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Human Rights Institutions, Tribunals, and Courts: Legacy and Promise

Human Rights Institutions, Tribunals, and Courts: Legacy and Promise

Author: Gerd Oberleitner
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
ISBN: 9789811052057
Published In: October 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Singapore ? Disclaimer:
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This book introduces readers to the major human rights institutions, courts, and tribunals and critically assesses their legacy as well as the promise they hold for realizing human rights globally, and the challenges they face in doing so.

It traces the rationale of setting up international institutions, courts, and tribunals with the aim of ensuring respect for international human rights law and presents their historic development, and critically analyzes their contribution to the promotion and protection of human rights. At the same time, it asks which promises old and new (and envisaged) human rights institutions hold for safeguarding human rights in light of continuing violations and recent global trends in human rights and politics.

The first section presents institutions created within the framework of the United Nations. The second part of the volume assesses how international criminal tribunals have reframed human rights violations as individual criminal acts. The third part of the volume is devoted to established and emerging regional human rights bodies and courts around the world.

Chapter 1: Human rights institutions: what legitimacy? what authority?

Part 1: United Nations human rights institutions

Chapter 3: The UN Human Rights Council: achievements 2006-2016 and challenges ahead

Chapter 4: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and field operations

Chapter 5: UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies: impact and future

Chapter 6: The UN Human Rights Committee

Chapter 7: The UN Committee of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Chapter 8: Gender in the UN: CEDAW and the Commission on the Status of Women

Chapter 9: The UN Security Council and human rights

Chapter 10: Why a World Court of Human Rights?

Part 2: Human rights violations as crimes - international courts and tribunals

Chapter 11: The Legacy of Nuremberg and Tokyo