The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

A Normative Benchmark for Southeast Asia

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ID20071384
AuthorsElsa Lafaye De Micheaux (0000-0001-7748-4144, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, corresponding author)
Year2024
Pages31-57
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Palgrave Handbook of Political Norms in Southeast Asia (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherSpringer Nature Singapore (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-981-99-9655-1_3
OpenAlexW4399428620
ISBN9789819996551
LanguageEN
References cited15

The study of the regional dynamics of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a way to assess its normative power. Sometimes seen as locally inadequate and poorly implemented, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights also competes in Southeast Asia with other regional doctrinal discourses (such as Asian values). Evaluating its normative power can however be achieved by comparing trajectories, establishing typologies and seeking to draw trends. The reluctant, incomplete, disappointing and often misleading adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Southeast Asia is examined here in three stages: (1) Signature; (2) Progress and (3) Avoidance (from putting into practice). Throughout this chapter, certain questions will be raised: to what extent has the UDHR been incorporated into the local legal systems? Could ASEAN, as a regional association, not develop a specific human rights regime? Finally, might the UDHR conceivably constitute a normative and practical reference point for governments, associations and individuals

Cartography · Declaration · Ethnology · Geography · Human rights · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Sociology · Southeast asia · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Human Rights and Development · International Human Rights and Reproductive Law · Law

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