ABSTRACT
In this penultimate chapter, I have picked up the threads of the arguments built in the previous chapters, in general and particularly those arguments that were used to explain the development of international human rights monitoring by the UN and by regional human rights mechanisms. The present chapter is devoted to the lessons or inspirations South Asia and SAARC may draw from the successes and weaknesses of the human rights systems of the UN and other regions. It is important to reiterate here that all the regional human rights mechanisms have been greatly inspired by the international human rights system that is working under the UN. Also, the older regional mechanisms for human rights have taken lessons from the UN system for human rights, and similarly the newer regional regimes have adopted and learnt from the older regimes on human rights. To follow the same pattern this chapter takes lessons from all the existing mechanisms in order to prepare a blueprint for a new human rights mechanism for South Asia.
