The Human Dimension of the Helsinki Process

The Vienna Follow-Up Meeting and Its Aftermath
1991. Auflage 1991
ISBN: 978-0-7923-1337-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Gewicht: 672 g

In January 1989 the third follow-up meeting of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) in Vienna adopted an extensive Concluding Document.

This document is the most substantive and far-reaching CSCE agreement since the signing of the Final Act of Helsinki in 1975. Major progress was achieved, in particular, in the field of the `human dimension of the CSCE' (human rights and humanitarian issues). The positive development of the CSCE Process has been further stimulated by the revolutionary developments in Eastern Europe.

This collection of studies aims at a thoroughgoing analysis of the results of the Vienna Meeting in the field of the human dimension and looks ahead to the Moscow meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE in October 1991. The results of specialized CSCE conferences in 1989 and 1990 are also taken into account.

This book contains a number of studies dealing with the human dimension of the CSCE in general, as well as a number of case studies. It continues the analysis begun in the well-received Essays on Human Rights in the Helsinki Process, by the same editors (MNP, 1985).

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bloed, Arie

Dijk, Pieter van

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations. Foreword. A: The Vienna Meeting and its Aftermath. 1.The Conference that Came in from the Cold; A General Survey of the Course of the Vienna Follow-up Meeting in Particular from the Point of View of the Human Dimension of the CSCE; C. van Esterik, H. Minnema.2. The Role of the Neutral and Non-Aligned Countries at the Vienna Meeting; S. Lehne, H. Neuhold.3. A New CSCE Human Rights `Catalogue': The Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE; A. Bloed.B: CSCE Mechanisms and Procedures of Implementation. 4.Supervisory Mechanism of the Human Dimension of the CSCE: Its Setting-Up in Vienna, its Present Functioning and its Possible Development towards a General Procedure for the Peaceful Settlement of CSCE Disputes; A. Bloed, P. van Dijk.5. Initiating the CSCE Supervisory Procedure: The Case of the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia; F. Coomans, L. Lijnzaad.6. Paris, Copenhagen, and Moscow; H.J. Hazewinkel.C: Case Studies of Separate Rights. 7.Freedom of Expression in the Framework of the CSCE; V. Dimitrijevic.8. The CSCE Norms on Freedom of Religion and their Effects on the Reform of Soviet Legislation on Religion; O. Luchterhandt (Epilogue; B.G. Tahzib). 9. Rights of Minorities and Self-Determination in the Framework of the CSCE; F. Ermacora.D: Annexes: The Vienna Follow-up Meeting (1986-1989): I.Concluding Document of the Vienna Follow-up Meeting of the CSCE (15 January, 1989). II. Proposal (WT.2) of the USSR for the Convening of a Conference on Humanitarian Co-operation (10 December, 1986). III. Proposal (WT.19) of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, the FRG, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the USA on the Human Dimension of the CSCE (4 February, 1987). Documents of CSCE Meetings after Vienna: IV:Report of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE (29 June, 1990). V: Charter of Paris for a New Europe (21 November, 1990). VI: Report of the CSCE Meeting of Experts on Peaceful Settlement of Disputes (Valletta, 8 February, 1991). Selected Bibliography. Index; S.C. van Eyk.