Reservations to UN-Human Rights Treaties:Ratify and Ruin?

Ratify and Ruin?
1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-7923-3256-5
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 468 Seiten, Gewicht: 872 g

Reservations to UN Human Rights Treaties concentrates on the concepts and mechanisms in international law that are relevant to reservations. The role of States, and the possibilities afforded supervisory Committees to monitor the impact of reservations, form the other important topic.

Little information exists on the impact of reservations to UN human rights instruments. This study highlights the possibilities States and supervisory organs have to reduce the detrimental impact of reservations within the existing framework, and gives some proposals for a better and tighter provision on reservations.

The UN Human Rights Treaties that are discussed are:

the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

the Convention against Torture.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lijnzaad, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword. I: Introduction. 1. Reservations to human rights treaties in the aftermath of the Genocide case. II: Theoretical Questions. 2. The law applicable to reservations. 3. Reservations to human rights treaties. III: Reservations in Practice. 4. Reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. 5. Reservations to the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 6. Reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. 7. Reservations to the Convention against Torture. IV: Conclusions. 8. Restoring the ruins, concluding remarks. Selected bibliography.