The Domestic Institutionalisation 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 Domestic Institutionalisation of Human Rights write by Stéphanie Lagoutte. This book was released on 2021-08-19. The Domestic Institutionalisation of Human Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores recent developments pointing towards a ‘domestic institutionalisation of human rights’, composed of converging international trends prescribing the setting up of domestic institutions, and the need for a national human rights systems approach. Building on new compliance theories, innovative arrangements have resolutely appeared around the turn of the millennium and some are now legally enshrined in human rights treaties. In their introduction, the editors capture these developments, their main elements and key points of debate. They outline a research agenda aimed at structuring and generating further attention from both academics and practitioners. As a stepping stone, the book singles out the purposeful attempt by the United Nations and others to frame these trends around the concept of ‘National Human Rights System’. The chapters assess various models and cases put forward for such systems. Each chapter highlights the specific forms of institutions being promoted and their intended domestic interactions, and discusses how these institutions are leveraged and strengthened by international bodies. Authors critically review their implications for the future of human rights, paving the way for additional research. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights.
National Human Rights Institutions in the UN human rights framework
National Human Rights Institutions in the UN human rights framework - 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 National Human Rights Institutions in the UN human rights framework write by Veronika Haász. This book was released on 2013-10-30. National Human Rights Institutions in the UN human rights framework available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, grade: A, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), course: Jura - Internationale Menschenrechte und Humanitäres Recht, language: English, abstract: National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) are cornerstones of strong domestic human rights protection systems. They play a crucial role in the promotion and protection of human rights at the national level. Within their broad mandate, they advise governments on various human rights issues, monitor the implementation of international human rights instruments, promote the harmonisation of national law and practice with the international human rights standards, disseminate human rights information, cooperate with regional and international human rights bodies, and remedy human rights violations. However, National Human Rights Institutions are primarily domestic instruments, they increasingly engage with the international human rights mechanisms. In the last 20 years, they became the practical link between international human rights standards and their concrete application at the national level. The institutions’ interaction with the UN Charter-based and Treaty-based Bodies is a relatively new phenomenon and as such, has its obstacles. In order to clarify the nature and ways of co-operation between NHRIs and the UN human rights monitoring mechanisms, this Handbook sets out the characteristics and role of National Human Rights Institutions in the UN human rights framework. Meanwhile, it is aiming to answer two main questions: what added value does the participation of NHRIs at the international level bring and how should the cooperation between NHRIs and the UN be strengthened in the future.
Business and Human Rights
Business 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 Business and Human Rights write by Claire Methven O'Brien. This book was released on 2020. Business and Human Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 'business and human rights' (BHR) field emerged amidst concerns during the last thirty years over the adequacy of national legal systems and institutions in addressing transnational human rights impacts of global market integration. BHR relies on transnational governance networks and advocacy that transcend a 'national' paradigm. Yet BHR norms and initiatives at the same time remain anchored in national governmental entities and processes. The BHR field thus provides an interesting standpoint from which to reflect on the coherence and relevance of the concept of 'domestic institutionalisation' of human rights. This article proceeds as follows. First it briefly explores how BHR disrupts the paradigmatic view of domestic human rights institutions, given its transnational character and because BHR addresses market actors not just as potential rights violators but as vectors of human rights implementation. We then suggest that BHR re-draws the perimeter of the national human rights system in four ways: by triggering new business-focussed activities by existing national human rights actors; by drawing both new government entities and market actors into the domestic human rights implementation machinery; and via national components of associational or hybrid governance mechanisms. Next, we argue that BHR's extension of the ontology of human rights institutionalisation suggests the relevance of multi-level governance theory in analysing the BHR field. In conclusion we observe that, by demonstrating the lack of clear boundaries between domestic and international, public and private, BHR further highlights the need to situate the concepts of human rights institutionalisation and national human rights institution in the context of global market society.
Human Rights, State Compliance, and Social Change
Human Rights, State Compliance, and Social Change - 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 Human Rights, State Compliance, and Social Change write by Ryan Goodman. This book was released on 2011-11-14. Human Rights, State Compliance, and Social Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) – human rights commissions and ombudsmen – have gained recognition as a possible missing link in the transmission and implementation of international human rights norms at the domestic level. They are also increasingly accepted as important participants in global and regional forums where international norms are produced. By collecting innovative work from experts spanning international law, political science, sociology and human rights practice, this book critically examines the significance of this relatively new class of organizations. It focuses, in particular, on the prospects of these institutions to effectuate state compliance and social change. Consideration is given to the role of NHRIs in delegitimizing – though sometimes legitimizing – governments' poor human rights records and in mobilizing – though sometimes demobilizing – civil society actors. The volume underscores the broader implications of such cross-cutting research for scholarship and practice in the fields of human rights and global affairs in general.
Global Institutionalization of Human Rights
Global Institutionalization 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 Global Institutionalization of Human Rights write by Min Zhou. This book was released on 2011. Global Institutionalization of Human Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
