Table of Contents

Contents:

Preface

1. Human Rights in Asia: Institutions, Norms and Politics
Thomas W.D. Davis

2. Muslim Debates on Human Rights and Freedom of Religion
Abdullah Saeed

3. International Networks and Human Rights in Indonesia
Michele Ford

4. Human Rights Discourse in Post-Marcos Philippines
Raul C. Pangalangan

5. Political Accountability and Human Rights in Singapore
Garry Rodan

6. Contesting Human Rights in Malaysia
Anthony Milner

7. Ambivalent About Human Rights: Thai Democracy
Michael K. Connors

8. The Challenge for Human Rights in Cambodia
Sorpong Peou

9. Human Rights Coalitions in Myanmar
Andrew McGregor

10. The Politics of Human Rights in India
Ranabir Samaddar

11. China’s Human Rights in ‘the Asian Century’
Ann Kent

12. Human Rights in Asia: Comparative Reflections
Brian Galligan

Index

About the Author

Edited by Thomas W.D. Davis and the late Brian Galligan, University of Melbourne, Australia

Reviews

This timely collection tracks legal, cultural, political and institutional developments concerning human rights and Asia over the last decade, and, crucially, helps to move the Asia/human rights discourse beyond the Asian 'values' debate. Covering both country-specific and thematic analyses, it will be a key addition to the library of all who are interested in the promotion and protection of human rights.’

Asia - in all its robust variety - is a hotbed of human rights controversy and conflict. It also harbours great potential and promise to improve the standards of human rights enjoyed by its peoples. This tremendously readable and insightful collection of essays shirks neither perspective, employing an impressive array of political, economic, cultural and legal arguments as to how to exploit the good and counteract the bad.’
*David Kinley, University of Sydney, Australia*