A global handbook on national human rights protection systems / edited by Bertrand Ramcharan, Gianni Magazenni, Mona M'Bikay and Inès French.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramcharan, B. G., editor.

Magazzeni, Gianni, editor.

M'Bikay, Mona, editor.

French, Inès (Inès Victoria), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights monitoring.

Human rights.

International law and human rights.

United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Physical Description:

xviii, 1400 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill/Nijhoff, [2023]

Summary:

"The human rights movement strives to develop a universal culture of human rights in all societies, as well as to confront gross violations. This book reproduces summaries by the UN High Commissioners for Human Rights on the state of the national human rights protection systems of each UN Member State. These summaries were sent following each state's passage through the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process of the UN Human Rights Council. They identify each state's constitutional, legal, judicial and institutional architecture, international conventions not yet ratified, areas of progress, problem areas, and problems affecting different parts of the population. The High Commissioners' summaries reproduced here are preceded by reflections on the concept of a national human rights protection system, and by regional outlines of national human rights protection systems in the Americas and the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. The book also contains some case studies of the national human rights protection systems of sample states such as: Australia, Bhutan, Brazil, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guyana, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, and South Africa"-- Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

The universal periodic review and national protection systems / Gianni Magazzeni

The role of civil society in national human rights protection systems : some dynamic examples / Valeria Reyes Menéndez

Leveraging international mechanisms for human rights impact at the national level : a case study of protecting the right to conscientious objection to military service in the Republic of Korea / Ann Harrison, Anna-Karin Holmlund, and Tom Rainey-Smith

National human rights protection systems : the dynamic role of courts in the protection of international human rights / Francesca Restifo

National parliaments and the protection of human rights resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 23 June 2017

The Paris principles relating to the status of national institutions (The Paris principles) adopted by General Assembly Resolution 48/134, 20 December 1993

National human rights protection systems in Europe / Inès French and Karim Leu

National human rights protection systems in the Americas and the Caribbean / Bertrand Ramcharan

National human rights protection systems in Africa : the African architecture of protection / Bertrand Ramcharan

Overview of human rights situation and national protection systems in Africa / Mona M'Bikay

The South African national human rights protection system / Damian Etone

The national human rights protection system of the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Elysée Sindayigaya

National human rights protection systems in Asia and the Pacific / Robin Ramcharan

The Australian national human rights system : an overview / Domenico Zipoli

The national human rights protection system of Bhutan / Sunita Giri.

Notes:

"Published under the auspices of Geneva for Human Rights."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Global handbook on national human rights protection systems

ISBN:

9789004535046

9004535047

OCLC:

1373384317

Publisher Number:

99996327673