New institutions for human rights protection
By: edited by Kevin Boyle.
Contributors: Boyle, Kevin
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780199570546
Subjects: United Nations; Human rights; International agencies
Description: #The gap between international human rights standards & their implementation is acknowledged to be the major issue confronting human rights protection. This volume examines the new institutions that have sprung up in recent years to address this gap, including the UN human rights council & the EU Fundamental Rights Agency.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The United Nations Human Rights Council: origins, antecedents, and prospects; title: Kevin Boyle; title: The United Nations Human Rights Council, its special procedures and its relationship with the treaty bodies: complementarity or competition? / Sir Nigel Rodley; title: Reforming the UN human rights protection procedures: a legal perspective on the establishment of the universal periodic review mechanism / Nadia Bernaz; title: The EU Fundamental Rights Agency: genesis and potential / Olivier De Schutter; title: A comparative and European examination of national institutions; title: In the field of racism and discrimination / Isabelle Rorive; title: Minority rights: norms and institutions / Gudmundur Alfredsson.