Rachel Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Murray |
| SIGNATURE | MURRAY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4077-9381 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Research Handbook on Implementation of Human Rights in Practice
The Modernist Exoskeleton: Insects, War, Literary Form
Argues for the importance of insects to modernism’s formal innovations Uses the idea of the insect as a key to modernist writers’ engagement with questions of politics, psychology, life, and literary form Provides in-depth analysis of lesser-known modernist narratives, such as H.D.’s Asphodel and Lewis’s Snooty Baronet , as well as new readings of canonical texts – including D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy Ex…
Modernist Exoskeleton
Behind the State: Domestic Mechanisms and Procedures for the Implementation of Human Rights Judgments and Decisions
It is the state to whom the supranational body directs its decision on a human rights violation, and it is the state who is found in violation and must provide the appropriate remedies. The state, however, is not a single entity: it is composed of the executive (and a web of different ministries and departments), the legislature, and the judiciary, including administrative bodies and tribunals. Depending on the type of reparations ordered, one, s…
Monitoring, Cajoling and Promoting Dialogue: What Role for Supranational Human Rights Bodies in the Implementation of Individual Decisions
This article analyses the role of supranational human rights bodies in the implementation of their orders and recommendations in individual cases. It elicits the means, roles and impact of supranational mechanisms in triggering implementation processes by looking at the practice of UN treaty bodies and the three regional systems, through the in-depth study of specific cases and semi-structured interviews with relevant stakeholders. The article ar…
Balancing Specificity of Reparation Measures and States’ Discretion to Enhance Implementation
A recurrent statement when implementation of international orders or recommendations in individual cases is considered is the belief that greater specificity of the measures helps compliance. Our research project examined a number of decisions adopted by some of the UN treaty bodies, and the regional human rights commissions and courts, in Africa, the Americas and Europe, and attempted to trace the extent to which the reparations ordered by the s…
Addressing the Implementation Crisis: Securing Reparation and Righting Wrongs
There has been increasing attention to the implementation of decisions of human rights bodies by scholars and by supranational institutions, states, litigants, and civil society. A project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) tracked the implementation by nine states of decisions adopted by human rights courts and commissions in the European, African and Inter-American systems and by select UN treaty bodies. This article summ…
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: A Commentary
The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) is the principle regional human rights treaty for the African continent. Adopted in 1981, there is now a significant body of jurisprudence and interpretation by its African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the recently established African Court. This volume provides a comprehensive article-by-article legal analysis of the provisions of the Charter as it draws upon the documents a…
Regularity of Opcat visits by NPMs in Europe
The Optional Protocol to the United Nations (UN) Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) is premised on the concept of prevention: that regular examination by independent national and international bodies of those detained and the institutions detaining them will prevent torture, ill-treatment, and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment occurring. This paper examines how National Preventive …
Beelines: Joyce’s Apian Aesthetics
This article examines the presence of apian life in James Joyce’s body of work in light of Maurice Maeterlinck’s discovery at the turn of the twentieth-century that honeybees communicate using a complex system of language. In December 1903, Joyce offered to translate Maeterlinck’s book-length study La Vie Des Abeille (The Life of the Bee) (1901) for the Irish Bee-Keeper, and the pages of the journal later resurface on a book-cart in Ulysses. Begi…
The Implementation of the Findings of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
An 'implementation crisis' has been identified in the enforcement of rulings of UN and regional human rights bodies and fundamental but crucial questions remain unanswered: what exactly does it mean to implement and comply with international and regional human rights decisions; and what factors influence whether a state implements and complies or not? Much more is now known about the work of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, bu…
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACommHPR)
A Commentary on the Paris Principles on National Human Rights Institutions
The Principles relating to the Status of National Institutions (The Paris Principles) were adopted by National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) and endorsed by both the UN General Assembly and Human Rights Commission. Since their adoption, they have become the standards applicable to these institutions with a mandate to promote and protect human rights. This book offers a complete study of the Paris Principles, which includes an appraisal of the…
Monitoring those deprived of their liberty in psychiatric and social care institutions and national practice in the UK
The UK government ratified the United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) in 2003. The OPCAT expressly requires that each state signatory should designate a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM). NPMs are national bodies that have the mandate to conduct regular visits to places of detention as well as make recommendations to the state to improve the situation of the persons deprived of their liberty. This article exa…
The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture
The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) establishes an independent international monitoring committee (SPT) which itself will visit states and places where persons are deprived of their liberty. It also requires states to set up independent national bodies to visit places of detention. This book, drawing upon events held and interviews with governments, civil society, members of UN treaty bodies, national visiting bodie…
Frans Viljoen, International Human Rights Law in Africa
This impressive book, running to over 600 pages, provides a comprehensive analysis of the African human rights system. Unlike other books on the subject which have examined specific institutions in the African context (the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the various organs of the African Union, etc.) separately, this volume provides an overview of these along with an analysis of the application of the United Nations system to the…
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: The System in Practice 1986–2006
The African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights came into force in 1986, and is unique in that it lacks a precedent. However, little scholarship exists analysing it as an operational system in practice. The success of the first edition of this book led to this updated second edition. Contributors include experts who have been actively involved in the implementation of the Charter - commissioners, NGOs and academics. Offering a detailed evaluatio…
National Preventive Mechanisms under the Optional Protocol to the Torture Convention: One Size Does Not Fit All
The international human rights system is traditionally based on State organs implementing the obligations set out in the treaties to which the State is party. Over recent years, however, some new actors, for example, national human rights institutions are starting to appear and be recognised on the international plane that do not fit easily into the State/non-State actor dichotomy. This article explores the innovative contribution of the Optional…
The Role of National Human Rights Institutions at the International and Regional Levels: The Experience of Africa
National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs), defined by the UN as bodies established to promote and protect human rights, have increased in number since the General Assembly adopted principles governing their effectiveness in 1993. The UN and others have encouraged states to set up such institutions as an indication of their commitment to human rights, and now over 20 such institutions exist in Africa and many more will follow. These institutions …
National Human Rights Institutions. Criteria and Factors for Assessing Their Effectiveness
This article seeks to examine how useful the Paris Principles are in assessing the effectiveness of National Human Rights Institutions. It will argue that while they are an appropriate starting point, they focus more on factors relevant to the establishment of such bodies, rather than how they perform once created and how they are perceived by others. Some greater thought now needs to be given to a variety of issues that render these institutions…
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A Charter of Rights for the Island of Ireland: An Unknown Quantity in the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement
The basic aim of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement was to try to achieve a political settlement to the conflict in Northern Ireland. While the channels for the settlement were to be primarily institutional, the importance of safeguarding the rights of both communities in Northern Ireland by addressing equality and justice issues was recognized, to varying degrees, by all parties to the process that led to the drafting of the Agreement. As the neg…
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The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: The System in Practice, 1986-2000
Preface 1. Future trends in human rights in Africa: the increased role of the OAU G. Naldi 2. The reporting mechanism of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights M. Evans and R. Murray 3. Admissibility under the African Charter F. Viljoen 4. Evidence and fact-finding by the African Commission R. Murray 5. Civil and political rights in the African Charter C. Heyns 6. Implementing economic, social and cultural rights under the African Chart…
National Preventive Mechanisms under the Optional Protocol to the Torture Convention: One Size Does Not Fit All
The international human rights system is traditionally based on State organs implementing the obligations set out in the treaties to which the State is party. Over recent years, however, some new actors, for example, national human rights institutions are starting to appear and be recognised on the international plane that do not fit easily into the State/non-State actor dichotomy. This article explores the innovative contribution of the Optional…
National Human Rights Institutions. Criteria and Factors for Assessing Their Effectiveness
This article seeks to examine how useful the Paris Principles are in assessing the effectiveness of National Human Rights Institutions. It will argue that while they are an appropriate starting point, they focus more on factors relevant to the establishment of such bodies, rather than how they perform once created and how they are perceived by others. Some greater thought now needs to be given to a variety of issues that render these institutions…
Regularity of Opcat visits by NPMs in Europe
The Optional Protocol to the United Nations (UN) Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) is premised on the concept of prevention: that regular examination by independent national and international bodies of those detained and the institutions detaining them will prevent torture, ill-treatment, and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment occurring. This paper examines how National Preventive …
Behind the State: Domestic Mechanisms and Procedures for the Implementation of Human Rights Judgments and Decisions
It is the state to whom the supranational body directs its decision on a human rights violation, and it is the state who is found in violation and must provide the appropriate remedies. The state, however, is not a single entity: it is composed of the executive (and a web of different ministries and departments), the legislature, and the judiciary, including administrative bodies and tribunals. Depending on the type of reparations ordered, one, s…
A Charter of Rights for the Island of Ireland: An Unknown Quantity in the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement
The basic aim of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement was to try to achieve a political settlement to the conflict in Northern Ireland. While the channels for the settlement were to be primarily institutional, the importance of safeguarding the rights of both communities in Northern Ireland by addressing equality and justice issues was recognized, to varying degrees, by all parties to the process that led to the drafting of the Agreement. As the neg…
International Human Rights: Neglect of Perspectives From African Institutions
International human rights law advocates tolerance, inclusivity and the promotion of equality among peoples, nations and individuals across the world. It seems disappointing, therefore, that these standards do not always apply to the discipline of international human rights law itself. Instead there seems to be a hierarchy in the international human rights system. Others have written about such an approach in relation to different types of rights…
Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique
Decisions by the African Commission on Individual Communications under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, adopted by the 18th Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity in Nairobi in 1981, which came into force in 1986, provided for a single commission with a wide range of powers in respect of the rights in the Charter. This was as a result of an initiative for an African regional mechanism for the protection of human rights by African jurists and subsequent con…
Monitoring, Cajoling and Promoting Dialogue: What Role for Supranational Human Rights Bodies in the Implementation of Individual Decisions
This article analyses the role of supranational human rights bodies in the implementation of their orders and recommendations in individual cases. It elicits the means, roles and impact of supranational mechanisms in triggering implementation processes by looking at the practice of UN treaty bodies and the three regional systems, through the in-depth study of specific cases and semi-structured interviews with relevant stakeholders. The article ar…
Balancing Specificity of Reparation Measures and States’ Discretion to Enhance Implementation
A recurrent statement when implementation of international orders or recommendations in individual cases is considered is the belief that greater specificity of the measures helps compliance. Our research project examined a number of decisions adopted by some of the UN treaty bodies, and the regional human rights commissions and courts, in Africa, the Americas and Europe, and attempted to trace the extent to which the reparations ordered by the s…
Addressing the Implementation Crisis: Securing Reparation and Righting Wrongs
There has been increasing attention to the implementation of decisions of human rights bodies by scholars and by supranational institutions, states, litigants, and civil society. A project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) tracked the implementation by nine states of decisions adopted by human rights courts and commissions in the European, African and Inter-American systems and by select UN treaty bodies. This article summ…
Monitoring those deprived of their liberty in psychiatric and social care institutions and national practice in the UK
The UK government ratified the United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) in 2003. The OPCAT expressly requires that each state signatory should designate a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM). NPMs are national bodies that have the mandate to conduct regular visits to places of detention as well as make recommendations to the state to improve the situation of the persons deprived of their liberty. This article exa…
Decisions by the African Commission on Individual Communications under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, adopted by the 18th Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity in Nairobi in 1981, which came into force in 1986, provided for a single commission with a wide range of powers in respect of the rights in the Charter. This was as a result of an initiative for an African regional mechanism for the protection of human rights by African jurists and subsequent con…
African Commision on Human and Peoples' Rights
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Serious or Massive Violations under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights: A Comparison with the Inter-American and European Mechanisms
Fifty years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the world is still witnessing violations of human rights, occurring not always as an isolated incident in relation to a particular victim, but very often as part of a general situation of oppression in a specific country. The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights 1 is unusual when compared with the other two regional mechanisms, in providing expressly for a mechanism to deal w…
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
(1999). African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 105-126
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Current Developments
Recent Developments: The Report of the OAU's International Panel of Eminent Personalities to Investigate the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda and the Surrounding Events
In July 2000, several months after the United Nations produced an independent report citing the failures of the organization in relation to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda (the Carlsson Report), the Organization of African Unity's (OAU) Summit in Lomé, Togo, was presented with a several-hundred page report from its International Panel of Eminent Personalities to Investigate the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda and the Surrounding Events (IPEP). While the Carl…
Preventing Conflicts in Africa: The Need for a Wider Perspective
A brief glance at Africa would suggest that the methods adopted to deal with conflict prevention have achieved little success. It is clear that there are complex causes of conflict and that one cannot view conflict in a narrow sense, but must take account of political, economic and social factors to truly understand its causes and process. There is evidence that human rights violations predate conflicts: thus arbitrary arrests and detentions, opp…
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Recent Decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (November 1999-May 2000)
(2001). Recent Decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (November 1999-May 2000) South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 119-170
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Recent Decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (April 2000-May 2001)
(2002). Recent Decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (April 2000-May 2001) South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 125-152
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