The UN Human Rights Treaty System
Universality at the Crossroads
Published on 1. June 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
857 pages
978-1-57105-230-8 (ISBN)
Description
This landmark study envisions a wide-ranging number of international human rights reforms, most of which can be accomplished without formal amendment to the UN international human rights treatty system. The recommendations generally assume a six treaty body regime, and focus primarily on offering concrete suggestions for improvements in working methods of the treaty bodies and procedures at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
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Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 255 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1370 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57105-230-8 (9781571052308)
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Professor Bayefsky teaches law at York University, Canada. The author of numerous books and articles on human rights in the fields of international and constitutional law, she was awarded the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research in 1992. She served on the First External Research Advisory Committee to the UNHCR and the Advisory Panel for the UN Development Report 2000.
Content
Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Background; Executive Summary; Examples of Recommendations; Report 2
Introduction; Overdue Reports; The Consideration of a State Party's Record in the Absence of a Report; Periodicity of Reports; Focussed and Consolidated Reporting; Inadequate Reports; Special Reports; Order of Considering Reports; The Timing of the Consideration of Individual Communications; Considering Individual Communications; Working Groups; The Special Rapporteur on New Communications; The Special Rapporteur on Follow-up to Individual Communications; Country Rapporteurs; List of Issues; Country Information within OHCHR; CORE Documents 42; Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs); UN Agencies, Bodies and Programmes; The Special Procedures/Mechanisms; The Dialogue 58; Concluding Observations; Reservations; Follow-up on State Reporting or Operationalizing the Human Rights Treaties; Treaty body Visits or Missions to State Parties; General Comments and Recommendations; Media; Meetings of Chairpersons of the Treaty Bodies; Treaty Body Members' Performance; Languages; Streaming Complaints; Documentation; The Venue for CEDAW; Servicing and Resources; Amendment
List of Recommendations; Endnotes; Annexes; Index
Introduction; Overdue Reports; The Consideration of a State Party's Record in the Absence of a Report; Periodicity of Reports; Focussed and Consolidated Reporting; Inadequate Reports; Special Reports; Order of Considering Reports; The Timing of the Consideration of Individual Communications; Considering Individual Communications; Working Groups; The Special Rapporteur on New Communications; The Special Rapporteur on Follow-up to Individual Communications; Country Rapporteurs; List of Issues; Country Information within OHCHR; CORE Documents 42; Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs); UN Agencies, Bodies and Programmes; The Special Procedures/Mechanisms; The Dialogue 58; Concluding Observations; Reservations; Follow-up on State Reporting or Operationalizing the Human Rights Treaties; Treaty body Visits or Missions to State Parties; General Comments and Recommendations; Media; Meetings of Chairpersons of the Treaty Bodies; Treaty Body Members' Performance; Languages; Streaming Complaints; Documentation; The Venue for CEDAW; Servicing and Resources; Amendment
List of Recommendations; Endnotes; Annexes; Index