Non-Governmental Organisations and the United Nations Human Rights System - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Non-Governmental Organisations and the United Nations Human Rights System write by Fiona McGaughey. This book was released on 2021-05-30. Non-Governmental Organisations and the United Nations Human Rights System available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) have become important, although sometimes overlooked, actors in international human rights law. Although NGOs are not generally provided for in the hard law of treaties, they use the UN human rights system to hold Governments to account. A key way in which they do so is using State reporting mechanisms, initially the UN treaty bodies, but more recently supplemented by the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review. In doing so, NGOs provide information and contribute to developing recommendations. NGOs also lobby for new treaties, contribute to the drafting of these treaties, and bring individual’s complaints to the UN human rights bodies. This book charts the historical development of the NGO role in the UN. It examines the UN regulation of NGOs but the largely informal nature of the role, and an exploration of the various types of NGOs, including some less benign actors such as GONGOs (Governmental NGOs). It also draws on empirical data to illustrate NGO influence on UN human rights bodies and gives voice to stakeholders both inside and outside the UN. The book concludes that the current UN human rights system is heavily reliant on NGOs and that they play an essential fact-finding role and contribute to global democratisation and governance.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Universal Declaration of Human Rights write by . This book was released on 1978. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The United Nations and Human Rights
The United Nations and Human Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The United Nations and Human Rights write by Julie A Mertus. This book was released on 2010-04-05. The United Nations and Human Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fully revised and updated second edition not only provides a complete guide to the development, structure and procedures within the UN human rights system, but also this reflects the vital changes that have occurred within the UN system.
The United Nations and Human Rights
The United Nations and Human Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The United Nations and Human Rights write by Julie Mertus. This book was released on 2005. The United Nations and Human Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is designed to provide a framework for understanding contemporary United Nations (UN) human rights machinery.
The Conscience of the World
The Conscience of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Conscience of the World write by Peter Willetts. This book was released on 2002-04-26. The Conscience of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Private groups, such as Amnesty International and Save the Children Fund, have had a formal consultative status with the United Nations since its founding. Such groups--known as nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs--have come to exert considerable influence on the UN's agenda setting, decisionmaking, and policy implementation. This book examines the role of the NGOs in world politics and the accomplishments of selected groups dealing with the environment, women's rights, children's problems, human rights, and refugee and famine crises. Although these organizations and the UN generally act as partners and collaborators, there are also some tensions, as the NGOs do not have voting status and must remain independent and innovative. In the area of human rights, in particular, the NGOs have applied slow but steady pressure to force the UN to institute real sanctions against individual governments, thus earning the title "conscience of the world." Contributors are Seamus Cleary, formerly at the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development; Jane Connors, senior lecturer in law at London University and specialist in women's rights; Helena Cook, former legal officer of Amnesty International; Richard Hoggart, former assistant director-general of UNESCO; Michael Longford, UK representative to several international groups; Sally Morphet, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Angela Penrose, Save the Children Fund; John Sankey, former UK representative to the UN in Geneva; John Seaman, Save the Children Fund; Bill Seary, formerly at the National Council for Voluntary Organizations; Henry Steel, leader of the UK delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission; and Douglas Williams, former deputy secretary of the UK Ministry of Overseas Development. Copublished with the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies Available through Brookings in North America only
