Securing Human Rights? : Achievements and Challenges of the UN Security Council
Series
The Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law
ISBN
978-0-19-964149-9
Type
book
Date Issued
2011
Editor(s)
Abstract
Throughout the first decades of its existence, many held the view that the UN Security Council would in some senses automatically encourage the protection of human rights by maintaining international peace. However, since the end of the Cold War there have been growing concerns that the Council is a force with the potential to do harm to the cause of human rights, even to the extent of violating the rights of individuals. The chapters of this volume take a closer look at these two sides of the Security Council's involvement in human rights: both its efforts to promote and enforce human rights, and its actions that, with the Intention of maintaining and restoring international peace, also have the potential to jeopardize human rights.
The book represents a collection of individual views and appraisals of how the Council has dealt with human rights issues in the post-Cold War period, particularly in the cases of the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq and the targeted sanctions directed against the Taliban and the supporters of the Al Qaeda Network. Written by experts in the field of international law, they are both positive and negative, critical and analytical. Together they offer a selection of different perspectives and evaluate the contribution of the Security Council to the promotion of human rights, highlighting possible avenues for improvement.
With contributions by Bardo Fassbender, Daphna Shraga, Vera Gowlland-Debbas, Annalisa Ciampi, Erika de Wet and Salvatore Zappalà.
The book represents a collection of individual views and appraisals of how the Council has dealt with human rights issues in the post-Cold War period, particularly in the cases of the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq and the targeted sanctions directed against the Taliban and the supporters of the Al Qaeda Network. Written by experts in the field of international law, they are both positive and negative, critical and analytical. Together they offer a selection of different perspectives and evaluate the contribution of the Security Council to the promotion of human rights, highlighting possible avenues for improvement.
With contributions by Bardo Fassbender, Daphna Shraga, Vera Gowlland-Debbas, Annalisa Ciampi, Erika de Wet and Salvatore Zappalà.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
No
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publisher place
Oxford / New York
Number
XX/1
Start page
16
End page
219
Pages
204
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
234655