Critical and Emerging Issues in the Asia Pacific

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Lecture Topics

The normative (cultural, religious) contexts in the Asia Pacific region

G1

Critical approaches to human rights discourse (including a discourse on Asian values)

G2

Cultural relativism and human rights; contemporary discourse

G3

Human rights and the impact of religion-inspired nationalism

Relationship between deficits in democracy, processes of democratisation and human rights

G4

Democracy in South Asia: Critical and Emerging Issues

G5

Democracy, Liberal Constitutionalism and Asian Values: Lessons from East Asia

   G6 (I)

Human Rights Discourses in the Context of Postcolonialism and the Challenge of Nation Building

    G6 (II)

Discourse on Democracy and Human Rights in Post-Colonial Sri Lanka: Prospects & Challenges'

Human rights and development discourses (in the region)

G7

Globalization, its impact on rights consciousness and democracy

G8

Human rights, international financial institutions (IFIs) and the WTO

G9

Multinational Corporations and Human Rights

Human rights and the development discourse

G10

Sustainable development: economic, environmental and social dimensions

G11

The the rights-based approach to development and the right to development

G12

New development paradigm: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

G13

Implementation of socio-economic rights - a positive obligation

Key issues of concern in the Asia Pacific region

G14

Emerging labour issues: child labour

G15

International standards on migration and migrant workers: regional perspectives

G16

Human trafficking: international standards and regional perspectives

G17

National security/human security – both domestic and international

G18

Critical and emerging issues in feminist Discourse

G19

Disability and human rights – comparative policy perspectives

G20

LGBTQ rights: comparative approaches

G21

Religious Extremism in South Asia

G22

Nexus Between Environment and Human Rights