New institutions for human rights protection

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle

Contributor:

Boyle, Kevin, Contributor.

Series:

Collected courses of the Academy of European Law ; v. 18/2.

The collected courses of the Academy of European Law New institutions for human rights protection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

International agencies.

Complementarity (International law).

United Nations. Commission on Human Rights.

United Nations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 217 p.).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

#The gap between international human rights standards & their implementation is acknowledged to be the major issue confronting human rights protection. This volume examines the new institutions that have sprung up in recent years to address this gap, including the UN human rights council & the EU Fundamental Rights Agency.

Contents:

The United Nations Human Rights Council : origins, antecedents, and prospects

Kevin Boyle

The United Nations Human Rights Council, its special procedures, and its relationship with the treaty bodies : complementarity or competition? / Nigel Rodley

Reforming the UN human rights protection procedures : a legal perspective on the establishment of the universal periodic review mechanism / Nadia Bernaz

The EU Fundamental Rights Agency : genesis and potential / Olivier De Schutter

A comparative and European examination of national institutions in the field of racism and discrimination / Isabelle Rorive

Minority rights : norms and institutions / Gudmundur Alfredsson.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-170549-7