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Equality in Asia-Pacific - Reality or a Contradiction in Terms? (Hardcover)
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Equality in Asia-Pacific - Reality or a Contradiction in Terms? (Hardcover)
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In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, stating every human being's
right of equality in dignity and right. However, notwithstanding
recognition by the international community of its importance and
codification in numerous national and sub-national constitutions
and legislation, reinforced by various multilateral and regional
human rights treaties, the right of equality continues to be unable
to take complete firm hold in all regions and countries. Evidence,
as presented by the insightful papers in this collection, published
initially as a Special Double Issue of The International Journal of
Human Rights dedicated to exploring the place of equality in
Asia-Pacific societies, suggests that although progress is being
made the right of equality has not yet fully materialized, both in
law and in reality, in the world's most populous region. Many
factors, particularly entrenched cultural heritage and practices,
the lingering effects of colonialism and newly found independence,
and, above all, pervasive ignorance and prejudices, continue to
impede the recognition, development and protection of equality in
this region. Of course, equality, a normative right and entitlement
by virtue of our humanity, has neither been fully achieved in
societies outside the region. Such neo-colonial thinking in fact
perpetuates and assists in the subjugation of the right of equality
in the Asia-Pacific Region as a matter of relevance and concern
only to Western countries. Accordingly, we hope that our
discussions will also be able to shed light and generate
reflections on realities outside the region as interlinked with our
aim. The Editor's book fee has been donated to the UNICEF Tsunami
Fund. This book was previously published as a special issue of The
International Journal of Human Rights.
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