Catalysts for change how the UN's independent experts promote human rights /
Piccone, Theodore J.
Catalysts for change how the UN's independent experts promote human rights / [electronic resource] : Ted Piccone. - Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2012. - xiii, 225 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Who are the UN's independent human rights experts? -- Findings on effectiveness: country visits and communications -- Independence under the blue flag: relationship with the United Nations -- Style matters: the quality of special procedures work -- Bringing implementation home: the role of states -- Working with the independent sector -- The future of special procedures -- Appendixes: A. experts working group members -- B. HRC Resolution 5/1, institution building -- HRC resolution 5/2, code of conduct -- List of independent experts -- E. human Rights Council members -- F. communications and country visits: examples of impact -- G. breakdown of state responses to communications -- H. status of country visits -- I. Note on methodology note -- J. Brookings/OSJI/UPR-Watch summary recommendations.
"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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780815721932 (electronic bk.)
United Nations Human Rights Council.
Human rights--International cooperation.
Human rights monitoring.
Electronic books.
JZ4974 / .P53 2012
341.4/8
Catalysts for change how the UN's independent experts promote human rights / [electronic resource] : Ted Piccone. - Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2012. - xiii, 225 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Who are the UN's independent human rights experts? -- Findings on effectiveness: country visits and communications -- Independence under the blue flag: relationship with the United Nations -- Style matters: the quality of special procedures work -- Bringing implementation home: the role of states -- Working with the independent sector -- The future of special procedures -- Appendixes: A. experts working group members -- B. HRC Resolution 5/1, institution building -- HRC resolution 5/2, code of conduct -- List of independent experts -- E. human Rights Council members -- F. communications and country visits: examples of impact -- G. breakdown of state responses to communications -- H. status of country visits -- I. Note on methodology note -- J. Brookings/OSJI/UPR-Watch summary recommendations.
"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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780815721932 (electronic bk.)
United Nations Human Rights Council.
Human rights--International cooperation.
Human rights monitoring.
Electronic books.
JZ4974 / .P53 2012
341.4/8