The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level: Twenty Years On: Second Revised Edition

Author:   Christof Heyns ,  Frans Jacobus Viljoen ,  Rachel Murray
Publisher:   Brill
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9789004377646


Pages:   1352
Publication Date:   04 April 2024
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This collection of chapters tracks and explains the impact of the nine core United Nations human rights treaties in 20 selected countries, four from each of the five UN regions. Researchers based in each of these countries were responsible for the chapters, in which they assess the influence of the treaties and treaty body recommendations on legislation, policies, court decisions and practices. By covering the 20 years between July 1999 and June 2019, this book updates a study done 20 years ago.    

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Author:   Christof Heyns ,  Frans Jacobus Viljoen ,  Rachel Murray
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Martinus Nijhoff
Weight:   1.712kg
ISBN:  

9789004377646


ISBN 10:   9004377646
Pages:   1352
Publication Date:   04 April 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Foreword List of Figures, Graphs and Tables Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes on Editors and Contributors Introduction What a Difference do 20 Years Make? The Impact of the Core UN  Human Rights Treaties at the Domestic Level in Selected States between 1999 and 2019   Frans Viljoen and Rachel Murray 1 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Australia   Sarah Joseph,Adam Fletcher and Anna Lochhead-Sperling 2 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Brazil   Thiago Amparo,Odara Andrade,Júlia Piazza and Deborah Bittar 3 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Canada   Alexander Agnello and Frédéric Mégret 4 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Colombia   Rodrigo Uprimny,Sergio Ruano and Gabriella Michele García 5 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in the Czech Republic   Harald Christian Scheu and Jitka Brodská 6 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Egypt   Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid 7 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Estonia   Merilin Kiviorg 8 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Finland   Merja Pentikäinen 9 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in India   Miloon Kothari and Surabhi Sharma 10 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Jamaica   Tracy Robinson and Malene C. Alleyne 11 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Japan   Ayako Hatano, Hiromichi Matsuda and Yota Negishi 12 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Mexico   Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz, Lucía Guadalupe Chávez-Vargas, Rodolfo Franco-Franco and José Antonio Guevara-Bermúdez 13 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Nepal   Ravi Prakash Vyas, Pranjali Kanel and Anusha Kharel 14 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Poland   Katarzyna Sękowska-Kozłowska, Grażyna Baranowska, Joanna Grygiel and Łukasz Szoszkiewicz 15 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in the Russian Federation   Aslan Abashidze, Aleksandra Koneva and Alexander Solntsev 16 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Senegal   Ibrahima Kane 17 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in South Africa   Foluso Adegalu and Tess Mitchell 18 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Spain   Carlos Villán Durán 19 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Turkey   Başak Çalı, Betül Durmu and İlayda Eskitaşçıoğlu 20 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Zambia   O’Brien Kaaba Conclusion Contours of a Conclusion, into the Sixth UN  Treaty System Decade   Frans Viljoen and Rachel Murray Index

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Christof Heyns was UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and member of the UN Human Rights Committee. He passed away in March 2021, working on this book. Frans Viljoen, LLD (Pretoria), is Professor of International Human Rights Law at and Director of the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. He authored International Human Rights Law in Africa (OUP, 2012). Rachel Murray, PhD (W England), is Professor of International Human Rights Law at and Director of the Human Rights Implementation Centre, University of Bristol. She authored numerous publications on human rights implementation.

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