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Revisiting international human rights treaties: comparing Asian and Western efforts to improve human rights
This paper presents a review of existing literature to understand the effects and effectiveness of human rights treaties in the Asia Pacific region, particularly in Southeast Asian countries, in contrast to Western nations. The review argues that factors at the international/treaty level and factors...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680663/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34693302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43545-020-00018-0 |
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author | Ahdanisa, Dissa Syakina Rothman, Steven B. |
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description | This paper presents a review of existing literature to understand the effects and effectiveness of human rights treaties in the Asia Pacific region, particularly in Southeast Asian countries, in contrast to Western nations. The review argues that factors at the international/treaty level and factors at the domestic state level increase the difficulty of implementing effective international treaties on human rights. At the international level, the treaties and organizations to which states belong suffer some weakness as discussed in international relations theories, while seven factors are particularly important for promoting effectiveness of international human rights treaties at the domestic level: political capacity, economic development, national human rights institutes, regional human rights courts, regional intergovernmental organizations, strength of civil society, and political stability. Although the number of international human rights agreements signed and ratified by Asia Pacific states is increasing following the trends of Western states, less research focuses on the implementation and effects of these institutions. Asia Pacific nations face vastly different conditions than Western nations, such as more complicated security environments, larger cultural and religious differences, and less development and democratic values in some cases. Due to these differences, it is important to consider other potential variables that influence efficacy of treaty instruments for non-Western nations. What are the differences between implementation of human rights treaties in Western and Asian nations? How do they affect the efficacy of international agreements on individual human rights? |
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spelling | pubmed-76806632020-11-23 Revisiting international human rights treaties: comparing Asian and Western efforts to improve human rights Ahdanisa, Dissa Syakina Rothman, Steven B. SN Soc Sci Review Paper This paper presents a review of existing literature to understand the effects and effectiveness of human rights treaties in the Asia Pacific region, particularly in Southeast Asian countries, in contrast to Western nations. The review argues that factors at the international/treaty level and factors at the domestic state level increase the difficulty of implementing effective international treaties on human rights. At the international level, the treaties and organizations to which states belong suffer some weakness as discussed in international relations theories, while seven factors are particularly important for promoting effectiveness of international human rights treaties at the domestic level: political capacity, economic development, national human rights institutes, regional human rights courts, regional intergovernmental organizations, strength of civil society, and political stability. Although the number of international human rights agreements signed and ratified by Asia Pacific states is increasing following the trends of Western states, less research focuses on the implementation and effects of these institutions. Asia Pacific nations face vastly different conditions than Western nations, such as more complicated security environments, larger cultural and religious differences, and less development and democratic values in some cases. Due to these differences, it is important to consider other potential variables that influence efficacy of treaty instruments for non-Western nations. What are the differences between implementation of human rights treaties in Western and Asian nations? How do they affect the efficacy of international agreements on individual human rights? Springer International Publishing 2020-11-23 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7680663/ /pubmed/34693302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43545-020-00018-0 Text en © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Review Paper Ahdanisa, Dissa Syakina Rothman, Steven B. Revisiting international human rights treaties: comparing Asian and Western efforts to improve human rights |
title | Revisiting international human rights treaties: comparing Asian and Western efforts to improve human rights |
title_full | Revisiting international human rights treaties: comparing Asian and Western efforts to improve human rights |
title_fullStr | Revisiting international human rights treaties: comparing Asian and Western efforts to improve human rights |
title_full_unstemmed | Revisiting international human rights treaties: comparing Asian and Western efforts to improve human rights |
title_short | Revisiting international human rights treaties: comparing Asian and Western efforts to improve human rights |
title_sort | revisiting international human rights treaties: comparing asian and western efforts to improve human rights |
topic | Review Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680663/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34693302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43545-020-00018-0 |
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