Advancing the implementation of human rights in the Pacific
Subtitle: compilation of recommendations of the UN human rights treaty bodies to the countries of the Pacific.
Contributors: United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.; United Nations Development Programme (Fiji); United Nations Population Fund. Fiji Office.; United Nations Development Fund for Women. Pacific Regional Office.; UNICEF.
Publisher: OHCHR; UNDP; UNFPA; UNIFEM; UNICEF
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Suva, Fiji
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9789829106018
Subjects: Human rights -- Pacific Area; Human rights -- Islands of the Pacific; Human rights monitoring -- Pacific Area; Human rights monitoring -- Islands of the Pacific
Other titles: Compilation of recommendations of the UN human rights treaty bodies to the countries of the Pacific
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Monitoring the implementation of human rights standards: the treaty bodies; title: 2. How a state becomes a state party to a treaty; title: 3. Status of ratification of international human rights treaties by 16 Pacific island countries; title: 4. Compilation of recommendations of UN human rights treaty bodies by country: Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu; title: 5. Examples of follow-up measures taken by states parties of the Pacific to recommendations of the UN treaty bodies; title: 6. Report, including recommendations adopted at a CRC national follow-up workshop in Fiji, February 2006; title: Annex A. Technical terms related to the UN human rights treaty body system; title: Annex B. Internet access to further UN and other human rights treaty information.