Insincere commitments
Subtitle: human rights treaties, abusive states, and citizen activism
By: Heather M. Smith
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781589018877
Subjects: Human rights; Government policy; International cooperation; United Nations. Human Rights Committee; Human rights monitoring; United Nations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A new approach to commitment and compliance; title: Patterns of commitment; title: Causes of commitment; title: Individual petitions in Eastern Europe: racial discrimination in Slovakia; title: Hungary and the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; title: The Human Rights Committee in Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan; title: The causes and consequences of commitment reconsidered.