Full Description
This collection of chapters tracks and explains the impact of the nine core United Nations human rights treaties in 20 selected countries, four from each of the five UN regions. Researchers based in each of these countries were responsible for the chapters, in which they assess the influence of the treaties and treaty body recommendations on legislation, policies, court decisions and practices. By covering the 20 years between July 1999 and June 2019, this book updates a study done 20 years ago.
Contents
Foreword
List of Figures, Graphs and Tables
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Introduction What a Difference do 20 Years Make? The Impact of the Core UN Human Rights Treaties at the Domestic Level in Selected States between 1999 and 2019
Frans Viljoen and Rachel Murray
1 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Australia
Sarah Joseph,Adam Fletcher and Anna Lochhead-Sperling
2 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Brazil
Thiago Amparo,Odara Andrade,Júlia Piazza and Deborah Bittar
3 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Canada
Alexander Agnello and Frédéric Mégret
4 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Colombia
Rodrigo Uprimny,Sergio Ruano and Gabriella Michele García
5 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in the Czech Republic
Harald Christian Scheu and Jitka Brodská
6 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Egypt
Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid
7 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Estonia
Merilin Kiviorg
8 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Finland
Merja Pentikäinen
9 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in India
Miloon Kothari and Surabhi Sharma
10 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Jamaica
Tracy Robinson and Malene C. Alleyne
11 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Japan
Ayako Hatano, Hiromichi Matsuda and Yota Negishi
12 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Mexico
Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz, Lucía Guadalupe Chávez-Vargas, Rodolfo Franco-Franco and José Antonio Guevara-Bermúdez
13 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Nepal
Ravi Prakash Vyas, Pranjali Kanel and Anusha Kharel
14 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Poland
Katarzyna Sękowska-Kozłowska, Grażyna Baranowska, Joanna Grygiel and Łukasz Szoszkiewicz
15 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in the Russian Federation
Aslan Abashidze, Aleksandra Koneva and Alexander Solntsev
16 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Senegal
Ibrahima Kane
17 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in South Africa
Foluso Adegalu and Tess Mitchell
18 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Spain
Carlos Villán Durán
19 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Turkey
Başak Çalı, Betül Durmu and İlayda Eskitaşçıoğlu
20 The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level in Zambia
O'Brien Kaaba
Conclusion Contours of a Conclusion, into the Sixth UN Treaty System Decade
Frans Viljoen and Rachel Murray
Index
