Human Rights Covenants at 50

Their Past, Present, and Future
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-882589-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 394 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 754 g

Half a century ago, on 16 December 1966, the UN General Assembly adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). While the adoption of the two UN human rights covenants was celebrated all over the world, their 50th anniversary has received very little attention from the international community. The present book marks this anniversary by taking stock of the first half-century of the existence of what are probably the world's two most important human rights treaties. It does so by reflecting on what the covenants have achieved (or failed to achieve) in the years that have passed, by determining and comparing their current influence in the various regions of the world, and by assessing their potential roles in the future.

The book contains papers that were presented during a symposium held in Zurich in 2016, which brought together experts and stakeholders from a range of disciplines and world regions. Some fundamental issues that are addressed by the contributors are as old as the two covenants themselves. They concern, for example, the division of human rights into first- and second-generation rights, and the question of whether there should be one central monitoring body - possibly a world court - or more than just one. However, the contributors go beyond such questions that have been explored before; they develop new answers to old questions and point to new challenges.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moeckli, Daniel

Keller, Helen

Heri, Corina

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Finanzkrisen, Wirtschaftskrisen
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Verwaltungs-, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Helen Keller and Daniel Moeckli: Introduction

- Part I: The Past: What Have the Covenants (Not) Achieved?

- 2: Maya Hertig Randall: The History of the Covenants: Looking Back Half a Century and Beyond

- 3: Gerald Neuman: Giving Meaning and Effect to Human Rights: The Contributions of Human Rights Committee Members

- 4: Daniel Moeckli: Interpretation of the ICESCR: Between Morality and State Consent

- 5: Patrick Mutzenberg: The Role of NGOs in the Implementation of the Covenants

- Part II: The Present: What Is the Influence of the Covenants?

- 6: Manisuli Ssenyonjo: Influence of the ICESCR in Africa

- 7: Basak Çali: Influence of the ICCPR in the Middle East

- 8: Mónica Pinto and Martin Sigal: Influence of the ICESCR in the Americas

- 9: Yogesh Tyagi: Influence of the ICCPR in Asia

- 10: Amrei Müller: Influence of the ICESCR in Europe

- 11: Samantha Besson: The Influence of the Two Covenants on States Parties Across Regions: Lessons for the Role of Comparative Law and of Regions in International Human Rights Law

- Part III: The Future: What Should Become of the Covenants?

- 12: Stephen Humphreys: The Covenants in the Light of Anthropogenic Climate Change

- 13: Christine Kaufmann: The Covenants and Financial Crises

- 14: Felice Gaer: The Institutional Future of the Covenants: A World Court for Human Rights?

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Moeckli is Assistant Professor of Public International Law and Constitutional Law at the University of Zurich and Fellow of the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre. He is the author of Human Rights and Non-discrimination in the 'War on Terror' (OUP, 2008), for which he was awarded the Paul Guggenheim Prize, and Exclusion from Public Space (CUP, 2016) as well as co-editor of International Human Rights Law (OUP, 2017). Before joining the University of Zurich, he was a Lecturer at the University of Nottingham and worked for the International Bar Association, Amnesty International, and the Supreme Court of the Canton of Berne.

Helen Keller is Professor of Public Law, European and Public International Law at the University of Zurich and serves as a Judge at the European Court of Human Rights. Keller's research focuses on international human rights law, paying particular attention to the European Convention on Human Rights. She is, inter alia, the author of The Reception of International Law (2003; in German), the co-author of Friendly Settlements before the European Court of Human Rights (OUP, 2010) as well as the co-editor of Family Forms and Parenthood (2016), UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies - Law and Legitimacy (CUP, 2012), and A Europe of Rights: the Impact of the ECHR on National Legal Systems (OUP, 2008). In addition, she has published numerous articles in international peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.