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A Global Handbook on National Human Rights Protection Systems

A Global Handbook on National Human Rights Protection Systems

Author: Inès French; Mona M'Bikay; Gianni Magazenni; Bertrand G. Ramcharan
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
ISBN: 9789004535046
Published In: August 2023
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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The human rights movement strives to develop a universal culture of human rights in all societies, as well as to confront gross violations. This book, the first ever of its kind, is a veritable State of the World Report on Human Rights. It reproduces summaries by UN High Commissioners for Human Rights on the state of the national human rights protection systems of each UN Member State. These summaries were sent following each state’s passage through the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process of the UN Human Rights Council. The summaries identify each state’s constitutional, legal, judicial and institutional architecture, international conventions not yet ratified, areas of progress, problem areas, and problems affecting different parts of the population. The High Commissioners’ summaries reproduced here are preceded by insightful reflections on the concept of a national human rights protection system, and by regional outlines of national human rights protection systems in the Americas and the Caribbean, Europe Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The book also contains some case studies of the national human rights protection systems of sample states such as Australia, Bhutan, Brazil, Canada, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guyana, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, and South Africa.

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1. Introduction

Part 1: Reflections on National Human Rights Protection Systems

2. The Universal Periodic Review and National Protection Systems

Gianni Magazzeni

3. The Role of Civil Society in National Human Rights Protection Systems Some Dynamic Examples

Valeria Reyes Menéndez

4. Leveraging International Mechanisms for Human Rights Impact at the National Level A Case Study of Protecting the Right to Conscientious Objection to Military Service in the Republic of Korea

Ann Harrison, Anna-Karin Holmlund and Tom Rainey-Smith

5. National Human Rights Protection Systems The Dynamic Role of Courts in the Protection of International Human Rights

Francesca Restifo

6. National Parliaments and the Protection of Human Rights Resolution Adopted by the Human Rights Council on 23 June 2017

7. The Paris Principles Principles Relating to the Status of National Institutions (The Paris Principles) Adopted by General Assembly Resolution 48/134, 20 December 1993

Part 2: Outlines of National Human Rights Protection Systems

8. National Human Rights Protection Systems in Europe

Inès French and Karim Leu

9. National Human Rights Protection Systems in the Americas and the Caribbean

Bertrand Ramcharan

10. National Human Rights Protection Systems in Africa

A The African Architecture of Protection

Bertrand Ramcharan

B Overview of Human Rights Situation and National Protection Systems in Africa

Mona M’Bikay

C The South African National Human Rights Protection System

Damian Etone