Chapter 14 African Civil Society and the Struggle for Human Rights

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Bertrand Ramcharan
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The Protection Roles of Human Rights NGOs

Essays in Honour of Adrien-Claude Zoller

Series:  International Studies in Human Rights, Volume: 140
Cover The Protection Roles of Human Rights NGOs
E-Book ISBN:
9789004516786
Publisher:
Brill | Nijhoff
Print Publication Date:
14 Nov 2022
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Introduction
Chapter 1 Adrien-Claude Zoller
Chapter 2 The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Developing and Protecting Human Rights
Chapter 3 Protection NGOs in the Age of Neurotechnology
Chapter 4 NGOs and the Responsibility to Protect
Chapter 5 NGOs: Powerful Agents of Change
Chapter 6 Human Rights Protection in Emergency Situations
Chapter 7 Civil Society and the UN Human Rights System
Chapter 8 Statement by Forty-Six NGOs on Problems Experienced in the UN Human Rights Council
Chapter 9 Joint Declaration on Protecting and Supporting Civil Society at Risk
Chapter 10 The International Commission of Jurists and the UN Human Rights System Advocating for the Progressive Development of International Human Rights Law, Standards and Mechanisms
Chapter 11 The Role of Human Rights NGOs in Strengthening the Protection Mandates of the Human Rights Treaty Bodies
Chapter 12 The Role of an NGO Representative in Advocating for the Responsibility to Protect at the UN
Chapter 13 The Roles of NGOs in the UN Human Rights System
Chapter 15 NGOs in the African Commission
Chapter 16 NGO Strategy for Oversight of Human Rights in a Constitutional Regime
Chapter 17 The Guyana Human Rights Association and the Struggle for Justice in Guyana
Chapter 18 Reflections of an NGO Advocate on Justice Deficit Systemic Disorder (JDSD) as a Threat to the Global Human Rights Project
Chapter 19 Tibet at the United Nations
Chapter 20 Non-governmental Organization’s Efforts at the United Nations to Promote Human Rights in North Korea
Chapter 21 Securing the Rights of 65,000 Chakmas and Hajongs in India, a Country of 1.4 Billion People
Chapter 22 Developing Strategies to Protect NGO Human Rights Defenders
Chapter 23 ‘International Memorial’
Chapter 24 Developing an International System for Internally Displaced Persons
Chapter 25 NGOs and the Birth of the UN Special Procedures System Human Rights in Chile and Disappearances in Argentina
Chapter 26 Amnesty International’s Policy Submissions to the UN Secretary-General
Chapter 27 Human Rights Watch on Accountability for Past Human Rights Abuses
Chapter 28 NGOs in Action for Protection
Chapter 29 Getting Human Rights into the United Nations Charter
Chapter 30 NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Recalling William Korey’s Study
Chapter 31 NGOs and the Commission on Human Rights
Chapter 32 At the Service of Human Rights NGOs and Defenders in the United Nations
Chapter 33 The International Service for Human Rights and the Recognition, Participation and Protection of Human Rights Defenders
Chapter 34 NGO Written Submissions to the UN Commission on Human Rights
Chapter 35 “NGO Involvement Crucial in Promoting Human Rights, UN Official Says”
Chapter 36 Human Rights NGOs and the UN
Chapter 37 NGOs’ Contribution to the Work of the Independent Experts
Chapter 38 Courageous Leaders and NGO Initiatives
Chapter 39 NGOs, the 1993 Vienna World Conference, and the Consolidation of a Global Human Rights Movement Some Personal Recollections
Chapter 40 The Struggle to Establish Women’s Rights as International Human Rights
Chapter 41 NGOs and the Fight against Discrimination
Chapter 42 Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations
Chapter 43 Quaker Human Rights Work at the United Nations
Chapter 44 A Campaign for Freedom of Religion or Belief in the United Nations
Chapter 45 From the Grassroots to the UN
Chapter 46 The Preventive Role of Human Rights NGOs
Chapter 47 Universal Rights Group’s Advocacy of UN Prevention Strategies
Chapter 48 Prevention of Torture
Chapter 49 Civil Society Dialogues to Prevent Conflicts and Protect Human Rights in Asia
Chapter 50 Civil Society
Chapter 51 Coming Full Circle in the UPR Cycle? Civil Society Stakeholders and Their Role in the UPR
Chapter 52 The Challenge of a New Issue for the Human Rights System
Chapter 53 NGOs and Human Rights Challenges of the Future
Chapter 54 The United Nations and Human Rights
Chapter 55 UN Human Rights Day Statements, 10 December 2021
Chapter 56 Human Rights Watch and 59 NGOs on the Credibility of High Commissioner’s Visit to China
Chapter 57 NGO, China and the UN Treaty Bodies
Chapter 58 The Geneva Climate Change Consultation Group
Chapter 59 Civil Society and Remedies under Human Rights Treaties
Chapter 60 The Human Right to Adequate Housing and Its Development at the United Nations
Chapter 61 The Quest for Justice
Chapter 62 Recapitulation and Reflections
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