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<strong>HUMAN RIGHTS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: </strong><strong>CIVIL SOCIETY PERSPECTIVES </strong>

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<strong>Abstract</strong>

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This book provides a civil society perspective on human rights in Southeast Asia. It features practitioner-author views on their engagement with the protection of human rights in the region through the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Through evidence-based research the practitioner-authors, collectively, identify gaps in human rights reporting and advocacy in the UPR, including on hard issues – such as the right to life, freedom of expression, extra-judicial killings and arbitrary detention - that are sometimes omitted in the current context of the rise of illiberal democracy in the region and elsewhere. The authors point to avenues for effective civil society concertation as the third cycle of the UPR begins in 2017. The practitioner-authors hail from civil society and human rights commissions as well as from academia. The book is based on the human rights programme of Asia Centre.

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