Securing human rights : achievements and challenges of the UN Security Council / Bardo Fassbender (editor).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fassbender, Bardo, editor.

Series:

Collected courses of the Academy of European Law ; v. 21.

The Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law ; Volume 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations. Security Council.

United Nations.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (494 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Throughout the first decades of its existence, many held the view that the UN Security Council would in some senses automatically encourage the protection of human rights by maintaining international peace. However since the end of the Cold War there have been growing concerns that the Council is a force with the potential to do harm to the cause of human rights, even to the extent of violating the rights of individuals. The chapters of this volume take a closer look at these twosides of the Security Council's involvement in human rights; both its efforts to promote and enforce human rights, a

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Tables of Cases; Tables of Legislation; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The Security Council and Human Rights-from Discretion to Promote to Obligation to Protect; 3. The Security Council as Enforcer of Human Rights; 4. The Role for Human Rights in the Decision-making Process of the Security Council; 5. Security Council Targeted Sanctions and Human Rights; 6. Human Rights Considerations and the Enforcement of Targeted Sanctions in Europe: The Emergence of Core Standards of Judicial Protection

7. Reviewing Security Council Measures in the Light of International Human Rights PrinciplesAnnex: Guidelines of the Committee for the Conduct of its Work (Security Council Committee established Pursuant to Resolution 1267 (1999) concerning Al-Qaida and the Taliban and Associated Individuals and Entities); Index; Notes

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-173221-4

0-19-102969-6

0-19-101848-1

OCLC:

1108572928