This edited book adopts a prescriptive and culturally relative narrative to understand
and critique human rights within Asia. Simultaneously, it aims to understand how
human rights, especially, such as women's rights, are practised and protected by
Asian nations.
The book evaluates the realisation of Eurocentric human rights by Asian states in line
with their domestic needs and priorities. It delineates the alien nature of western
standards of human rights for Asia. Contributors focus on varied geographical
contexts including South Asia, China, and Vietnam. The chapters also cover the
protection of women’s rights in conflict zones in Myanmar, Kashmir and Afghanistan,
as well as regional human rights mechanisms.
Covering a diverse region, this book will be of interest to researchers and students of
international human rights, feminism and gender studies, particularly in the Asian
context.
Fozia Nazir Lone, PhD, is a distinguished academic and legal expert who serves as an Associate Professor and Associate Director - the Public Law and Human Rights Forum at the City University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on international law, international water law, human/women rights, and border disputes (India/China) and is an esteemed member of various professional organisations, including the Asian Academy of International Law, the International Water Resources Association, The International Water Law Academy at Wuhan University, China, AIDA (International Association for Water Law), The Grassroots Institute Canada, (Montreal) and Natural Resource Law & Governance (Turin, Italy).
Guobin Zhu, PhD, is a Professor of Law and Director of Public Law and Human Rights Forum at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK). Specialising in Chinese and comparative constitutional law, Hong Kong Basic Law, Chinese human rights law, the Chinese and Hong Kong legal system, and Chinese public administration, he has extensively published in these fields in English, Chinese and French. He is a Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, a Standing Council Member of the Association of Hong Kong Basic Law and Macau Basic Law, and a Council Member of the Chinese Association of Constitutional Law and Chinese Society of Judicial Studies.
Anthony Carty, PhD (Cambridge, UK), is Emeritus Professor of the Beijing Institute of Technology and Visiting Professor at the Peking University Law Faculty and Nanjing University Law Faculty; and formerly the Sir Y K Pao Chair of Public Law at Hong Kong University, Cheng Yu Tung Chair of Public International Law at Tsinghua University and Chair of Public Law at Aberdeen University (UK). His first Chair was the Eversheds Chair of Law at the University of Derby, where he learned the skills which made his work on UK and French legal archives possible, leading to his multiple translated History and Sovereignty of the South China Sea Islands. His standard academic activity has been books on The Decay of International Law and Philosophy of International Law, which have gone through several reprints and re-editions.
