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The Push for Regional Protection

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van Boven was instrumental in launching initiatives to re-invigorate and create regional human rights systems, including the African Commission, a proposed Asian Commission for the Asia-Pacific and an Arab Commission.

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    Commission resolution 24(XXXIV).

  2. 2.

    van Boven (1982), pp. 167–169.

  3. 3.

    A copy of the original letter is in the possession of the author.

  4. 4.

    van Boven (1982), p. 156.

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    The Permanent Arab Regional Commission existed on paper but had not yet become fully operational.

  6. 6.

    van Boven (1982), pp. 155–156.

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  • De Silva, EAG (1978) Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, Letter to Theo van Boven, dated 24 February, 1978

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  • van Boven TC (1978) Letter to EAG De Silva of the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, 3 May, 1978

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  • van Boven TC (1982) People Matter. Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, 1982. (Edited by Hans Thoolen)

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    Bertrand Ramcharan

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Ramcharan, B. (2018). The Push for Regional Protection. In: The Advent of Universal Protection of Human Rights. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02221-1_7

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