Introduction to the international human rights regime /

Introduction to the international human rights regime /

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Author / Creator:Nowak, Manfred, 1950-
Uniform title:Einführung in das internationale Menschenrechtssystem. English
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff, c2003.
Description:xv, 365 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library vol. 14
Subject:
Human rights.
Human rights.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5132624
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ISBN:9004136584
900413672X (pbk.)
Notes:Updated translation of: Einführung in das internationale Menschenrechtssystem. Wien : Neuer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • 1.. What Are Human Rights?
  • 2.. History of Human Rights
  • 2.1.. Philosophical Foundations
  • 2.2.. Fundamental Rights and Constitutionalism
  • 2.3.. Historical Antecedents of the International Protection of Human Rights
  • 2.4.. The League of Nations
  • 2.5.. International Human Rights Law as a Reaction to National Socialism
  • 2.6.. Three Generations (Dimensions) of Human Rights as Ideological Concepts during the Cold War
  • 2.7.. All Human Rights for All: Universality, Indivisibility, Equality and Interdependence of Human Rights
  • 2.8.. From Promotion to Protection and Prevention
  • 3.. International Human Rights Protection--Context and Conceptions
  • 3.1. Human Rights in Context
  • 3.1.1.. Human Rights versus National Sovereignty
  • 3.1.2.. Human Rights Protection--An Atypical Task of International Law
  • 3.1.3.. Human Rights Protection: International and National Law
  • 3.1.4.. Human Rights Law, Humanitarian Law, Refugee Law
  • 3.1.5.. Human Rights and Peace
  • 3.1.6.. Human Rights and Development
  • 3.1.7.. Human Rights and Democracy, the Rule of Law, Good Governance and Popular Participation
  • 3.2.. Human Rights Theory
  • 3.2.1.. Obligations of States to Respect, Fulfil and Protect Human Rights
  • 3.2.2.. Horizontal Effects of Human Rights
  • 3.2.3.. State Responsibility and Individual Responsibility
  • 3.2.4.. Restrictions and Limitations of Human Rights
  • 3.2.5.. The Principle of Proportionality and the Margin of Appreciation
  • 3.2.6.. Prohibition of Discrimination
  • 3.2.7.. Right to Effective Remedy and Reparation for Human Rights Violations
  • 3.2.8.. Rules of Interpretation of Human Rights Treaties
  • 3.3.. Overview of the International Human Rights System
  • 4.. United Nations
  • 4.1.. UN Charter
  • 4.2.. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
  • 4.3.. Human Rights Treaties and Monitoring Mechanisms
  • 4.3.1.. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (CCPR)
  • 4.3.2.. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
  • 4.3.3.. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
  • 4.3.4.. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
  • 4.3.5.. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT)
  • 4.3.6.. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
  • 4.3.7.. Other Major UN Human Rights Treaties
  • 4.3.8.. Treaty Monitoring Bodies
  • 4.3.9.. State Reporting Procedure
  • 4.3.10.. Complaints Procedure
  • 4.3.11.. Inquiry Procedure
  • 4.4.. Charter Based Organs and Mechanisms
  • 4.4.1.. Commission on Human Rights (CHR)
  • 4.4.1.1.. General Remarks
  • 4.4.1.2.. ECOSOC Resolution 1235 (XLII) of 6 June 1967
  • 4.4.1.3.. ECOSOC Resolution 1503 (XLVIII) of 27 May 1970
  • 4.4.1.4.. Country Specific Mechanisms
  • 4.4.1.5.. Thematic Mechanisms
  • 4.4.1.6.. Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
  • 4.4.2.. Commission on the Status of Women
  • 4.4.3.. Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
  • 4.4.4.. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
  • 4.4.5.. Trusteeship Council
  • 4.4.6.. General Assembly
  • 4.4.7.. Security Council
  • 4.4.8.. Secretary General
  • 4.4.8.1.. Structure of the Secretariat and Coordination Mechanisms
  • 4.4.8.2.. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva (UNHCHR)
  • 4.4.8.3.. Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), New York
  • 4.4.8.4.. Centre for International Crime Prevention (CICP), Vienna
  • 4.4.8.5.. Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Geneva
  • 4.4.8.6.. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), New York
  • 4.4.8.7.. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), New York
  • 4.4.8.8.. Other Relevant UN Offices and Departments
  • 4.5.. UN Specialized Agencies
  • 4.5.1.. 'The United Nations Family'
  • 4.5.2.. International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva
  • 4.5.3.. UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris
  • 4.5.4.. World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva
  • 4.5.5.. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome
  • 4.5.6.. World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington
  • 4.5.7.. The World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva
  • 4.6.. Main World Conferences
  • 4.6.1.. Second World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna 1993
  • 4.6.2.. Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995
  • 4.6.3.. First World Social Summit, Copenhagen 1995
  • 4.6.4.. Third World Conference Against Racism, Durban 2001
  • 5.. Council of Europe (CoE)
  • 5.1.. The Three Pillars of the Council of Europe: Democracy, Rule of Law and Human Rights--Theory and Practice
  • 5.2.. European Convention on Human Rights
  • 5.2.1.. The Traditional Concept of Civil and Political Rights
  • 5.2.2.. Gradual Development of the Strasbourg Mechanism
  • 5.2.3.. Inter-State Complaints Procedure
  • 5.2.4.. Individual Complaints Procedure
  • 5.3.. European Social Charter (ESC)
  • 5.4.. European Convention for the Prevention of Torture (ECPT)
  • 5.5.. European Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
  • 5.6.. European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages
  • 5.7.. European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine
  • 5.8.. European Commissioner for Human Rights
  • 5.9.. European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)
  • 5.10.. Other Relevant Treaties and Mechanisms
  • 6.. Organization of American States (OAS)
  • 6.1.. From the Pan-American Union to the OAS
  • 6.2.. Purposes and Structures of the OAS
  • 6.3.. American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man
  • 6.4.. Charter Based Mechanisms
  • 6.4.1.. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
  • 6.4.2.. Individual Complaints System (based on OAS Charter)
  • 6.4.3.. Country Reports
  • 6.5.. American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR)
  • 6.5.1.. Individual complaints procedure
  • 6.5.2.. Inter-state Complaints Procedure
  • 6.5.3.. Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Competence
  • 6.5.4.. Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Judgements on Individual Complaints
  • 6.6.. Other Relevant Treaties and Mechanisms
  • 7.. Organization of African Unity (OAU)/African Union (AU)
  • 7.1.. Organization of African Unity (OAU)
  • 7.2.. African Union
  • 7.3.. Human Rights and Colonialism
  • 7.4.. African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
  • 7.4.1.. The African Concept of Individual and Collective Rights and Duties
  • 7.4.2.. African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
  • 7.4.3.. African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (to be established)
  • 7.4.4.. Inter-State Complaints Procedure
  • 7.4.5.. Individual Complaints Procedure
  • 7.5.. Other Relevant Treaties and Mechanisms
  • 8.. Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
  • 8.1.. From CSCE to OSCE
  • 8.2.. The CSCE during the Cold War
  • 8.3.. Human Dimension
  • 8.4.. Human Dimension Mechanisms
  • 8.5.. Charter of Paris for a New Europe
  • 8.6.. The CSCE in Search of a New Identity
  • 8.7.. The OSCE: Structures and Institutions
  • 8.8.. Human Rights as Part of a Comprehensive Security Concept
  • 8.9.. High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM)
  • 8.10.. OSCE Representative on Freedom of Media
  • 8.11.. Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
  • 8.12.. OSCE Field Missions and Activities
  • 9.. European Union (EU)
  • 9.1.. The Significance of Human Rights in the Process of European Integration
  • 9.2.. Human Rights as Admission Criteria
  • 9.3.. Human Rights within the EU
  • 9.3.1.. The Significance and Status of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
  • 9.3.2.. Jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg
  • 9.3.3.. Asylum and Migration Policy
  • 9.3.4.. Protection against Discrimination in the European Union
  • 9.3.5.. European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC)
  • 9.4.. Human Rights and EU External Relations
  • 9.4.1.. Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
  • 9.4.2.. Human Rights and Development Cooperation
  • 9.4.3.. Lome Conventions and Cotonou Agreement
  • 9.4.4.. Human Rights Clauses in Bilateral Treaties of the EU
  • 9.5.. Recent Developments
  • 9.5.1.. 'Leading by Example': A 'Human Rights Agenda' for the European Union for the Year 2000
  • 9.5.2.. Vienna Declaration of the EU of 10 December 1998
  • 9.5.3.. EU Annual Report on Human Rights
  • 9.5.4.. EU Charter of Fundamental Rights of 7 December 2000
  • 10.. Efforts of Other Regional Organizations to Protect Human Rights
  • 10.1.. Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
  • 10.2.. League of Arab States
  • 11.. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOS)
  • 11.1.. NGOs as Part of Civil Society
  • 11.2.. Fact Finding and 'Mobilization of Shame'
  • 11.3.. The Contribution of NGOs to the Work of IGOs
  • 11.4.. UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders
  • 11.5.. Well-Known International Human Rights NGOs
  • 12.. Traditional Procedures and Mechanisms for the International Protection of Human Rights
  • 12.1.. State Reporting Procedure
  • 12.2.. Inter-State Complaints Procedure
  • 12.3.. Individual Complaints Procedure
  • 12.4.. Inquiry Procedure
  • 12.5.. Other Forms of Fact-Finding, Investigation and Reporting
  • 12.6.. System of Visits
  • 13.. Shortcomings of Traditional Procedures and New Trends in the International Human Rights Regime
  • 14.. Mechanisms for the Prevention of Human Rights Violations
  • 14.1.. UN Preventive Deployment Force in Macedonia (UNPREDEP)
  • 14.2.. Burundi Field Mission of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)
  • 14.3.. OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM)-Case Studies
  • 14.4.. UN Declaration and UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances
  • 14.5.. Austria and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CTP)
  • 15.. Individual Criminal Responsibility for Serious Human Rights Violations
  • 15.1.. The Struggle against Impunity at the National Level: The 'Dirty War' in Argentina
  • 15.2.. The Principle of Universal Jurisdiction under the UN Convention against Torture (CAT): The Case of Hissein Habre in Senegal
  • 15.3.. Diplomatic Immunity versus Criminal Responsibility: The Pinochet Case Before the British House of Lords
  • 15.4.. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
  • 15.5.. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
  • 15.6.. The Long and Winding Road to the Adoption of the Rome Statute for an International Criminal Court (ICC)
  • 15.7.. International Criminal Court (ICC)
  • 15.8.. The Concept of Crimes against Humanity
  • 15.9.. Challenges for the ICC
  • 16.. Human Rights and the Maintenance of Peace and Security
  • 16.1.. Chapter VII UN Charter: Powers of the UN Security Council in the Event of a Threat to the Peace, Breach of the Peace or Act of Aggression
  • 16.2.. The Security Council and Human Rights
  • 16.3.. Sanctions of the Security Council under Article 41
  • 16.4.. Structure of the Dayton Peace Agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • 16.5.. UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP)
  • 16.6.. UN Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL)
  • 16.7.. First Field Presence of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: UN Field Operation in Rwanda (HRFOR)
  • 16.8.. Between Peacekeeping and Protectorate: UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC)
  • 16.9.. Comprehensive Peace Operation: The International Community's Quasi Protectorate in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • 16.10.. Self-Determination and UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET)
  • 16.11.. Human Rights Protection by the Security Council as a Direct Consequence of International Peace Making: Case Study Iraq
  • 16.12.. Humanitarian Intervention for the Protection of Human Rights in 'Failed States': Case Study Somalia
  • 16.13.. The Tanzanian Intervention in Uganda in 1979: A 'Humanitarian Intervention'?
  • 16.14.. NATO Humanitarian Intervention for the Protection of Human Rights: Case Study Kosovo
  • 16.15.. Human Rights and the Fight against Terrorism: Case Study Afghanistan
  • 17.. Challenges for the Future
  • Abbreviations
  • Casebox Index
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index
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