Full Description
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.
The focused theme of Volume 5 is Law, Culture and Human Rights in Asia and the Middle East.
Contents
Editorial
Javaid Rehman, Ayesha Shadid and Steve Foster
PART 1: Focused Theme: Law, Culture and Human Rights in Asia and the Middle East
1 Heritage Destruction in Syria and Northern Iraq: which is the Applicable Law?
Francesca Sironi De Gregorio
2 Countering Online Antiquities Trafficking Networks Financing Terrorism in Syria and Iraq
Barbora Dmitrienko and Layla Hashemi
3 International Law and the Protection of Cultural Property in Non-International Armed Conflict: Applicability to Non-State Armed Groups in the Syrian Conflict
Allison McClelland
4 Destruction and Looting of Cultural Property in Yemen's Civil War Legal Implications and Methods of Prevention
Julia Emtseva
5 Cultural Heritage Destruction during Islamic State's Genocide against the Yazidis
Seán Fobbe et al
6 Trust(s) 'with Chinese Characteristics' and Cultural Heritage Protection in the People's Republic of China
Simona Novaretti
7 Implementing the Obligation to Return Illicitly Exported Cultural Property to the Authorities of An Occupied Territory: Who Bears the Responsibility?
Sofia Poulopoulou
8 Human Rights and Underwater Cultural Heritage: Migrant Shipwrecks
Elena Perez-Alvaro
8 Human Rights and Underwater Cultural Heritage: Migrant Shipwrecks
Elena Perez-Alvaro
9 Amin Maalouf and the Value of Cultural Diversity for Universal Cultural Rights in International Law: Lessons from the Levant
Beatriz Barreiro Carril
PART 2: General Articles
10 Social Enterprise Groups for South Sudanese Refugee Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Torture Living in Settlements in Northern Uganda
Helen Liebling and Hazel Barrett
11 The Practice of Asian States Implementing the Principle for Protection of Monuments and Works of Art before World War I
Alice Lopes Fabris
12 Debunking the Pandora Box of Decolonisation: An Inquiry into Papuan Separatism from the Lens of International Law
D.D. Agusman, A. Afriansyah, I. Fadilah
13 Moving Past Postcolonial: Rethinking Indigeneity and Self-determination in Southeast Asia
Jing Min Tan and Alec Thompson
PART 3: General Articles
14 Reconciling Constitutional Law, Gender Equality and Religious Difference: Lessons from Shayara Bano, India's Triple Talaq Decision
Vrinda Narain
15 Cultural Legitimacy Lost Through the Denial of Cultural Rights within a Multicultural Context: the Case of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Niloufar Omidi
16 Character Education and Cultural Rights: The Case of Minorities in Iran
Tahirih T. Danesh
17 Protecting Environment through Judicial Activism in Pakistan and India
Zia Ullah Ranjah
18 Repatriation of Ainu Human Remains Excavated in Graveyards: Possible Solution under the Civil Code of Japan
Makoto Shimada
PART 4: Summaries of Documents
19 Summaries of Proceedings of Human Rights Monitoring Bodies (Covering the Period October 2019-December 2020)
Denise Venturi and Silvia Venier
