract:Morality is inundated with sets of principles of right conducts that are deemed praise worthy and commendable as a condition-since-qua-non for a peaceful, happy and harmonious social co-existence. However, since morality is society/nature related, certain environmental factors may constitute precedence from which actions are judged as right or wrong. This paper seeks to argue that, owning to the laws of nature of the universe and man's place in it, it will be difficult to extricate man's moral life from environmental influences, and hence morality to some extent can be predicated on environmental concerns.

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Abstract:The play is a violent speech against women "a verbal attack". The play After the Fall includes a thinly disguised portrayal of Miller's unhappy marriages. Miller has used the stage as a medium to justify and rationalize the cathartic explanation of his life including his two failed marriages. The play is also an implication that there is no such thing as private life. Miller, however, manages to bring them together into the play. Marriage is said to be a legal union between men and women by mutual consent. Here, the irony of marriage is that it fails to assure happiness.

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Abstract:'Speciesism' as a theory of animal rights, is the practice of treating members of one species as superior to another and entails them the moral right to treat the inferior as they deem fit. Such a philosophy was vehemently objected by Dr. Richard Ryder and Peter Singer. This paper presents how speciesism operates in Jack London's novel The Call of the Wild. It shows the inherent superiority of human beings over all other sentient beings and this is born of the instinctual imperialistic tendency present in every human. I have tried to show how the principle of domination extends its boundaries from the human to the animal world. Interestingly, this dominating motif is observant not only in the human-animal or human-human relationship, but also the animal-animal nexus. Lastly, the paper, after presenting the arguments of speciesists and anti-speciesists tends to question the justification of such a theory and how The Call of the Wild is ultimately a voice against 'Speciesism'.
Key Words: brutality, dominance, imperialism, power, speciesism

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