HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGIONPDF电子书下载

Introduction: regional integration and human rights monitoring institution&HITOSHI NASU 1

PART ⅠInternational institutions 15

1. The engagement of Asia-Pacific states with the UN Human Rights Committee: reporting and individual petitions&IVAN SHEARER AND NAOMI HART 17

2. Human rights monitoring institutions and multiculturalism&N1SUKE ANDO 37

3. 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 49

4. 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 64

5. Chinese practice in UN treaty monitoring bodies: principled sovereignty and slow appreciation&WIM MULLER 87

PART ⅡRegional institutions: evolving mechanisms 105

6. 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 107

7. Persistent engagement and insistent persuasion: the role of the working group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism in institutionalizing human rights in the region&TAN HSIEN-LI 127

8. ASEAN: setting the agenda for the rights of migrant workers?&SUSAN KNEEBONE 144

9. Challenges for ASEAN Human Rights Mechanisms: the case of Lao PDR from a gender perspective&IRENE PIETROPAOLI 165

PART ⅢTransnational and national institutions 183

10. The role of networks in the implementation of human rights in the Asia Pacific region&CATHERINE RENSHAW 185

11. Human rights commissions in times of trouble and transition: the case of the National Human Rights Commission of Nepal&ANDREA DURBACH 209

12. Corporate human rights abuses: what role for the national human rights institutions?&SURYA DEVA 234

13. Rethinking human rights in China: towards a receptor framework&MIMI ZOU AND TOM ZWART 249

Index 264