The United Nations and Human Rights

Mertus, Julie

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“…The HRC was created in 2006 with the intention of developing a responsive human rights organ to replace an earlier intergovernmental body known as the UN Commission on Human Rights, which had been criticised for its politicisation and inattention to a number of salient human rights concerns. 11 Unlike the UN General Assembly (GA), which is based in New York and is constituted through universal membership, the Geneva-based HRC is constituted by 47 nation states elected for three-year terms by the GA. 12 During the HRC's three annual sessions, states negotiate and adopt resolutions on a broad array of thematic and country topics. 13 Resolutions are adopted by consensus orfor more divisive issues by a vote among the 47 Council members.…”

Section: Overview Of the Un Human Rights Councilmentioning

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How gains for SRHR in the UN have remained possible in a changing political climate

Aylward

Halford²

2020

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

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As right-wing populist movements make electoral gains around the world, one might expect that resultant policy and legislative reversals against sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) would be mirrored by a similar backlash in United Nations (UN) human rights negotiations. Yet the past five years have seen unprecedented advances for SRHR within the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), treaty bodies, and special procedures. In this article, we provide an overview of SRHR gains and setbacks within the HRC and analyse their broader significance, particularly as socially conservative nation states and non-governmental organisations seek to challenge them. We analyse how states have advanced SRHR in the HRC and examine efforts that states which oppose SRHR have undertaken to limit these advances. In an increasingly hostile political climate, the interrelated legal, technical, and political mechanisms through which human rights are advanced within the UN has helped to mitigate the effects of rapid political reversals. Additionally, the HRC's emphasis on previously agreed language helps dampen significant changes in resolutions on SRHR.

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Section: Overview Of the Un Human Rights Councilmentioning

confidence: 99%

How gains for SRHR in the UN have remained possible in a changing political climate

Aylward

Halford²

2020

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

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“…However, without good governance, human rights cannot be respected and promoted in a sustainable manner. The implementation of human rights relies on a conducive and enabling environment [9]. The promotion and protection of human rights therefore requires the practice of the rule of law and democratic governance.…”

Section: Conceptual Framework and Literature Reviewmentioning

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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Human Rights Promotion in the Fourth Republic of Ghana

Belley

2020

ARJASS

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Human rights are a justified entitlement that any person may claim because of being human and that right to be socially guaranteed. Ensuring human rights requires that institutions are committed to their promotion and enforcement. It is against this backdrop with respect to the human rights record of Ghana especially under her Fourth Republic that this work is motivated to assess the promotion and protection of human rights under the National Democratic Congress (NDC) regime from 2009 to 2017. The work seeks to examine the political environment that the NDC created during its eight years of administration to ensure the enjoyment of fundamental human rights, with focus on how it strengthened constitutional human right institutions like the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the Media. This work is qualitative and uses primary and secondary sources of data to gather the information. The findings of this work reveal and confirm that human rights was the premise of Ghana`s transition to democratic rule since 1993 with the promulgation of the Fourth Republican Constitution which makes provision for the enjoyment of fundamental human rights and freedoms. The study recommends that the promotion and protection of human rights should be a matter of a collective responsibility.

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“…12 The theoretical and practical constraints that this brought about hampered the Commission throughout its life; "For the first two and a half decades of its existence, the Commission (…) narrowly interpreted its own mandate and focused principally on promotional activities and standard setting though the preparation of drafts of human rights instruments". 13 However, as the international human rights ideology grew, so did demands upon the Commission to widen its mandate to condemn and scrutinize. This extension of its mandate brought with it added problems of increased criticism of its selectivity of scrutiny.…”

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Da Comissão ao Conselho: a Organização das Nações Unidas conseguiu ou não criar um organismo de direitos humanos confiável?

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2008

Sur, Rev. int. direitos human.

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Em 2006 a Organização das Nações Unidas passou pela maior reforma desde sua fundação, em 1945, demonstrando um compromisso renovado com a proteção dos direitos humanos. A substituição da Comissão de Direitos Humanos pelo Conselho de Direitos Humanos representa a força ascendente do regime internacional de proteção dos direitos humanos. Entretanto, essa mudança não transcorreu sem críticas. Particularmente, alega-se que o Conselho é influenciado por diferentes inclinações políticas, em detrimento de sua efetividade: por exemplo, manter foco desproporcional nos territórios ocupados da Palestina enquanto falha em reagir com prontidão aos abusos cometidos em Darfur. Além disso, o Conselho é claramente desabonado por seu fracasso; tanto em implementar mecanismos eficazes de direitos humanos para impedir as ações de seus próprios membros - consistentes em transgressores de direitos humanos reconhecidos mundialmente - como pela contínua inabilidade em angariar apoio dos EUA. Esse artigo analisa essas críticas.

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The United Nations and Human Rights

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How gains for SRHR in the UN have remained possible in a changing political climate

How gains for SRHR in the UN have remained possible in a changing political climate

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Human Rights Promotion in the Fourth Republic of Ghana

Da Comissão ao Conselho: a Organização das Nações Unidas conseguiu ou não criar um organismo de direitos humanos confiável?

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