The United Nations Special Procedures System (Nottingham Studies on Human Rights, 6)

ISBN 10: 900430469X / ISBN 13: 9789004304697

Published by Brill | Nijhoff, 2017

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Synopsis:

The United Nations Special Procedures system is a key element of the expanding international framework for human rights protection and promotion. However, despite the systems expansion, the range of roles and functions performed by mandate holders, and the growing evidence of its strengths and limitations, there has been very little academic interrogation or analysis of Special Procedures. This lacuna is ever-more problematic given the growing profile and effectiveness of the Special Procedures work, as well as the increasing attention and challenges that they face, both externally from States and internally from within the UN system. Given the current state of play of Special Procedures, it is essential that scholarly attention be focused upon the system. How does it contribute to international human rights protection? How, when and why does it fail to do so? What steps can and should be taken to address shortcomings both within the system and in terms of the legal and political context within which it operates? Featuring expert contributions from key players within, and expert commentators on, the Special Procedures system, this volume addresses these questions in an in-depth and rigorous scholarly manner.

About the Author: Aoife Nolan is Professor of International Human Rights Law and Co-lead of the Rights and Justice Research Priority Area at the University of Nottingham. Rosa Freedman is Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development and Director of the Global Development Division, at University of Reading. Thérèse Murphy is Professor of Law and Director of the Health & Human Rights Unit at Queen's University Belfast.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The United Nations Special Procedures System...
Publisher: Brill | Nijhoff
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New