Abstract
Distinct Asian visions of human rights were presented by Asians in the drafting process or existed in the intellectual swirl of Asia at the time. Recalling the context of the drafting described in the preceding chapter, five visions are presented in this chapter: China, India, Lebanon, all three formally presented to the drafters, and those of Vietnam and Indonesia, then fighting for their freedom from colonial rule. Together, they testify to the quest for freedom prevalent throughout Asia at that time: political, economic, and social freedom grounded in respect of human dignity and rights.
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Notes
- 1.
Susan Waltz, “Reclaiming and rebuilding the history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” p. 438.
- 2.
Susan Waltz (2002), p. 440.
- 3.
See Robert C. Hildebrand, Dumbarton Oaks. The Origins of the United Nations and the Search for Postwar Security. Chapel Hill and London, The University of North Carolina Press, 1990, pp. 237–240.
- 4.
Ibid, p. 238.
- 5.
E/CN.4/AC.1/18, 3 May 1948. reproduced in Schabas, op. cit. pp. 1475–76.
- 6.
E/CN.4/11., 31 January 1947, reproduced in Schabas, op. cit., pp. 175–176.
- 7.
Address by Dr Charles Malik, Minister Plenipotentiary of Lebanon in the United States, on behalf of Mr. Wadi Naim, Chairman of the Delegation of Lebanon, at the Third Plenary Session of the Conference at San Francisco on Saturday 28 April 1945. Reproduced in The Challenge of Human Rights. Charles Malik and the Universal Declaration. Edited by Habib C. Malik with a Foreword by Mary Anne Glendon. Published in 2000 by the Charles Malik Foundation in association with the Centre for Lebanese Studies, 59 Observatory Street, p. 38.
- 8.
A/PV.180, reproduced in Schabas, op. cit, p. 3028.
- 9.
Charles Malik and the Universal Declaration. Edited by Habib C. Malik with a Foreword by Mary Anne Glendon. Published in 2000 by the Charles Malik Foundation in association with the Centre for Lebanese Studies, 59 Observatory Street.
- 10.
Source: Ho Chi Minh, Selected Works. (Hanoi, 1960–1962), Vol. 3, pp. 17–21.
- 11.
Ibid.
- 12.
Herlambang, “Understanding Pancasila Position as the Fundamental Norms (Grundnorm) of Indonesian Law,” Southeast Asian Journal of Contemporary Business, Economics and Law, Vol. 13, No. 4, August 2017, p. 145 (pp. 145–155).
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A/PV.180, reproduced in Schabas, p. 3028.
Herlambang, “Understanding Pancasila Position as the Fundamental Norms (“Grundnorm”) of Indonesian Law,” Southeast Asian Journal of Contemporary Business, Economics and Law, Vol. 13, No. 4, August 2017, p. 145 (pp. 145–155).
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Ramcharan, R., Ramcharan, B. (2019). Asian Visions at the Time of Drafting. In: Asia and the Drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2104-7_4
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