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Securing human rights : achievements and challenges of the UN Security Council /

What role has the UN Security Council played in the promotion of human rights? Have its past actions breached those same rights the UN is pledged to uphold? Examining these two questions, this book provides a variety of viewpoints on the past, present, and future of the Security Council's role...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fassbender, Bardo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Collected courses of the Academy of European Law ; v. 20/1.
Subjects:
United Nations. > Security Council.
United Nations. > Security Council
Vereinte Nationen > Sicherheitsrat
Vereinte Nationen > Sicherheitsrat.
Human rights.
Human Rights
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
LAW > International.
Human rights
Menschenrecht
Electronic books.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Bardo Fassbender
  • The Security Council and human rights: from discretion to promote to obligation to protect / Daphna Shraga
  • The Security Council as enforcer of human rights / Vera Gowlland-Debbas
  • The role for human rights in the decision-making process of the Security Council / Bardo Fassbender
  • Security Council targeted sanctions and human rights / Annalisa Ciampi
  • Human rights considerations and the enforcement of targeted sanctions in Europe / Erika de Wet
  • Reviewing Security Council measures in the light of international human rights principles / Salvatore Zappalà.