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9-10 Kathmandu Sch. L. Rev. 53 (2021)
Regional Development of Human Rights in South Asia

handle is hein.journals/kslr10 and id is 63 raw text is: Kathmandu School of Law Review (KSLR), Volume 9 & 10, Issue 1, 2021, pp 53-64 https://doi.org/10.46985/kslr.v10iS1.2184 © KSLR, 2021 Regional Development of Human Rights in South Asia Anjana Dhital* Abstract Various human tights initiatives and developments have emerged in South Asia in the pastfewyears. These initiatives have been taken at the regional as well as national level. However, there exist various challenges because of which this region still lacks a regional human tights mechanism unlike any other region of the world. Thus, this paper explores the recent developments of human tights in South Asia. It studies the development of human tights in each South Asian state particularly. Further, this paper analyses the possible causative factors behind the slow pace of human tights development in South Asia alongside the failure to develop a regional human tights instrument. The paper does not address the initiatives taken by non-governmental bodies or ohil societies working in South Asia to develop the human rzghts perspectives. Only the governmental and inter-governmental measures have been taken into consideration. 1. Conceptual understanding Human rights are inherent rights or entitlements acquired by every individual by virtue of being a member of the human society. These rights belong to everyone irrespective of their race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status.' States have the utmost duty to guarantee and safeguard these rights to their people. Thus, they collaborate on regional as well as international levels in order to respect, protect, promote and fulfill these rights. Such form of co-operation has been encouraged in the regional as well as international forums and instruments2 since all states may not afford to safeguard these rights on their own without the assistance of the other state. As this paper deals with the development of human rights in the South Asian region, it is pivotal to understand the geographical formation of South Asia and its member countries primarily. South Asia is a clearly identifiable region with Himalayas in the North and Indian Ocean * Anjana Dhital is B.A.LLB. graduate from Kathmandu School of Law She is currently pursuing LLM at University of Essex, United Kingdom. She can be reached at anjanadhital6@gmail.com 1 Jean Marc Coicaud, Micheal Doyle & Anne Marie, The Globalization of Human zghts, United Nations University Press, New York, 2003, p. 25. 2 Azizur Rahman Chowdhury & Md. Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan, An Introduction to International Human zghts Law, Brill Publishers, Netherlands, 2010, p. 191. 53

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