The ASEAN intergovernmental commission on human rights : institutionalizing human rights in Southeast Asia
"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 evo...
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Cambridge,UK :
Cambridge University Press ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Charting the human rights institutionalization 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 (AICHR) and the role of civic 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