FOCUS 1997

Asian Turmoil

Editorial

The Impact of Asia in Pacific Today

Lopeti Sinutuli - Pacific Concerns Resource Center

Regional Protection of Human Rights in Asia

Vitit Muntanbhorn

World Bank and the NGOs

Human Rights and the 'Asian' Perspective

Akio Kawamura - HURIGHTS OSAKA

UN Human Rights Commission - Effort to Weaken?

Human Rights, Culture and the Schools

Events in the Region

HURIGHTS OSAKA Activities

Continuing Injustice

Editorial

Living with the Past

In the Name of the Indigenous Peoples

Japan and Multiculturalism

Peace and Development

Articulating Human Rights in the Context of Buddhist Ethics in Sri Lanka

Sasanka Perera - Univerity of Colombo

Harmonizing Asia's Cultural Values and Human Rights : The Validity of the Approach - Sri Lankan Experience

Basil Fernando - Asian Human Rights Commission

Events in the Region

HURIGHTS OSAKA ACTIVITIES

Seeing Situations As They Are

Editorial

Indian Cultural Values and the Promotion of Human Rights

Sebasti L. Raj, SJ and Bansidhar Pradhan - Indian Social Institute, New Delhi

Culture, Women and Human Rights

Binai Srinivasan - Pipal Tree, Bangalore

Japan and Cultural Development in East Asia - Possibilities of a New Human Rights Culture

Kinhide Mushakoji - Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo

Human Rights Statement from Asia

Events in the Region

Ciao Paulo

Social Catharsis and Impunity

Editorial

Crisis in the Chittagong Hill Tracts - Bangladesh

Adilur Rahman Khan

Bangkok Declaration on Peace in the Chittagong Hill Tracts 26 February 1997

Bangladeshi Child as Camel Jockey: An Inhuman Joke

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association

Asian Forum on International Migration Launched

The Pacific Charter

UN Workshops on Regional Arrangement for Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific

Right to Human Rights Education

HRE through Community Education

Dynamics of Cultural Values and Human Rights

Collective Rights in Asia

Unforced Consensus and Dialogue: Modes of Human Rights Understanding