Resistance to regional human rights cooperation in the Asia-Pacific: demythologizing regional exceptionalism by learning from the Americas, Europe and Africa: Ben Saul, Jacqueline Mowbray and Irene Baghoomians

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Resistance to regional human rights cooperation in the Asia-Pacific: demythologizing regional exceptionalism by learning from the Americas, Europe and Africa: Ben Saul, Jacqueline Mowbray and Irene Baghoomians

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ABSTRACT

While regional mechanisms for human rights protection were established in Europe in 1950,1 the Americas from 1959,2 Africa from 19813 and among Arab states from 2004,4 the Asia-Pacific has long been the last frontier of regional cooperation.5