Can ASEAN take human rights seriously? /

Can ASEAN take human rights seriously? /

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Author / Creator:Duxbury, Alison, 1970- author.
Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Integration through law : the role of law and the rule of law in ASEAN integration ; 16
Integration through law (Cambridge, England) ; 16.
Subject:
ASEAN. -- Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights.
ASEAN. -- Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights.
Human rights -- Southeast Asia.
Human rights.
Southeast Asia.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12576570
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Other authors / contributors:Tan, Hsien-Li, 1979- author.
ISBN:9781108566414
1108566413
9781108465908
1108465900
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:The adoption of the ASEAN Charter in 2007 represented a watershed moment in the organisation's history - for the first time the member states explicitly included principles of human rights and democracy in a binding regional agreement. Since then, developments in the region have included the creation of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights in 2009 and the adoption of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration in 2012. Despite these advances, many commentators ask whether ASEAN can take human rights seriously. The authors explore this question by comprehensively examining the new ASEAN human rights mechanisms in the context of existing national and international human rights institutions. This book places these regional mechanisms and commitments to human rights within the framework of the political and legal development of ASEAN and its member states and considers the way in which ASEAN could strengthen its new institutions to better promote and protect human rights.
Other form:Print version: Duxbury, Alison, 1970- Can ASEAN take human rights seriously? Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019 1108465900 9781108465908
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Reviews
  • Half-title
  • Series information
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Contents
  • General Editors' Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Sources
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Scope and Methodology
  • Chapter 1 Assessing Human Rights Implementation in Southeast Asia
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Compliance with Human Rights Standards
  • 1.2.1 Rights of Women and Children
  • 1.2.2 Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • 1.2.3 Civil and Political Rights
  • 1.3 Conclusion: The Human Rights Situation in ASEAN Member States
  • Chapter 2 Understanding the Tensions and Ambiguities in Southeast Asian Attitudes Towards Human Rights
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 National Experiences of Human Rights
  • 2.2.1 Self-determination and the Nation-building Process
  • 2.2.2 Foreign Aid and Human Rights Conditionality
  • 2.2.3 Constitutional Rights
  • 2.3 The Asian Values Debate
  • 2.4 The ASEAN Way and the Rise of Human Rights
  • 2.4.1 Deconstructing the ASEAN Way
  • The Principle of Non-Interference
  • Consensus Decision-Making
  • Informality
  • 2.4.2 The Relationship between ASEAN's Objectives and Human Rights
  • 2.5 Developments Surrounding the ASEAN Charter
  • 2.5.1 The Commitment to Human Rights in the Context of Regional Integration
  • 2.5.2 Why Human Rights?
  • 2.6 Conclusion: Status Quo or Real Commitment?
  • Chapter 3 The Utility of Human Rights Mechanisms in the ASEAN Region
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Regional Mechanisms
  • 3.2.1 AICHR
  • The AHRD
  • The Evolution of AICHR's Activities and Mandate
  • 3.2.2 The ACMW and the ACWC
  • 3.2.3 Assessment of Regional Tools
  • 3.3 National Institutions
  • 3.3.1 Access to Justice, Courts and Protecting Constitutional Rights
  • 3.3.2 Alternative Forms of Domestic Human Rights Protection: NHRIs and Civil Society
  • 3.4 International Mechanisms.
  • 3.4.1 International Treaty Obligations of ASEAN Members
  • Ratification of Human Rights Treaties
  • National Implementation of International Obligations
  • 3.4.2 ASEAN Members' Engagement with the Universal Periodic Review
  • 3.5 Conclusion: The Need for a Holistic Approach to Human Rights Implementation in ASEAN
  • Chapter 4 Operationalising Human Rights in ASEAN
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Soft Law Versus Hard Law Approaches to Enunciating Human Rights
  • 4.2.1 The Use of Soft Law in the International Legal Order and in ASEAN
  • 4.2.2 The Relationship between Soft Law and the ASEAN Human Rights Mechanisms
  • 4.3 Developing ASEAN's Human Rights Capabilities
  • 4.3.1 Reporting
  • 4.3.2 Investigation
  • 4.3.3 Recommendations
  • 4.3.4 Individual Communications and Binding Decisions
  • Individual Communications
  • An ASEAN Human Rights Court
  • 4.3.5 Membership Sanctions
  • 4.4 Conclusion: Improving the Legitimacy and Efficacy of ASEAN's Human Rights Mechanisms
  • Conclusion: Taking Human Rights Seriously in ASEAN
  • Executive Summary
  • Appendix 1 2009 Terms of Reference of Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights
  • I Purposes
  • II Principles
  • III Consultative Inter-Governmental Body
  • IV Mandate and Functions
  • V Composition
  • A Membership
  • B Qualifications
  • C Term of Office
  • D Responsibility
  • E Chair of the AICHR
  • F Immunities and Privileges
  • VI Modalities
  • A Decision-making
  • B Number of Meetings
  • C Line of Reporting
  • D Public Information
  • E Relationship with Other Human Rights Bodies within ASEAN
  • VII Role of the Secretary-General and ASEAN Secretariat
  • VIII Work Plan and Funding
  • IX General and Final Provisions
  • A Amendments
  • B Review
  • C Interpretation
  • Appendix 2 2012 Asean Human Rights Declaration
  • General Principles
  • Civil and Political Rights
  • Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
  • Right to Development
  • Right to Peace
  • Cooperation in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
  • Appendix 3 ASEAN Community Blueprints (Extracts)
  • ASEAN Political-Security Community Blueprint (2009-2015) (Jakarta: ASEAN Secretariat, June 2009)
  • ASEAN Political-Security Community Blueprint 2025 (Jakarta: ASEAN Secretariat, March 2016)
  • ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint (2009-2015) (Jakarta: ASEAN Secretariat, June 2009)
  • C Social Justice and Rights
  • C.1 Promotion and protection of the rights and welfare of women, children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities
  • C.2 Protection and promotion of the rights of migrant workers
  • ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint 2025 (Jakarta: ASEAN Secretariat, March 2016)
  • B.3 Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Strategic Measures
  • Appendix 4 Table of Treaty Ratifications
  • Index.

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