This publication details the procedures and the mechanisms needed in order to bring cases of alleged human rights violations to the attention of the United Nations. There are three such mechanisms:
Indigenous peoples might engage with the UN and larger bodies to address climate change through careful organizing, mobilizing public interest, and connecting over the Internet.
Indigenous peoples are able to implement human rights frameworks in their own communities through the process Professor Cooper outlines in this article.
In this article, Professor Joshua Cooper outlines the process by which women might use the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women to hold their governments accountable to preserving their rights.
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights guarantees transparency from member states, which are asked to outline how they preserve such rights within their nations.
FUNCA aims to hold the UN to its stated purposes, by making it transparent and accessible without discrimination.
Mr. Christof Heyns, Dean of Law at the University of Pretoria, provides a regional perspective on human rights law in Africa. Available in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish.
The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library’s list of every country’s ratification of international human rights treaties. Edited and updated by Ilhan Isik (2004) and Taobo Zheng (2008).
An initiative of a coalition of NGOs active to support the work of the Treaty Bodies. Watch the UN treaty body sessions live.
The Responsibility to Protect doctrine (R2P) is not a new idea. It has been at the heart of the United Nations General Assembly discussions since 1946. Thus credit must be given to the International Law Commission and their magnum opus over the past 70 years on the responsibilities of states. The Security Council is the only means through which a state can legally intervene in the affairs of another state. This is determined by the legalities of a breach of International Peace and Security. Each participatory state of the United Nations is responsible for supplying in a timely manner the
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