Protection of Human Rights
- Created by: Beth Millward
- Created on: 29-09-15 11:18
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- Protection of Human Rights
- UN HRC
- Public shaming
- No real action is possible
- Biased and inconsistent in exposure of human rights abuse
- Veto
- Russia used 123 times
- Member states have dubious HR records
- International Bill of Human Rights
- Comprehensive guideline
- Indivisable and interconnected
- 1966 covenants
- on Civil and Political Rights
- Made the rights contained in the UDHR legally binding on all states that signed them
- on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Made the rights contained in the UDHR legally binding on all states that signed them
- on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- on Civil and Political Rights
- UNDHR
- Used to apply diplomatic and moral pressure to national governments
- Not legally binding
- UN HC
- can only denounce
- NGO's
- Cannot force government to change
- Impact in UN weak in reation to Security Council
- Criticised for 'bandwagon' approach
- Exert political pressure
- High moral purpose
- Substantial contribution to growth of Human Rights
- ECHR
- Almost total compliance with the Court's verdicts
- Closest thing there is to human rights 'hard law'
- State sovereignty trumps human rights considerations
- Wrongdoings of powerful states are not highlighted by other governments for fear of diplomatic/ economic interests
- Substantial backlog
- Often takes 3-5 years for cases to be considered
- High Profile Violations
- China
- Tiananman Square
- Use of capital punishment
- USA
- Guantanamo Bay
- Extraordinary Rendition
- Genocide
- Bosnia
- 1992-1995 (200,000 dead)
- Rwanda
- 1994 (800,000 dead)
- Holocaust
- 1938-1945 (6,000,000 Jewish deaths, 11,000,000 total)
- Bosnia
- China
- ICC
- Strengthening of humanitarian law
- defining in detail
- Provides a forum to tackle the global justice gap (abuse and oppression from government)
- Demonstrates no leader is above international law
- Threat to state sovereignty
- Criticised for using international law to further moral campaigns
- Criticised for having a Western / Eurocentric bias
- Strengthening of humanitarian law
- UN HRC
- UNDHR
- Used to apply diplomatic and moral pressure to national governments
- Not legally binding
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