Shveta Dhaliwal

Human Rights Mechanism in South Asia

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an ideological framework for the establishment of a comprehensive human rights system in South Asia. * Presents theoretical bases for a human rights mechanism. * Studies existing international frameworks under United Nations and regional initiatives in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia (especially, the Arab world and East Asia). * Examines the state of human rights in 8 countries in South Asia, including the SAARC region - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. * Uses a multi-disciplinary approach, bringing together law, religion, culture, and contemporary political theories of regionalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781138218642
• ISBN-10: 1138218642
• Artikelnr.: 46166385

Autorenporträt

Shveta Dhaliwal teaches at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, Patiala, India. Her areas of specialisation are regional human rights systems, comparative political thought, geopolitics and international relations. She has published more than 40 research papers and presented over 150 papers in international and national conferences. She has an authored and three edited books to her credit. She is member of the Indian Political Science Association and the Indian Society of International Law and South Asian Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Judge Roberto Caldas Preface 1. The journey of human rights:
philosophical, political and legal 2. An overview of the existing regional
mechanisms of human rights in the world: the European and the
inter-American 3. An overview of the existing regional mechanisms of human
rights in the world: the African and the Arab 4. Human rights initiatives
within Asia 5. Human rights in South Asia and initiatives of South Asian
association for regional cooperation (SAARC) 6. Lessons for the proposed
South Asian human rights mechanism for the existing regional mechanisms 7.
The proposed road map for the establishment of a South Asian human rights
mechanism