Implementation of Human Rights Recommendations

Domestic Institutions in East Asia
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-65609-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Law and Change

Through a use of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, Won provides a nuanced analysis and discussion of the factors and domestic processes influencing the implementation of United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) recommendations in South Korea and Japan, as well as across the globe.

Won’s research entangles the theoretical debate on whether the UN human rights treaty system is effective in prompting the implementation of HRC recommendations. Her findings, based on interviews with activists, lawyers, scholars, judges, and other practitioners in Korea and Japan, point to the complex interplay of treaty bodies, state parties, and civil society organizations in human rights implementation. In addition, Won creates a novel empirical dataset to assess the key variables associated with improvement in human rights action across 103 countries. The findings suggest that human rights treaties matter not only to countries with high levels of democracy, but authoritarian regimes.

A unique empirical analysis of international human rights action as driven by UN recommendations, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of international law, human rights, and international relations, as well as human rights lawyers and the NGO Human Rights Communities.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Won, Yoomin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Author

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Part I: Overview

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Do Human Rights Treaties Work?

Chapter 3. Human Rights Recommendations System

Chapter 4. Did States Implement Recommendations?

Part II: Stories from Japan and South Korea

Chapter 5. Human Rights Issues in Japan

Chapter 6. Human Rights Issues in South Korea

Chapter 7. Comparing Japan and South Korea

Part III: Global Data Analysis

Chapter 8. Testing Statistically with All-States Data

Chapter 9. Measuring Human Rights Progress—Conclusions and Future Directions

Bibliography

Appendices

Appendix I. Recommendations for South Korea and Japan

Appendix II. Codebook

Appendix III. Result of ordinal logistic regression

Über Autor(innen)

Yoomin Won is Associate Professor at Seoul National University. Her research interests include international human rights law and domestic application.