...This chapter discusses Aboriginal sovereignty, which covers a spectrum of claims that can be conceptualized into three categories: equality rights, indigenous rights, and empowerment rights. Equality rights include the right not to be discriminated against and the rights to equal access to services...

...This chapter focuses on the transnational nature of the women's movements. “Transnational” here is referred to as the movement of ideas about women's status and rights across national borders, as well as the across-the-border organizing between women activists from different countries. The chapter...

...This chapter considers the strategies of one radical women's health organization (Linangan ng Kababaihan or Likhaan) to introduce a future discussion of abortion as a reproductive right. Since the latter topic is still very much taboo in the Philippines, it is important to explore how...

...–1921), the judge presiding over the case, agreed that the two practices were similar violations of individual rights and that both represented a subversion of the justice demanded by international norms. In the wake of his decision in the Maria Luz case, Ōe issued the first Meiji era...

... of contemporary economics. More specifically, it discusses Muelder's understanding of property rights in the context of a “responsible society” and its similarities to the Confucian ideal of harmony as understood from a social perspective. The chapter concludes by arguing that both communitarianism...

...This chapter focuses on the discussions on the subject of human rights in the Engaged Buddhism. Some scholars, both Asian and Western, argue that the concept of human rights is a Western concept that has no place in Buddhism. Others, Asian and Western, argue that the concept of human rights, while...

.... The chapter discusses development agreements as negotiated by a county and a landowner, as well as the applicability of the concept of vested rights—given that the vesting of rights is what often attracts a landowner-developer to the development agreement process. Plats Subdivisions Department of Planning...

... of ideology and nationalism displayed by Imperial-Way Zen during the war. The chapter also provides reflections on the resources Zen might offer its contemporary leaders as they pursue what they have identified as a pressing task: ensuring that Zen will promote peace and human rights and not be co-opted...

... for Tonghak and Korea, and he proceeded to work on the synthesis of Tonghak thought with a new discourse that advocated governmental reform, popular rights, and economic and social development. Kim Yŏn guk Son Ch’ŏn min Son Pyŏng hŭi Japan Kwŏn Tong jin March First Movement O Se ch’ang Yang Han muk...

... of human rights and fascism, Buddhism and democracy, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, and gender and power. The case of Aung San Suu Kyi and her mother, Daw Khin Kyi, shows that Burmese women are capable of crossing and translating across borders of culture and nation. Aung San Suu Kyi gender...

...). With the passage of the North Korean Human Rights Act, signed by US President George W. Bush in 2004, the adoption of North Korean human rights-related resolutions by the United Nations every year since 2005, and various accusations by NGOs over human rights violations in North Korea, the country’s human rights...

... with that of the western world, including those relating to personal responsibility, kin group, individual rights, social order, feminism, and expression of personal opinion. smile feast personalization population size respect conflict confrontation family land children food gender distinction marriage women...

... of recognizing Indigenous land interests, agreements have themselves given Indigenous groups greater political influence while failing to resolve questions regarding the rights of governments and others to intervene in the governance and exploitation of country. Bjelke Petersen administration Koowarta John...

... been a powerful ideal throughout Chinese history, and thus should be regarded as a crucial element of Asian values. While it is unclear that “rights”—in the sense of inalienable claims or moral entitlements to certain political and social goods—are endorsed in early Chinese texts, the very fact...

..., a cultural divide has widened between those voicing support for greater freedom of expression and individual rights, on one hand, and those committed to the promotion of public piety and ethnoreligious solidarity, on the other. To illustrate this point, the chapter provides an in-depth examination of how...

.... These lifestyle choices, in turn, shape the allocation of care rights and resources in the next generation. Similarly, ash scattering constitutes a lifestyle option that shapes the actors' generational relations in their late adulthood and after death. It is thus important to review the ways in which...

... as far-reaching as its constitutional ancestors, including the Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789) and the Constitution of the United States (1861). Whereas most constitutions are one-dimensionally modern and center on the nation-state as the most important level of community and polity, the Papua...

...This chapter explores the diversity of joint ownership practice. Records compiled in the course of preparing for the Meiji Land Tax Reforms of the 1870s show practices that range from a variety of joint ownership regimes to multilayered fragmentation of rights to a single plot. Noted land tax...

...This chapter explores the degree to which there is a relationship between redistribution interval and the natural environment by plotting out four villages that periodically redistributed cultivation rights on elevation maps prepared with geographical information system (GIS) technology. The study...

... overlaps a zhaizi community and thus enjoys relatively exclusive ownership rights over land within its territory. This situation has resulted in land rights shared between the administrative village and its villagers’ groups, as well as political differentiation among village cadres...