Human rights and democracy in Indonesia and Malaysia: Emerging contexts and discourse

Contemporary Southeast Asia

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 298-319

  Eldridge, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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EID: 48949110848     PISSN: 0129797X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (9)

1. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Human Rights Manual (Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1993), pp 177-201.
2. The argument that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is unacceptable on the grounds that these countries were not yet independent in 1948 is negated by the General Assembly’s adoption of the ICCPR and ICESCR in 1966.
3. The ICCPR has so far been ratified by 115 countries and the ICESCR by 118 (Depart­ment of Foreign Affairs and Trade, op. cit., p. 44).
4. Kishore Mahbubani, “The Dangers of Decadence: What the Rest Can Teach the West”, Foreign Affairs 72, no. 4 (September October 1993); Samuel Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?”, Foreign Affairs 72, no. 3 (Summer 1993); Samuel Huntington, “If Not Civilizations, What?”, Foreign Affairs 72, no. 5 (November December 1993). Similar arguments were taken up by another senior Singaporean, Tommy Thong-Bee Koh, “Does East Asia Stand for Any Positive Values?” International Herald Tribune, 11-12 December 1993.
5. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Human Rights Manual (Canberra: Austra­lian Government Publishing Service, 1993), pp 177-201.
6. The argument that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is unacceptable on the grounds that these countries were not yet independent in 1948 is negated by the General Assembly’s adoption of the ICCPR and ICESCR in 1966.
7. The ICCPR has so far been ratified by 115 countries and the ICESCR by 118 (Depart­ment of Foreign Affairs and Trade, p 44).
8. Kishore Mahbubani, “The Dangers of Decadence: What the Rest Can Teach the West”, Foreign Affairs 72, no. 4 (September/October 1993); Samuel Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?”, Foreign Affairs 72, no. 3 (Summer 1993); Samuel Huntington, “If Not Civilizations, What?”, Foreign Affairs 72, no. 5 (November/ December 1993). Similar arguments were taken up by another senior Singaporean, Tommy Thong-Bee Koh, “Does East Asia Stand for Any Positive Values?” International Herald Tribune, 11-12 December 1993.
9. Philip J. Eldridge, Non-Government Organizations and Democratic Participation in Indonesia (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995).