Overview

This guide offers a thorough explanation of the United Nations human rights treaty bodies, with a focus upon the four committees authorised to receive communications from individuals. Detailed information is provided concerning procedural requirements, while the treaties are analysed for their relevance to the forcibly displaced. United Nations mechanisms are also examined, with an emphasis on the thematic and country. The regional systems of Africa, Europe, and Latin America are thoroughly analysed with special attention to the particular substantive relevance of the regional human rights treaties to the situation of refugees, asylum-seekers, and the internally displaced is presented in detail. Because refugees and displaced persons are frequently the victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity, this volume also includes a chapter on the provisions for victims and witnesses before international criminal tribunals. The trend toward the establishment of mixed national and international bodies in post-conflict societies is examined in the concluding chapter, using the human rights institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a model. The contributors are recognised experts on the mechanisms they describe and analyse, with both academic and practical experience in the workings of these bodies. The book will be of interest both to advocates wishing to use it as a step-by-step guide to the mechanisms as well as to those with an interest in the human rights dimension of forced displacement.

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Author:   Joan Fitzpatrick
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Transnational Publishers Inc.,U.S.
Weight:   1.070kg
ISBN:  

9781571050618

ISBN 10:   1571050612
Pages:   666
Publication Date:   01 January 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Editor's Foreword; Contributors; Table of Abbreviations; Chapter 1. The Human Rights of Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Internally Displaced Persons: A Basic Introduction, JOAN FITZPATRICK; Chapter 2. Protection Under the Complaint Procedures of the United Nations Treaty Bodies, ANNE BAYEFSKY, STEPHANIE FARRIOR, KAREN HANRAHAN, AND ANDREW LANGHAM; Chapter 3. The United Nations Charter-Based Mechanisms, CAMILLE GIFFARD AND MEAGAN HRLE; Chapter 4. African Regional Mechanisms That Can Be Utilized on Behalf of the Forcibly Displaced, CHIDI ANSELM ODINKALU AND MONETTE ZARD; Chapter 5. European Human Rights Mechanisms, DIANE ATKINSON-SANFORD; Chapter 7. International Criminal Tribunals: Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons Who May Be Witnesses Before the Tribunals, ASA RYDBERG AND KELLY ASKIN; Chapter 8. Internationalized Legal Structures and the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons, MARCUS COX AND CHRISTOPHER HARLAND; Appendices; Bibliography of Cited International Instruments; Index; About The Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute; Procedural Aspects of International Law Monograph Series; Other PAIL Institute Publications;

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