Asian Human Rights Mechanism: Problems and Prospects

Abstract

The Asian continent can be divided into four basic regions, The South Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East Asia and The Commonwealth of Independent nations. The nation which comes under the Middle East Asia falls under “Arab system of human rights.” The Commonwealth of Independent states are the countries which got segregated from the former USSR. Most of these commonwealth countries still lack a proper governmental setup and the possibility of having a human rights mechanism in this region is a distant dream. Although in the region of South Asia and Southeast Asia, a sincere effort has been made to achieve a common human rights mechanism, but the results were not very fruitful. In this paper we will try to look into the problems for not having a common human rights mechanism for this part of the sub-continent and will also try to apprehend the future of this region if we succeed to achieve a common human rights mechanism in this region.