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Regional Institutions for Protecting Human Rights in Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Sidney Jones*
Affiliation:
Human Rights Watch/Asia

Abstract

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1995

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References

1 The bill is comprised of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR); and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

2 The United States became a party to the ICCPR in October 1992; it has signed but not ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

3 See Asian Cultural Forum On Development, Our Voice: Bangkok Ngo Declaration On Human Rights 1993).

4 Article 24, Bangkok Declaration, adopted by ministers and representatives of Asian states, meeting in Bangkok from March 29-April 2, 1993, pursuant to General Assembly resolution 46/116 of December 17, 1991. Reprinted in University of Hong Kong Law Faculty, Bill Of Human Rights Bulletin, March/April 1993, p. 78.

5 Concluding Remarks, Asia-Pacific Workshop on Human Rights Issues, Jakarta, Indonesia, 26-28 January 1993 (sponsored by the UN Center on Human Rights).

6 Wanandi, Jusuf, Asia, Too, Should Have a Human Rights Forum , IHT, October 20, 1992 Google Scholar.

7 The Improvement of the Human Rights System, in Our Voice: Bangkok Ngo Declaration On Human Rights, 52-53.