Introduction / Rainer Hofmann & Ugo Caruso -- Human and minority rights in Afghanistan / Gulshan Sachdeva -- Bhutanese refugees : the struggle in exile / Jagatmani Acharya -- Human and minority rights in Sri Lanka / Anton Piyarathane -- Human and minority rights in Nepal / Som Prasad Niroula -- Human and minority rights in Bangladesh / Borhan Uddin Khan & Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman -- Territorial autonomy in India / Thomas Benedikter -- Autonomy, Kahmir and international law / Kaiyan Homi Kaikobad -- Set-up and challenges of national human rights commissions in India and Nepal / Emma Lantschner -- Comprehensive security in South Asia : SAARC and the applicability of OSCE standards / Ugo Caruso -- Immigration to the UK from Commonwealth countries and the issue of "New Minorities" defined by religion : between their group rights and integration / Murtaza Hassan Shaikh