South Africa and the UN Human Rights Council
South Africa and the UN Human Rights Council

Author: Eduard Jordaan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-18

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0429880111

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This book provides a detailed analysis of South Africa’s actions on the UN Human Rights Council, examining the country’s positions on civil and political rights, economic rights and development, social groups whose rights are frequently violated, and abuses in specific countries. The most detailed and comprehensive study of any country’s record on the UN Human Rights Council to date, this book demonstrates that despite occasional support for human rights, South Africa’s overall record ranged from opposing to failing to support human rights. This is compounded by an anti-Western or ‘anti-imperial’ edge to South Africa’s positions on the UNHRC. Using South Africa as a study case of a liberal country consistently behaving illiberally, this book therefore challenges the widespread belief in international relations theory, typically found in liberal and constructivist thought, that there is an alignment of domestic political society and foreign policy values. Addressing ongoing debates since the presidency of Nelson Mandela about the place of human rights in South Africa’s foreign policy, South Africa and the UN Human Rights Council will be useful to students and scholars of international relations, human rights, international law, and African politics.

The Human Rights Council
The Human Rights Council

Author: Damian Etone

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-01-27

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0429594348

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This book examines the engagement of African states with the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism. This human rights mechanism is known for its pacific and non-confrontational approach to monitoring state human rights implementation. Coming at the end of the first three cycles of the UPR, the work offers a detailed analysis of the effectiveness of African states’ engagement and its potential impact. It develops a framework which comprehensively evaluates aspects of states’ UPR engagement, such as the pre-review national consultation process and implementation of UPR recommendations which, until recently, have received little attention. The book considers the potential for acculturation in engagement with the UPR and unpacks the impact of politics, regionalism, cultural relativism, rights ritualism and civil society. The work provides a useful guide for policymakers and international human rights law practitioners, as well as a valuable resource for international legal and international relations academics and researchers.

Rights in Conflict
Rights in Conflict

Author: Louis B. Sohn

Publisher: Hotei Publishing

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Rights in Conflict presents, in step-by-step detail, the entire decision-making process that led the UN to take an active role in South Africa and its neighbouring countries Southern Rhodesia, Namibia, Angola and Mozambique. It provides a detailed account of the changes in the interpretation of the Charter that allowed the United Nations to force South Africa to abandon its apartheid policy and to accept a democratic electoral system.

The African Regional Human Rights System
The African Regional Human Rights System

Author: Manisuli Ssenyonjo

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2011-12-23

Total Pages: 629

ISBN-13: 9004218149

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The African human rights system has undergone some remarkable developments since the adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, the cornerstone of the African human rights system, in June 1981. The year2011 marked the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the African Charter. It also marked 25 years since the African Charter entered into force on 21 October 1986.This book aims to provide reflections on most of the major human rights issues in the past 30 years of the African human rights system in practice and discussion on the future: the African Charter s impact and contribution to the respect, protection and promotion of human rights in Africa; the contemporary challenges faced by the African Human rights system in responding adequately to the demands of rapidly evolving African societies; and how the African human rights system can be strengthened in the future to ensure that the human rights protected in the African Charter, as developed in the jurisprudence of the African Commission since the Commission was inaugurated in 1987, are realised in practice.The chapters in this volume bring together the work of 20 human rights scholars and practitioners, with expertise in human rights in Africa, under the following general themes: rights and duties in the African Charter; rights of the vulnerable under the African system; implementation mechanisms for human rights in Africa; and towards an effective African regional human rights system.

The UN Security Council and Human Rights
The UN Security Council and Human Rights

Author: Sydney Bailey

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1349237019

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The UN Charter establishes six 'principal organs'. Five of these are expressly authorized or permitted to deal with human rights. The single exception is the Security Council, but the Council has increasingly concerned itself with human rights inside sovereign states. This book recounts how this trend has developed in the Security Council, reluctantly at first but since 1989 with some enthusiasm and responsibility. Some Third-World countries are uneasy at this development, fearing that the Security Council, dominated by a single superpower, will interfere in the internal affairs of states without the agreement of the government concerned.

United Nations Versus South Africa
United Nations Versus South Africa

Author: J. C. Heunis

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13:

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Practically since its inception, the United Nations Organisation has involved itself on an ever increasing scale in South Africa, a founder and original member's domestic affairs and has, in more recent years, together with its specialised and associated agencies, made concerted efforts to isolate South Africa politically, economically, culturally, and in fact in practically every field of human endeavour from the rest of the international community.

Against the World
Against the World

Author: Jeremy Brown Shearar

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781868885985

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Introduction: 'What we have lost is all the more reason for cherishing what survives' -- Quod severis metes: birth of the United Nations -- South African Indians -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- International covenants on human rights issues -- United Nations surveys of human rights issues -- Evolution of human rights at the United Nations -- State sovereignty at issue -- Apartheid on the agenda -- Shadow of Sharpeville -- General relations with the United Nations -- Concluding observations -- Appendix: Selected provisions of the United Nations Charter.