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.
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.
Contents
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
