Special Procedures and the Human Rights Council
Achievements and Challenges Ahead
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6069275 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeroen Gutter (University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 93-107 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-08 |
| 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/ngl029 |
| OpenAlex | W2154879537 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The life of the Commission on Human Rights (Commission) was turbulent and scattered with criticism: from Sir Hersch Lauterpacht's famous rejection of the so-called ‘no-power’ doctrine as ‘an extraordinary degree of ... abdication of the UN's proper functions’1 in 1947, to former Division on Human Rights Director Theo van Boven's questioning of the ‘adequacy of some recent approaches and assumptions’2 underlying the work of the Commission in 1980. However, the Commission (and its governmental members) always managed to survive the accusations, to take new initiatives and approaches and to continue its work as the de facto principal UN organ in the field of human rights. The replacement of the Commission was not the objective of the review initiatives undertaken within the United Nations since the beginning of the 1990s. Although it was acknowledged then that depoliticisation of the work of the Commission was essential to achieving the...
Commission · Doctrine · Human rights · Political science · Principal (computer security) · Work (physics) · Engineering · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Ombudsman and Human Rights · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |