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Volume 40    •  Number 1     •     June 2009

Special Issue: Human Rights in the Pacific  

Foreword Iain Byrne v
Protecting Human Rights in the Pacific  Petra Butler    vii

I       Country Reports
Papua New Guinea: Country Report on Human Rights   Freda Talao      1
Federated States of Micronesia: Country Report on Human Rights  Tina Takashy    25
Australia: Country Report on Human Rightsx Jennifer Corrin    37
New Zealand: Country Report on Human RightsNatalie Baird, Justice Susan Glazebrook,
and Sasha Holden    57

II     Reports from Regional Human Rights Mechanisms
The Experience of the Inter-American Human Rights System  Felipe González  103
Asia's Experience in the Quest for a Regional Human Rights Mechanism   Sou Chiam  127
Legal Pluralism, Customary Law and Human Rights in Francophone African Countries     Jacques Frémont  149
The European Experience: The European Convention on Human Rights   Kevin Boyle  167

III    Human Rights in the Pacific
Why do we Need a Pacific Regional Human Rights Commission?   P Imrana Jalal  177
A Pacific Human Rights Mechanism: Specific Challenges and Requirements  Kathryn Hay 195
An Indigenous Pacific Human Rights Mechanism: Some Building Blocks   Natalie Baird and
Valmaine Toki  215
Samoan Custom and Human Rights: An Indigenous View  Unasa L F Vaá  237
Implementing Human Rights in the Pacific through National Human Rights Institutions: The Experience of Fiji   Andrew Byrnes, Andrea Durbach and Catherine Renshaw  251
Human Rights Mechanisms in Small Pacific States: Implications for Dialogue about Regional Human Rights Mechanisms   Joy Liddicoat  279
Human Rights and the Environment   Justice Susan Glazebrook  293
Human Rights and the WTO: Issues for the Pacific   Sarah Joseph  351
A Balancing Act: Modern Equality vs Traditional Nobility in Tonga  Tim René Salomon  369
Land as a Fundamental Right: a Cautionary Tale   Sue Farran  387
Book Review: Human Rights in the South Pacific – Challenges and Changes C atherine Harwood  403

IV    Outcome Statements
Strategies for the Future: Protecting Human Rights in the Pacific, Apia, Samoa,
27-29 April 2008 Final Statement  409
Regional Workshop on the Establishment of National Human Rights Mechanisms in the Pacific: Aims and Outcomes   413
Samoa Declaration  417

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