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Human Rights and Participatory Politics in Southeast Asia is a significant and much-needed contribution to the theoretical and comparative literature on regional human rights mechanisms. Catherine Renshaw argues convincingly that regional human rights work and national debates inform and influence each other." * Mark Sidel, University of Wisconsin-Madison *
"An excellent and well-researched examination of the complex developments surrounding the rise of human rights in Southeast Asia. Catherine Renshaw offers a masterful analysis of the roles played by regional institutions in promoting and protecting human rights." * Teresa Tan Hsien-Li, National University of Singapore *
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I. FOUNDATIONS: LEGITIMACY OF A REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS REGIME IN THE ABSENCE OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY
Chapter 1. Democracy and Human Rights in Southeast Asia
Chapter 2. ASEAN's Turn to Democracy and Human Rights
Chapter 3. The ASEAN Human Rights Declaration
PART II. APPLICATIONS: ASSESSING THE REGIONAL DYNAMICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITMENT AND COMPLIANCE
Chapter 4. The Rights of Women at the Global, Regional, and Local Levels
Chapter 5. Trafficking in Persons
Chapter 6. ASEAN as a Purveyor of Human Rights in Myanmar
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
