Welcoming a New International Human Rights Actor? The Participation of Subnational Human Rights Institutions at the UN

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ID12430767
AuthorsAndrew Wolman (0000-0003-2820-3566, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume20
Issue3
Pages437-457
Publication date2014-08-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Governance A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1075-2846 • E-ISSN: 1942-6720
PublisherLynne Rienner Publishers (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1163/19426720-02003008
OpenAlexW2103780875
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited8

Subnational human rights institutions are often thought of as distinctly local bodies, addressing human rights concerns within their jurisdictions with little attention to the processes and mechanisms of the wider international human rights regime. This article shows that this description is no longer necessarily accurate. Rather, subnational human rights institutions can and do participate in the UN human rights regime in a number of important ways. Such participation is potentially beneficial to the UN human rights processes, and subnational human rights institutions have in fact been welcomed by institutional actors at the UN. Nevertheless, the UN, national human rights institutions, and subnational human rights institutions themselves can all do more to ensure that subnational human rights institutions are able to participate fully in the UN human rights system

Fundamental rights · Human rights · International human rights law · International law · Law and economics · Linguistic rights · Political science · Public international law · Right to property · Rights of Nature · Sociology · Human Rights and Development · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Ombudsman and Human Rights · Public Administration

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