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International Human Rights Institutions, Tribunals, and Courts

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  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Gerd Oberleitner

    1. Faculty of Law, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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  • A critical introduction to the past, present, and future of human rights institutions
  • Multi-disciplinary approach to the legal and political aspects of human rights institutions, courts, and tribunals
  • Examines a wide range of human rights institutions from all over the globe
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: International Human Rights (IHR)

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Table of contents (25 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction to Human Rights Institutions: Legitimacy and Authority

    • Steven Wheatley
    Pages 1-22

  3. United Nations Human Rights Institutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Politics and Provisions (1945–1948)

      • Roland Burke, James Kirby
      Pages 25-47

    3. The UN Human Rights Council: Achievements and Challenges in Its First Decade

      • Humberto Cantú Rivera
      Pages 49-68

    4. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Field Operations

      • William G. O’Neill
      Pages 69-94

    5. The UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies: Impact and Future

      • Lutz Oette
      Pages 95-115

    6. The UN Human Rights Committee

      • Anja Seibert-Fohr
      Pages 117-141

    7. The UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

      • Fons Coomans
      Pages 143-168

    8. Gender in the UN: CEDAW and the Commission on the Status of Women

      • Jane Connors
      Pages 169-197

    9. The UN Security Council and Human Rights

      • Joanna Weschler, Lindiwe Knutson
      Pages 199-226

    10. International Labour Organization

      • Maria Victoria Cabrera-Ormaza
      Pages 227-249

    11. UNESCO and Human Rights

      • Yvonne Donders
      Pages 251-269

    12. A World Court of Human Rights

      • Manfred Nowak
      Pages 271-290

    13. National Human Rights Institutions

      • Kirsten Roberts Lyer
      Pages 291-315

  4. Human Rights Violations as Crimes: International Courts and Tribunals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 317-317
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    2. Human Rights: The Nuremberg Legacy

      • Miriam Cohen
      Pages 319-332

    3. Human Rights: Future of Ad Hoc Tribunals

      • Milena Sterio
      Pages 333-353

    4. The International Criminal Court between Human Rights and Realpolitik

      • Luigi Daniele
      Pages 355-376

    5. Enforcement of International Humanitarian Law

      • Gentian Zyberi
      Pages 377-400
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About this book

This book introduces readers to the major human rights institutions, courts, and tribunals and critically assesses their legacy as well as the promise they hold for realizing human rights globally, and the challenges they face in doing so. It traces the rationale of setting up international institutions, courts, and tribunals with the aim of ensuring respect for international human rights law and presents their historic development, and critically analyzes their contribution to the promotion and protection of human rights. At the same time, it asks which promises old and new (and envisaged) human rights institutions hold for safeguarding human rights in light of continuing violations and recent global trends in human rights and politics.


The first section presents institutions created within the framework of the United Nations. The second part of the volume assesses how international criminal tribunals have reframed human rights violations as individual criminal acts. The third part of the volume is devoted to established and emerging regional human rights bodies and courts around the world.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Law, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Gerd Oberleitner

About the editor

Gerd Oberleitner is UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Human Security and Director of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy at the University of Graz and Associate Professor of International Law at the Institute of International Law and International Relations, also at the University of Graz. He has served as Legal Adviser in the Human Rights Department of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, was Lecturer in Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Visiting Fellow at the LSE’s Centre for the Study of Human Rights, and has taught and researched at the European Inter-University Centre in Venice, the Université du Quebéc à Montréal, the University of Ljubljana, Prishtina, and Rutgers University. He teaches in the Global Campus of Regional Human Rights Master Programmes.

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