Institutional partnership or critical seepages? The role of human rights NGOs in the United Nations

International Human Rights Law: Six Decades after the UDHR and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 317-335

  Otto, Dianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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