ABSTRACT
This chapter views international human rights law and its system. It looks at Asian countries' commitment to human rights obligations. Along with the creation of human rights treaties, the United Nations (UN) has been developing human rights mechanisms to monitor the implementation of international human rights standards in member states. Aside from the UN human rights system, there are regional human rights mechanisms used by the Council of Europe, African Union and Organisation of American States. In 2004, the UN Commission on Human Rights established a Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to investigate and report on the state of human rights in the country and on the government's compliance with its obligations under international human rights law. The Liberal Democratic Party, Japanese ruling party, was founded in 1955, and its leaders remain humiliated by the idea that Japan has been governed by an "imposed constitution" largely drafted by the United States.
