The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Southeast Asia analyses some of the region’s most pressing human rights issues, while also giving attention to those actors and institutions that work towards improvement.
The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Southeast Asia analyses some of the region’s most pressing human rights issues, while also giving attention to those actors and institutions that work towards improvement.
Chapters by international experts in the field provide readers with a background on some of Southeast Asia’s most pressing human rights concerns. The book builds on, and contributes to, existing analyses of human rights in Southeast Asia to further enhance our understanding of what sits behind the region’s ambivalent human rights track record. Following an introduction on practices and futures of Human Rights in Southeast Asia, the handbook is structured in eight parts. The chapters cover a wide range of human rights issues including human rights debates at political and regional levels, and how human rights are experienced every day, such as the rights to food, water and work:
- Advancing Human Rights through ASEAN
- Refugees: Protecting Rights and Strengthening Agency
- Transitional Justice in Southeast Asia: Confronting the Past
- Balancing Moral Perspectives: Ideologies and Human Rights
- Intersections between Workers’ Rights, Corporations and the State
- Accessing and Maintaining Rights to Water, Food and Health
- On the Frontline: Human Rights Defenders
- Promoting Human Rights in Southeast Asia: New Directions and Strategies
The handbook considers political and social contexts in which human rights emerge, dynamics of their contestation and violation, and how rights are claimed. It demonstrates that human rights are a practice and goes beyond considering human rights as formal structures in laws, regulations and meeting rooms. A timely overview and analysis of the situation of Human Rights in Southeast Asia, this handbook will be a valuable reference work for scholars and practitioners in the field of Asian Law, Asian Studies in general and Southeast Asian Studies in particular.
Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
1. Introduction: Practices and Futures of Human Rights in Southeast Asia
Part 1: Advancing Human Rights through ASEAN
2. Civil Society Organisations
and Human Rights in ASEAN: Advancing Womens Rights through Women, Peace and
Security
3. Gender Mainstreaming in ASEAN: Progress and Challenges Part 2:
Refugees: Protecting Rights and Strengthening Agency
4. Refugee Rights,
International Pledges and Local Action in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand
5.
Extended Marginalisation, Emerging Agency and Human Rights Protection of the
Rohingya Part 3: Transitional Justice in Southeast Asia: Confronting the Past
6. Accountability for Mass Atrocities Crimes in Southeast Asia: The Struggle
for Regional Consensus
7. Human Rights, Illiberal Transitional Justice, and
Tactical Concessions in Cambodia and Indonesia Part 4: Balancing Moral
Perspectives: Ideologies and Human Rights
8. Human Rights and Moral
Ideologies: Mobilisations in the Philippines against Death Penalty
Reinstatement
9. Far-Right Islamism and its Corrosive Influence on Human
Rights Discourse in Malaysia 10.. LGBTQIA+ Rights in Crisis: Moral Belonging
and Political (Im)Possibilities in Indonesia
11. Moral Panics and the
Struggle for Gender Equality: Evangelical Christianity in the Philippines
Part 5: Intersections between Workers Rights, Corporations and the State
12.
The State, Business and Human Rights in the Philippines
13. The Right to
Social Protection at Work in Vietnam
14. Gig Rights and Wrongs: Struggles of
Precarious Online Transport Workers in Indonesia Part 6: Accessing and
Maintaining Rights to Water, Food and Health
15. Realising the Right to
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Southeast Asias Youngest Sovereign State:
Timor-Leste
16. Instant Noodles and Human Rights in Southeast Asia
17. The
COVID-19 Pandemic and the Limits of Human Rights: Southeast Asian
Perspectives Part 7: On the Frontline: Human Rights Defenders
18. The
Affective Violence of Anti-rights Discourses: Human Rights Defenders in the
Philippines
19. Civil Society and Environmental Activism in the Mekong
Subregion: A Shrinking Space
20. Normalising Abuse in Papua: How Systemic
Oppression Has Silenced Freedom of Expression Part 8: Promoting Human Rights
in Southeast Asia: New Directions and Strategies
21. Challenges and
Opportunities for Rights-based Climate Litigation in Southeast Asia
22. Art
and Human Rights in Southeast Asia
23. Alternative Media, Human Rights and
Democracy in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand
24. Youth Movements and
Evolving Discourses of Human Rights in Thailand
Amalinda Savirani is Professor in Politics at the Department of Politics and Government, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. Her research concerns Indonesian politics and particularly focuses on social movements of marginal groups in accessing their basic rights. She is co-editor, with Edward Aspinall, of Governing Urban Indonesia (2024).
Ken M.P. Setiawan is Senior Lecturer in Indonesian Studies at the Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne, Australia. She has widely published on the politics of human rights in Indonesia. She is co-author, with Dirk Tomsa, of Politics in Contemporary Indonesia: Institutional Change, Policy Challenges and Democratic Decline (Routledge, 2022).
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