Felice D Gaer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5697350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felice D Gaer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felice D |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaer |
| SIGNATURE | GAER F D |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Jewish Committee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Engendering torture
This article traces the development of attention to the role of sex and gender regarding the practice of torture and ill-treatment by the Committee against Torture (CAT), a core UN human rights treaty monitoring body. It traces the experiences of the author during her initial years as a member of the CAT regarding issues of gender and gender-based violations of the Convention against Torture (UNCAT). It shows how an integrationist strategy broade…
Picking and Choosing? Country Visits by Thematic Special Procedures
If Not Now, When
Particularism, universalism, and realism are core components of modern Jewish advocacy for international religious freedom and other human rights. The most prominent and successful particularist Jewish advocacy movement was the push for Jews to be allowed to depart from the Soviet Union. Jewish advocates have supported efforts that guarantee universal human rights through bodies like the OSCE and the United Nations, and they have spoken out again…
Women, international law and international institutions
A Voice Not an Echo
A universal periodic review procedure (UPR) at the new Human Rights Council (Council) has been propounded as a means of restoring credibility, professionalism, universality and fair scrutiny of state performance in protecting and promoting human rights to the main political human rights body of the United Nations. But almost from the moment it was proposed, concerns have been raised not only over how the periodic review procedure could be structu…
Implementing international human rights norms
For years, the measuring stick for human rights performance of governments around the world has been the human rights standards adopted by the United Nations: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the six core human rights treaties set forth most of these standards. Although the UN has created expert treaty bodies to assess compliance with the treaties, the key to successful monitoring has been the contribution of non-governmental organiz…
Human Rights NGOs in UN Peace Operations
Reality check
Warm admiration for the full range of actions by human rights NGOs expressed in the draft text prepared for the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna stands in stark contrast to the more cautious final text that was adopted.' Governments limited their appreciation to some but not all nongovernmental activities by notably excluding human rights monitoring from the list. Further, they declared, international human rights principles and na…
First Fruits
Women, international law and international institutions
Reality check
Warm admiration for the full range of actions by human rights NGOs expressed in the draft text prepared for the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna stands in stark contrast to the more cautious final text that was adopted.' Governments limited their appreciation to some but not all nongovernmental activities by notably excluding human rights monitoring from the list. Further, they declared, international human rights principles and na…
Implementing international human rights norms
For years, the measuring stick for human rights performance of governments around the world has been the human rights standards adopted by the United Nations: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the six core human rights treaties set forth most of these standards. Although the UN has created expert treaty bodies to assess compliance with the treaties, the key to successful monitoring has been the contribution of non-governmental organiz…
Human Rights NGOs in UN Peace Operations
First Fruits
First Fruits
Reality check
Warm admiration for the full range of actions by human rights NGOs expressed in the draft text prepared for the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna stands in stark contrast to the more cautious final text that was adopted.' Governments limited their appreciation to some but not all nongovernmental activities by notably excluding human rights monitoring from the list. Further, they declared, international human rights principles and na…
Implementing international human rights norms
For years, the measuring stick for human rights performance of governments around the world has been the human rights standards adopted by the United Nations: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the six core human rights treaties set forth most of these standards. Although the UN has created expert treaty bodies to assess compliance with the treaties, the key to successful monitoring has been the contribution of non-governmental organiz…
Human Rights NGOs in UN Peace Operations
A Voice Not an Echo
A universal periodic review procedure (UPR) at the new Human Rights Council (Council) has been propounded as a means of restoring credibility, professionalism, universality and fair scrutiny of state performance in protecting and promoting human rights to the main political human rights body of the United Nations. But almost from the moment it was proposed, concerns have been raised not only over how the periodic review procedure could be structu…
Women, international law and international institutions
If Not Now, When
Particularism, universalism, and realism are core components of modern Jewish advocacy for international religious freedom and other human rights. The most prominent and successful particularist Jewish advocacy movement was the push for Jews to be allowed to depart from the Soviet Union. Jewish advocates have supported efforts that guarantee universal human rights through bodies like the OSCE and the United Nations, and they have spoken out again…
Picking and Choosing? Country Visits by Thematic Special Procedures
Engendering torture
This article traces the development of attention to the role of sex and gender regarding the practice of torture and ill-treatment by the Committee against Torture (CAT), a core UN human rights treaty monitoring body. It traces the experiences of the author during her initial years as a member of the CAT regarding issues of gender and gender-based violations of the Convention against Torture (UNCAT). It shows how an integrationist strategy broade…
Human rights (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (5 works) · Human Rights and Development (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · International Law and Human Rights (4 works) · Commission (3 works) · International human rights law (3 works)