The UNreal world of human rights
Subtitle: an ethnography of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
By: Lena J. Kruckenberg
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Recht und Gesellschaft = -- Law and society -- Bd. 5; Recht und Gesellschaft -- Bd. 5.
Publisher: Nomos
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baden-Baden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9783832966430
Subjects: Human rights; Race discrimination; Law and legislation; RACIAL DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN RIGHTS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; United Nations. General Assembly. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; United Nations; UN. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; UN
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186).
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Explorations into an UNreal world --; title: Conceptualising human rights --; title: Human rights at the United Nations I : the International Bill of Rights and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) --; title: Human rights at the United Nations II : expansion with(out) consolidation --; title: Cutting across boundaries : the rise of non-governmental actors --; title: Concluding part I : putting CERD in perspective --; title: Interlude : finding one's feet at CERD --; title: State actors and the politics of human rights monitoring at CERD --; title: Coming, seeing -- conquering? : moral entrepreneurs at CERD --; title: CERD and the politics of interpreting international law -- -- Conclusion:; title: The realities of an UNreal world.