Towards implementing universal human rights
Subtitle: Festschrift for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Human Rights Committee
By: edited by Nisuke Ando on behalf of the Committee.
Contributors: Andō, Nisuke, 1935-; United Nations. Human Rights Committee.
Series: Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library -- v. 18; Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library -- 18.
Publisher: Nijhoff
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; fre; spa
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: United Nations. -- Human Rights Committee.; Human rights.
Notes: Festschrift.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contributions in English, French, Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. United Nations protection of human rights and the Human Rights Committee.  United Nations human rights treaty bodies and special procedures of the Commission on Human Rights : complementary or competition / N. Rodley; title: La proteccín internacional de los derechos humanos yu el Comité / J. Prado Vallejo; title: Le Comité des Droits de l'Homme des Nations Unies : aux confins d'une juridiction internationale des droits de l'homme / A. Amor; title: Un Zoulou au Palais Wilson / M. Glèlè Ahanhanzo; title: Pt. II. Retrospects and prospects of the Human Rights Committee. Solid foundations / A. Mavrommatis; title: Problèmes particuliers recontrés dans les premières années d'activité du Comité / N. Bouziri; title: Pt. III. Activities of the Human Rights Committee (1), general issues. The Human Rights Committee's pronouncements on the right to an effective remedy : an illustration of the legal nature of the Committee's work under the Optional Protocol / M.Scheinin; title: Los estrados de excepción y la protección de los derecho humanos / R. Rivas Posada; title: Reflections on Article 5 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights / E. Klein; title: Pt. IV. Activities of the Human Rights Committee (2), specific issues. La peine de mort et la Pacte international sur les droits civils et politiques / C. Chant; title: El Comité de Derechos Humanos y la objeción de conciencia al servicio militar / H. Solari-Yrigoyen; title: Democracy and liberty as human rights / L. Henkin; title: The Human Rights Committe's general comment on Article 25 / E. Evatt; title: The evolution and problems of the jurisprudence of the Human Rights Committee's views concerning Article 26 / N. Ando; title: The Human Rights Committee's jurisprudence on Article 26 : a pyrrhic victory? / C. Tomuschat; title: Pt. V. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and domestic law. The domestic application of the Covenant in Australia / L. Shearer.