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

By Yoomin Won
Routledge September 2025

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ISBN-13
9781032656090
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
September 2025
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for 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.

Table of Contents

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
Chapter 7. Comparing Japan and South Korea

Part III: Global Data Analysis
Chapter 8. Testing Statistically with All-States Data
Chapter 9. Measuring Human Rights Progress—Conclusions and Future Directions

Bibliography
Appendices
Appendix I. Recommendations for South Korea and Japan
Appendix II. Codebook
Appendix III. Result of ordinal logistic regression
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