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Asian perspectives on human rights
Title:
Asian perspectives on human rights
Author:
Welch, Claude Emerson.
Publication Information:
Boulder : Westview Press, 1990.
Physical Description:
vii, 310 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Based on conferences held in Buffalo in March 1987 and May 1988.
Language:
English
Contents:
International perspectives. Global change and human rights : Asian perspectives in comparative context / Claude E. Welch, Jr. -- The Asian region and the international human rights movement / Virginia A. Leary -- Asian cultural traditions and human rights. Islam, Islamic law and the dilemma of cultural legitimacy for universal human rights / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im -- Traditional values and universal human rights : caste in India / Jack Donnelly -- A Buddhist response to the nature of human rights / Kenneth K. Inada -- Group conflict and human rights. Ethnicity, ethnic conflict and human rights in Malaysia / Chandra Muzaffar -- Human rights NGOs in Indonesia and Malaysia / Daniel S. Lev -- Human rights as dynamic process : the case of India's untouchables / Barbara R. Joshi -- Human rights in mass-based ethnic conflict : South Asian examples of dilemmas of definition, monitoring and protection / Barnett R. Rubin.

(cont.) Protection of religious minorities and women : the impact of Islamic law in Pakistan / Asma Jahangir -- Human rights and the new industrial working class in Bangladesh / Shelley Feldman -- For further research. Human rights in South and Southeast Asia : a selective bibliography / Nina Cascio.
Subject Term:
ISBN:
9780813310145
Format :
Book