Is today's international human rights system a global governance regime?

Journal of Ethics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 353-371

  Nickel, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Global governance; Human rights; Human rights enforcement; Human rights treaties; International law

Indexed keywords

EID: 15244357759     PISSN: 13824554     EISSN: 15728609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021238802182     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. For a definition of "globalization" see David Held, Anthony G. McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton, Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999), pp. 14-20.
2. See David Held et al., Global Transformations, p. 85.
3. See David Held et al., Global Transformations, pp. 76-413, especially, p. 386.
4. The introduction to the 1999 U.S. State Department Human Rights report referred to the globalization of human rights as an "overlooked 'third globalization' - the rise of transnational human rights networks ..." 1999 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, http://www.state.gov/www/global/ human-rights/1999-hrp-report/99hrp-toc.html.
5. In the following passage Henry Schermers suggests that some international organizations have independence or autonomy. "Most international organizations are no more than fora where States cooperate ... [But] factually many international organizations have some governmental power of their own .... Though [such organizations'] autonomous tasks are still limited in number, they have led to a general recognition that international organizations have their own legal personality under international law. Together with the States they form the subjects which create the international legal order" H.G. Schermers, "The International Organizations," in Mohammed Bedjaoui (ed.), International Law: Achievements and Prospects (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 67,
6. quoted in Henry J. Steiner and Philip Alston (eds.), International Human Rights in Context (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 561.
7. On the Universal Declaration, see Johannes Morsink, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).
8. Richard Bilder, "Overview of International Human Rights Law," in Hurst Hannum (ed.), Guide to International Human Rights Practice (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992), p. 5.
9. For a sample of this jurisprudence, organized by topics, see Sarah Joseph, Jenny Schultz and Melissa Castan (eds.), The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Cases, Materials, and Commentary (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
10. See James W. Nickel, "How Human Rights Generate Duties to Protect and Provide," Human Rights Quarterly 14 (1993), pp. 77-86.
11. Reprinted in abridged form in Steiner and Alston (eds.), International Human Rights in Context, pp. 185-186.
12. On the American system, see Dinah L. Shelton, "The Inter-American Human Rights System," in Hurst Hannum (ed.), Guide to International Human Rights Practice (Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 1992), pp. 119-132.
13. On the African system, see Cees Flinterman and Evelyn Ankumah, "The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights," in Hurst Hannum (ed.), Guide to International Human Rights Practice, pp. 159-169.
14. John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1980), Chapter IX.
15. For an account of why the European human rights system has succeeded, see Laurence R. Heifer and Anne-Marie Slaughter, "Toward a Theory of Effective Supranational Adjudication," Yale Law Journal 107 (1997), p. 290.
16. http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a-ccpr.htm, and http://www.unhchr.ch/ html/menu3/b/a-cescr.htm.
17. Ineke Boerefljn, The Reporting Procedure under the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Practice and Procedures of the Human Rights Committee (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 1999).
18. See Steiner and Alston (eds.), International Human Rights in Context, pp. 774-775.
19. For recommendations for reforms in the UN treaty system, see Anne Bayefsky, The UN Human Rights Treaty System: Universality at the Crossroads (Ardsley: Transnational, 2001).
20. Heifer and Slaughter, "Toward a Theory of Effective Supranational Adjudication," pp. 337, 351.
21. See Nigel Rodley, "United Nations Non-Treaty Procedures for Dealing with Human Rights Violations," in Hurst Hannum (ed.) Guide to International Human Rights Practice, pp. 60-85.
22. See also http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/2/chr.htm.
23. See http://www.unhchr.ch/html/hchr.htm.
24. See Sydney Dawson Bailey, The UN Security Council and Human Rights (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994).
25. See also http://www.un.org/Overview/Organs/sc.html.
26. Ernst Haas, When Knowledge Is Power (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), p. 57
27. quoted in Steiner and Alston, International Human Rights in Context, p. 566.
28. See http://www.ictr.org/, and http://www.un.org/icty/index.html.
29. See http://www.derechos.org/human-rights/world.html#ngo.
30. See also http://www.etown.edu/vl/humrts.html.
31. See, for example, http://www.state.gov/g/drl/hr/.