Human rights in the Asia-Pacific region : towards institution building / / edited by Hitoshi Nasu and Ben Saul.
"The Asia-Pacific region is known for having one of the least developed institutional mechanisms for protecting human rights. This edited collection makes a timely and distinctive contribution to contemporary debates about strengthening the institutional protection of human rights in the Asia-P...
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| Superior document: | Routledge research in human rights law |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge research in human rights law.
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 268 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- The engagement of Asia-Pacific states with the UN Human Rights Committee: reporting and individual petitions / Ivan Shearer and Naomi Hart
- Human rights monitoring institutions and multiculturalism / Nisuke Ando
- Challenges to a human rights mechanism in the Asia-Pacific region: the experience of the universal periodic review of the UN human rights council / Shigeki Sakamoto
- Innovations in institution-building and fresh challenges: the optional protocol to the convention against torture and the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities / Sarah McCosker
- Chinese practice in un treaty monitoring bodies: principled sovereignty and slow appreciation / Wim Muller
- Resistance to regional human rights cooperation in the Asia-Pacific: demythologizing regional exceptionalism by learning from the Americas, Europe, and Africa / Ben Saul, Jacqueline Mowbray and Irene Baghoomians
- Persistent engagement and insistent persuasion: the role of the working group for an asean human rights mechanism in institutionalising human rights in the region / Tan Hsien-Li
- Asean: setting the agenda for the rights of migrant workers? / Susan Kneebone
- Challenges for Asean human rights mechanisms: the case of Lao PDR from a gender perspective / Irene Pietropaoli
- The role of networks in the implementation of human rights in the Asia-Pacific region / Catherine Renshaw
- Human rights commissions in times of trouble and transition: the case of the national human rights commission of Nepal / Andrea Durbach
- Corporate human rights abuses: what role for the national human rights institutions? / Surya Deva
- Rethinking human rights in China: towards a receptor framework / Mimi Zou and Tom Zwart.