Whereas the ECHR primarily aims to restrict the exercise of State power, the performance of governmental tasks is increasingly entrusted to bodies and institutions which do not form part of the traditional State structure. An obvious example is offered by the European Communities. In order to achieve economic and social progress, a group of States joined forces and created a cluster of international organisations with unprecedented powers. Implementation of international decisions still is to a large extent left to the states. The contributions in this volume focus on these legal systems and compare them with others and study in which manners decisions of international supervisory bodies are handled.
Emphasis is laid on the execution of Strasbourg decisions in the Dutch legal order.
This publication contains the speeches and papers of the Inaugural Conference of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Sarajevo, which took place in December 1996. The main purpose of the book is to provide an assessment of the manifold human rights provisions of the Dayton Peace Agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to explore ways and means to improve the implementation of human rights with the assistance of international organizations, NGOs and national institutions involved in the protection of human rights. The contributors give an interpretation of the human rights provisions of the Dayton Agreement and identify the major obstacles to their full implementation. Several authors investigate how the principle of ethnicity is in conflict with the basic prerequisites of a modern state and conclude that human rights cannot be made dependent on group rights. The HRS can be used as a guide in providing assistance to women and taking legal action against traffickers.