ABSTRACT
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY HAS BEEN TO INVESTIGATE THE POSSIBILITY OF establishing a regional inter-governmental human rights protection mechanism in East Asia with a focus on the contributions of NGOs to such a development. Chapter II investigated such concepts and issues as functionalism, regional integration, interdependence, the global civil society and NGOs as a theoretical tool to explore this research problem. These issues and concepts have indeed proven to be pertinent. Indeed, the Asian Charter of Human Rights (1996) was drafted as an embodiment of these issues and concepts and as a prospective step toward establishing a regional human rights arrangement in East Asia.
