Introduction : world heritage and human rights in the Asia Pacific and global arena / Peter Bille Larsen -- The World Heritage Committee and human rights : learning from event ethnography / Peter Bille Larsen and Kristal Buckley -- World heritage and human rights in Australia : from K'gari/Fraser Island to national processes / Ian Lilley, Kristal Buckley and Helena Kajlich -- Sambor Prei Kuk : demarcating the relationship between religion and cultural heritage as human rights in Cambodia / Jonathan Liljeblad -- Empowerment and human rights : comparing two cultural heritage cases in Xi'an, China / Harald Høyem -- World heritage and rights in Malaysia : a case study of Kinabalu Park World Heritage Site, Sabah / Amran Hamzah -- Cultural and participation rights in Bagan, Myanmar / Anne Laura Kraak -- Local rights in world heritage sites : learning from post-earthquake rehabilitation dynamics in the Kathmandu Valley / Sudarshan Raj Tiwari, Pranita Shrestha and Hans Christie Bjønness -- Vigan : world heritage as a "tool for development"? / Sara Dürr, Malot Ingel and Bettina Beer -- World heritage and ethnic minority rights in Phong Nha Ke Bang, Vietnam : cosmopolitan assemblages in neoliberal times / Peter Bille Larsen -- The inter-relationship of the World Heritage Convention and international human tights law : a preliminary assessment and outlook / Alexander H.E. Morawa and Gabriel Zalazar -- Legal frameworks for world heritage and human rights in Australia / Ben Boer and Stefan Gruber -- The World Heritage Convention and human rights in Nepal : a review of legal norms and practices / Bipin Adhikari -- World heritage and human rights policy and legislation in the Philippines / Lucille Karen E. Malilong and Mary Grace Ellen S. Villanueva -- World heritage and human rights policy in Vietnam : a legal review / Nguyen Linh Giang -- (Re)structuring rights and world heritage dynamics and looking towards the future / Peter Bille Larsen