The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Editorial;
1. Focused Theme: ISIS & Implications for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
I. Nazir Afzal, Increasing the Civic Society Contribution to Tackling Extremism: We need a new Civic Response to Tackle Extremism
II. Michael Wood, Michael Legal Aspects of the Use of Force against ISIS
III. Mohamed Badar, The Self-Declared Islamic State and Ius ad Bellum under Islamic International Law
IV. Ignacio DeLa Rasilla, Ignacio An International Counter Terrorism Court in Nuce in the Age of International Adjudication?
V. Silvia Venier, & Denise Venturi, ISIS and the violations of human rights of sexual minorities: Is the international community responding adequately?
2. General Articles
I. Matthias Vanhullebusch, Fighting for Self-Determination: On equality of peoples and belligerents
II. Viviane Weng, Domestication of International Human Rights Norms in Taiwan: A dialogue through conventionality review under construction
III. Maartje de Vissier, Cultivating Judicial Conversations on Human Rights Protection under the Auspices of a Regional Rights Regime
IV. Rawa Al-Makky, The League of Arab States and the Arab Charter on Human Rights: an assessment
3. Recent Developments & State Practice
I. Eunwon Yi, Analysis of the Second Universal Periodic Review of the DPRK: Universality and Politicisation of Human Rights
II. Guo Sanzhuan, Independence of National HR Instiutions and linkage between International law and domestic law: A case study of National Human Rights Commission of Korea
III. Alessandra La Vaccara, IHL’s Achilles Heel: Ensuring compliance after the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
4. Documents
SAARC Conventions:
SAARC Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution;
SAARC Convention on Regional Arrangements for the Promotion of Child Welfare in South Asia;
Additional Protocol (to the SAARC Regional Convention on Suppression of Terrorism);
The Arab League:
Arab Charter on Human Rights;
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation:
The Cairo Declaration on human rights in Islam;
Statute of the OIC Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission;
Covenant on the Rights of the Child in Islam;
Index.