New challenges for the UN human rights machinery
Subtitle: what future for the UN treaty body system and the Human Rights Council procedures?
By: M. Cherif Bassiouni, William A. Schabas (eds.).
Publisher: Intersentia
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9781780680552
Subjects: Human rights; United Nations Human Rights Council; United Nations
Other titles: New challenges for the United Nations human rights machinery
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: It's time for a world court of human rights / Manfred Nowak; title: Periodic reporting : the backbone of the UN treaty body review procedures / Michael O'Flaherty and Pei-Lun Tsai; title: Streamlining the constructive dialogue : efficiency from states' perspectives /  Rachael Lorna Johnstone; title: On the binding nature of the findings of the treaty bodies / William A. Schabas; title: Implementing treaty body recommendations : establishing better follow-up procedures / Felice D. Gaer; title: Accessing justice by all means : individual communications before UN treaty bodies : a case study of CERD / Chris Maina Peter; title: The complementary role of general comments in enhancing the implementation of treaty bodies' recommendations and views (the example of CESCR) / Aslan Abashidze; title: Universal suffrage and the international human rights treaty bodies : where are the women? / Alice Edwards; title: Taking human rights from the grassroots to Geneva ... and back : strengthening the relationship between UN treaty bodies and NGOs / Philip Lynch and Ben Schokman; title: Strengthening of the UN treaty bodies' complaint procedures : elements for a reform agenda from an NGO perspective / Gabriela Kletzel, Camila Barretto Maia and Mónica Zwaig; title: Building a universal system for the protection of human rights : the way forward / Olivier de Frouville; title: Making the connection : security and human rights / Elvira Domínguez-Redondo; title: The work of the International Commission of Inquiry for Libya / Philippe Kirsch; title: What should be the UN Human Rights Council's role in investigating genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity? / Lyal S. Sunga; title: Peer review in the mix : how the UPR transforms human rights discourse / Constance de la Vega and Tamara N. Lewis; title: The system of the UN special procedures : some proposals for change / Ingrid Nifosi-Sutton; title: The unfinished business of a special procedures system / Tania Baldwin-Pask and Patrizia Scannella.