Conclusion: Comparative reflections on human rights in Asia

Human Rights in Asia: A Comparative Legal Study of Twelve Asian Jurisdictions, France and the USA

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 487-516

  Chen, Albert H Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203008157     Document Type: Chapter

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2. C. S. Nino, Etica derechos humanos, Buenos Aires: Paidos Studio, 1984, p. 13, quoted in
3. Norberto Bobbio, The Age of Rights, trans, by Allan Cameron, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996, p. 64.
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5. Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: the Making of the Modern Identity, Cambridge, MA: Flarvard University Press, 1989, pp. 396-7.
6. San Antonio Independent School District v Rodriguez (1973) 411 US 1; see chap. 3 of this volume, pp. 100-1.
7. Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, New York: The Free Press, 1992.
8. See Albert Chen, "Confucian legal culture and its modern fate", in Raymond Wacks (ed.), The New Legal Order in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1999, chap. 0.
9. See generally Albert Chen, "Human rights in China: a brief historical review", in Raymond Wacks (ed.), Human Rights in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1992, chap. 5;
10. "Developing theories of rights and human rights in China", in Raymond Wacks (ed.), Hong Kong, China and 1997: Essays in Legal Theory, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1993, chap. 5.
11. Vietnamese leaders have also "stressed that human rights and economic development are inextricably linked": see chap. 15 of this volume, p. 472.
12. Information Office of the State Council, "Human rights in China", Beijing Review, 4-10 November 1992, pp. 8-45; also available in a booklet form.
13. See Albert Chen, An Introduction to the Legal System of the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths, 3rd edn, 2004, pp. 46, 54.
14. Randall Peerenboom, "Human rights and Asian values: the limits of universalism", China Review International, vol. 7, no. 2, Fall 2000, pp. 295-320, at p. 295.
15. E. P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: the Origin of the Black Act, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1977, p. 266.
16. See generally Yash Ghai, "Rights, social justice, and globalization in East Asia", in Joanne R. Bauer and Daniel A. Bell (eds), The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, chap. 10, at p. 249;
17. Yash Ghai, Human Rights and Governance: the Asia Debate, Asia Foundation's Center for Asian Pacific Affairs, Occasional Paper No. 1, November 1994, at p. 13;
18. Yash Ghai, "Human rights and Asian values", Public Law Review, vol. 9, no. 3, September 1998, pp. 168-82, at pp. 178-9;
19. Jack Donnelly, International Human Rights, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2nd edn, 1998, p. 20;
20. Michael Freeman, "Human rights: Asia and the West", in James T. H. Tang (ed.), Human Rights and International Relations in the Asia-Pacific Region, London: Pinter, 1995, chap. 2, at p. 23;
21. Inoue Tatsuo, "Liberal democracy and Asian orientalism", in Bauer and Bell (book cited above in this note), chap. 1, at p. 31.
22. Ian Neary, Human Rights in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, London: Routledge, 2002, p. 8.
23. For example, it has been pointed out that "Despite many convolutions and points of resistance, there appears to be a gradual trend towards participating in UN human rights regimes by ASEAN states ", "broadly correlating with levels of democratization": Philip J. Eldridge, The Politics of Human Rights in Southeast Asia, London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 2, 11.
24. See: www.hri.ca/vienna+5/vdpa.shtml.
25. Edward Friedman, "Asia as a fount of universal human rights", in Peter Van Ness (ed.), Debating Human Rights: Critical Essays from the United States and Asia, London: Routledge, 1999, chap. 3, at p. 58.