Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region : Towards Institution Building.

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-Pacific...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nasu, Hitoshi
Otros Autores: Saul, Ben
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
Temas:
Human rights > Asia.
Human rights > Pacific Area.
National human rights institutions > Asia.
National human rights institutions > Pacific Area.
Law.
Education.
Engineering.
Chemistry.
Military Science.
Electrical engineering.
Psychology.
Mining engineering.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Asie.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Pacifique, Région du.
Institutions nationales des droits de l'homme > Asie.
Institutions nationales des droits de l'homme > Pacifique, Région du.
Human rights
National human rights institutions
Asia
Pacific Area
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Treaties and other international instruments; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Regional integration and human rights monitoring institution; Part I: International institutions; 1 The engagement of Asia-Pacific states with the UN Human Rights Committee: reporting and individual petitions; 2 Human rights monitoring institutions and multiculturalism; 3 Challenges to a human rights mechanism in the Asia-Pacific region: the experience of the Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council.
  • 4 Innovations in institution
  • building and fresh challenges: the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities5 Chinese practice in UN treaty monitoring bodies: principled sovereignty and slow appreciation; Part II: Regional institutions: evolving mechanisms; 6 Resistance to regional human rights cooperation in the Asia-Pacific: demythologizing regional exceptionalism by learning from the Americas, Europe and Africa.
  • 7 Persistent engagement and insistent persuasion: the role of the working group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism in institutionalizing human rights in the region8 ASEAN: setting the agenda for the rights of migrant workers?; 9 Challenges for ASEAN Human Rights Mechanisms: the case of Lao PDR from a gender perspective; Part III: Transnational and national institutions; 10 The role of networks in the implementation of human rights in the Asia Pacific region; 11 Human rights commissions in times of trouble and transition: the case of the National Human Rights Commission of Nepal.
  • 12 Corporate human rights abuses: what role for the national human rights institutions?13 Rethinking human rights in China: towards a receptor framework; Index.

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