National human rights institutions in the Asia Pacific Region /
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| Author / Creator: | Burdekin, Brian. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007. |
| Description: | xiv, 555 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library, 1388-3208 ; v. 27 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6246104 |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Introduction and overview
- Ch. 2. Mandates powers and functions
- Ch. 3. Other essential characteristics
- Ch. 4. Relations with the executive, Parliament, the judiciary and other institutions
- Ch. 5. Cooperation between NHRIS, the international treaty bodies, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights and other charter-based mechanisms
- Ch. 6. Regional cooperation
- Ch. 7. Challenges and strategies
- Ch. 8. Conclusion
- App. I. Principles relating to the status and functioning of national institutions for protection and promotion of human rights (the Paris principles)
- App. II. Amnesty International's recommendation for effective protection and promotion of human rights institutions
- App. III. CESCR general comment No. 10 : the role of national human rights institutions in the protection of economic, social and cultural rights (14/12/98.E/C.12/1998/25)
- App. IV. CERD general recommendation No. XVII : establishment of national institutions to facilitate implementation of the convention (25/03/93 Gen. Rec. No. 17)
- App. V. CRC general comment no. 2 : the role of independent national human rights institutions in the protection and promotion of the rights of the child (15/11/2002.Crc/Ge/2002/2.)
- App. VI. The Millennium Development goals and targets
- App. VII. The Maastricht guidelines on violations of economic, social and cultural rights
- App. VIII. The optional protocol to the Convention against Torture (CAT) - part 4
- App. IX. Special rapporteurs of the Commission on Human Rights
- App. X. The homeless children inquiry
- App. XI. The racial violence inquiry
- App. XII. Summary of the national inquiry on human rights and mental illness.
