The UN human rights agenda has reached the mature age of 70 years and many UN mechanisms created to implement this agenda are themselves in their middle-age, yet human rights violations are still a daily occurrence around the globe. This book casts a critical eye on the rationale and effectiveness of each of the major UN human rights mechanisms arguing that most of them have remained toothless entities. It proposes measures to reform and strengthen the UN system by depoliticising the workings of UN human rights mechanisms and judicialising human rights at the international level, in order to create a system that is robust and fit to serve the 21st century.
Autorentext
Surya P. Subedi, OBE, QC (Hon), is Professor of International Law at the University of Leeds, member of the Institut de Droit International, former UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in Cambodia and barrister at the Three Stone Chambers, Lincoln's Inn, London.
Inhalt
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The place of human rights in the contemporary and globalised world
Chapter 2: The conceptual and international development of human rights
Chapter 3: Effectiveness of the UN human rights treaty bodies
Chapter 4: Effectiveness of the UN Human Rights Council and its challenges
Chapter 5: Effectiveness of the Office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights
Chapter 6: The UN Human Rights Special Rapporteurs and their effectiveness in protecting human rights
Chapter 7: Effectiveness of other UN charter-based bodies and agencies associated with the UN
Chapter 8: Reform of the UN human rights system and the judicialisation of human rights at the international level
Conclusions
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Index