International human rights monitoring mechanisms : : essays in honour of Jakob Th. Möller / / edited by Alfred Zayas [and three others].

• Superior document: The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library ; 7
• TeilnehmendeR: Zayas, Alfred,
• Place / Publishing House: The Hague, The Netherlands : : Kluwer Law International,, [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library ; 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.

This collection is intended to serve as a thematic textbook on the institutions and procedures devoted to the national implementation of human rights and to the international monitoring of State performance. Albeit not exhaustive, the coverage extends to most of the monitoring instances available at intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations: complaints, fact-finding and investigative procedures, State reporting obligations, good offices actions, dialogue functions, human rights education, dissemination of human rights information, letter campaigns, and technical co-operation. The target audience of the book is students of international human rights law, but the book can also serve as a guide for both officials and activists involved in the realization of human rights.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- The United Nations and Human Rights in the Twenty-first Century -- The Early Days -- Overview Over Human Rights - the Regime of the UN -- The Examination of Individual Complaints by the United Nations Human Rights Committee under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- Article 26, the Human Rights Committee's Views and Decisions: the Way of the Future? -- How to Untie a Tie in the Human Rights Committee -- The First Ten Years of the Human Rights Committee -- CERD and Article 14 -- The Unfulfilled Promise -- CAT and Articles 20 and 22 -- State Reports -- Follow-up Procedures to Individual Complaints and Periodic State Reporting Mechanisms -- 53rd Session of the Commission on Human Rights -- The Special Procedures of the UN Commission on Human Rights: Should they be Scrapped? -- Urgent Action -- Human Rights Education -- 1503: A Serious Procedure -- Early Warning and Prevention -- Good Offices, Preventative Action and Peacemaking by the United Nations Secretary-General -- Monitoring the Rights of the Internally Displaced -- Protecting Refugees and Persons in Refugee-like Situations -- Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: to Bomb or Not to Bomb? -- A United Nations Permanent Forum for the World's Indigenous Peoples - A Global Imperative -- Minorities at the United Nations: From Standard-setting to the Working Group on Minorities -- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Challenges and Opportunities -- The High Commissioner's Field Operations -- The United Nations Programme of Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights -- Men and Women, Sex and Gender -- The New Frontiers of Judicial Enforcement: The International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

The Role of the Permanent International Criminal Court in Prosecuting Genocide, Other Crimes Against Humanity and Serious Violations of Humanitarian Law -- The International Court of Justice in Furthering the Justiciability of Human Rights -- The International Labour Organization and Human Rights Access to the ILO -- UNESCO -- Access to Justice: The World Bank Inspection Panel -- Approaching FAO -- Monitoring by the Council of Europe -- Inter-State Complaints Under Treaty Provisions - The Experience Under The European Convention on Human Rights -- Control of Execution of Decisions Under the ECHR - Some Remarks on the Committee of Ministers' Control of the Proper Implementation of Decisions Finding Violations of the Convention -- The European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment -- The European Social Charter -- Equality Between Women and Men -- Just Do It! Human Rights Education in Europe -- The Monitoring Procedure of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly -- Approaching the OSCE - An Overview -- Monitoring the Human Dimension of the OSCE -- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities -- The Commissioner of the Council of the Baltic Sea States -- The EU as an External Human Rights Actor -- Protection of Human Rights under the Inter-American System: An Outsider's Reflection -- The Complaint Procedures of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights -- The Protection Mechanism under the African Charter and the Protocol on African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights -- Prospects for Regional Human Rights Machinery in Asia-Pacific -- Human Rights and the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- The Human Rights Ombudsperson for Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Individual Complaints Before the Human Rights Commission for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Human Rights in EU and EEA Law -- Human Rights Mechanisms in International Parliamentary Institutions -- The United Nations and National Human Rights Institutions -- The Role of Bar Associations and Law Societies in the Implementation of Human Rights -- On Monitoring Human Rights and the International Committee of The Red Cross (ICRC) -- Role of NGOs - An Overview -- Amnesty International: A Candle of Hope -- Making a Difference -- The International Commission of Jurists in the International Human Rights Movement -- La Pratique de la Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l'Homme au sein des Organes de l'ONU -- Advocacy in International Organisations: Some Experiences and Reflections from the Perspective of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) -- The Role of International Non-Governmental Organisations in Promoting Minority Rights Monitoring -- The Protestant Churches -- Concluding Remarks: More Law and Less Politics -- About the Authors -- Index.