In contemporary international relations the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is a central actor, promoting human rights laws and institutions within countries, speaking out against gross violations of human rights, integrating human rights into efforts for conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, development and humanitarian affairs.
The author exercised the functions of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in a turbulent period involving the conflict in Iraq, the conflict in Cote d'Ivoire, and the crisis in Darfur, Sudan. In this unique work he...

This book provides dramatic evidence of the principle of legality at work in international human rights institutions during the past half-century. It brings together scattered legal opinions from the early years of the United Nations and renders a great service in chronicling the practice of international law in a vital domain. It is itself a labour of love, having been assembled piece-by-piece over several years. Legal advisers in international organizations and those interested in the craftsmanship of international human rights law will find it indispensable. Those whose vision is to see...

The International Conference on the former Yugoslavia constituted a unique approach to peace-keeping and peace-making. Its structure, activities and relations with the personalities and entities within the former Yugoslavia are a fascinating complex, worthy of study and appraisal both now and in the future. Much has been written on the events which preceded, accompanied and followed the break-up of Yugoslavia, and much is still to be written, but only in this volume can the Papers of the ICFY be found in a well-edited, logical and accessible form. The Editor has provided a reference work of...