The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights: Institutionalising Human Rights in Southeast Asia
Cambridge University Press, 7/7/2011
EAN 9781107004498, ISBN10: 1107004497
Hardcover, 324 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
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.
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.