The European Union at the UN Human Rights Council. Multilateral Human Rights Protection Coming of Age?

Wouters, Jan; Meuwissen, Katrien

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“…In this process, they benefitted from the fact that the EU had already been sensitized for issues of religion through the Danish Cartoon crisis, which contributed to the awareness that a stronger human rights focus and more engagement with religious communities would be necessary in the EU's external relations (Bilde, 2015; interview, Brussels, June 2016). Moreover, EU member states had already been involved in negotiations on issues of religious freedom with members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) within the UN Human Rights Council, which further raised awareness for the issue within the EU (Wouters and Meuwissen, 2014, pp. 21–22).…”

Section: Adoption Of Eu Guidelines On Contested Human Rights Normsmentioning

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The Politics of Normative Power Europe: Norm Entrepreneurs and Contestation in the Making of EU External Human Rights Policy

Jenichen

2020

J of Common Market Studies

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The literature on Normative Power Europe (NPE) largely omits the question of why the EU chooses to focus on particular norms in the first place. This paper goes beyond the assumption that the EU simply externalizes its internal norms, because such a perspective does not sufficiently explain why the EU prioritizes certain norms over others, particularly in the case of contested norms. Using LGBTI rights and Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) in the EU's external human rights policy as two cases, I demonstrate how norm entrepreneursboth external and internalhave been essential for bringing these norms to the EU's attention. Only after initial internal resistances had been overcome, were these norms able to reach the EU's external agenda. The two cases illustrate the internal political struggles that precede norm selection, supporting recent calls for a more politics-oriented perspective on Normative Power Europe.

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Section: Adoption Of Eu Guidelines On Contested Human Rights Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Politics of Normative Power Europe: Norm Entrepreneurs and Contestation in the Making of EU External Human Rights Policy

Jenichen

2020

J of Common Market Studies

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“…The Foreign Affairs Council, committees and working groups (including COHOM) are chaired by either the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy or European External Action Service (EEAS) representatives, not the Council presidency. The Brussels‐based institutions have tried to take a more strategic approach to EU external human rights policy in general, as signalled in the 2012 EU Strategic Framework and Action Plan for Human Rights (Council of the European Union, ; see also Wouters and Meuwissen, , pp. 14–19).…”

Section: Implications Of the Lisbon Treaty For Eu Co‐ordination And Rmentioning

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“…Over the past few years, COHOM has met much more frequently than it did before (Baranowska et al ., , pp. 48–50; Wouters and Meuwissen, , p. 15), including occasionally in Geneva. The details of the texts of EU resolutions or statements, the strategy for engaging with other UN states, and other such matters are still decided on the ground in New York or Geneva, but here too there has been centralization.…”

Section: Implications Of the Lisbon Treaty For Eu Co‐ordination And Rmentioning

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EU Member States at the UN: A Case of Europeanization Arrested?

Smith

2016

J of Common Market Studies

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This article addresses two questions about the EU's and EU Member States' diplomacy in the UN General Assembly's Third Committee and the Human Rights Council: have EU Member States been more, or less, active outside the framework of EU co-ordination since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty? Has EU activity increased? The findings are that EU Member States have been increasingly active at the Human Rights Council and have increasingly worked with other states outside of the EU, while the level of EU activity has remained largely the same. In the Third Committee, Member States speak more than the EU but neither the EU nor Member States have been sponsoring more resolutions. Europeanization is 'arrested' in these cases, as Member States are reluctant to push for more EU activity because both the internal intergovernmental decision-making system and external context discourage it.

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“…Não se pretende avaliar a eficácia do novo órgão, porém observar se os padrões de comportamento dos países presentes naquela podem também ser identificados no seu sucessor. Outra abordagem frequente na literatura (HURWITZ, 1975;HARRINGTON, 2010;SMITH, 2010;WOUTERS;MEUWISSEN, 2013;FERDINAND, 2014;JORDAAN, 2014) é a análise da atuação de países específicos e ainda de blocos ou grupos, sejam eles regionais ou políticos, como no caso da União Europeia (UE). Todavia, estudos sistemáticos sobre o órgão ainda são incipientes, sobretudo abrangendo de forma mais minuciosa a participação da região latinoamericana e caribenha.…”

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Posicionamento, participação e direitos humanos: o grupo regional da América Latina e do Caribe no Conselho de Direitos Humanos da ONU

Nakamura¹

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Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo a análise do comportamento dos países no Conselho de Direitos Humanos (CDH) da ONU com principal foco no grupo regional dos Estados da América Latina e do Caribe (GRULAC). O Conselho de Direitos Humanos é o principal órgão de promoção e proteção dos direitos humanos do sistema ONU. O trabalho verifica hipóteses relacionadas à influência do pertencimento ao grupo regional, da divisão Norte-Sul e do nível de democracia no comportamento dos países no CDH. Para tal, os métodos empregados são análise estatística descritiva dos dados, estimação de pontos ideais (NOMINATE) e análise de regressão logística. Os dados coletados incluem as votações realizadas durante as 33 primeiras sessões regulares do CDH (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016), bem como as submissões e os copatrocínios de propostas apreciadas durante este período. Os resultados obtidos oferecem um panorama sobre a participação dos países latino-americanos e caribenhos neste órgão e mostram que eles votam mais próximos aos países do Sul Global e distribuídos no que seriam dois conjuntos de países dentro do grupo regional, ao invés de se posicionar como um único grupo coeso.Adicionalmente, os resultados indicam que o nível de democracia e de violações de direitos humanos estão associados ao comportamento em votações de resoluções sobre situação de direitos humanos em países. Contudo, o posicionamento dos países nas votações destas resoluções se distingue conforme o país foco da resolução.Palavras-chave: Conselho de Direitos Humanos, ONU, América Latina e Caribe, grupo regional, comportamento. ABSTRACTThe purpose of this research is to analyse countries' behaviour in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) focusing on the regional group of the Latin American and Caribbean states (GRULAC). The Human Rights Council is the main body for promoting and protecting human rights within the UN system. This research verifies hypotheses related to the influence of belonging to the regional group, the North-South divide and the level of democracy on how countries behave in the UNHRC. Methods employed in this study are descriptive statistics analysis, ideal points estimation (NOMINATE) and logistic regression analysis. Data collected include roll-call votes that took place during the 33 first regular sessions of the UNHRC (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016) as well as submissions and cosponsorships of proposals analysed by the Council during this period. Results offer an overview of the Latin-American and Caribbean countries participation in this body and show that they vote closer to the countries of the Global South and are distributed in two sets of countries within the regional group, instead of one single cohesive group. Additionally, results suggest that the level of democracy and human rights violations are associated with the voting behaviour on resolutions about human rights situations in specific countries. However, countries' position on these resolutions differs according t...

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The European Union at the UN Human Rights Council. Multilateral Human Rights Protection Coming of Age?

Cited by 7 publications

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The Politics of Normative Power Europe: Norm Entrepreneurs and Contestation in the Making of EU External Human Rights Policy

The Politics of Normative Power Europe: Norm Entrepreneurs and Contestation in the Making of EU External Human Rights Policy

EU Member States at the UN: A Case of Europeanization Arrested?

Posicionamento, participação e direitos humanos: o grupo regional da América Latina e do Caribe no Conselho de Direitos Humanos da ONU

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