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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical Overview of Language and Law -- 2.1 LANGUAGE AND GOVERNMENTS -- 2.1.1 Of Language, Communities and Empires -- 2.1.2 Emergence of the Nation-State and Increasing Legal Restrictions -- 2.1.3 Language Restrictions in Modern Nation-States -- 2.1.4 Nationalism, Language and State -- 2.2 LANGUAGE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW -- 2.1.1 Pre-League of Nations Period -- 2.2.2 The Minorities Treaties Era -- 2.2.3 Post-World War II Developments -- 2.3 SUMMARY -- 3. Freedom of Expression -- 3.1 PRELIMINARY REMARKS -- 3.2 STATE APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION -- 3.3 INTERNATIONAL LAW, LANGUAGE, AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION -- 3.3.1 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- 3.3.2 European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms -- 3.3.3 Clarification of Relationship -- 3.4 ANALYSIS AND COMMENTS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND LANGUAGE -- 3.5 CURRENT NATIONAL RESTRICTIONS ON THE PRIVATE USE OF LANGUAGE -- 3.6 OFFICIAL LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS AND INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION -- 3.7 SUMMARY -- 4. Equality and the Prohibition of Discrimination Based Upon Language -- 4.1 PRELIMINARY REMARKS -- 4.2 DISCRIMINATION AND LANGUAGE IN STATE PRACTICE -- 4.3 LANGUAGE DISCRIMINATION IN INTERNATIONAL LAW -- 4.3.1 Pre-United Nations Period -- 4.3.2 United Nations System -- 4.3.3 American Continent -- 4.3.4 Europe -- 4.4 DEFINING A STANDARD FOR THE APPLICATION OF NON-DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUND OF LANGUAGE -- 4.4.1 Denial or Exclusion on the Ground of Language -- 4.4.2 Language Distinction, Restriction or Preference -- 4.4.3 Discriminatory Purpose or Effect -- 4.4.4 Unfavourable Consequences of Preferential Treatment -- 4.5 REASONABILITY OF STATE LANGUAGE PREFERENCE(S) -- 4.5.1 National Unity.

The absence of a specific right to one's own name in early international human rights treaties seems perplexing in the twenty-first century until one appreciates the historical and legal contexts which initially made this omission almost unavoidable. The growing importance of human rights in international law, of the obligation to recognize and respect individual identity, as well as the generality of certain human rights standards such as the prohibition of discrimination, the right to private life, and the right to a name, have led to an evolution in the understanding and interpretation of these standards in more recent years. It is now increasingly accepted in international law and state practice that individuals are generally entitled to state recognition and use of their own names—including names in a language which may not be official.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- List of contributors -- Foreword by Rita Izsák-Ndiaye -- Note -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- PART I: Strengthening Asian human rights institutions -- Chapter 1: The rights of the marginalised in Asia: increasing protection or vulnerability? -- Introduction -- Asia and the world's most vulnerable -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Why Asian legal institutions fail to protect the human rights of the vulnerable -- Introduction -- The problem -- Six routes to failure -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: An emerging Asian human rights regime as a tool for protecting the vulnerable in Asia? Lessons from the UN human rights -- Introduction -- The UN human rights system -- Regional human rights regimes -- A new human rights regime for Asia? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Protecting the most vulnerable: opportunities for employing the UN mechanisms in East Asia -- Introduction -- The UN framework -- Voices heard or suppressed? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Participation and exclusion -- Chapter 5: Civil and political participation and minority rights protection in East Asia -- Introduction -- Limited provisions for minority rights protection -- Arbitrary recognition of identity -- Defining minority -- Minorities, human rights and political participation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: China's most oppressed: Uyghur exclusion and discrimination -- Introduction -- Xinjiang and the establishment of purported Uyghur autonomy -- Marginalisation and exclusion of Uyghurs, despite their autonomy in Xinjiang -- Human rights violations of Uyghurs in the name of the 'war on terror' -- The 5 July 2009 Urumchi unrest and its ramifications.