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- Preliminary Material
- Main Text
- Introduction: Appraising the United Nations Human Rights Regime
- I.1 A sketch of the UN human rights system
- I.2 The broad trajectory of human rights at the UN
- I.3 Classifying the organs
- I.4 Evolution of the UN system
- I.5 Charter bodies
- I.6 Treaty bodies
- I.7 The challenge of evaluating the UN’s human rights record
- I.8 Methodological challenges
- I.9 The need to problematize criteria
- I.10 Proposed framework
- I.11 Asking the right questions
- I.12 Identifying the benchmark(s)
- I.13 Conclusion
- Part I The Human Rights Mandate of the Principal Organs
- 1 The Security Council
- 1.1 The Council’s nature
- 1.2 Human rights as an end: redefining international peace and security
- 1.3 Human rights as a means: making human rights part of the Security Council’s activities
- 1.4 Human rights as responsibility: holding the Security Council accountable to human rights standards
- 1.5 Conclusion
- 2 The General Assembly
- 3 The Economic and Social Council
- 4 The International Court of Justice
- 4.1 Human rights before the Court in a first phase: hesitation and restraint
- 4.2 The more recent picture: a qualitative leap?
- 4.3 Prospects for the future
- 4.4 A proper role for the Court
- 1 The Security Council
- Part II Subsidiary Human Rights Organs
- 5 The Human Rights Council
- 6 A Critical Appraisal of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee
- 7 The Commission on the Status of Women
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 The mandate, composition and method of work
- 7.3 Issues of concern and agenda shifts
- 7.4 Problems and prevailing issues
- 7.5 Responding to alternative voices but endorsing liberal feminism
- 8 The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
- Part III Organs Monitoring Treaty Compliance
- 9 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
- 10 The Human Rights Committee
- 10.1 General Overview of the Human Rights Committee
- 10.2 The functions of the Human Rights Committee
- 10.3 The Legal Regime of the ICCPR
- 10.4 The interpretation of the ICCPR by the Human Rights Committee
- 10.5 Conclusions
- 11 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 The Committee and its work: an overview
- 11.3 Developing a jurisprudence of the Convention
- 11.4 Optional Protocol to the Convention
- 11.5 Impact of the Convention and the Committee’s work
- 11.6 Conclusion
- 12 The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 The Committee: an overview
- 12.3 The Committee’s principal activities
- 12.4 The Committee’s principal partners
- 12.5 An assessment
- 13 The Committee against Torture and the Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Origin and composition of the Committee
- 13.3 Monitoring procedures
- i The procedures
- ii Meeting time
- (a) Reporting procedure (Article 19)
- (b) Investigation on its own initiative (Article 20)
- (c) Inquiries undertaken
- (d) Inter-state complaints (Article 21)
- (e) Reference to arbitration and judicial determination (Article 30)
- (f) Individual complaints (Article 22)
- 13.4 Interpreting the convention: progress and challenges
- 13.5 The Optional Protocol to the Convention and the Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture
- 13.6 Conclusion
- 14 The Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Preliminary Material
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Membership and independence
- 14.3 The State party report
- 14.4 Consideration of State party reports
- 14.5 Backlog of reports and parallel chambers
- 14.6 Follow-up
- 14.7 Reservations
- 14.8 General Comments
- 14.9 The Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict and the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography
- 14.10 The Optional Protocol on a communications procedure
- 14.11 Relationship with other human rights mechanisms and UN entities
- 14.12 Impact of the Convention at the national level
- 14.13 Concluding remarks
- 15 The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Establishment, composition, and administration of the Committee
- 15.3 General task of interpreting the UNCRPD
- 15.4 Committee Mandate, Functions, and Monitoring Procedures
- 15.5 Other mechanisms relevant to monitoring and implementation of the UNCRPD
- 15.6 Monitoring and implementation beyond the framework of the UNCRPD
- 15.7 An emerging CRPD jurisprudence
- 15.8 Conclusion
- Note
- 16 The Committee on Enforced Disappearances
- 17 The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 Membership and functioning of the Migrant Workers Committee
- 17.3 Functions of the Migrant Workers Committee
- 17.4 Cooperation of the Migrant Workers Committee with other concerned bodies
- 17.5 Conclusion
- 18 Reform of the UN Human Rights Treaty Body System
- Part IV The Governance of Human Rights
- 19 The High Commissioner for Human Rights
- 19.1 Introduction: the creation of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- 19.2 The High Commissioner for Human Rights
- 19.3 The organization of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- 19.4 The activities of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- 19.5 The relationship with the UN Secretary-General
- 19.6 Concluding remarks
- 20 Human Rights Co-Ordination Within the UN System
- 20.1 Introduction
- 20.2 The rationale for human rights coordination
- 20.3 Conclusion: human rights and UN system cohesion
- 19 The High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Introduction: Appraising the United Nations Human Rights Regime
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