Human rights in the Asia-Pacific region : towards institution building

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ISBN	9780415602549 (hbk.)
Call Number	KM572 H917 2011
Title	Human rights in the Asia-Pacific region : towards institution building / edited by Hitoshi Nasu and Ben Saul
Imprint	New York : Routledge, 2011.
Physical	xxii, 268 p. ; 24 cm.
Note	Out growth of the International Conference on Human Rightsin the Asia-Pacific Region held at the University ofSydney, Nov. 27-28, 2009
Note	The engagement of Asia-Pacific states with the UN Human Rights Committee : reporting and individual petitions /rIvan 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 UNtreaty monitoring bodies : principled sovereignty and slow appreciation / Wim Muller --Resistance to regional human rights cooperation in the Asia-Pacific : demythologizingregional exceptionalism by learning from the Americas, Europe, and Africa /Ben Saul, Jacqueline Mowbray andIrene Baghoomians --Persistent engagement and insistent persuasion : the role of the working group for an ASEAN human rights mechanismin institutionalising human rights in the region / TanHsien-Li --ASEAN : setting the agenda for the rights of migrant workers? / Susan Kneebone --Challenges for Aseanhuman rights mechanisms : the case of Lao PDR from agender perspective / Irene Pietropaoli --The role ofnetworks in the implementation of human rights in the Asia-Pacific region / Catherine Renshaw --Human rights commissions in times of trouble and transition : the caseof the National Human Rights Commission of Nepal / AndreaDurbach --Corporate human rights abuses : what role for the national human rights institutions? / Surya Deva --Rethinking human rights in China : towards a receptorframework / Mimi Zou and Tom Zwart
Subject	Human rights--Asia
Subject	Human rights--Pacific Area
Subject	National human rights institutions--Asia
Subject	National human rights institutions--Pacific Area
Coorperative Author	Nasu, Hitoshi, editor
Coorperative Author	Saul, Ben, editor
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