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The
Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Southeast Asia analyses some of the region's most pressing human rights issues, while also giving attention to those actors and institutions that work towards improvement.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Practices and Futures of Human Rights in Southeast Asia
Part 1: Advancing Human Rights through ASEAN 2. Civil Society Organisations and Human Rights in ASEAN: Advancing Women's Rights through Women, Peace and Security 3. Gender Mainstreaming in ASEAN: Progress and Challenges
Part 2: Refugees: Protecting Rights and Strengthening Agency 4. Refugee Rights, International Pledges and Local Action in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand 5. Extended Marginalisation, Emerging Agency and Human Rights Protection of the Rohingya
Part 3: Transitional Justice in Southeast Asia: Confronting the Past 6. Accountability for Mass Atrocities Crimes in Southeast Asia: The Struggle for Regional Consensus 7. Human Rights, Illiberal Transitional Justice, and Tactical Concessions in Cambodia and Indonesia
Part 4: Balancing Moral Perspectives: Ideologies and Human Rights 8. Human Rights and Moral Ideologies: Mobilisations in the Philippines against Death Penalty Reinstatement 9. Far-Right Islamism and its Corrosive Influence on Human Rights Discourse in Malaysia 10.. LGBTQIA+ Rights in Crisis: Moral Belonging and Political (Im)Possibilities in Indonesia 11. Moral Panics and the Struggle for Gender Equality: Evangelical Christianity in the Philippines
Part 5: Intersections between Workers' Rights, Corporations and the State 12. The State, Business and Human Rights in the Philippines 13. The Right to Social Protection at Work in Vietnam 14. Gig Rights and Wrongs: Struggles of Precarious Online Transport Workers in Indonesia
Part 6: Accessing and Maintaining Rights to Water, Food and Health 15. Realising the Right to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Southeast Asia's Youngest Sovereign State: Timor-Leste 16. Instant Noodles and Human Rights in Southeast Asia 17. The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Limits of Human Rights: Southeast Asian Perspectives
Part 7: On the Frontline: Human Rights Defenders 18. The Affective Violence of Anti-rights Discourses: Human Rights Defenders in the Philippines 19. Civil Society and Environmental Activism in the Mekong Subregion: A Shrinking Space 20. Normalising Abuse in Papua: How Systemic Oppression Has Silenced Freedom of Expression
Part 8: Promoting Human Rights in Southeast Asia: New Directions and Strategies 21. Challenges and Opportunities for Rights-based Climate Litigation in Southeast Asia 22. Art and Human Rights in Southeast Asia 23. Alternative Media, Human Rights and Democracy in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand 24. Youth Movements and Evolving Discourses of Human Rights in Thailand
About the author
Amalinda Savirani is Professor in the Department of Politics and Government, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. Her research concerns Indonesian politics and particularly focuses on social movements of marginal groups in accessing their basic rights. She is co-editor of
Governing Urban Indonesia (2024) with Edward Aspinall.
Ken M.P. Setiawan is Senior Lecturer in Indonesian Studies at the Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses of the politics of human rights in Indonesia. She is co-author of
Politics in Contemporary Indonesia: Institutional Change, Policy Challenges and Democratic Decline (Routledge 2022) with Dirk Tomsa.
