The Encyclopaedia of Social Welfare, Justice and Human Rights gives an overall integrated perspective of the aforementioned subject areas. Such a new attempt is targeted for readers/users who want to acquaint themselves with the recent developments in these areas of great human concern and relevance. The encyclopaedia focuses on major world conferences on social, cultural, economic and human rights and justice happened till date. Their thrust areas are reflected and their recommendations are presented in detail. It also touches briefly upon the UN System and the prevailing process of inter-agency coordination on global social and human issues. The contemporary international social development agenda is narrated in detail, so is the contemporary global human rights agenda. The significance of human rights training, advisory services, technical cooperation and reporting is presented in detail. The rights of minorities, IDPs, Migrant workers, along with their family rights and housing rights are mentioned briefly. To supplement them further, focus is also given on global social rights, occupational rights and human rights guidelines. This is a pioneering attempt of its kind which gives a holistic treatment to the evolving fields of social science studies, which have attained prime significance in contemporary global society