The Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee and Human Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6068691 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward J Flynn (0000-0002-2573-6837, United Nations, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 371-384 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Rights Law Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-7781 • E-ISSN: 1744-1021 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hrlr/ngm009 |
| OpenAlex | W2141652302 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
The human rights file is slowly working its way into the toolkit of the UN Security Council. In its assessment of the causes of conflict,1 consideration of the suffering of civilians,2 initiatives for peace-building,3 and action against impunity,4 the Security Council has increasingly accepted the link between upholding human rights and humanitarian law and maintaining international peace and security. Yet in some areas, there remain strong currents of opinion holding that the human rights perspective should not unduly burden the Council's agenda. This has been the case with the Council's work on counter-terrorism. Since the 1990s, the Security Council has firmly established that terrorism poses a threat to international peace and security and has created several subsidiary bodies dealing with counter-terrorism, but it has not yet reached clear consensus on the extent to which these bodies should take human rights into account. This article provides...
Counter terrorism · Human rights · Human security · Impunity · International human rights law · Political science · Politics · Security council · Terrorism · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.35 |
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| Citation span | 2009 - 2021 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |