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• Routledge Global Institutions
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Figures
• Tables
• Boxes
• Foreword to the second edition
• UN human rights machinery
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• 1 A guide to the new UN human rights practice
• What is the new UN human rights practice?
• Where does UN human rights work happen?
• Who are the actors?
• Organization and goals of this book
• 2 The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Origins and organization
• Genesis of an idea
• Contribution of world conferences
• Mandate and organization
• Key activities of OHCHR
• Technical assistance
• Country offices/regional offices
• Other forms of field presence
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: the OHCHR field office at work
• OHCHR support of national human rights institutions (NHRIs)
• Preliminary evaluation of the individual High Commissioners
• Concluding thoughts
• 3 UN Charter-based bodies (and other non-treaty bodies)
• Overview of Charter-based bodies
• The General Assembly
• The Human Rights Council
• Establishment and mandate
• Criticism of the Council
• The Sub-Commission
• The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
• The Commission on the Status of Women
• Additional non-treaty bodies concerned with human rights
• The International Court of Justice31
• The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• The United Nations Children’s Fund (formerly known as the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund)
• The United Nations Development Programme
• Operation of Charter-based bodies
• Standard-setting activities
• Protection activities: 1235 and 1503 procedures
• Special procedures: working groups and thematic procedures
• Rapporteurs’ dialogues
• NGO participation in mechanisms
• Concluding thoughts
• 4 UN treaty bodies
• Overview of the work of human rights committees
• State reporting
• Communications
• Procedure of inquiry
• General comments
• Thematic discussions
• National plans of action
• Overview of specific treaty bodies
• Human Rights Committee
• Are individual communications permitted?
• Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Are individual communications permitted?
• The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
• Are individual communications permitted?
• Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
• Are individual communications permitted?
• Committee Against Torture
• Are individual communications permitted?
• The Committee on the Rights of the Child
• Are individual communications permitted?
• Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
• Are individual communications permitted?
• Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Are individual communications permitted?
• Committee on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance
• Pressures for reform
• Concluding thoughts
• 5 The Security Council
• Human rights before the Security Council
• Authority and will to address human rights
• Measures to promote human rights
• Non-coercive measures
• Coercive measures
• Humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect
• Holding the UN accountable
• Reform efforts
• Transparency, expansion, and voting
• Opening the Council, the Arria Formula, and beyond
• Advocacy by non-governmental organizations
• Concluding thoughts
• 6 The International Labour Organization1 and the UN Global Compact
• ILO organizational structure and operations
• Linking trade and labor
• The social clause debate
• Standard-setting
• Follow-up
• Enforcement mechanisms
• State reports
• Complaints
• Case study on child labor
• New standards: Convention 182
• InFocus Programme on the Progressive Elimination of Child Labour
• Private compliance efforts
• The UN Global Compact
• Structure of Global Compact
• Awareness raising and practical advice
• Complaints for egregious abuses
• Concluding thoughts
• 7 Conclusion
• Postscript to the second edition
• Appendix
• United Nations bodies
• The Secretary-General of the United Nations
• The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR or “High Commissioner”)
• The Security Council
• The General Assembly
• The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
• The Human Rights Council (formerly the Commission on Human Rights)
• The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (“the Sub-Commission”)
• The Commission on the Status of Women (CSN)
• The International Court of Justice (ICJ)
• The International Criminal Court (ICC)
• Treaty bodies
• 1 The Human Rights Committee (HRC)
• 2 The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
• 3 The Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
• 4 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
• 5 The Committee Against Torture (CAT)
• 6 The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
• 7 The Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)
• 8 Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Selected specialized agencies and bodies affiliated with or otherwise related to the United Nations
• International Labour Organization (ILO)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Office of the (UNHCR)
• United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
• United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
• World Bank Group
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• Notes
• Selected bibliography
• Books
• Web resources
• Essential UN resources on the Web
• Other important internet references
• Selected list of NGOs committed to human rights work
• Index