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Author
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Examines the effectiveness of a key endeavor by the United Nations to monitor and influence human rights through a unique body of independent experts, appointed by countries to investigate, analyze, and report on the whole spectrum of human rights problems around the world"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This book examines the engagement of African states with the United Nations Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review Mechanism (UPR). This system is known for its pacific and non-confrontational approach to monitoring state human rights implementation. Coming at the end of the first two cycles of the UPR, the work offers a detailed analysis into the effectiveness of African states' engagement and its potential impact. It develops a framework...
Series
Nottingham studies on human rights volume 6
Publisher
Brill Nijhoff
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Author
Series
Human rights law in perspective volume 2
Publisher
Hart Pub
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
17) Human rights activism and the end of the cold war: a transnational history of the Helsinki network
Author
Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"This book explores how a network of human rights activists emerged in the aftermath of the 1975 Helsinki Final Act and over time fundamentally reshaped East-West diplomacy"--
"Two of the most pressing questions facing international historians today are how and why the Cold War ended. Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War explores how, in the aftermath of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, a transnational network of activists...