Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Southeast Asia

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, 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 the political and social contexts in which human rights emerge, the 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 human rights, the field of Asian Law, Asian Studies in general and Southeast Asian Studies in particular.

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 Women’s 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 Asia’s 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