Honoring Human Rights - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9041115226 ISBN 13: 9789041115225

Publisher: Brill Nijhoff, 2001

This collection of essays critiques human rights field missions that were part of large UN and other multinational peacekeeping operations during the period 1994 through 1997. The authors served as human rights officers for the missions, including those in El Salvador, Haiti, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda, and Bosnia. The several chapters trace the evolution of the missions, the role of human rights within the peacekeeping process, and the relationship between monitoring abuses and rebuilding the institutions necessary for a rights-respecting civil society. Future peacekeeping ventures should benefit from the analysis of these operations and from the recommendations that conclude each of the two sections of the book.

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Review

'If UN human rights missions, or in general UN missions, simply followed these recommendations, sustainable human rights work in post-conflict societies would take a large step forward.'
American Journal of International Law.

About the Author

Alice H. Hencken is director of The Aspen Institute Justice and Society Program, Washington, UK. An attorney involved in international human rights law, she has written on monitoring human rights, refugee issues, and the role of the non-governmental community in promoting the observance of rights.

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