Read and Download eBook Full
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rosa Freedman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-03-12
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1135115141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Council’s mandate and founding principles demonstrate that one of the main aims, at its creation, was for the Council to overcome the Commission’s flaws. Despite the need to avoid repeating its predecessor's failings, the Council’s form, nature and many of its roles and functions are strikingly similar to those of the Commission. This book examines the creation and formative years of the United Nations Human Rights Council and assesses the extent to which the Council has fulfilled its mandate. International law and theories of international relations are used to examine the Council and its functions. Council sessions, procedures and mechanisms are analysed in-depth, with particular consideration given to whether the Council has become politicised to the same extent as the Commission. Whilst remaining aware of the key differences in their functions, Rosa Freedman compares the work of the Council to that of treaty-based human rights bodies. The author draws on observations from her attendance at Council proceedings in order to offer a unique account of how the body works in practice. The United Nations Human Rights Council will be of great interest to students and scholars of human rights law and international relations, as well as lawyers, NGOs and relevant government agencies.
Author: UN Women
Publisher: UN
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781632140159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis UN Women's flagship report shows that, all too often, women's economic and social rights are held back, because they are forced to fit into a 'man's world'. But, it is possible to move beyond the status quo, to picture a world where economies are built with women's rights at their heart. It is being published as the international community comes together to define a transformative post-2015 development agenda, and coincides with the 20th anniversary commemoration of the landmark Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China which set out a comprehensive agenda to advance gender equality. This publication brings together human rights and economic policymaking, and provides the key elements for a far-reaching new policy agenda that can transform economies and make women's rights a reality. Through solid in-depth analysis and data, this evidence-based report provides key recommendations on moving towards an economy that truly works for women, for the benefit of all.
Author: Leena Grover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-16
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 1107006546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn analysis of the UN human rights treaty bodies, their methods of interpretation, their effectiveness and issues of legitimacy.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Howard Tolley Jr
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-11
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1000306666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1946, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights became the first international body empowered to promote global human rights. During its first twenty years, the Commission established most of the contemporary standards of human rights. Increased social awareness in the 1960s enabled the Commission to respond to specific complaints from individuals and nongovernmental organizations and to pressure offending governments by using various measures that ranged from exhortation and mediation to sanctions designed to isolate violators. These enforcement activities have increased the Commission's visibility and have dramatically transformed its operation. Dr. Tolley's thematic history of the Commission offers important insights into states' political conduct in international human rights organizations, the evolving legal and institutional means of preventing human rights violations, and the difficulties encountered when an intergovernmental body is pressed to provide impartial protection to citizens against abuse by their own government.
Author:
Publisher:
Published: 1980-03
Total Pages: 1128
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Library
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 1172
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is devoted to the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development. It contains a collection of analytical studies of various aspects of the right to development, which include the rule of law and good governance, aid, trade, debt, technology transfer, intellectual property, access to medicines and climate change in the context of an enabling environment at the local, regional and international levels. It also explores the issues of poverty, women and indigenous peoples within the theme of social justice and equity. The book considers the strides that have been made over the years in measuring progress in implementing the right to development and possible ways forward to make the right to development a reality for all in an increasingly fragile, interdependent and ever-changing world.
