The United Nations System for Protecting Human Rights Volume IV 1st Edition by Dinah Shelton ISBN 1409443035 978-1409443032

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ISBN 10:  1409443035

ISBN 13:  978-1409443032

Author: Dinah L. Shelton

The United Nations has been at the forefront of developing the international law of human rights for nearly seven decades. This volume brings together the leading research articles on the development of human rights law by the United Nations and also includes essays on issues relating to standard-setting, institutional evolution, and the creation of monitoring procedures.

Table of contents: 

Part I The UN Charter and Human Rights
1 The human rights law of the charter, Louis B. Sohn
2 The responsibility to protect: the role of international human rights law, Emma McClean

Part II UN Law-Making on Human Rights
3 Are human rights resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly law-making?, Heinz Guradze
4 Standard setting in human rights: critique and prognosis, Makau Mutua

Part III The Charter-Based Organs, Institutions and Procedures
5 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights, 1982-1997: a study of ‘targeted’ resolutions, Ron Wheeler
6 The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: the history of a contested project, Theo Van Boven
7 Human rights issues in the UN General Assembly, Edward T. Rowe
8 The pillar of glass: human rights in the development operations of the United Nations, Mac Darrow and Louise Arbour
9 The United Nations Human Rights Council: politics, power and human rights, Kevin Boyle
10 Special procedures and the Human Rights Council: achievements and challenges ahead, Jeroen Gutter

Part IV UN Treaty Bodies
11 The concluding observations of United Nations human rights treaty bodies, Michael O’Flaherty
12 General Comment 24: confronting the problem of reservations to human rights treaties, Elena A. Baylis

Part V Human Rights in the UN Specialized Agencies
13 The United Nations’ specialized agencies and implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Philip Alston
14 The International Labor Organization in the stag hunt for global labor rights, Alan Hyde
15 Making the World Health Organization work: a legal framework for universal access to the conditions for health, Allyn Lise Taylor
16 UNICEF’s mission to protect the rights of the child, Rebecca Rios-Kohn
17 The UNESCO human rights procedure: an evaluation, David Weissbrodt and Rose Farley

Part VI Assessments and Critiques
18 The United Nations’ compact with business: hindering or helping the protection of human rights?, Jus

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