Obe Qc Subedi (Hon)

The Effectiveness of the UN Human Rights System

Reform and the Judicialisation of Human Rights

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780367224240
• ISBN-10: 0367224240
• Artikelnr.: 56528562

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Select Bibliography
Index