Committed to Rights
Volume 1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6559868 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Audrey L Comstock (0000-0003-1772-5350) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Committed to Rights : Volume 1 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781108908979 |
| ISBN | 9781108908979 |
| Open Library | OL34752893M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
International treaties are the primary means for codifying global human rights standards. However, nation-states are able to make their own choices in how to legally commit to human rights treaties. A state commits to a treaty through four commitment acts: signature, ratification, accession, and succession. These acts signify diverging legal paths with distinct contexts and mechanisms for rights change reflecting legalization, negotiation, sovereignty, and domestic constraints. How a state moves through these actions determines how, when, and to what extent it will comply with the human rights treaties it commits to. Using legal, archival, and quantitative analysis this important book shows that disentangling legal paths to commitment reveals distinct and significant compliance outcomes. Legal context matters for human rights and has important implications for the conceptualization of treaty commitment, the consideration of non-binding commitment, and an optimistic outlook for the impact of human rights treaties.
Rhetoric and Reality
Shaming and Treaty Ratification
Informal human rights law-making
Human rights treaty derogation and Covid-19
Who commits to regional human rights treaties? Reputational benefits, sovereignty costs, and regional dynamics
Realizing a legally binding instrument on business and human rights
Do human rights treaty obligations matter for ratification
Nothing changed after Rome
Negotiated rights
Legislative veto players and human rights treaty signature timing
Signing Cedaw and Women’s Rights
Pandemic Pass? Treaty Derogations and Human Rights Practices During Covid-19
Derogations, democratic backsliding, and international human rights during the Covid-19 pandemic
Reaching for the Threshold
Looking beyond Ratification
Child Victims and the Punishment of UN Peacekeepers for Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
New Democracies and Commitment to Human Rights Treaties
Social Pressure in the International Human Rights Regime
| Citations per year | 4.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |