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- Provides an analysis of the role of human rights institutions in closing the implementation gap that exists between human rights norms and their application to individuals in practice
- Contributions from leading writers in the field of human rights law
- Focuses on recently established institutions such as the UN Human Rights Council and the Fundamental Rights Agency
- Examines the role of other treaty bodies and national institutions and the potential conflict and complementarities between them
This book presents a multi-faceted approach to one of the most crucial challenges facing Human Rights institutions today - the implementation gap that exists between human rights norms and their enforcement by States. Comprising contributions from renowned international scholars in the field of human rights, New Institutions for Human Rights Protection examines how the human rights commitments entered into by States might be translated more effectively into protection for individuals in practice and the crucial role that human rights institutions, at both a national and international level, have to play in this endeavour.
Focusing on recent developments in respect to institutions such as the UN Human Rights Council and the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), these essays present a thorough account of the objectives and challengers facing the international community today with respect to human rights. From an account of the origins and mandate of the UN Human Rights Council to its potential conflict with the missions of the Treaty bodies and from study of the role of institutions in the field of racism and discrimination to the potency of human rights norms and institutions to uphold minority interests, this volume offers original and diverse perspectives on the role of fledgling human rights institutions.
Readership: Human rights lawyers, policy makers, NGOs, academics and researchers studying human rights
Introduction , Kevin Boyle1. The United Nations Human Rights Council: Origins, Antecedents and Prospects , Kevin Boyle2. The United Nations Human Rights Council, Its Special Procedures and Its Relationship with the Treaty Bodies: Complementarity or Competition? , Sir Nigel Rodley3. Reforming the UN Human Rights Protection Procedures: A Legal Perspective on the Establishment of the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism , Nadia Bernaz4. The EU Fundamental Rights Agency: Genesis and Potential , Olivier De Schutter5. A Comparative and European Examination of National Institutions in the Field of Racism and Discrimination , Isabelle Rorive6. Minority Rights: Norms and Institutions , Gudmundur AlfredssonIndex
Edited by Kevin Boyle, Professor of Law at the University of Essex
Kevin Boyle is a Professor of Law at the University of Essex with specialisation in Human Rights Law. He was Director of the Human Rights Centre from 1990 to 2001. From 2001-2002 he spent a year in Geneva with the United Nations as Senior Adviser to Mary Robinson the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Contributors:
Gudmundur Alfredsson, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Nadia Bernaz, Middlesex University Business School
Kevin Boyle, University of Essex
Sir Nigel Rodley, University of Essex
Isabelle Rorive, Université libre de Bruxelles
Olivier De Schutter, University of Louvain and College of Europe
