Sébastien Lorion
Biographic Data
| ID | 4494604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sébastien Lorion |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sébastien |
| FAMILY NAME | Lorion |
| SIGNATURE | LORION S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9621-0894 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
What are Governmental Human Rights Focal Points
This Special Issue aims at raising understanding of governmental human rights focal points (GHRFPs). It forms part of a renewed attention to the importance of domestic-level institutions within the international human rights regime. GHRFPs have emerged as a key recommendation of UN bodies, and a defined trend in setting up such State structures is observed in practice. Addressing GHRFPs as a single field of inquiry, this introductory article pres…
Inside the Human Rights Ministry of Burkina Faso: How professionalised civil servants shape governmental human rights focal points
The human rights professionalisation of civil servants has emerged as a core dimension of governmental human rights focal points (GHRFPs), notably in the 2016 OHCHR’s guide on ‘national mechanisms for reporting and follow-up’. The article investigates this dimension and warns that the role of civil servants is indeed pivotal to human rights compliance strategies but plays out in complex ways. Reflecting on an ethnographic journey within the Human…
Domestic Institutionalisation of Human Rights
The Domestic Institutionalisation of Human Rights: An Introduction
This article aims to explore recent developments in the ‘domestic institutionalisation’ of human rights. We argue that the trend towards ‘domestic institutionalisation’ has inspired renewed attention to the importance of national-level institutions within the international human rights regime, including revisiting the roles of state actors. These developments represent a response to bridging the implementation gap between human rights commitments…
A Model for National Human Rights Systems? New Governance and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) epitomises the institutional turn of the international human rights regime in two ways. It requests that States Parties conform to specific organisational features, and aims at transforming not only state behaviour, but also social norms of all actors in society, to anchor a human rights approach to disability. At the centre of this exercise lies CRPD Article 33 on ‘National Im…
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The Domestic Institutionalisation of Human Rights: An Introduction
This article aims to explore recent developments in the ‘domestic institutionalisation’ of human rights. We argue that the trend towards ‘domestic institutionalisation’ has inspired renewed attention to the importance of national-level institutions within the international human rights regime, including revisiting the roles of state actors. These developments represent a response to bridging the implementation gap between human rights commitments…
A Model for National Human Rights Systems? New Governance and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) epitomises the institutional turn of the international human rights regime in two ways. It requests that States Parties conform to specific organisational features, and aims at transforming not only state behaviour, but also social norms of all actors in society, to anchor a human rights approach to disability. At the centre of this exercise lies CRPD Article 33 on ‘National Im…
What are Governmental Human Rights Focal Points
This Special Issue aims at raising understanding of governmental human rights focal points (GHRFPs). It forms part of a renewed attention to the importance of domestic-level institutions within the international human rights regime. GHRFPs have emerged as a key recommendation of UN bodies, and a defined trend in setting up such State structures is observed in practice. Addressing GHRFPs as a single field of inquiry, this introductory article pres…
Inside the Human Rights Ministry of Burkina Faso: How professionalised civil servants shape governmental human rights focal points
The human rights professionalisation of civil servants has emerged as a core dimension of governmental human rights focal points (GHRFPs), notably in the 2016 OHCHR’s guide on ‘national mechanisms for reporting and follow-up’. The article investigates this dimension and warns that the role of civil servants is indeed pivotal to human rights compliance strategies but plays out in complex ways. Reflecting on an ethnographic journey within the Human…
Domestic Institutionalisation of Human Rights
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