The UN Human Rights Treaty System: Universality at the Crossroads - Softcover

Bayefsky, Anne

 
9781571052308: The UN Human Rights Treaty System: Universality at the Crossroads

Synopsis

This landmark study envisions a wide-ranging number of international human rights reforms, most of which can be accomplished without formal amendment to the UN international human rights treatty system. The recommendations generally assume a six treaty body regime, and focus primarily on offering concrete suggestions for improvements in working methods of the treaty bodies and procedures at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).



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Professor Bayefsky teaches law at York University, Canada. The author of numerous books and articles on human rights in the fields of international and constitutional law, she was awarded the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research in 1992. She served on the First External Research Advisory Committee to the UNHCR and the Advisory Panel for the UN Development Report 2000.

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