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Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Asia

Author: Fernand de Varennes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138855700
Published In: December 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Asia provides a rich study of human rights challenges facing some of the most vulnerable people in Asia. While formal accession to core international human rights instruments is commonplace across the region, the realisation of human rights for many remains elusive as development pressure, violent conflict, limited political will and discrimination maintain human rights volatility across the region.

This Handbook explores the underlying causes of human rights abuse in a range of contexts, considers lessons learnt from global, regional and domestic initiatives and provides recommendations and justifications for reform. Comprising 23 chapters, it examines the strengths and weaknesses of human rights institutions in Asia and covers issues including:

Participation, marginalisation, detention and exclusion
Private sector responsibility and security
Conflict and post-conflict rehabilitation
Trafficking, displacement and citizenship
Ageing populations, identity and sexuality.

Drawing together a remarkable collection of leading and emerging scholars, advisers and practitioners, this Handbook is essential reading for students, scholars, policy makers and advocates of human rights in Asia and the world.

Part I. Strengthening Asian Human Rights Institutions

1. Increasing Protection or Vulnerability of Human Rights in Asia? Fernand de Varennes

2. Why Asian Legal Institutions Fail to Protect the Human Rights of the Vulnerable, Nick Cheesman and Basil Fernando

3. An Emerging Human Rights Regime as a Tool for Protecting the Vulnerable in Asia? Lessons from the UN Human Rights System and Other Regional Human Rights Regimes, Debra DeLaet

4. Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Opportunities for Employing the UN Mechanisms in East Asia, Rhona Smith

Part II. Participation and Exclusion

5. Civil and Political Participation and Minority Rights Protection in East Asia, Raees Begum Baig

6. China’s Most Oppressed: Uyghur Exclusion and Discrimination, Alim Seytoff and Henryk Szadziewski

7. The Politics of Human Rights in Myanmar, Naing Ko Ko

8. An Architecture of Exclusion: Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Kathleen Cavanaugh

Part III. The Private Sector

9. Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility in Southeast Asia, Kenneth Christie and Robert J. Hanlon

10. Human Rights Defenders, Foreign Investment and Land in Myanmar: A Question of Power and Marginalisation, Alison Graham

Part IV. Security and Conflict

11. Human Rights and Conflict Prevention in Southeast Asia: The Protection Gap, Robin Ramcharan

12. The Rohingya and Other Muslim Minorities in Myanmar: Human Rights and the Marginalisation of the Most Vulnerable, Niki Esse de Lang

13. The Treatment of Former Combatants in Post-war Sri-Lanka: A Form of Arbitrary Detention or Rehabilitation? Ambika Satkunanathan

14. Recognising the Rights of Conflict Widows: Insights from Manipur, India,Upasana Mahanta

Part V. Trafficking, Displacement and Citizenship

15. Statelessness in Asia: An Entrenched but Solvable Problem, Amal de Chickera and Laura van Waas

16. Protecting the Rights of Refugees in South and Southeast Asia, Julia Mayerhofer

17. Between Protection and Harm: Trafficked Persons in Southeast Asia – Where do the Violations End? Emma Bowers and Elaine Pearson

18. Southeast Asian Regional Cooperation and Combating Human Trafficking, Huong Le Thu

Part VI. Age, Identity and Sexuality

19. Towards a Regional Framework for Adherence to Children’s Human Rights in ASEAN? Sharon Bessell

20. The Human Rights of Older Peoples in Asia, Christie M. Gardiner

21. Opportunities and Challenges in Implementing Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights in Asia, Raja Devasish Roy

22. No Regional Pattern: LGBTIQ Rights and Politics in Asia, Anthony Langlois

23. A Right’s Based Approach to Indian Speech Laws, Raadhika Gupta

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