Focusing on world regions where human rights abuses are the most serious, extensive and sustained; this book fills a crucial gap in our knowledge of the difficulties and promise of promoting human rights in our global age.

BEI DAWEI Assistant Professor in the Foreign Language Department of Hsuan Chuang University in Hsinchu, Taiwan MAUREEN S. HIEBERT Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law and Society at the University of Calgary, Canada ADUGNA LEMI Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA BROWNE ONUOHA Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Lagos in Lagos, Nigeria ONYEKA OSUJI Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, UK RAB PATERSON Lecturer at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan, and a Part-time Lecturer at Dokkyo University's Faculty of International Liberal Arts, Japan PATRICK STREFFORD Lecturer in International Relations at Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan EVANGELOS VOULGARAKIS Teaches History of English Literature and Greek Mythology at Chih Lee Institute of Technology and Hua Fan University, Taiwan BIAGIO ZAMMITTO Independent Scholar and an Attorney at the Brussels' Bar, Belgium