Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Illustrations -- Editorial -- PART 1: Governance and Accountability -- 1 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 -- Nuwani Nirmani Rathugama -- 2 The Contradictions of the UK Human Rights Act -- Thomas Phillips -- 3 Who Watches the Watchmen? Independent Observers, Constitutional Principles and Democratic Accountability -- Ben Stanford -- 4 Law, Affective Bureaucracy, and the Registration of Public Satisfaction in Indonesia -- Harison Citrawan and Sabrina Nadilla -- PART 2: Justice and Accountability -- 5 General Measures in the Process of Enforcement of International Courts’ Judgments: Between Subsidiarity and Binding Nature -- Khanlar Gadjiev and Maria Filatova -- 6 Deferring to Consensus and Procedural Rationality: Assessing the European Court of Human Rights’ Approach to Majoritarian Will -- Ignatius Yordan Nugraha -- 7 Globalization of American Interpretation Debate: Originalists, Living Constitutionalists, and the Drifters -- M Jashim Ali Chowdhury and Jubaer Ahmed -- 8 ‘Pay First’ to Unlock the Appeal? A Controversial Appeal Provision in the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 of Bangladesh -- Ashfaquzzaman Chowdhury -- PART 3: Economic and Social Justice -- 9 Realizing the Right to Property under the Constitution of Bangladesh: Myths and Realities -- Mohammad Towhidul Islam and Nurun Nahar Urmi -- 10 The Palu Disaster and Indonesia’s Obligation to Ensure the Right of Adequate Housing and Land Rights: Mission Accomplished? -- Aktieva Tri Tjitrawati, Mochamad Kevin Romadhona, Oemar Moechthar and Sri Endah Kinasih -- 11 Protection of Children on the Internet within the Legal Landscape of Bangladesh: An Appraisal -- Mohammad Abu Taher, Siti Zaharah Jamaluddin and Tahsin Khan -- PART 4: Violence and Accountability -- 12 Rohingyan Muslims, Monism and Expanding the Responsibility to Protect Mechanism -- Zia Akhtar -- 13 Prospects of Environmental Liability before the International Criminal Court -- A Case Study on the International Armed Conflict between Russia and Ukraine -- Lakmali Bhagya Manamperi -- 14 The Problematic Inclusion of a Motive Element in the Indonesian Definition of Terrorism -- Darul Mahdi -- 15 Reporting from War Zones: How Does International Humanitarian Law Protect Journalists? -- Natia Kalandarishvili-Mueller -- PART 5: Book Reviews -- 16 Book Reviews.

The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law aims to publish peer-reviewed scholarly articles and reviews as well as significant developments in human rights and humanitarian law. It examines international human rights and humanitarian law with a global reach, though its particular focus is on the Asian region. Volume 8 of the Yearbook covers a wide range of topics focusing on accountability under various legal regimes, which have been organized along four parts: Governance and Accountability, Justice and Accountability, Economic and Social Justice and Violence and Accountability. See Less

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