The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

List of Illustration

Editorial



PART 1: Human Rights Protection and Erosion during the (Post-)COVID-19 Pandemic



1 “We Got Nothing to Lose”: Covid-19, Excessive Surveillance, and the Right to Privacy in China

 Qian Liu and Yucong Zhang

2 Juristocracy before, during, and after COVID-19 in Hybrid Regimes: Evidence from Pakistan

 Nauman Reayat

3 Home Renters’ Protection in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 Pandemic under the Rights’ Fabric of the Constitution: Options and Challenges

 Mohammed Towhidul Islam and Md Jahid Al-Mamun

4 COVID-19, Inter-Religious Strife and the Erosion of Human Rights in India

 Nafees Ahmad

5 Humanitarian Relief from COVID-19: The Treatment of Iran under the U.S. Unilateral Sanctions

 Zeynab Malakouti Khah and Clive Walker



PART 2: Economic, Social and Environmental Rights Contestation and Evolution



6 The Imperative for Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Post-Civil War Sri Lanka

 Muttukrishna Sarvananthan and Navaratnam Sivakaran

7 Just Transition on the Margins of Labour Law: Integrating Legal Adaptive Capacity and Philippine Administrative Legal Framework

 Jayvy R. Gamboa

8 Coal Mining Operations and Environmental Rights Violations in the East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia

 Mohamad Nasir



PART 3: Human Rights Protection of Vulnerable Persons



9 Marital Rape in South Asia: Colonial Origins and Postcolonial Challenges

 Saumya Uma

10 Illegitimate Children Plight and Protection under the Malaysian Dual Legal System

 Nadhratul Wardah Salman, Saroja Dhanapal and Shad Saleem Faruqi

11 Exploring Older Persons’ Financial Abuse in Malaysia: Protecting through Empowerment, Prevention and Enforcement

 Mohammad Abu Taher, Olivia Tan Swee Leng, and Siti Zaharah Jamaluddin

12 The Un-peopling of Peoples: A Critical Study on the Justifiability of the Non-recognition of the Indigenous Peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts

 Adity Rahman Shah



PART 4: Human Rights and Democratic Values under Threat



13 Towards the Criminalization of Torture in Taiwan: Prospects and Challenges

 Pavel Doubek

14 From the Socialist Past towards Democratization and Back to the Authoritarian Regime: A Look through the Constitutional “Development” of Russia

 Sergey Marochkin

15 Balancing Expectations of Privacy with Press Freedom: The UK Supreme Court’s Decision in Bloomberg v ZXC and the Balancing of Privacy and Free Speech by the European Court of Human Rights

 Steve Foster