Human Rights Mechanism in South Asia

This book provides an ideological framework for the establishment of a comprehensive human rights system in South Asia.

• Presents theoretical bases for a human rights mechanism.
• Studies existing international frameworks under United Nations and regional initiatives in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia (especially, the Arab world and East Asia).
• Examines the state of human rights in 8 countries in South Asia, including the SAARC region — Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
• Uses a multi-disciplinary approach, bringing together law, religion, culture, and contemporary political theories of regionalism.

A major intervention at a time of international human rights crises, this book will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of political science, law, history, human rights, and sociology.

Shveta Dhaliwal teaches at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, Patiala, India. Her areas of specialisation are geopolitics, regional human rights systems, comparative political thought and international relations. She has published more than 40 research papers and presented over 150 papers in international and national conferences. She has an authored and three edited books to her credit. She is member of the Indian Political Science Association and the Indian Society of International Law and South Asian Foundation.