Join us for a talk with Yvonne Tew, PhD candidate, Faculty of Law, on her recent paper. The paper aims to provide an analysis of the so-called Western and non-Western models of human rights protection and to examine whether tensions continue to frame discourse in this area, particularly after the Asian financial crisis in 1997. It argues that there is a need for a more developed model of rights protection that combines a contextual Asian perspective with a balanced liberalism approach, and make preliminary observations on the principles that will shape the contours of this balanced contextual approach.