Hsien-Li Tan

ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (eBook, ePUB)

Institutionalising Human Rights in Southeast Asia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This assessment of progress in Southeast Asia on human rights begins in the wake of the 'Asian values' debate and culminates in the formal regional institutionalisation of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR). Chapters examine the arduous negotiation of AICHR, the evolving relationship between ASEAN states' and the international human rights system, and the historical and experiential reasons for hesitancy. The text concludes with a discussion of how the evolving right to development impacts upon AICHR and international human rights in general, and how their preference for economic, social and development rights could help ASEAN states shape the debate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139140126
• Artikelnr.: 52939853

Autorenporträt

Tan Hsien-Li is the Executive Director of the 'ASEAN: Integration Through Law' project at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, which investigates the role of law and the rule of law in Asian legal integration.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Charting the human rights institutionalisation process in Southeast
Asia; 2. Enough of 'Asian values': roots of the ASEAN states' reticence
towards human rights; 3. Self-determination and democracy: the human rights
experiences of five ASEAN states; 4. Instituting the Regional Rights
Regime: the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights and the role
of civil society; 5. Human rights understanding between the ASEAN region
and the United Nations: convergence, regional cohesion and national
responsibility; 6. The unexplored aspect of human rights: what ASEAN needs
to understand about the right to development; 7. Sustaining AICHR's
substantive empowerment: implementation, integration, and international
law.