| ISBN |
9780198298380 (pbk.) |
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9780198298373 (hbk.) |
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0198298382 |
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0198298374 |
| Märkused |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Sisukord |
The Security Council / Frédéric Mégret -- The General Assembly / Andrew Clapham -- The Economic and Social Council / Frédéric Mégret -- The International Court of Justice / Bruno Simma -- The Human Rights Council / Rosa Freedman -- A critical appraisal of the Human Rights Council advisory committee / Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Andrzej Gadkowski -- The commission on the status of women / Zehra F Kabasakal Arat -- The permanent forum on indigenous issues / Madeleine Heyward -- The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) / Patrick Thornberry -- The Human Rights Committee / Ludovic Hennebel -- The committee on the elimination of discrimination against women / Andrew Byrnes -- The committee on economic, social and cultural rights / Philip Alston -- The committee against torture and the subcommittee for the prevention of torture / Andrew Byrnes -- The committee on the rights of the child / Christine Evans -- The committee on the rights of persons with disabilities / Janet E Lord and Michael Ashley Stein -- The committee on enforced disappearances / Olivier de Frouville -- The committee on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families / Vincent Chetail -- Reform of the UN human rights treaty body system / Suzanne Egan -- The high commissioner for human rights / Andrew Clapham -- Human rights co-ordination within the UN system / Georges Minet |
| Märkused |
The very concept of human rights implies governmental accountability. To ensure that governments are indeed held accountable for their treatment of citizens and others the United Nations has established a wide range of mechanisms to monitor compliance, and to seek to prevent as well as respond to violations. The panoply of implementation measures that the UN has taken since 1945 has resulted in a diverse and complex set of institutional arrangements, the effectiveness of which varies widely. Indeed, there is much doubt as to the effectiveness of much of the UN's human rights efforts but also about what direction it should take. Inevitable instances of politicization and the hostile, or at best ambivalent, attitude of most governments, has at times endangered the fragile progress made on the more technical fronts. At the same time, technical efforts cannot dispense with the complex politics of actualizing the promise of human rights at and through the UN. In addition to significant actual and potential problems of duplication, overlapping and inconsistent approaches, there are major problems of under-funding and insufficient expertise. The complexity of these arrangements and the difficulty in evaluating their impact makes a comprehensive guide of the type provided here all the more indispensable. Thisedited volume critically examine the functions, procedures, and performance of each of the major UN organs dealing with human rights, including the Security Council and the International Court of Justice as well as the more specialized bodies monitoring the implementation of human rights treaties. Significant attention is devoted to the considerable efforts at reforming the UN's human rights machinery, as illustrated most notably by the creation of the Human Rights Council to replace the Commission on Human Rights. The book also looks at the relationship between the various bodies and the potential for major reforms and restructuring |
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Ühinenud Rahvaste Organisatsioon
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komisjonid
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komiteed
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inimõigused
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rahvusvahelised lepingud
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õiguskaitse
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kriitika
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| Lisasõnad |
United Nations -- Commissions |
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Human rights |
| Täiendkirjed |
Mégret, Frédéric, toimetaja
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Alston, Philip, toimetaja
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| UDK |
341.1
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341.2
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