Human rights and the universal periodic review : rituals and ritualism / [edited by] Hilary Charlesworth and Emma Larking.
2014
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Title
Human rights and the universal periodic review : rituals and ritualism / [edited by] Hilary Charlesworth and Emma Larking.
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Call Number
K3239.8 .H845 2014
ISBN
9781107086302 hardback
1107086302 hardback
1107086302 hardback
Description
xvi, 297 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)883962555
Summary
"The Universal Periodic Review is an intriguing and ambitious development in human rights monitoring which breaks new ground by engaging all 193 members of the United Nations. This book provides the first sustained analysis of the Review and explains how the Review functions within the architecture of the United Nations. It draws on socio-legal scholarship and the insights of human rights practitioners with direct experience of the Review in order to consider its regulatory power and its capacity to influence the behaviour of states. It also highlights the significance of the embodied features of the Review, with its cyclical and intricately managed interactive dialogues. Additionally, it discusses the rituals associated with the Review, examines the tendency of the Review towards hollow ritualism (which undermines its aspiration to address human rights violations comprehensively) and suggests how this ritualism might be overcome"-- Provided by publisher.
"This book is the result of a conference held at the Australian National University in Canberra in December 2012. The aim of the conference was to bring together scholars and human rights practitioners from around the world to examine the United Nations Human Rights Council's novel mechanism, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The first four year cycle of the UPR concluded in 2012 and the conference was designed to assess the UPR's progress as a technique to protect human rights at the international level"-- Provided by publisher.
"This book is the result of a conference held at the Australian National University in Canberra in December 2012. The aim of the conference was to bring together scholars and human rights practitioners from around the world to examine the United Nations Human Rights Council's novel mechanism, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The first four year cycle of the UPR concluded in 2012 and the conference was designed to assess the UPR's progress as a technique to protect human rights at the international level"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
"this book is the result of a conference held at the Australian National University in Canberra in December 2012" -- preface.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and index.
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
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Table of Contents
List of contributors
vii
List of abbreviations
xii
Preface
xv
Introduction: the regulatory power of the Universal Periodic Review / Emma Larking
1
pt. I
Ritual, Ritualism and the Universal Periodic Review
23
1.
Ritual and ritualism at the Universal Periodic Review: a preliminary appraisal / Walter Kalin
25
2.
The Universal Periodic Review as a public audit ritual: an anthropological perspective on emerging practices in the global governance of human rights / Jane K. Cowan
42
3.
Keepers of the truth: producing 'transparent' documents for the Universal Periodic Review / Julie Billaud
63
pt. II
Assessing and engaging with the Universal Periodic Review
85
4.
The Universal Periodic Review's first cycle: successes and failures / Roland Chauville
87
5.
Rituals and implementation in the Universal Periodic Review and the human rights treaty bodies / Heather Collister
109
6.
Effective NGO engagement with the Universal Periodic Review / Phil Lynch
126
7.
Global media coverage of the Universal Periodic Review process / Sarah Joseph
147
pt. III
State and regional engagement with the Universal Periodic Review
167
8.
Representation and suspicion in Canada's appearance under the Universal Periodic Review / Benjamin Authers
169
9.
The Universal Periodic Review: building a bridge between the Pacific and Geneva? / Natalie Baird
187
10.
The effects of the Universal Periodic Review on human rights practices in the United States / Cassandra Yamasaki
213
11.
Africa's engagement with the Universal Periodic Review: commitment or capitulation? / Takele Soboka Bulto
235
12.
Indonesia and the Universal Periodic Review: negotiating rights / Yuyun Wahyuningrum
256
Bibliography
275
Index
288