How to Complain to the UN Human Rights Treaty System

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-1-57105-283-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 577 g

The aim of this book is to empower individuals with the knowledge of how to use the UN Human Rights Treaty System to complain to an impartial international body about violations of their rights by states. Although this right is limited to claims against states that voluntarily permit complaints to be made against them, the UN human rights treaty system now applies to one-quarter of the world's population.

The text provides a clear explanation of the complexities of the UN human rights treaty system and the methodology to employ its procedures to successfully navigate a claim through its proper course.

Key beneficiaries of the information presented in this book will be the individual victims of human rights abuses for whose protection the UN human rights treaty system was created. Human rights organizations, advocacy groups, government agencies, and all practitioners working to confront the widespread incidents of human rights violations around the world will find this volume a useful ally in providing the practical knowledge and tools needed in their common struggle.

Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bayefsky, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary
Chapters: I. The Principal UN Human Rights Treaties; II. Introduction to Complaints Procedures; III. The Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; IV. The Convention Against Torture; V. The Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; VI. The Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women; VII. The Investigative Mechanisms; VIII.The State Reporting System; IX. Choosing a Forum; X. Follow-up;
Annexes; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anne Bayefsky is an international lawyer and Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is the recipient of the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research, Canada's preeminent human rights research award, the author of the extensive 2001 review of the UN human rights treaty system conducted in collaboration with the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, and a member of the International Law Association's Committee on International Human Rights Law and Practice