Routledge handbook of human rights in Asia / edited by Fernand de Varennes, Christie M. Gardiner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Increasing protection or vulnerability of human rights in Asia? / Fernand de Varennes -- Why Asian legal institutions fail to protect the human rights of the vulnerable / Nick Cheesman and Basil Fernando -- An emerging human rights regime as a tool for protecting the vulnerable in Asia? Lessons from the UN human rights system and other regional human rights regimes / Debra DeLaet -- Protecting the most vulnerable : opportunities for employing the UN mechanisms in East Asia / Rhona Smith -- Civil and political participation and minority rights protection in East Asia / Raees Begum Baig -- China's most oppressed : Uyghur exclusion and discrimination / Alim Seytoff and Henryk Szadziewski -- The politics of human rights in Myanmar / Naing Ko Ko -- An architecture of exclusion : Palestinian citizens of Israel / Kathleen Cavanaugh -- Human rights and corporate social responsibility in Southeast Asia / Kenneth Christie and Robert J. Hanlon -- Human rights defenders, foreign investment and land in Myanmar : a question of power and marginalisation / Alison Graham -- Human rights and conflict prevention in Southeast Asia : the protection gap / Robin Ramcharan -- The Rohingya and other Muslim minorities in Myanmar : human rights and the marginalisation of the most vulnerable / Niki Esse de Lang -- The treatment of former combatants in post-war Sri-Lanka : a form of arbitrary detention or rehabilitation? / Ambika Satkunanathan -- Recognising the rights of conflict widows : insights from Manipur, India / Upasana Mahanta -- Statelessness in Asia : an entrenched but solvable problem / Amal de Chickera and Laura van Waas -- Protecting the rights of refugees in South and Southeast Asia / Julia Mayerhofer -- Between protection and harm : trafficked persons in Southeast Asia : where do the violations end? / Emma Bowers and Elaine Pearson -- Southeast Asian regional cooperation and combating human trafficking / Huong Le Thu -- Towards a regional framework for adherence to children's human rights in ASEAN? / Sharon Bessell -- The human rights of older peoples in Asia / Christie M. Gardiner -- Opportunities and challenges in implementing indigenous peoples' human rights in Asia / Raja Devasish Roy -- No regional pattern : LGBTIQ rights and politics in Asia / Anthony Langlois -- A rights based approach to Indian speech laws / Raadhika Gupta.