Recent events in South America, central Europe, Africa, and Russia have again brought to the world's attention the complex interrelationship between states of emergency and the preservation of fundamental human rights. In Human Rights in Crisis, Joan Fitzpatrick offers the first systematic and comprehensive effort to examine the multifaceted system for monitoring human rights abuses under "states of exception." Unlike previous studies, this book does not focus on substantive norms governing crises, but rather on how those norms might best be implemented.
Building upon her six-year study for the International Law Association, the author confronts the difficulties in defining a coherent concept of emergency, particularly the various forms of de facto emergencies that have been relatively neglected by international monitors. She also profiles and carefully critiques the numerous international bodies that have monitored human rights abuses during states of exception. These bodies include not only the treaty organs of the United Nations, the Council of Europe, and the Organization of American States but also the political organs of the United Nations (especially the Commission on Human Rights), the International Labor Organization, and the emerging structures of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
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"A valuable guide for the students and human rights practitioners who want a broad survey of how human rights are monitored in emergencies under UN and regional systems."—American Journal of International Law
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treaty implementation bodies, facto emergencies, actual emergency conditions, derogating states, facto emergency, jure emergency, nonderogable rights, derogation notices, essential judicial guarantees, prompt security measures, derogation article, advisory services program, formal emergency, derogation measures, copra note, monitoring human rights abuse, supra note, major human rights treaties, administrative detention, second periodic report, formal emergencies, general limitations clause, special rapporteur, third periodic report, derogation clauses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Nations, American Convention, European Convention, United Kingdom, Commission Res, Council of Europe, Paris Minimum Standards, United States, Northern Ireland, General Assembly, Committee of Ministers, Abo Declaration, European Commission, Warsaw Report, Security Council, Geneva Conventions, Inter-American Commission, Questiaux Report, Selected Decisions, South Africa, Supreme Court, Optional Protocol, Siracusa Principles, Equatorial Guinea, International Covenant New!
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treaty implementation bodies, facto emergencies, actual emergency conditions, derogating states, facto emergency, jure emergency, nonderogable rights, derogation notices, essential judicial guarantees, prompt security measures, derogation article, advisory services program, formal emergency, derogation measures, copra note, monitoring human rights abuse, supra note, major human rights treaties, administrative detention, second periodic report, formal emergencies, general limitations clause, special rapporteur, third periodic report, derogation clauses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Nations, American Convention, European Convention, United Kingdom, Commission Res, Council of Europe, Paris Minimum Standards, United States, Northern Ireland, General Assembly, Committee of Ministers, Abo Declaration, European Commission, Warsaw Report, Security Council, Geneva Conventions, Inter-American Commission, Questiaux Report, Selected Decisions, South Africa, Supreme Court, Optional Protocol, Siracusa Principles, Equatorial Guinea, International Covenant New!
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- Human Rights by David Weissbrodt on 14 pages
- Human Rights (University Casebook Series) by Gerald L. Neuman on 6 pages
- Emergency powers (Science and Technique of Democracy No. 12) (1995) by European Commission for Democracy through Law on 4 pages
- The International Committee of the Red Cross: A Neutral Humanitarian Actor (Global Institutions) by David P. Forsythe on 4 pages
- International Human Rights: Law, Policy, and Process by Frank Newman on page 118, page 206, and Back Matter
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- Die Vereinbarkeit von Militärgerichten mit dem Recht auf ein faires Verfahren gemäß Art. 6 Abs. 1 EMRK, Art. 8 Abs. 1 AMRK und Art. 14 Abs. 1 des ... Recht und Völkerrecht) (German Edition) by Jeanine Bucherer on page 258, and Back Matter
- Asia-Pacific Constitutional Systems (Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies) by Graham Hassall in Back Matter
- International Human Rights in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series) by Thomas Buergenthal on page 333
- The Constitution in Wartime: Beyond Alarmism and Complacency (Constitutional Conflicts) by Richard Pildes on page 53
- Defending Human Rights in Russia: Sergei Kovalyov, Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner, 1969-2003 (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies) by Emma Gilligan on page 138
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