The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Editorial

 Javaid Rehman, Ayesha Shadid and Steve Foster



PART 1: Focused Theme: Law, Culture and Human Rights in Asia and the Middle East

1 Heritage Destruction in Syria and Northern Iraq: which is the Applicable Law?

 Francesca Sironi De Gregorio

2 Countering Online Antiquities Trafficking Networks Financing Terrorism in Syria and Iraq

 Barbora Dmitrienko and Layla Hashemi

3 International Law and the Protection of Cultural Property in Non-International Armed Conflict: Applicability to Non-State Armed Groups in the Syrian Conflict

 Allison McClelland

4 Destruction and Looting of Cultural Property in Yemen’s Civil War Legal Implications and Methods of Prevention

 Julia Emtseva

5 Cultural Heritage Destruction during Islamic State’s Genocide against the Yazidis

 Seán Fobbe et al

6 Trust(s) ‘with Chinese Characteristics’ and Cultural Heritage Protection in the People’s Republic of China

 Simona Novaretti

7 Implementing the Obligation to Return Illicitly Exported Cultural Property to the Authorities of An Occupied Territory: Who Bears the Responsibility?

 Sofia Poulopoulou

8 Human Rights and Underwater Cultural Heritage: Migrant Shipwrecks

 Elena Perez-Alvaro

8 Human Rights and Underwater Cultural Heritage: Migrant Shipwrecks

 Elena Perez-Alvaro

9 Amin Maalouf and the Value of Cultural Diversity for Universal Cultural Rights in International Law: Lessons from the Levant

 Beatriz Barreiro Carril



PART 2: General Articles
10 Social Enterprise Groups for South Sudanese Refugee Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Torture Living in Settlements in Northern Uganda

 Helen Liebling and Hazel Barrett

11 The Practice of Asian States Implementing the Principle for Protection of Monuments and Works of Art before World War I

 Alice Lopes Fabris

12 Debunking the Pandora Box of Decolonisation: An Inquiry into Papuan Separatism from the Lens of International Law

 D.D. Agusman, A. Afriansyah, I. Fadilah

13 Moving Past Postcolonial: Rethinking Indigeneity and Self-determination in Southeast Asia

 Jing Min Tan and Alec Thompson



PART 3: General Articles
14 Reconciling Constitutional Law, Gender Equality and Religious Difference: Lessons from Shayara Bano, India’s Triple Talaq Decision

 Vrinda Narain

15 Cultural Legitimacy Lost Through the Denial of Cultural Rights within a Multicultural Context: the Case of the Islamic Republic of Iran

 Niloufar Omidi

16 Character Education and Cultural Rights: The Case of Minorities in Iran

 Tahirih T. Danesh

17 Protecting Environment through Judicial Activism in Pakistan and India

 Zia Ullah Ranjah

18 Repatriation of Ainu Human Remains Excavated in Graveyards: Possible Solution under the Civil Code of Japan

 Makoto Shimada



PART 4: Summaries of Documents
19 Summaries of Proceedings of Human Rights Monitoring Bodies (Covering the Period October 2019–December 2020)

 Denise Venturi and Silvia Venier