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Asian NGOs operate within a diverse and complex reality that spans the broadest ranges on the political, social and cultural spectra. This article traces the emergence of Asian NGOs from this reality and describes their relationship to social and intellectual movements, examining the interaction among professionals, intellectuals and activists. The article then outlines the roles of Asian NGOs in the protection and promotion of human rights. Conventional roles of standard-setting, promotion, monitoring and enforcement are discussed, as well as special roles in respect of conscientization and organization of marginalized and disadvantaged groups. Finally, some of the dilemmas presently confronting Asian human rights NGOs are examined.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- FOREWORD -- REFLECTIONS BY NOBEL LAUREATES -- Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Laureate in Literature (1991) -- M F Perutz, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1962) -- John Polanyi, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1986) -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate (1984) -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- VOICES: A Tribute to Human Rights -- INTRODUCTION -- PART II: THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM -- Chapter 1: The Perspective of the Victim -- Chapter 2: A Victims' Perspective on the International Human Rights Treaty Regime -- Chapter 3: International Labour Organization (ILO) Standards and Human Rights -- Chapter 4: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights -- Chapter 5: The United Nations Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power -- Chapter 6: Thematic Mechanisms and the Protection of Human Rights -- Chapter 7: The Country Mechanisms of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights -- Chapter 8: Closer to the Victim: United Nations Human Rights Field Operations -- Chapter 9: Toward an International Criminal Court -- PART III: HUMAN RIGHTS OF SPECIFIC GROUPS: CONCEPTUAL AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT -- Chapter 10: Recognizing and Realizing Women's Human Rights -- VOICES: Lessening the Suffering After Wartime Sexual Slavery -- VOICES: Work Tools: Patience and Understanding -- Chapter 11: A Vision for Children: The Convention on the Rights of the Child -- VOICES: John, An Australian Aboriginal Child -- VOICES: Alfredo, Abducted by RENAMO in Mozambique Susan, Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda -- Chapter 12: Indigenous Peoples and Their Demands within the Modern Human Rights Movement

Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a discursive space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions in human rights, citing issues and problems from different countries in the Third World