Kevin Boyle (ed.)

New Institutions for Human Rights Protection

Herausgeber: Boyle, Kevin

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Produktbeschreibung

The gap between international human rights standards and their implementation is acknowledged to be the major issue confronting human rights protection. This volume examines the new institutions that have sprung up in recent years to address this implementation gap, including the UN human rights council and the EU Fundamental Rights Agency.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780199570546
• ISBN-10: 019957054X
• Artikelnr.: 26865781

Autorenporträt

Kevin Boyle is a Professor of Law at the University of Essex with specialisation in Human Rights Law. He was Director of the Human Rights Centre from 1990 to 2001. From 2001-2002 he spent a year in Geneva with the United Nations as Senior Adviser to Mary Robinson the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Kevin Boyle: The United Nations Human Rights Council: Origins,
Antecedents, and Prospects
* 2: Sir Nigel Rodley: The United Nations Human Rights Council, Its
Special Procedures, and Its Relationship with the Treaty Bodies:
Complementarity or Competition?
* 3: Nadia Bernaz: Reforming the UN Human Rights Protection Procedures:
A Legal Perspective on the Establishment of the Universal Periodic
Review Mechanism
* 4: Olivier De Schutter: The EU Fundamental Rights Agency: Genesis and
Potential
* 5: Isabelle Rorive: A Comparative and European Examination of
National Institutions in the Field of Racism and Discrimination
* 6: Gudmundur Alfredsson: Minority Rights: Norms and Institutions
* Index