Human Rights Protection for Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Internally Displaced Persons: A Guide to International Mechanisms and Procedures

Buch | Hardcover

700 Seiten

2002
Transnational Publishers Inc.,U.S. (Verlag)
9781571050618 (ISBN)

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This volume provides a detailed analysis of how human rights complaints mechanisms can be accessed by refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced persons. It offers a thorough explanation of the United Nations human rights treaty bodies.

This volume provides a detailed and concrete analysis of how human rights complaints mechanisms can be accessed by refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced persons.
The guide offers a thorough explanation of the United Nations human rights treaty bodies, with a focus upon the four committees authorized to receive communications from individuals. Detailed information is provided concerning procedural requirements, while the treaties are analyzed for their relevance to the forcibly displaced. United Nations mechanisms are also examined, with an emphasis on the thematic and country special procedures of the Commission on Human Rights.

Published under the auspices of the Procedual Aspects of International Law Institute (PAIL). For more information about PAIL please go to pail-institute.org .

Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Joan Fitzpatrick is Jeffrey & Susan Brotman Professor at the University of Washington School of Law. She is the author of several books and numerous articles concerning human rights, migration, and refugee law.

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, ÅSA 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;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2002
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1070 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-13	9781571050618 / 9781571050618
Zustand	Neuware