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Accountability for human rights violations by international organisations

Title: Accountability for human rights violations by international organisations / Jan Wouters [and others] (eds.).
Publication: Antwerp ; Portland, Or. : Intersentia, ©2010.

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Additional Authors

Wouters, Jan, 1964-

Description

xxiv, 625 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

With the proliferation of international organisations and their ever increasing role in a wide range of policy fields, situations multiply in which human rights are threatened or violated through the actions, operations or policies of such organisations. The present book, with carefully selected contributions from many prominent scholars and practitioners, is the first to explore these problems in a comprehensive manner and to examine the accountability mechanisms that are available. In a first, cross-cutting part, the contributions study general concepts, such as the accountability of international organisations as an evolving legal concept, international organisations as independent actors, the logic of sliding scales in the law of international responsibility and the relations between the international organisations and their Member States in regard to their respective obligations and responsibilities. The subsequent parts of the book focus on the accountability for human rights violations attributable to international organisations in four areas: (i) peace and humanitarian operations; (ii) international civil administration; (iii) economic governance; and (iv) staff of international organisations.

Series Statement

International law

Uniform Title

International law (Antwerp, Belgium)

Subject

Genre/Form

Rules
comment.
commentaire.
comentario.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Accountability for human rights violations by international organisations : introductory remarks / Jan Wouters ... [et al.] -- Accountability of international organisations : an evolving legal concept? / Ige F. Dekker -- International organisations as independent actors : sweet memory or functionally necessary? / Niels M. Blokker -- Human rights and the rise of international organisations : the logic of sliding scales in the law of international responsibility / Olivier De Schutter -- Binding international organisations to member state treaties or responsibility of member states for their own actions in the framework of international organisations / Frederik Naert -- The 'Italian job' : how to make international organisations compliant with human rights and accountable for their violation by targeting member states / Matteo Tondini -- Human rights accountability of international organisations in the lead of international peace missions / Ulf Häussler -- Accountability of the United Nations : the case of Srebrenica / Peter R. Baehr -- On the social life of international organisations : framing accountability in refugee resettlement / Kristin Bergtora Sandvik -- Understanding the international territorial administration accountability deficit : trusteeship and the legitimacy of international organisations / Ralph Wilde -- Human rights accountability of international administrations : theory and practice in East Timor / Eric De Brabandere -- Should the United Nations create an independent human rights body in a transitional administration? The case of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) / Remzije Istrefi -- The ombudsman institution vs the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kososvo (UNMIK) / Gjylbehare Bella Murati.
Accountability of international organisations : an analysis of the World Bank's Inspection Panel / Rekha Oleschak-Pillai -- The accountability of the International Monetary Fund for human rights violations / Pierre Schmitt -- The World Trade Organization : an obstacle to enforcing human rights obligations? / Jeroen Denkers and Nicola Jägers -- TRIPs and human rights : access to cheaper AIDS medicines / Stefaan Smis, Stephen Sevidzem Kingah and Christine Janssens. -- Accountability of development agencies through the use of human rights indicators / Gauthier de Beco -- Accountability of international organisations for violations of the human rights of staff / Chittharanjan Felix Amerasinghe -- Human rights accountability of international organisations vis-à-vis their staff : the United Nations / Sarah Hunt -- Workplace equality in international organisations : why is it an illusory concept? / Osmat Azzam Jefferson -- An international organisation's point of view / Edward Kwakwa.

ISBN

9050957463
9789050957465
9781780680668
178068066X

LCCN

2011288543

OCLC

ocn463622646
463622646
SCSB-1596075

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library