Global Human Rights Institutions

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ISBN: 9780745634388 | 0745634389
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/3/2007

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to global human rights institutions and to the challenges and paradoxes of institutionalizing human rights. In mapping the ever more complex network of global human rights institutions it asks what these institutions are and what they are for.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Institutionalizing human rights: expectations, paradoxes, and consequences
Efficiency, legitimacy, power
Arena, instrument, actor
Autonomy and dependence
Form and function
Bureaucracy: authority and alienation
Predominance of law
Exclusion and inclusion
Guarding the guards
Remedy and ritual
The rise of global human rights institutions
A timeline
A typology
Functions, activities, and expectations
United Nations human rights institutions
Commission on Human Rights
'Politicisation': membership and selectivity
Standard setting
Advisory services and technical cooperation
Response to human rights violations: 1235 and 1503
Special procedures
The Commission 1946-2006: achievements and legacy
Human Rights Council
Membership
Mandate
First steps
Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
Membership, mandate, and activities
Hierarchy, expertise, and politics
Prospects
Commission on the Status of Women
Economic and Social Council
General Assembly
A 'grand debate' on human rights?
Leadership, budget, standards, scrutiny
Third Committee
Achievements
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
A mandate between servant and shield
From headquarters to the field
Treaty bodies
State reports
Inter-state complaints
Individual complaints
Inquiries
General Comments
Achievements
Mainstreaming human rights
From mandate to mainstreaming
International Labour Organisation
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Children's Fund
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
United Nations Human Settlements Programme
World Health Organisation
Food and Agricultural Organisation
World Bank and International Monetary Fund
World Trade Organisation
Challenges ahead in mainstreaming human rights
United Nations Security Council
Safeguarding international peace and security
Genocide, the responsibility to protect, and human security
Peace operations
Democratic legitimacy
International humanitarian law and civilians in armed conflict
Criminal justice for human rights violations
Cooperation, transparency, and the role of NGOs
Prospects
World courts and human rights
International Court of Justice
International Criminal Court
Towards a world court of human rights?
Non-governmental organisations
Independence between law and politics
Consultation, co-operation, compensation, competition
Functions
Information, definition, mobilisation
Agenda-setting, norm-making, and policy development
Accompanying implementation
Advocacy, education, and operation
Legitimacy
Challenges
Conclusion
References
Index
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