Guglielmo Verdirame

The Un and Human Rights

Who Guards the Guardians?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Can the UN violate human rights, and if so, how can it be held accountable?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 887g
• ISBN-13: 9780521841900
• ISBN-10: 0521841909
• Artikelnr.: 33159824

Autorenporträt

Guglielmo Verdirame is Professor of International Law at the Department of War Studies and the School of Law at King's College London. Before taking on this position, he was a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. His main areas of research and teaching are public international law, and legal and political philosophy. He is a barrister at 20 Essex Street chambers, London.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Concepts and definitions
3. Human rights obligations of international organisations
4. International institutional responsibility
5. UN relief and development operations
6. UN peacekeeping
7. International administrations
8. Implementation of UN sanctions
9. Accountability
10. Conclusions.