Synopsis Global Agenda for Human Rights: East-West Context. By Prof. A Subbian is a highly advanced original research work. It is focused on human rights issues and challenges facing the global community and international humanitarian law perspective which takes seriously the notion civil and political rights Vs: Socio-Economic and cultural rights in the international arena and the institutional I organizational obligations they impose on affluent states and third world states-provides a philosophical paradigm within which to understand the special responsibilities facing the international community in the east-west context. The central claim that will emerge from this discussion of this issue is that obligations to respect human rights, light to peace, right of health, social justice, and basic human needs; and Gandhian thoughts, India contributions to hwnan rights and through closely tied to moral obligations. The author attempted to explore the issue of human rights in the third world a variety of different conteA1s; and the special hwnan rights problem of health. Further, this study address the more specific question of what form of philosophy of human rights in the east-west context must take when it is applied globally. The conceptual core of this book consists of an agenda in the east-west context and not authoritative interpretations of human rights. It is an unending quest.