The Future of UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring. Philip Alston and James Crawford (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 563 pp.

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. A. Knight
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Treaty Monitoring ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals The Proof Is in the Process: Self-Reporting Under International Human Rights Treaties

2019 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cosette D. Creamer ◽  
Beth A. Simmons
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Treaties ◽  
Treaty Monitoring ◽  
The Future ◽  
International Human

AbstractRecent research has shown that state reporting to human rights monitoring bodies is associated with improvements in rights practices, calling into question earlier claims that self-reporting is inconsequential. Yet little work has been done to explore the theoretical mechanisms that plausibly account for this association. This Article systematically documents—across treaties, countries, and years—four mechanisms through which reporting can contribute to human rights improvements: elite socialization, learning and capacity building, domestic mobilization, and law development. These mechanisms have implications for the future of human rights treaty monitoring.

Human Rights in the ‘War on Terror’

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 980-982
Author(s):  
Fiona Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Title I ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
The Future

Human Rights in the ‘War on Terror’, Richard Ashby Wilson, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. xv, 347.Given this book's title, I assumed that it would consist mainly of elaborations of already over-rehearsed debates about the “trade-offs” between “liberty” and “security.” And while it does include plenty of this, several chapters in this volume offer thoughtful, nuanced analyses which challenge the dichotomous rhetoric of the day, and force the reader to rethink not just the future, but also the nature, of contemporary human rights and security.

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