From Strasbourg to the Asia-Pacific: The Need and Road to a Regional Human Rights Tribunal

Abstract

The significance of regional efforts to minimize if not eliminate the misery of persons with disabilities (PWDs) is undeniable. The United Nations (UN) fosters this definite need and encourages the establishment of regional human rights mechanisms in the form of courts, tribunals and commissions because they can take better account of regional conditions and peculiarities.[1]

  Asia and the Pacific are only areas of the world that do not have a regional human rights court or commission. A brief view of the significance of the regional efforts and recommendation for the establishment of a regional court for Asia Pacific region is conversed in this paper. The importance of the issue is discussed in the light of impact of United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) on the case law of European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the most effective regional human rights court in the world by examining some landmark cases to show its role in turning the lives of PWDs.

[1]  Regional Arrangements for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Asian and Pacific Region, A/RES/41/153  1986  <http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/resguide/r41.htm>  accessed 12 on Aug 2013