Author: Gudmundur Alfredsson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004180710
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
This revised and updated collection is intended to serve as a thematic textbook on the institutions and procedures devoted to the national implementation of human rights and to the international monitoring of State performance. Albeit not exhaustive, the coverage extends to most of the monitoring instances available at intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations: complaints, fact-finding and investigative procedures, State reporting obligations, good offices actions, dialogue functions, human rights education, dissemination of human rights information, letter campaigns, and technical co-operation. The target audience of the book is students of international human rights law, but the book can also serve as a guide for both officials and activists involved in the realization of human rights.The success of the first edition has allowed for this second edition. It demonstrates that there is a important demand for literature with a focus on human rights monitoring and follow-up activities.
International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms
Author: Gudmundur Alfredsson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004180710
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
This revised and updated collection is intended to serve as a thematic textbook on the institutions and procedures devoted to the national implementation of human rights and to the international monitoring of State performance. Albeit not exhaustive, the coverage extends to most of the monitoring instances available at intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations: complaints, fact-finding and investigative procedures, State reporting obligations, good offices actions, dialogue functions, human rights education, dissemination of human rights information, letter campaigns, and technical co-operation. The target audience of the book is students of international human rights law, but the book can also serve as a guide for both officials and activists involved in the realization of human rights.The success of the first edition has allowed for this second edition. It demonstrates that there is a important demand for literature with a focus on human rights monitoring and follow-up activities.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004180710
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
This revised and updated collection is intended to serve as a thematic textbook on the institutions and procedures devoted to the national implementation of human rights and to the international monitoring of State performance. Albeit not exhaustive, the coverage extends to most of the monitoring instances available at intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations: complaints, fact-finding and investigative procedures, State reporting obligations, good offices actions, dialogue functions, human rights education, dissemination of human rights information, letter campaigns, and technical co-operation. The target audience of the book is students of international human rights law, but the book can also serve as a guide for both officials and activists involved in the realization of human rights.The success of the first edition has allowed for this second edition. It demonstrates that there is a important demand for literature with a focus on human rights monitoring and follow-up activities.
Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms of the Council of Europe
Author: Gauthier De Beco
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415581621
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book explores the human rights monitoring mechanisms of the Council of Europe: the Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the European Committee of Social Rights, the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, the Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance. The book will look at each mechanism in turn and consider a number of issues including: at the role and procedures; its effectiveness in terms of monitoring ands ensuring its findings are implemented; its level of cooperation with other international actors including other organs of the Council of Europe, UN and EU bodies, NGOs and national human rights institutions and ombudsmen; its relationship with the European Court of Human Rights; and whether human rights indicators would be useful in improving its monitoring. Each chapter will be written by an expert in the field. The introduction to the volume will outline the common features and purposes of these mechanisms as well as key questions to be addressed in the following chapters, while the conclusion will provide an evaluation of their effectiveness and consider future perspectives.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415581621
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book explores the human rights monitoring mechanisms of the Council of Europe: the Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the European Committee of Social Rights, the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, the Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance. The book will look at each mechanism in turn and consider a number of issues including: at the role and procedures; its effectiveness in terms of monitoring ands ensuring its findings are implemented; its level of cooperation with other international actors including other organs of the Council of Europe, UN and EU bodies, NGOs and national human rights institutions and ombudsmen; its relationship with the European Court of Human Rights; and whether human rights indicators would be useful in improving its monitoring. Each chapter will be written by an expert in the field. The introduction to the volume will outline the common features and purposes of these mechanisms as well as key questions to be addressed in the following chapters, while the conclusion will provide an evaluation of their effectiveness and consider future perspectives.
International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms:Essays in Honour of Jakob T. H. Mholler
Author: Jakob Mholler
Publisher: Springer
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Burdekin and Anne Gallagher.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Burdekin and Anne Gallagher.
The Core International Human Rights Treaties
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This publication reproduces the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the nine core international human rights treaties and their optional protocols in a user-friendly format to make them more accessible, in particular to government officials, civil society, human rights defenders, legal practitioners, scholars, individual citizens and others with an interest in human rights norms and standards.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This publication reproduces the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the nine core international human rights treaties and their optional protocols in a user-friendly format to make them more accessible, in particular to government officials, civil society, human rights defenders, legal practitioners, scholars, individual citizens and others with an interest in human rights norms and standards.
International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms
Author: Alfred Zayas
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004478884
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
This collection is intended to serve as a thematic textbook on the institutions and procedures devoted to the national implementation of human rights and to the international monitoring of State performance. Albeit not exhaustive, the coverage extends to most of the monitoring instances available at intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations: complaints, fact-finding and investigative procedures, State reporting obligations, good offices actions, dialogue functions, human rights education, dissemination of human rights information, letter campaigns, and technical co-operation. The target audience of the book is students of international human rights law, but the book can also serve as a guide for both officials and activists involved in the realization of human rights.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004478884
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
This collection is intended to serve as a thematic textbook on the institutions and procedures devoted to the national implementation of human rights and to the international monitoring of State performance. Albeit not exhaustive, the coverage extends to most of the monitoring instances available at intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations: complaints, fact-finding and investigative procedures, State reporting obligations, good offices actions, dialogue functions, human rights education, dissemination of human rights information, letter campaigns, and technical co-operation. The target audience of the book is students of international human rights law, but the book can also serve as a guide for both officials and activists involved in the realization of human rights.
Human Rights Monitoring
Author: Anette Faye Jacobsen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004165177
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
Monitoring is a crucial mechanism to secure and improve implementation of human rights. Field officers and other human rights defenders are key agents in monitoring, and thus contribute to securing human rights in practice. This manual is meant to provide information on basic monitoring techniques and to give a focused overview of current human rights law and practice in selected areas of importance for most practitioners working with human rights monitoring. It contains checklists for monitors, as well as references to key literature, handbooks and web resources for further information. It also includes annotated lists of instrument provisions relevant to each theme. The manual is intended for people of various backgrounds, including field officers and activists with no specific legal training.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004165177
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
Monitoring is a crucial mechanism to secure and improve implementation of human rights. Field officers and other human rights defenders are key agents in monitoring, and thus contribute to securing human rights in practice. This manual is meant to provide information on basic monitoring techniques and to give a focused overview of current human rights law and practice in selected areas of importance for most practitioners working with human rights monitoring. It contains checklists for monitors, as well as references to key literature, handbooks and web resources for further information. It also includes annotated lists of instrument provisions relevant to each theme. The manual is intended for people of various backgrounds, including field officers and activists with no specific legal training.
International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms
Author: Jakob Th Möller
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789041114464
Category : Festschriften
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Burdekin and Anne Gallagher
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789041114464
Category : Festschriften
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Burdekin and Anne Gallagher
UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies
Author: Leena Grover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107006546
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
An analysis of the UN human rights treaty bodies, their methods of interpretation, their effectiveness and issues of legitimacy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107006546
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
An analysis of the UN human rights treaty bodies, their methods of interpretation, their effectiveness and issues of legitimacy.
International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms
Author: Brice Dickson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1803920513
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Brice Dickson examines the engagement of the United Kingdom with international human rights monitoring mechanisms, in particular those operated by the United Nations and the Council of Europe since 2000. Dickson explores how these mechanisms work in practice and whether they have any identifiable impact on how human rights are protected in the UK.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1803920513
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Brice Dickson examines the engagement of the United Kingdom with international human rights monitoring mechanisms, in particular those operated by the United Nations and the Council of Europe since 2000. Dickson explores how these mechanisms work in practice and whether they have any identifiable impact on how human rights are protected in the UK.
Failing to Protect
Author: Rosa Freedman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190222549
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
BL Explains why the respect in which the UN is held is not matched by admiration for its practical attempts to safeguard human rights.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190222549
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
BL Explains why the respect in which the UN is held is not matched by admiration for its practical attempts to safeguard human rights.