The UN and Human Rights : Who Guards the Guardians?.

The UN and Human Rights : Who Guards the Guardians?.

Can the UN violate human rights, and if so, how can it be held accountable?

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Verdirame, Guglielmo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Series:Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, 82.
Subjects:
Human rights.
Human rights
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Table of cases (international); Table of cases (national); Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Origins of this project; Scope and content; Post-scriptum on the politics of footnoting; 1 Concepts and definitions; Introduction; International organisations; Definition of international organisations; History of international organisations; The League and its predecessors; The UN; The concept of autonomy and international organisations; International human rights law; Humanitarianism.
  • The struggle to end the slave trade and the origins of modern international humanitarianismBritish efforts to assert a general right to search and seizure of vessels; Courts and the slave trade; The progressive adoption of multilateral treaty standards; The birth of modern humanitarianism; Humanitarianism and human rights; Accountability; 2 Human rights obligations of international organisations; Introduction; The meaning of institutional practice; International legal personality; Autonomy and personality; Legal personality in international decisions.
  • Are there obligations that flow automatically from international legal personality?Redressing the 'rights-bias' of international legal personality; Obligations arising under the constituent instrument; Express obligations; Implied obligations; Obligations arising under institutional acts; The effects of the human rights obligations of member states; Conclusion; 3 International institutional responsibility; Introduction; Conceptual issues; Wrongful act and breach; Attribution; The general rule; Attribution under Article 6; ECtHR case law on attribution; National case law on attribution.
  • Dual or multiple attributionThe EU question; Attribution of conduct in the international administration of territory; Attribution of ultra vires conduct; Derivative responsibility; Responsibility of the international organisation in connection with the act of a state or another international organisation; Responsibility of the state in connection with the act of an international organisation; Responsibility of the state seeking to avoid compliance; Responsibility of member states; Complicity; Circumstances precluding wrongfulness; Content of responsibility; Implementation of responsibility.
  • Conclusion4 UN relief and development operations; Introduction; International law and humanitarian assistance; The Responsibility to Protect; The consent of the host state; A right to humanitarian assistance?; UN resolutions; The distinction between natural and man-made disasters; Neutrality and impartiality; UN resolutions; The distinction between natural and man-made disasters; Neutrality and impartiality; The breach of the principle of non-discrimination in the provision of humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan and to Afghan re; The history of relief to Afghanistan.

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