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This volume provides a detailed and concrete analysis of how human rights complaints mechanisms can be accessed by refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced persons.
The guide offers a thorough explanation of the United Nations human rights treaty bodies, with a focus upon the four committees authorized to receive communications from individuals. Detailed information is provided concerning procedural requirements, while the treaties are analyzed for their relevance to the forcibly displaced. United Nations mechanisms are also examined, with an emphasis on the thematic and country special procedures of the Commission on Human Rights.
Published under the auspices of the Procedual Aspects of International Law Institute (PAIL). For more information about PAIL please go to pail-institute.org .
Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
The guide offers a thorough explanation of the United Nations human rights treaty bodies, with a focus upon the four committees authorized to receive communications from individuals. Detailed information is provided concerning procedural requirements, while the treaties are analyzed for their relevance to the forcibly displaced. United Nations mechanisms are also examined, with an emphasis on the thematic and country special procedures of the Commission on Human Rights.
Published under the auspices of the Procedual Aspects of International Law Institute (PAIL). For more information about PAIL please go to pail-institute.org .
Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
Price: $223.00
Pages: 666
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill | Nijhoff
Publication Date:
01 January 2002
ISBN: 9781571050618
Format: Hardcover
Joan Fitzpatrick is Jeffrey & Susan Brotman Professor at the University of Washington School of Law. She is the author of several books and numerous articles concerning human rights, migration, and refugee law.