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Human Rights in Eastern Civilisations: Some Reflections of a Former UN Special Rapporteur

by Surya P Subedi, Cheltenham, United Kingdom, Edward Elgar Publishing, 12 March 2021, 320 p., £95 (hardback), ISBN: 9781800883611

Pages 645-649 | Published online: 27 Feb 2023
 

Notes

1 See James Crawford, ‘Reflections on Crises and International Law’ in George Ulrich and Ineta Ziemele (eds), How International Law Works in Times of Crisis (Oxford University Press, 2019) 10.

2 See Human Rights Watch, ‘World Report 2022’ <https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/media_2022/01/World%20Report%202022%20web%20pdf_0.pdf> accessed 1 December 2022.

3 See Yu-Jie Chen, ‘Authoritarian International Law’ in Action? Tribal Politics in the Human Rights Council’ [2021] 54 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1203.

4 Eleanor Roosevelt, ‘The Promise of Human Rights’ Foreign Affairs (April 1948) <https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1948-04-01/promise-human-rights> accessed 1 December 2022.

5 See Tom Ginsburg, Democracies and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2021) 186.

6 See Rainer Arnold (ed), The Universalism of Human Rights (Springer, 2013).

7 Surya P Subedi, Human Rights in Eastern Civilisations: Some Reflections of a Former UN Special Rapporteur (Edward Elgar Publishing 2021) 1.

8 Subedi (n 7) 2.

9 Ibid., 7.

10 Ibid., 7.

11 Ibid., 8.

12 Ibid., 8.

13 See Ugo Bianchi, The History of Religions (Brill, 1975) 1: ‘The history of religions, as the term suggests, is a science which has as its object the manifestations in universal time and space of that human attitude which we call “religious”: an attitude which is hard to define or describe, even before we begin to discuss its nature, origin, and development.’

14 Subedi (n 7) 20.

15 Ibid., 23.

16 Ibid., 25.

17 Ibid., 26, 78.

18 Ibid., 28.

19 Ibid., 57.

20 Ibid., 60.

21 Ibid., 61.

22 Ibid., 100.

23 Ibid.

24 Ibid., 115.

25 Ibid., 117.

26 Ibid., 124.

27 Ibid., 122.

28 Ibid., 157.

29 Ibid., 186.

30 Ibid., 187.

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