The Law, Policy and Politics of the Un Human Rights Council

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-28902-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 112, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: International Studies in Human Rights

The UN Human Rights Council is the leading human rights organ of the United Nations and, ten years after it was established, it has attracted commendation as well as severe criticism. Its universal periodic review is widely recognized as a valuable process of international cooperation to advance the universal implementation of human rights. However, it has been criticized for not acting effectively and fairly in dealing with situations of shocking violations of human rights in many parts of the world. It is an international organ with the highest responsibilities to uphold universal values but, at the same time, it is a political organ of United Nations Member States, and it shows the characteristics of both a values-based body and a theatre of political drama.

It is the merit of this book to present the Human Rights Council in terms of its mandates, roles and organization while seeking to remind the membership and the international community at large that the Council must be anchored in the modern human rights law of the Charter - of which the author gives a superb presentation. The book then proceeds to make the case that human rights are part of international constitutional law and this is exceedingly important at a time when universal values have come under stress from various quarters including from terrorist formations. The argument of the book is essentially that the modern human rights law of the Charter and the human rights provisions of international constitutional law must take precedence for everyone, everywhere.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramcharan, Bertrand G

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Vereinte Nationen, UN Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Professor Jiri Toman; Preface; Introduction: Mandate, Roles, Organization of the Human Rights Council
Chapters:

I. The Council and the Modern Human Rights Law of the Charter
II. Human Rights as International Constitutional Law
III. The Public Policy Role of the Human Rights Council
IV. Human Rights and Security Challenges
V. The National Responsibility to Protect
VI. National Protection in Practice? The IBSA Countries
VII. International Cooperation: The Universal Periodic Review
VIII. International Legislation
IX. Prevention
X. Fact-Finding
XI. Protection
XII. Justice
Conclusion;
Appendices:
I. Resolution establishing the Human Rights Council
II. Code of Conduct for Special Procedures
Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Bertrand G. Ramcharan is President of UPR Info. Previously, he was: Chancellor of the University of Guyana; Professor of Human Rights at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; Deputy, then Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists; Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration; Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on the peace process in Georgia; Fellow of the LSE; UN Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.