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 8 of the Yearbook covers a wide range of topics focusing on accountability under various legal regimes, which have been organized along four parts: Governance and Accountability, Justice and Accountability, Economic and Social Justice and Violence and Accountability.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Editorial
PART 1: Governance and Accountability
1 Paving the Way for a South Asian Human Rights Mechanism
Lessons Learnt from Regional Human Rights Mechanism with Special Reference to India and Sri Lanka
Nuwani Nirmani Rathugama
2 The Contradictions of the UK Human Rights Act
Thomas Phillips
3 Who Watches the Watchmen? Independent Observers, Constitutional Principles and Democratic Accountability
Ben Stanford
4 Law, Affective Bureaucracy, and the Registration of Public Satisfaction in Indonesia
Harison Citrawan and Sabrina Nadilla
PART 2: Justice and Accountability
5 General Measures in the Process of Enforcement of International Courts' Judgments: Between Subsidiarity and Binding Nature
Khanlar Gadjiev and Maria Filatova
6 Deferring to Consensus and Procedural Rationality: Assessing the European Court of Human Rights' Approach to Majoritarian Will
Ignatius Yordan Nugraha
7 Globalization of American Interpretation Debate: Originalists, Living Constitutionalists, and the Drifters
M Jashim Ali Chowdhury and Jubaer Ahmed
8 'Pay First' to Unlock the Appeal? A Controversial Appeal Provision in the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 of Bangladesh
Ashfaquzzaman Chowdhury
PART 3: Economic and Social Justice
9 Realizing the Right to Property under the Constitution of Bangladesh: Myths and Realities
Mohammad Towhidul Islam and Nurun Nahar Urmi
10 The Palu Disaster and Indonesia's Obligation to Ensure the Right of Adequate Housing and Land Rights: Mission Accomplished?
Aktieva Tri Tjitrawati, Mochamad Kevin Romadhona, Oemar Moechthar and Sri Endah Kinasih
11 Protection of Children on the Internet within the Legal Landscape of Bangladesh: An Appraisal
Mohammad Abu Taher, Siti Zaharah Jamaluddin and Tahsin Khan
PART 4: Violence and Accountability
12 Rohingyan Muslims, Monism and Expanding the Responsibility to Protect Mechanism
Zia Akhtar
13 Prospects of Environmental Liability before the International Criminal Court
A Case Study on the International Armed Conflict between Russia and Ukraine
Lakmali Bhagya Manamperi
14 The Problematic Inclusion of a Motive Element in the Indonesian Definition of Terrorism
Darul Mahdi
15 Reporting from War Zones: How Does International Humanitarian Law Protect Journalists?
Natia Kalandarishvili-Mueller
PART 5: Book Reviews
16 Book Reviews
