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The UN Human Rights Treaty System: Implementation of Recommendations in South Korea and Japan

The UN Human Rights Treaty System: Implementation of Recommendations in South Korea and Japan

Author: Yoomin Won
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032656090

Published In: September 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Through a use of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, Won provides a nuanced analysis and discussion of the factors and domestic processes influencing the implementation of United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) recommendations in South Korea and Japan, as well as across the globe.

Won’s research entangles the theoretical debate on whether the UN human rights treaty system is effective in prompting the implementation of HRC recommendations. Her findings, based on interviews with activists, lawyers, scholars, judges, and other practitioners in Korea and Japan, point to the complex interplay of treaty bodies, state parties, and civil society organizations in human rights implementation. In addition, Won creates a novel empirical dataset to assess the key variables associated with improvement in human rights action across 103 countries. The findings suggest that human rights treaties matter not only to countries with high levels of democracy, but authoritarian regimes.

A unique empirical analysis of international human rights action as driven by UN recommendations, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of international law, human rights, and international relations, as well as human rights lawyers and the NGO Human Rights Communities.

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Part I: Overview

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Do Human Rights Treaties Work?

Chapter 3. Human Rights Recommendations System

Chapter 4. Did States Implement Recommendations?

Part II: Stories from Japan and South Korea

Chapter 5. Human Rights Issues in Japan

Chapter 6. Human Rights Issues in South Korea