Human rights in the Asia-Pacific region : towards institution building /: towards institution building. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Hitoshi Nasu and Ben Saul.
• Other Names: Nasu, Hitoshi; Saul, Ben
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (296 pages)
• Subjects: 341.4/8095; LAW / Comparative; Human rights -- Asia; Human rights -- Pacific Area; National human rights institutions -- Asia; National human rights institutions -- Pacific Area; LAW / General; LAW / Civil Rights
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136717086; 1136717080
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