dublin-statement-on-the-process-of-strengthening-the-united-nations-human-rights-treaty-body-system-response-by-nongovernmental-organizations-dec-2010

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
United Nations ◽  
System Response ◽  
Body System ◽  
Treaty Body ◽  
The United Nations

Part III Organs Monitoring Treaty Compliance, 18 Reform of the UN Human Rights Treaty Body System

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Egan Suzanne
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Body System ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
System P ◽  
The Future ◽  
Treaty Compliance ◽  
Treaty Body ◽  
The United Nations

This chapter studies the initiatives mounted over the years by the United Nations to reform the operation of the treaty body system to respond to persistent difficulties. These have proceeded through a series of distinct initiatives which include the expert reports produced by Professor Philip Alston between 1989 and 1997; the ‘Unified Standing Treaty Body’ proposal championed by the former UNHCHR, Louise Arbour; and the so-called ‘Dublin process’ spearheaded by her successor to the post, Navanethem Pillay, which itself prompted the initiation of an inter-governmental process on treaty body reform. The chapter then traces the outcomes of the reform agenda as it has unfolded over the years, highlighting the nature of the processes adopted and culminating in a cautious prognosis for the future.

The Fifty-Sixth Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Member States ◽  
Sixth Session ◽  
The United Nations

The fifty-sixth session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights took place in Geneva from March 20 to April 28,2000, under the chairmanship of Ambassador Shambhu Ram Simkhada of Nepal. The delegations of fifty-three member states and ninety-one observer states werejoined by 1760 representatives of 224 nongovernmental organizations. The Commission ultimately adopted one hundred resolutions and decisions, three-fourths of them by consensus.

scholarly journals The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and Fair Trial Rights: A Closer Look

1996 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 479-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Sloan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
International Criminal Tribunal ◽  
The Other ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Body System ◽  
European Court ◽  
Treaty Body

In a recent article lamenting the perception of partiality created by an activist judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), one commentator observed the general lack of scrutiny to which the ICTY is being held in its treatment of the rights of the accused. He noted that it “is a court without legal critics: no complaint about its conduct may be made to the Human Rights Committee in Geneva or to the European Court [of Human Rights], and human rights lobbies have tended to look the other way.” Indeed, it is in a position that many governments, fatigued by what many of them consider to be cumbersome reporting obligations and troublesome individual complaints procedures under the United Nations treaty body system, would envy.

The Fifty-Fifth Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights

2000 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The State ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
The World ◽  
Fundamental Freedoms ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Kofi Annan

The fifty-fifth session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights took place in Geneva from March 22 to April 30, 1999, and was chaired by Ambassador Anne Anderson of Ireland. The Commission reviewed the state of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the world, adopting eighty-two resolutions, fifty-eight by consensus, and thirteen decisions.More than thirty-two hundred participants represented fifty-three member and ninety-one observer states, over two hundred nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and some fiftyfive specialized agencies and other organizations. Secretary-General Kofi Annan underscored the priority he attaches to human rights by stating that “the promodon and defense of human rights is at the heart of every aspect of our work and every article of our Charter. ”

Sizing up the Opposition

2018 ◽  
pp. 328-351
Author(s):  
Amita Dhanda
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Institutional Integrity ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Treaty Body ◽  
The United Nations

This chapter presents that the case for a Comprehensive Disability Rights Convention (CRPD) was accepted because it was realized that the United Nations Human Rights Conventions, before the CRPD, did not look at disability rights from the perspective of people with disabilities. CRPD, on the other hand, was totally informed by the participation credo of nothing about us without us. Thus, the chapter sets up a comparison between the CRPD Treaty Body and the other human rights monitoring bodies to assess whether the various monitoring bodies undertake their oversight tasks in harmony with each other. Is their institutional integrity in the manner in which the world body seeks accountability from states or inadvertently or otherwise the states have been provided pick and choose space between various human rights bodies of the United Nations?

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1996 ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Editorial board Of the Journal
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations

GENERAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS Adopted and proclaimed in resolution 217 A (III) of the General Assembly of the United Nations of 10.12.1948

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