The United Nations and Human Rights
A Critical Appraisal
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 April 2020
- ISBN 9780198298380
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages768 pages
- Size 240x170x40 mm
- Weight 1340 g
- Language English 90
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Short description:
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. It offers a comprehensive and expert analysis and critique of UN instruments and organs, including the Human Rights Council.
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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.
These essays 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.
Review from other book by this author ... an excellent study of the many different aspects of human rights in the EU ... The volume is all the more interesting since it has a multidisciplinary approach. It does not only focus on legal aspects of human rights policies, but also deals with anthropological, social and political views on the EU and human rights. ... exceptional ...
Table of Contents:
Appraising the UN Human Rights Regime, Philip Alston & Frédéric Mégret
Part I: The Human Rights Mandate of the Principal Organs
The Security Council, Frédéric Mégret
The General Assembly, Andrew Clapham
The Economic and Social Council, Frédéric Mégret
The International Court of Justice, Bruno Simma
Part II: Subsidiary Human Rights Organs
The Council and Commission on Human Rights, Rosa Freedman
The Consultative Committee, Laurence Boisson de Chazournes & Andrzej Gadkowski
The Commission on the Status of Women, Zehra Arat
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: Madeleine Heyward
Part III: Organs Monitoring Treaty Compliance
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 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, Andrew Byrnes.
The Committee on the Rights of the Child, Christine Evans
The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Janet Lord & Michael Stei.
The Committee on Enforced Disappearances, Olivier de Frouville
The Committee on the Human Rights of Migrant Workers, Vincent Chetail
Coordination between Treaty Bodies, Suzanne Egan
Part IV The Governance of Human Rights
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Andrew Clapham.
Human Rights Co-ordination within the UN System, Georges Minet
