The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Volume 7
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53861-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 940 g

Reihe: The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law aims to publish peer-reviewed scholarly articles and reviews as well as significant developments in human rights and humanitarian law. It examines international human rights and humanitarian law with a global reach, though its particular focus is on the Asian region.

Volume 7 of the Yearbook covers a wide range of topics, which have been organized along four central themes: Human Rights Protection and Erosion during the (Post-) COVID-19 Pandemic; Economic, Social and Environmental Rights Contestation and Evolution; Human Rights Protection of Vulnerable Persons; and Human Rights and Democratic Values under Threat.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vanhullebusch, Matthias

Foster, Steve

Stanford, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustration

Editorial

PART 1: Human Rights Protection and Erosion during the (Post-)COVID-19 Pandemic

1 “We Got Nothing to Lose”: Covid-19, Excessive Surveillance, and the Right to Privacy in China

Qian Liu and Yucong Zhang

2 Juristocracy before, during, and after COVID-19 in Hybrid Regimes: Evidence from Pakistan

Nauman Reayat

3 Home Renters’ Protection in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 Pandemic under the Rights’ Fabric of the Constitution: Options and Challenges

Mohammed Towhidul Islam and Md Jahid Al-Mamun

4 COVID-19, Inter-Religious Strife and the Erosion of Human Rights in India

Nafees Ahmad

5 Humanitarian Relief from COVID-19: The Treatment of Iran under the U.S. Unilateral Sanctions

Zeynab Malakouti Khah and Clive Walker

PART 2: Economic, Social and Environmental Rights Contestation and Evolution

6 The Imperative for Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Post-Civil War Sri Lanka

Muttukrishna Sarvananthan and Navaratnam Sivakaran

7 Just Transition on the Margins of Labour Law: Integrating Legal Adaptive Capacity and Philippine Administrative Legal Framework

Jayvy R. Gamboa

8 Coal Mining Operations and Environmental Rights Violations in the East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia

Mohamad Nasir

PART 3: Human Rights Protection of Vulnerable Persons

9 Marital Rape in South Asia: Colonial Origins and Postcolonial Challenges

Saumya Uma

10 Illegitimate Children Plight and Protection under the Malaysian Dual Legal System

Nadhratul Wardah Salman, Saroja Dhanapal and Shad Saleem Faruqi

11 Exploring Older Persons’ Financial Abuse in Malaysia: Protecting through Empowerment, Prevention and Enforcement

Mohammad Abu Taher, Olivia Tan Swee Leng, and Siti Zaharah Jamaluddin

12 The Un-peopling of Peoples: A Critical Study on the Justifiability of the Non-recognition of the Indigenous Peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts

Adity Rahman Shah

PART 4: Human Rights and Democratic Values under Threat

13 Towards the Criminalization of Torture in Taiwan: Prospects and Challenges

Pavel Doubek

14 From the Socialist Past towards Democratization and Back to the Authoritarian Regime: A Look through the Constitutional “Development” of Russia

Sergey Marochkin

15 Balancing Expectations of Privacy with Press Freedom: The UK Supreme Court’s Decision in Bloomberg v ZXC and the Balancing of Privacy and Free Speech by the European Court of Human Rights

Steve Foster