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More than long sixty years have elapsed since the United Nations brought out the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR—1948) with high ideals and concepts for a spectacular new world order. It contained 30 Articles and certainly it needs a revision—a total revision—in the changing and already changed situations. This is an attempt towards that lofty end. Thirty Articles in the UDHR—1948 have now been revised totally and are 56 in the new text. Human rights justice is a part of the wholistic justice and any violation of human rights is a violation of the criminal justice. The author, being a criminologist of international stature, makes an attempt to revise the UDHR—1948 in criminal justice perspective. The author observes a variety of human rights violations throughout the world and many are seen to take a tolerant attitude to the violations of human rights in the field of criminal justice administration. He asks: Why ? Is it because the Articles in the UDHR—1948 are sterile and ineffective for their meaningful implementation? Let the international community deliberate over the new draft and precisely, therefore, all human rights activists and every human being will find this book enlightening and educative.