2005 Handbooks

The minimum condition for our survival as human beings has become the basic shared concern for all communities. The need for adequate and effective protection and promotion of human rights for all is reflected through the ever-growing body of human rights instruments/law prescribed by global, regional and national authorities. The unit is a study of: (a) the historical development of human rights and their understanding in cross-cultural perspectives; (b) the global human rights regime within the UN system; (c) various regional human rights regimes (the European, African and American); (d) problems and prospects of a human rights regime in the Asia-Pacific; (e) the emerging international human rights standards for indigenous peoples; (f) the enforcement of international human rights standards in Australia; and (g) the new horizon of human rights, and the present and future human rights protection and promotion in global, regional and national contexts.