The United Nations Commission on Human Rights : 'a very great enterprise' /
Pace, John P.,author.
"In this book, John P. Pace provides the most complete account to-date of the United Nations human rights programme, both in substance and in chronological breadth. Pace worked at the heart of this programme for over thirty years, including as the Secretary of the Commission on Human Rights, and Coordinator of the World Conference on Human Rights, which took place in Vienna in 1993. He traces the issues taken up by the Commission after its launch in 1946, and the methods undertaken to enhance absorption and domestication of international human rights standards. He lays out the special procedures carried out by the UN, and the emergence of international human rights law. The book then turns to the establishment of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the mainstreaming of human rights across the United Nations system, eventually leading to the establishment of the Human Rights Council to replace the Commission in 2006. Many of the problems we face today, including conflict, poverty, and environmental issues, have their roots in human rights problems. This book identifies what has been done at the international level in the past, and points towards what still needs to be done for the future"--Book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Putting the great enterprise into context -- The great enterprise gets underway (1946-1955) -- The agenda (1946) -- The approaches (1955) -- Managing the agenda : coordination (1955) and rationalization (1992) -- The 'incubation' of economic, social and cultural rights (1968-1992) -- The emergence of ad hoc or special procedures (1966) -- The emergence of international human rights law (1969) -- The great enterprise enters the modern era (1987-2006) -- The great enterprise today (2006) -- 'All human beings ...' and the great enterprise -- Epilogue : the great enterprise in the future -- Appendix. Fulfilling the objective of the Charter of the United Nations : completing the voyage of the great enterprise.
"In this book, John P. Pace provides the most complete account to-date of the United Nations human rights programme, both in substance and in chronological breadth. Pace worked at the heart of this programme for over thirty years, including as the Secretary of the Commission on Human Rights, and Coordinator of the World Conference on Human Rights, which took place in Vienna in 1993. He traces the issues taken up by the Commission after its launch in 1946, and the methods undertaken to enhance absorption and domestication of international human rights standards. He lays out the special procedures carried out by the UN, and the emergence of international human rights law. The book then turns to the establishment of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the mainstreaming of human rights across the United Nations system, eventually leading to the establishment of the Human Rights Council to replace the Commission in 2006. Many of the problems we face today, including conflict, poverty, and environmental issues, have their roots in human rights problems. This book identifies what has been done at the international level in the past, and points towards what still needs to be done for the future"--Book jacket.
United Nations. Commission on Human Rights.
Human rights.
International law and human rights.