1st Edition

Human Rights Mechanism in South Asia

By Shveta Dhaliwal Copyright 2017
    274 Pages
    by Routledge India

    274 Pages
    by Routledge India

    Shveta Dhaliwal teaches at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, Patiala, India. Her areas of specialisation are geopolitics, regional human rights systems, comparative political thought and international relations. She has published more than 40 research papers and presented over 150 papers in international and national conferences.

    Foreword Judge Roberto Caldas  Preface  1. The journey of human rights: philosophical, political and legal 2. An overview of the existing regional mechanisms of human rights in the world: the European and the inter-American 3. An overview of the existing regional mechanisms of human rights in the world: the African and the Arab 4. Human rights initiatives within Asia 5. Human rights in South Asia and initiatives of South Asian association for regional cooperation (SAARC) 6. Lessons for the proposed South Asian human rights mechanism for the existing regional mechanisms 7. The proposed road map for the establishment of a South Asian human rights mechanism