New institutions for human rights protection
Boyle
Boyle, KevinContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2009.
#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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
#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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
United Nations. Commission on Human Rights.
Human rights
International agencies
Complementarity (International law)
Human Rights
Law, Politics & Government