Udogu and Ghatak’s edited volume presents a compelling and credible story for making the protection of human rights, including especially those of indigenous peoples and other minorities, the center of a country’s poverty alleviation and development policy. This is a refreshing, rigorous, informative and multidisciplinary analysis of human rights and political development in developing societies. Students of developing countries, policymakers, and anyone interested in human development in the developing world should find this study especially useful.

John Mukum Mbaku, Weber State University

Drawing on authoritative studies from many Global South countries, Human Rights Dilemmas in the Developing World is a landmark volume on a subject of great importance—the human rights of vulnerable indigenous and minority populations in modern states. Informed by a distinctive cross-disciplinary perspective, the impressive chapters contained in this volume will have notable pedagogical and scholarly implications for years to come.

Olufemi Vaughan, Amherst College

The book makes a major contribution to the extant literature on human rights by focusing on marginalized groups that have not received much attention. This has implications for theory-building in human rights studies, and advocacy, as well as hopefully lead to the formulation of the requisite policies in the states concerned that would seek to correct the injustices that are being done against these marginalized groups.

George Klay Kieh Jr., University of West Georgia