Bulletin n. 3/2011
February 2012
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • C. J. Petersen
    Bridging the Gap?: The Role of Regional and National Human Rights Institutions in the Asia Pacific
    in Asia-Pacific Law and Policy Journal , Volume 13, Issue 1 ,  2011 ,  174-209
    Although the United Nations has been encouraging the development of regional human rights mechanisms for decades, there is still no regional human rights commission or human rights court in the Asia Pacific region. The lack of such a mechanism is often attributed to the region‘s vast size and to the diversity of political, economic, and religious traditions. Yet it also reflects the region‘s strong commitment to Westphalian concepts of sovereignty and the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of neighboring countries. Taken together, these factors make it difficult to persuade governments in the Asia Pacific to give independent investigatory or judicial power to a regional (or even sub-regional) human rights institution.
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