The Strength of the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Women's Convention

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-355
Author(s):  
Mireille G.E. Bijnsdorp
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Optional Protocol ◽  
Potential Strength ◽  
Five Elements ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Interim Measures

The article contains an analysis of the potential strength of the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Women's Convention. This Protocol was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in October 1999. The author discusses five stricking aspects (elements) of this new Protocol: the scope of the standing provision; the scope ratione materiae of the Protocol; the power of CEDAW to impose interim measures; the introduction of an inquiry procedure; and finally the prohibition of reservations. The author concludes that these five elements reveal a potentially strong Optional Protocol which could to a better enforcement of women's human rights.

Human Rights Prize awarded to the ICRC

1978 ◽  
Vol 18 (207) ◽  
pp. 341-341
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations

The International Committee of the Red Cross was one of the recipients of the 1978 Human Rights Prize, which the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Kurt Waldheim, presented to the President of the ICRC, Mr. Alexander Hay, in New York on 11 December before the United Nations General Assembly, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. The prize was awarded to the ICRC for its work in promoting observance of human rights.

Arab League

1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-134
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Arab League ◽  
Sixth Session ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Arab States

At the meeting of the Arab League's Political Committee during October 1951, the committee decided to recommend to the Council that all Arab states, Members of the United Nations press for the inclusion of the Moroccan case on the agenda of the sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly. On October 4, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt (Eldin) requested the General Assembly that the item “violation of the principles of the Charter and of the Declaration of Human Rights by France in Morocco” be placed on its agenda.

The UN Body of Principles for the Protection of Detained or Imprisoned Persons

1990 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 578-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tullio Treves
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Working Group ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations

On December 9, 1988, the United Nations General Assembly adopted, without a vote, a “Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment.” The preparation of this text was started in 1976 within the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities of the Commission on Human Rights. On the basis of a project prepared by Mr. Erik Nettel of Austria, the Sub-Commission approved a Draft Body of Principles in 1978. After being submitted to the General Assembly’s Third Committee, it was referred to a working group, which considered it in 1980 but could not complete its task. The item was then moved to the Sixth Committee, which entrusted it to an open-ended working group. This working group met during every session of the General Assembly from 1981 until 1988, and slowly progressed toward the completion of its task.

How nations vote in the General Assembly of the United Nations

1987 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 705-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Marín-Bosch
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Relations ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
International Issues ◽  
The United Nations

For over forty years the United Nations’ General Assembly has been meeting annually to examine a broad range of international issues. At the conclusion of its debates, it adopts resolutions and decisions on each of its agenda items. While some resolutions are procedural, many can be considered important, even historic, because of the events they spawned or because they marked a turning point in international relations. These include, among others, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, the Partition of Palestine, and the recognition of the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate representative of China in the UN.

General Assembly

1951 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 722-736
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Social Council ◽  
Indian Origin ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Regular Session

The sixth regular session of the United Nations General Assembly was to convene at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris on Tuesday, November 6, 1951. The agenda included: the report of the Committee of Twelve, the problem of the independence of Korea, the report of the Collective Measures Committee, items on China, Palestine, the treatment of people of Indian origin in the Union of South Africa, the report of the Economic and Social Council, relief and rehabilitation, the draft international covenant on human rights, items concerning trust and non-self-governing territories, administrative and budgetary matters and legal affairs.

scholarly journals Is Voting Patterns at the United Nations General Assembly a Useful Way to Understand a Country’s Policy Inclinations: Bangladesh’s Voting Records at the United Nations General Assembly

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824402096111
Author(s):  
Mohammad Zahidul Islam Khan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Preferences ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations

This article explores Bangladesh’s voting coincidences at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) with China, India, Russia, and the United States for the period 2001–2017 to draw inferences about country’s political proximity and policy preferences on global issues. Although Bangladesh’s voting coincidence shifted from China toward India since 2013, country’s “opposite” votes with India remained 3 times higher compared with that of China, suggesting that the post-2013 change in voting coincidence is more about the types and content of the resolutions and not fundamental. Bangladesh maintained a principled position on disarmament, conventional arms control, nuclear nonproliferation, and prohibition of chemical weapons resolutions, which are greatly at odds with India and China. Such voting coherency suggests that the small developing countries can maintain a higher level of voting consistency on issues that are of great interest to them. However, Bangladesh’s voting inconstancy in the country-specific human rights resolutions reflects a selective adherence to the policy of non-interference, particularly with respect to neighbors. Bangladesh’s voting records on the human rights situation in Myanmar, reveals that it joined the majority member states condemning Myanmar only when the resolutions started mentioning Bangladesh as an affected country. Although the voting coincidence alone may not capture the whole dynamics of a state’s leanings, this article has revealed that systematic research of UNGA voting records has the capacity to add to the knowledge of political proximity and policy preferences of states in terms of the way they weigh their choices and chart their path through idealism and opportunism.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

1967 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 84-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. St.J. MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Social Council ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
First Session

By Resolution 2062 (XX) of December 16, 1965, the United Nations General Assembly requested the Economic and Social Council to transmit to the Commission on Human Rights a proposal by Costa Rica to create the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, so that the Commission might study the matter and report on it to the General Assembly at its twenty-first session in 1966. The Commission on Human Rights considered the item in March 1966, and by resolution 4 (XXII) established a Working Group comprising nine members of the Commission to study the proposed institution and to report to the Commission at its twenty-third session in 1967. The item was not taken up by the Third Committee during the Assembly’s twenty-first session in 1966, partly because background studies on the subject had not been completed, and partly because the Committee had allocated most of its time to the task of completing measures of implementation for the two International Covenants on Human Rights.

scholarly journals Accountability and opposition to globalization in international assemblies

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 823-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter de Wilde ◽  
Wiebke Marie Junk ◽  
Tabea Palmtag
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations

Advocates of a global democratic parliament have expressed hopes that this would not only legitimize global governance in procedural terms, but also bring about more cosmopolitan policies. They point to the European Parliament as an example of a successful real existing democratic parliament beyond the state with cosmopolitan intent. We analyse plenary debates in the United Nations General Assembly and the European Parliament about the issues of climate change, human rights, migration, trade and European integration between 2004 and 2011 to study the nature of opposition to cosmopolitanism within these two assemblies. We find more vocal and better-organized opposition to cosmopolitanism in the European Parliament than in the United Nations General Assembly. We demonstrate the plausibility that direct and more proportional mechanisms of delegation and accountability in the case of the European Parliament account for this observed difference. Should further research confirm these initial findings, advocates of a global democratic parliament may find that an empowered democratic World Parliament would support less cosmopolitan policies than the current United Nations General Assembly.

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stavrinaki Tina
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Optional Protocol ◽  
Reliable Evidence ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations

This chapter examines the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The Optional Protocol was adopted along with the CRPD on 13 December 2006 by the United Nations General Assembly, and entered into force on 3 May 2008. The Optional Protocol establishes the competence of the Committee on the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities to examine individual complaints with regard to alleged violations of the Convention by states parties to the Optional Protocol, and to undertake inquiries in case of reliable evidence of grave and systematic violations of the Convention. To date, among 175 parties to the Convention, ninety-two states have ratified the Optional Protocol.

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