Budget and Performance: Human Rights Bodies »
Samira Allioui
1 Reform of international human rights bodies became an urgent concern in the early 1990s, as the numbers of applications filed before them mounted, and the intergovernmental structures in which they are embedded (eg Council of Europe (COE) and the United Nations (UN)) welcomed new member states. This increase in membership and caseload took place against a backdrop of budgetary restrictions. 2 Here, the term ‘human rights body’ includes both human rights courts and tribunals and ‘quasi-judicial bodies’ ‘that are competent to hear individual or inter-State...
