The United Nations Human Rights Council As The Successor To The United Nations Commission On Human Rights
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Author | : Rosa Freedman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2013-03-12 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1135115141 |
The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Council’s mandate and founding principles demonstrate that one of the main aims, at its creation, was for the Council to overcome the Commission’s flaws. Despite the need to avoid repeating its predecessor's failings, the Council’s form, nature and many of its roles and functions are strikingly similar to those of the Commission. This book examines the creation and formative years of the United Nations Human Rights Council and assesses the extent to which the Council has fulfilled its mandate. International law and theories of international relations are used to examine the Council and its functions. Council sessions, procedures and mechanisms are analysed in-depth, with particular consideration given to whether the Council has become politicised to the same extent as the Commission. Whilst remaining aware of the key differences in their functions, Rosa Freedman compares the work of the Council to that of treaty-based human rights bodies. The author draws on observations from her attendance at Council proceedings in order to offer a unique account of how the body works in practice. The United Nations Human Rights Council will be of great interest to students and scholars of human rights law and international relations, as well as lawyers, NGOs and relevant government agencies.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Civil rights |
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Author | : William A. Schabas |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 4171 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139619624 |
A collection of United Nations documents associated with the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, these volumes facilitate research into the scope of, meaning of and intent behind the instrument's provisions. It permits an examination of the various drafts of what became the thirty articles of the Declaration, including one of the earliest documents – a compilation of human rights provisions from national constitutions, organised thematically. The documents are organised chronologically and thorough thematic indexing facilitates research into the origins of specific rights and norms. It is also annotated in order to provide information relating to names, places, events and concepts that might have been familiar in the late 1940s but are today more obscure.
Author | : Eric Tistounet |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2020-02-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1789907942 |
Since its establishment the work of the Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has been subject to many interpretations, theories, comments or conclusions. This comprehensive book dissects every aspect of the UNHRC’s work and analyses the efficiency of, and interactions between, its mechanisms. Authored by the first Secretary of the UNHRC, this book provides unique practitioner insights into the complex decision making processes of the Council alongside the core variations from its predecessor.
Author | : Bertrand Ramcharan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2013-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1136657029 |
The Human Rights Council is already the subject of major public interest and controversy. The Council is already being criticized for having dropped some of the protection strategies of the former commission and this book aims to present a balanced view of the council, acknowledging where it has made positive contributions, point out its deficiencies, and identify options for improving the body’s future work.
Author | : John P. Pace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 881 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0198863152 |
This book provides a comphrehensive account of the United Nations human rights programme, written by a world-leading expert with over 30 years' experience in the organization. It takes a chronological approach, starting with the launch of the Commission on Human Rights in 1946, and concluding with proposals for the future.
Author | : Philip Alston |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 769 |
Release | : 2013-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0198298374 |
This book analyses the UN's contribution to international human rights, and the desire to ensure that governments are held accountable for their treatment of citizens and others. This book offers a comprehensive and expert analysis and critique of UN instruments and organs, and of the new UN Human Rights Council.
Author | : James Pomeroy Hendrick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Civil rights |
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Author | : Rebecca Adami |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2018-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429795521 |
Who were the non-Western women delegates who took part in the drafting of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) from 1945-1948? Which member states did these women represent, and in what ways did they push for a more inclusive language than "the rights of Man" in the texts? This book provides a gendered historical narrative of human rights from the San Francisco Conference in 1945 to the final vote of the UDHR in the United Nations General Assembly in December 1948. It highlights the contributions by Latin American feminist delegates, and the prominent non-Western female representatives from new member states of the UN.
Author | : Sarah Joseph |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 1042 |
Release | : 2013-07-25 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0191650234 |
Now in its third edition, this book is the authoritative text on one of the world's most important human rights treaties, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Covenant is of universal relevance. Adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1966 and in force from 1976, it commits the signatories and parties to respect the civil and political freedoms and rights of individuals. Monitored by the UN Human Rights Committee, the Covenant ratified by the majority of UN member states. The book meticulously extracts and analyzes the jurisprudence over nearly forty years of the UN Human Rights Committee, on each of the various ICCPR rights, including the right to life, the right to freedom from torture, the right of freedom of religion, the right of freedom of expression, and the right to privacy, as well as admissibility criteria under the First Optional Protocol. Key miscellaneous issues, such as reservations, derogations, and denunciations, are also thoroughly assessed. Comprehensively indexed and cross-referenced, this book offers elegant and straight-forward access to the jurisprudence of the Human Rights Committee and other UN human rights treaty bodies. Presented in a clear and illuminating manner, it will be of use to the judiciary, human rights practitioners, human rights activists, government institutions, academics, and students alike.