New Volume: Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

The latest volume of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Vol. 8, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Part 1 Governance and Accountability
• Nuwani Nirmani Rathugama, Paving the Way for a South Asian Human Rights Mechanism: Lessons Learnt from Regional Human Rights Mechanism with Special Reference to India and Sri Lanka
• Thomas Phillips, The Contradictions of the UK Human Rights Act
• Ben Stanford, Who Watches the Watchmen? Independent Observers, Constitutional Principles and Democratic Accountability
• Harison Citrawan & Sabrina Nadilla, Law, Affective Bureaucracy, and the Registration of Public Satisfaction in Indonesia
• Part 2 Justice and Accountability
• Khanlar Gadjiev & Maria Filatova, General Measures in the Process of Enforcement of International Courts’ Judgments: Between Subsidiarity and Binding Nature
• Ignatius Yordan Nugraha, Deferring to Consensus and Procedural Rationality: Assessing the European Court of Human Rights’ Approach to Majoritarian Will
• M Jashim Ali Chowdhury & Jubaer Ahmed, Globalization of American Interpretation Debate: Originalists, Living Constitutionalists, and the Drifters
• Ashfaquzzaman Chowdhury, ‘Pay First’ to Unlock the Appeal? A Controversial Appeal Provision in the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 of Bangladesh
• Part 3 Economic and Social Justice
• Mohammad Towhidul Islam & Nurun Nahar Urmi, Realizing the Right to Property under the Constitution of Bangladesh: Myths and Realities
• Aktieva Tri Tjitrawati, Mochamad Kevin Romadhona, Oemar Moechthar, & Sri Endah Kinasih, The Palu Disaster and Indonesia’s Obligation to Ensure the Right of Adequate Housing and Land Rights: Mission Accomplished?
• Mohammad Abu Taher, Siti Zaharah Jamaluddin, & Tahsin Khan, Protection of Children on the Internet within the Legal Landscape of Bangladesh: An Appraisal
• Part 4 Violence and Accountability
• Zia Akhtar, Rohingyan Muslims, Monism and Expanding the Responsibility to Protect Mechanism
• Lakmali Bhagya Manamperi, Prospects of Environmental Liability before the International Criminal Court: A Case Study on the International Armed Conflict between Russia and Ukraine
• Darul Mahdi, The Problematic Inclusion of a Motive Element in the Indonesian Definition of Terrorism
• Natia Kalandarishvili-Mueller, Reporting from War Zones: How Does International Humanitarian Law Protect Journalists?

New Volume: Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

The latest volume of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Vol. 7, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Part 1: Human Rights Protection and Erosion during the (Post-)COVID-19 Pandemic
• Qian Liu & Yucong Zhang, “We Got Nothing to Lose”: Covid-19, Excessive Surveillance, and the Right to Privacy in China
• Nauman Reayat, Juristocracy before, during, and after COVID-19 in Hybrid Regimes: Evidence from Pakistan
• Mohammed Towhidul Islam & Md Jahid Al-Mamun, Home Renters’ Protection in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 Pandemic under the Rights’ Fabric of the Constitution: Options and Challenges
• Nafees Ahmad, COVID-19, Inter-Religious Strife and the Erosion of Human Rights in India  
• Zeynab Malakouti Khah & Clive Walker, Humanitarian Relief from COVID-19: The Treatment of Iran under the U.S. Unilateral Sanctions
• Part 2: Economic, Social and Environmental Rights Contestation and Evolution
• Muttukrishna Sarvananthan & Navaratnam Sivakaran, The Imperative for Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Post-Civil War Sri Lanka
• Jayvy R. Gamboa, Just Transition on the Margins of Labour Law: Integrating Legal Adaptive Capacity and Philippine Administrative Legal Framework
• Mohamad Nasir, Coal Mining Operations and Environmental Rights Violations in the East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia
• Part 3: Human Rights Protection of Vulnerable Persons
• Saumya Uma, Marital Rape in South Asia: Colonial Origins and Postcolonial Challenges  
• Nadhratul Wardah Salman, Saroja Dhanapal & Shad Saleem Faruqi, Illegitimate Children Plight and Protection under the Malaysian Dual Legal System  
• Mohammad Abu Taher, Olivia Tan Swee Leng, & Siti Zaharah Jamaluddin, Exploring Older Persons’ Financial Abuse in Malaysia: Protecting through Empowerment, Prevention and Enforcement  
• Adity Rahman Shah, The Un-peopling of Peoples: A Critical Study on the Justifiability of the Non-recognition of the Indigenous Peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
• Part 4: Human Rights and Democratic Values under Threat
• Pavel Doubek, Towards the Criminalization of Torture in Taiwan: Prospects and Challenges
• Sergey Marochkin, From the Socialist Past towards Democratization and Back to the Authoritarian Regime: A Look through the Constitutional “Development” of Russia
• Steve Foster, Balancing Expectations of Privacy with Press Freedom: The UK Supreme Court’s Decision in Bloomberg v ZXC and the Balancing of Privacy and Free Speech by the European Court of Human Rights

New Volume: Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

The latest volume of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Vol. 6, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Part 1 Festschrift: Professor Shaheen Sardar Ali
• Ayesha Shahid & Javaid Rehman, In Conversation with Professor Shaheen Sardar Ali 
• Shaheen Sardar Ali - Curriculum Vitae 15 Surya P. Subedi, The Status of Dalit Women in Nepal 
• Mashood A. Baderin, Prophet Muhammad as “A Mercy for the Worlds”: A Human Rights Perspective in Relation to the Blasphemy Laws and Respect for the Rule of Law in Pakistan 
• Nadjma Yassari, Caught Between Religion and Law: The Case of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) in Iran 
• Shahbaz Ahmad Cheema, Women’s Status in Islam: An Analysis from the Perspective of Private and Public Spheres 
• Lena-Maria Möller, Marital Choice and “Suitability” in a Heterogeneous Society: Some Reflections on Kafāʾa in the United Arab Emirates 
• Mamman Lawan, Al-Shaybani and Grotius: An Inquiry into Comparative International Law 
• Musa Usman Abubakar, Interrogating the Plea of Grave and Sudden Provocation In Islamic Criminal Law: Case Study of Pakistan 
• Ayesha Shahid, Child Domestic Workers in Pakistan: Challenges, Legislative Interventions, and Finding a Way Forward 
• Part 2 General Articles
• Siobhan Smith, The Role of Education in Protecting the Right to Culture of Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities and in Peacebuilding: The Rohingya 
• Ahmed Almutawa & Hajer Almanea, Analyses of Non-compliance to Legislation by Signatories to the Arab Charter of Human Rights: A Framework for National Observance and Regional Enforcement 
• Mohammad Danyal Khan, Redefining the Interaction Between Patents and Access to Medicines; Will World Trade Organisation (WTO) show Solidarity by Accommodating Human Rights?
• Part 3 Developments in State Practice
• Alexander Gilder, Contracting Space for Opposing Speech in South East Asia and Restrictions on the Online Freedom of Expression 
• Mamman Lawan, Nexus between Underdevelopment, Corruption and Legal Disorder in Nigeria 

New Volume: Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

The latest volume of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Vol. 5, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Part 1 Focused Theme - Law, Culture and Human Rights in Asia and the Middle East
• Francesca Sironi De Gregorio, Heritage Destruction in Syria and Northern Iraq: Which is the Applicable Law?
• Barbora Dmitričenko & Layla Hashemi, Countering Online Antiquities Trafficking Networks Financing Terrorism in Syria and Iraq
• Allison McClelland, International Law and the Protection of Cultural Property in Non-International Armed Conflict: Applicability to Non-State Armed Groups in the Syrian Conflict
• Julia Emtseva, Destruction and Looting of Cultural Property in Yemen’s Civil War: Legal Implications and Methods of Prevention
• Seán Fobbe, Natia Navrouzov, Kristen Hopper, Ahmed Khudida Burjus, Graham Philip, Maher G Nawaf, Daniel Lawrence, Helen Walasek, Sara Birjandian, Majid Hassan Ali, Salim Rashidani, Hassan Salih, Dawood Sulaiman Qari, & Faris Mishko, Cultural Heritage Destruction during the Islamic State’s Genocide against the Yazidis
• Simona Novaretti, Trust(s) ‘with Chinese Characteristics’ and Cultural Heritage Protection in the People’s Republic of China
• Sofia Poulopoulou, Implementing the Obligation to Return Illicitly Exported Cultural Property to the Authorities of an Occupied Territory: Who Bears the Responsibility?
• Elena Perez-Alvaro, Human Rights and Underwater Cultural Heritage: Migrant Shipwrecks
• Beatriz Barreiro Carril, Amin Maalouf and the Value of Cultural Diversity for Universal Cultural Rights in International Law: Lessons from the Levant
• Part 2 General Articles
• Helen Liebling & Hazel Barrett, Social Enterprise Groups for South Sudanese Refugee Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Torture Living in Settlements in Northern Uganda
• Alice Lopes Fabris, The Practice of Asian States Implementing the Principle for Protection of Monuments and Works of Art before World War I
• D.D. Agusman, A. Afriansyah, & I. Fadilah, Debunking the Pandora Box of Decolonisation: An Inquiry into Papuan Separatism from the Lens of International Law
• Jing Min Tan and Alec Thompson, Moving Past Postcolonial: Rethinking Indigeneity and Self-determination in Southeast Asia
• Part 3 Developments in State Practice
• Vrinda Narain, Reconciling Constitutional Law, Gender Equality and Religious Difference: Lessons from Shayara Bano, India’s Triple Talaq Decision
• Niloufar Omidi, Cultural Legitimacy Lost Through the Denial of Cultural Rights within a Multicultural Context: The Case of the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Tahirih T. Danesh, Character Education and Cultural Rights: The Case of Minorities in Iran
• Zia Ullah Ranjah, Protecting Environment through Judicial Activism in Pakistan and India
• Makoto Shimada, Repatriation of Ainu Human Remains Excavated in Graveyards: Possible Solution under the Civil Code of Japan

New Volume: Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

The latest volume of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Vol. 4, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Satvinder Juss, The Indian Death Penalty and the ‘Collective Conscience of Society’
• Tony Meacham, Situating Modern Indian Secularism: A Constitutional Perspective
• S. Pandiaraj, Right to Land as Part of the Right to Culture: An International Law Critique of the Recent Indian Supreme Court Order on the India’s Forest Rights Act 2006
• Adrija Ghosh, Debunking the Validity of Culture-Based Justifications for the Retention of the Marital Rape Exemption in India
• Niaz A. Shah, The ‘Unwilling’ and ‘Unable’ Test in International Law: The Use of Force against Non-State Actors in Pakistan and Afghanistan
• Steve Foster, Reconciling Religious Speech with the Duty to Maintain Equality and Diversity: The Decision in Ngole v Sheffield University 
• Fatima Ahdash, Childhood Radicalisation and Parental Extremism: How Should Family Law Respond? Insights from A Local Authority v X, Y and Z  
• Azizah Mohd & Nadhilah A. Kadir, Protection of Adopted Children’s Rights to Custody and Maintenance: An Appraisal of the Law Governing Muslims in Malaysia
• Muthanna Saari & Wan Noorzaleha Wan Hasan, The Extent of the Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression for the Parliamentary Immunity and Privilege
• Devashree Tulankar, Indigenous People in South Asia: Issues of Identity and Protection of Cultural Rights in a Changing World
• Bushra Malik & Syed Raza Shah Gilani, The Importance of Customary International Law for the Resurrection and Enforcement of the Norms: The UN Norms on the Responsibilities of the Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regards to Human Rights
• Matthias Vanhullebusch, The War on Terror on the Silk Road: Changing Discourses
• Zia Ullah Ranjah, Protection of the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief in Pakistan
• Saira Khan, Institutionalised Islamophobia: The Rise of European Nationalism against Freedom of Religion for Muslims
• Ahmed Almutawa & Khalid M. Aldweri, Bahrain’s Pioneering Role in the Protection of the Rights of Temporary Workers in the Gulf Region
• Taslima Yasmin, The Laws against Acid Violence in Bangladesh: Gaps in Implementation

New Volume: Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

The latest volume of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Vol. 3, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Law, Gender and Sexuality
• Shaheen Sardar Ali, Coming ‘Home’? Legal Developments Relating to Transgender Communities and Implications for Muslim Family Law
• Brenda Cossman, #MeToo, Sex Wars 2.0 and the Power of Law
• Ewa Kamarad, Necessity of Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages Concluded Abroad
• Erich Hou, Universalism or Cultural Relativism? Case Study of Same-Sex Marriage in Taiwan
• Giovanna Gilleri, Gendered Human Rights and Medical Sexing Interventions upon Intersex Children: A Preliminary Enquiry
• Farnush Ghadery, Sticking to Their Guns: The United Nations’ Failure to See the Potential of Islamic Feminism in the Promotion of Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
• Scott Titshaw, ART, Surrogacy, Federalism and Jus Sanguinis Citizenship in the US, Australia, and Canada
• Monica Ingber, Gender Imaginaries, Child Soldiering, and International Criminal Law
• Karenjot Bhangoo Randhawa, Responses of Resilience: The Delhi Gang Rape
• Sarah Grosso, Women’s Rights on Trial: Gender Equality in a Family Court in Ben Ali’s Tunisia
• Yoshiaki Sato, Where Are You Going, Snail? Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships in Japan
• Yumiko Kita, Democratising Criminal Justice Systems: Sexual Violence Cases in the Citizen Judge Trials in Japan
• Margaret Liu, Chinese Migrant Children: Do They Have the Right to Education?
• Muhammad Zubair Abbasi, From Faskh to Khula: Transformation of Muslim Women’s Right to Divorce in Pakistan (1947-2017)
• Ummni Khan & Jean Ketterling, Rape as Play: Yellow Peril Panic and a Defence of Fantasy
• Carlos J. Zelada & Carolina Neyra-Sevilla, Trans* Legalities: Preliminary Study of Files on the Recognition of Trans* Identities in Peru
• Anicée Van Engeland, Sexual Politics and Law in Iran: The Narrative Surrounding the 2013 Bills
• Thulasi K. Raj & Chandni Chawla, A Feminist Critique of Indian Criminal Law
• Matthias Vanhullebusch, Crime, Discrimination and Freedom in Asia
• Ben Stanford, Justice in Exile? The Implications of ‘Temporary Exclusion Orders’ for the Right to a Fair Trial
• Naveed Ahmed, An Appraisal of the Constitutional Developments and Its Impact on the Political Economy of Pakistan
• S. Pandiaraj, Women’s Right to Social Security and Social Protection: Mapping the Gaps in the Jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies

New Volume: Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

The latest volume of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Vol. 2, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Islamic Law and its Implementation in Asia and the Middle East
• Ibrahim M.H. Aljazy & Raneem Asad, Arab Constitutions: Islamic Law and Arab Identity
• Daniel Peterson, Blasphemy, Human Rights, and the Case of Ahok
• Muhammad Munir, The Share of Orphaned Grandchildren under Islamic Law and Pakistani Legal System: A Re-evaluation of Representational Succession in Section 4 and Its (Mis)interpretation by Courts
• Sheharyar Hamid, Drawing a Synergy between Theory and Practice – A Move towards a More Stakeholder-Oriented Regulatory Framework for Modern Islamic Finance Institutions: A Comparative Analysis
• Adnan Trakic, Towards Shariʾah Compliant Dispute Resolution in Islamic Finance
• Clive Walker, Foreign Terrorist Fighters and UK Counter Terrorism Laws
• David Keane & Tenia Kyriazi, The Emergent Right to Human Rights Education in GCC States
• Lawrence Emeka Modeme, The Security Council and the Legal Limits of Humanitarian Military Intervention
• Matthias Vanhullebusch, Patterns and Future Trends of Human Rights Protection in Asia
• Rosa Stella De Fazio, The Incorporation of International Law into the Palestinian Domestic Legal System: Analysis and Perspectives
• Gayathri D. Naik, Groundwater Regulation in India: Applicability of Public Trust Doctrine and Right to Participation in Decision Making to Achieve Right to Water
• Muhammad Abdullah Fazi, Pardis Moslemzadeh Tehrani & Azmi Bin Sharom, A Legal Analysis of the International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh: A Fair Trial Perspective

Inaugural Volume: Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

The inaugural volume of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Vol. 1, 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Focused Theme: ISIS & Implications for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
• Nazir Afzal, Increasing the Civic Society Contribution to Tackling Extremism: We need a new Civic Response to Tackle Extremism
• Michael Wood, Legal Aspects of the Use of Force against ISIS
• Mohamed Badar, The Self-Declared Islamic State and Ius ad Bellum under Islamic International Law
• Ignacio De La Rasilla, An International Counter Terrorism Court in Nuce in the Age of International Adjudication?
• Silvia Venier, & Denise Venturi, ISIS and the violations of human rights of sexual minorities: Is the international community responding adequately?
• General Articles
• Matthias Vanhullebusch, Fighting for Self-Determination: On equality of peoples and belligerents
• Viviane Weng, Domestication of International Human Rights Norms in Taiwan: A dialogue through conventionality review under construction
• Maartje de Vissier, Cultivating Judicial Conversations on Human Rights Protection under the Auspices of a Regional Rights Regime
• Rawa Al-Makky, The League of Arab States and the Arab Charter on Human Rights: an assessment
• Recent Developments & State Practice
• Eunwon Yi, Analysis of the Second Universal Periodic Review of the DPRK: Universality and Politicisation of Human Rights
• Guo Sanzhuan, Independence of National HR Instiutions and linkage between International law and domestic law: A case study of National Human Rights Commission of Korea
• Alessandra La Vaccara, IHL’s Achilles Heel: Ensuring compliance after the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent

Call for Submissions: Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law has issued a call for submissions for its inaugural volume and a call for papers for a conference on "ISIS and Implications for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law." Here's the call:

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Inaugural Launch Issue & International Conference on ISIS and Implications for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (June 2016)

The editors of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (AYBHRHL) and Koninklijke Brill NV Publishers invite submissions for the Inaugural Launch Issue of the Yearbook. The Launch will take place at an international conference due to take place in London during June 2016.

The Yearbook welcomes submissions in a wide variety of human rights and humanitarian issues including those focusing on contemporary socio-economic, legal and political developments impacting upon human rights and humanitarian law within Asia and globally. The Yearbook would also welcome submissions based on theoretical perspectives on human rights and humanitarian law with specific relevance to Asia.

AYBHRHL consists of the following sections:

Focused Theme:

Each volume of the Yearbook is focused on a particular theme. The theme for Volume 1 is: ISIS and Implications for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (This will be the focus of the international conference, the details of which are provided below).

General Articles:

Each Volume would publish a selection of Articles covering aspects of human rights law and humanitarian law with a broad regional focus on Asia.

Asian State Practices:

This section would cover range of State Practices in the field of human rights and humanitarian law.

Recent Developments:

This section would cover recent developments in the field of human rights and humanitarian law.

Book Reviews:

Each Volume aims to review books on human rights and humanitarian law, relevant to the Asian region.

ISIS and Implications for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

International Conference, Summer 2016

The editors of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (AYBHRHL) and Koninklijke Brill NV Publishers invite submissions for the International Conference due to take place in London in June 2016. Selected papers from the conference will be published in Vol.1 of AYBHRHL (2016). The conference focuses upon ISIS and human rights and humanitarian law issues arising from the conflict in Syria and Iraq. The conference themes can relate to any aspect involving ISIS including international and transnational terrorism, enslavement, prostitution and sexual slavery, torture, extrajudicial killings and human rights violations, violations of international humanitarian law, as well as Sharia law and the Sunni/Shia conflict of the region.

Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to:

• ISIS and international terrorism
• ISIS and the enslavement, prostitution and sexual slavery within Asia and Europe
• ISIS and Jihadi Brides
• ISIS and the use of social media
• Human rights violations in the Conflict in Iraq and Syria
• The applicability and ramifications for International humanitarian law in Syria and Iraq
• ISIS as an ‘Islamic’ Caliphate
• Religious perspectives on the conflict in Iraq and Syria
• Prevent strategy and counter-terrorism
• ISIS and the role of intergovernmental organizations, governments and security services in counter-terrorism

As noted above, selected papers from the conference will be published in Vol.1 of AYBHRHL (2016). Abstracts should be submitted on the basis that written papers will be available for review and publication.

Important Dates:

Submission of General Articles and Recent Developments for Volume 1: 4 January 2016

Submission of paper conference abstracts: 15 January 2016

Notification of acceptance of conference paper abstracts: 1 March 2016

Notification of acceptance of General Articles and Recent Developments and submission of completed conference papers: 12 May, 2016

Instructions for Submission:

General Articles and Recent Developments:

Articles for Volume 1 to be submitted to: Assistant Editor, Dr Meryl Dickinson, Brunel Law School, Brunel University London e-mail: Meryl.Dickinson@Brunel.ac.uk .

Submissions for General Articles should be between 8,000-10,000 words.

Submissions to Recent Developments should be between 3,000- 5,000 words.

Submission of paper proposals for the International conference:

This should include a paper proposal of not more than 500 words with a brief CV or biography. These should be submitted to: Assistant Editor, Dr Meryl Dickinson, Brunel Law School, Brunel University London e-mail: Meryl.Dickinson@Brunel.ac.uk

Accepted papers for publication should be between 8,000-10,000 words to be submitted to: Assistant Editor, Dr Meryl Dickinson, Brunel Law School, Brunel University London e-mail: Meryl.Dickinson@Brunel.ac.uk.