The UN Human Rights Committee : practice and procedure / Yogesh Tyagi.
2011
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Title
The UN Human Rights Committee : practice and procedure / Yogesh Tyagi.
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Call Number
K3241 .T93 2010
ISBN
9780521115933 (hardback)
0521115930 (hardback)
0521115930 (hardback)
Description
xxxiii, 909 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)474872419
Summary
"As a result of its origins in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the amount of work that it has done, the UN Human Rights Committee is considered the most important body in the UN human rights treaty system. Sensitive to the viewpoint of developing countries, and taking into account the interplay of law and politics, this comprehensive study of the Committee's procedure and practice assesses its conceptual, institutional and functional frameworks and analyses a large number of cases with which the Committee has dealt. It is based on the drafting history of the Covenant and the Optional Protocols thereto, in-depth analysis of the relevant documents of the United Nations and other international bodies, observations on the functioning of the Committee and interviews with a number of activists, experts and officials dealing with the work of the Committee"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Variant Title
United Nations Human Rights Committee
Table of Contents
Foreword
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
List of acronyms
xiii
List of abbreviations
xvii
Table of cases
xxiii
Introduction
1
Part I Concept and institution
13
1.
The conceptual framework
15
I.
Two sides of the concept
15
II.
Framework of enquiry
21
III.
Assessment
56
2.
The institutional framework
59
I.
Establishment
59
II.
Structure
65
III.
Legal status
108
IV.
Meetings
127
V.
Decision making process
136
VI.
Assessment
146
Part II Jurisdiction and functions
149
3.
The reporting procedure
151
I.
The foundation
153
II.
The mechanism
156
III.
Assessment
307
4.
The inter-State communication procedure
325
I.
The foundation
326
II.
The mechanism
344
III.
Assessment
381
5.
The individual communication procedure
386
I.
The foundation
389
II.
The mechanism
397
III.
The Casework
606
IV.
Assessment
610
Part III Limitations and evaluation
631
6.
Limitations and effectiveness
633
I.
Limitations
636
II.
Effectiveness
774
III.
Assessment
789
7.
Conclusions and recommendations
791
Appendices
I.
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
827
II.
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
847
III.
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
852
IV.
Rules of Procedure of the Human Rights Committee
856
V.
States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
881
VI.
States Parties to the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
884
VII.
States Parties to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
886
VIII.
Model Communication under the Optional Protocol
888
IX.
Members of the Human Rights Committee
891
Index
894