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The UN Commission on Human Rights began establishing the Special Procedures in the late 1960s. Since then, the UN mechanisms have developed and become veritable tools of human rights protection and monitoring.This book endeavours to capture the evolution of the human rights activity carried out by the Special Procedures and evaluate their importance and impact. It provides a thorough and up-to-date insight of the institutional history of the Special Procedures, analyzes their legal dimension, puts forward a conceptual definition of them, elucidates their evolution and assesses their effectiveness.This book makes an important and unique contribution to the study of UN human rights monitoring mechanisms by providing a systematic analysis and conceptualization of the Special Procedures. Also by singling out indicators to evaluate the impact of the Procedures' practice, this study brings innovative elements to the academic debate on the measurement of human rights bodies' activity.

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Evgeni Moyakine gained his first Master's degree in International and European Law cum laude at Radboud University Nijmegen and successfully completed the Research Master in Law program at Tilburg University and Leuven University, Belgium, with the same grade point average. In 2010, he was awarded a Mosaic personal grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for his PhD research, which was conducted at the Department of European and International Public Law, Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University. In 2014, he became doctor in law with his PhD The Privatized Art of War: Private Military and Security Companies and State Responsibility for Their Unlawful Conduct in Conflict Areas .

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