Human rights in the Asia-Pacific region : towards institution building, edited by Hitoshi Nasu and Ben Saul

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Human rights in the Asia-Pacific region : towards institution building, edited by Hitoshi Nasu and Ben Saul

Title remainder

towards institution building

Statement of responsibility

edited by Hitoshi Nasu and Ben Saul

Instantiates

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

Publication

• Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, England | New York, NY, Routledge, 2011

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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volume

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• nc

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

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

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644680110

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24 cm

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xxii, 268 pages

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9780415602549

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(hbk. : alk. paper)

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2011003142

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unmediated

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.b83335559

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(OCoLC)644680110