The United Nations Commission on Human Rights: 'A Very Great Enterprise'

ISBN-13: 9780198863151 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 880 str.

John P. Pace

Opis

This book provides a comprehensive account of the United Nations human rights programme, written by a world-leading expert with over 30 years' experience in the organization. It takes a chronological approach, starting with the launch of the Commission on Human Rights in 1946, and concluding with proposals for the future.

Recenzje

Those who own this book will find themselves often referring to its contents in substance and detail. More than merely useful, it turns out to be indispensable for all those involved in the wide area of human rights recognition and safeguard. It can perform, perhaps, also an educational task in that it might instruct the younger generations in the development of the constituent ideas and events, which have resulted in the worldwide affirmation of the rule of law and of the right to self-determination. Hon. Ugo Mifsud-Bonnici, Former President of Malta, The Malta Independent

O autorze

John Pace is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales and Adjunct at the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney. His UN career (1966-1999) coincided with the introduction of special procedures and the first human rights investigations. As human rights activities evolved, John was given responsibility for other, new, activities including the technical cooperation and the external relations programmes. As part of these responsibilities, the author travelled to many countries and witnessed first-hand the effect of human rights problems and the ongoing need to address them. His extensive field experience was balanced by his responsibility for the Commission on Human Rights as its Secretary (1978-1994), and as Coordinator of the World Conference on Human Rights which took place in Vienna in 1993. The author has continued to build his human rights experiences in the last twenty years, undertaking various responsibilities such as in Indonesia, Iraq, and Liberia among many others. John's current priorities include human rights of women, migrant workers and asylum seekers, administration of justice issues, and human rights in countering terrorism.