Human Rights in Crisis : The International System for Protecting Rights During States of Emergency / Joan M. Fitzpatrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fitzpatrick, Joan M., author.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Procedural Aspects of International Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

War and emergency legislation.

International law.

Treaties.

Genre:

Traites.

Treaties.

Treaties

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 260 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1994]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recent events in South America, central Europe, Africa, and Russia have again brought to the world's attention the complex interrelationship between states of emergency and the preservation of fundamental human rights. In Human Rights in Crisis, Joan Fitzpatrick offers the first systematic and comprehensive effort to examine the multifaceted system for monitoring human rights abuses under "states of exception." Unlike previous studies, this book does not focus on substantive norms governing crises, but rather on how those norms might best be implemented. Building upon her six-year study for the International Law Association, the author confronts the difficulties in defining a coherent concept of emergency, particularly the various forms of de facto emergencies that have been relatively neglected by international monitors. She also profiles and carefully critiques the numerous international bodies that have monitored human rights abuses during states of exception. These bodies include not only the treaty organs of the United Nations, the Council of Europe, and the Organization of American States but also the political organs of the United Nations (especially the Commission on Human Rights), the International Labor Organization, and the emerging structures of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Editor's Foreword

Acknowledgments

I. Defining the Problem

II. Effects of Emergencies on Human Rights

III. Setting Standards

IV. The United Nations System: Treaty Organs

V. The United Nations System: Non-Treaty Mechanisms

VI. Regional Systems

VII. The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations

VIII. Conclusion

Appendix: The Queensland Guidelines for Bodies Monitoring Respect for Human Rights During States of Emergency

Bibliography

Table of Cases

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-248) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018)

ISBN:

9781512815924

1512815926

9780585126715

0585126712

OCLC:

44962923