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Asian Human Rights Defender (Vol. 6 No. 1, June 2010)

October 20, 2010
3:41 pm
Newsletter

A Regional Human Rights Mechanism for South Asia

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CONTENTS

Main Feature: A regional human rights mechanism for South Asia

Establishing a Robust Regional Human Rights Mechanism
Kathmandu Declaration
SAARC and Human Rights
People’s SAARC: Enhancing inter-people linkages towards alternative regionalization
Cooperation needed to challenge regional impunity

Country Focus

Lingering issues besetting democracy in Pakistan
Thailand: Both sides must restrain from violence immediately
Violence will not solve Thailand’s crisis
A new hope for human rights in Japan?

ASEAN and Human Rights

Assessing AICHR’s potential to protect Human Rights Defenders
AICHR: Effective Rules of Procedures eeded to deal with violations
Civil Society Proposal for the AICHR Rules of Procedure

Advocacy

Emerging regional human rights infrastructure welcomed
NGOs raise regional priorities on human rights
The need is for protection not regulation
Sri Lanka: Violations by all parties need redress
Domestic laws contradict international uman rights standards
Burma: International pressure must remain to addresshuman rights violations
Cambodia Government must act beyond ‘acceptance’ of UPR recommendations

Features

Nepal activist wins 2010 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights
Human rights defender from India to receive human rights prize
Sri Lanka woman among 2010 International Women of Courage awardees
2010 Gwangju Asia Forum