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Canadians like to see themselves as champions of human rights in the international community. Closer to home, however, the human rights system in Canada - particularly its public institutions such as commissions and tribunals - has been the object of sustained debate and vehement criticism, based largely on widespread myths about how it works. In Speaking Out on Human Rights, Pearl Eliadis explodes these myths, analysing the pervasive distortions and errors on which they depend. Canada's human rights system, a unique legal tradition operating within a powerful modern constitution, is a fundamental mechanism for ensuring the practical application of our national commitment to tolerance and inclusion. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Canada's leading human rights experts and extensive original research, Eliadis explores the evolution of commissions and tribunals as vehicles of public policy and considers their mandate to mediate rights conflicts in such contested areas as hate speech, religious freedoms, and sexuality. She provides a frank assessment of how Canada's human rights system functions and argues that misplaced critiques have prevented urgent and necessary discussions about the reforms that are needed to improve fairness and equality before the law and to ensure institutional independence, impartiality, and competence. Speaking Out on Human Rights shows how our human rights system plays a unique and important role in the rights revolution both in Canada and internationally and offers promising avenues for its future development.
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• 1. The African human rights system, activist forces, and international institutions--
• 2. Conventional conceptions of international human rights institutions--
• 3. Conventional conceptions of the African system for the promotion and protection of human and peoples' rights--
• 4. The modest impact of the African system within Nigeria--
• 5. The limited impact of the African system in South Africa--
• 6. The limited deployment of the African system within states--
• 7. Toward an extended measure of IHI effectiveness--
• 8. Conclusion.
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This 2007 book draws from and builds upon many of the more traditional approaches to the study of international human rights institutions (IHIs), especially quasi-constructivism. The author reveals some of the ways in which many such domestic deployments of the African system have been brokered or facilitated by local activist forces, such as human rights NGOs, labour unions, women's groups, independent journalists, dissident politicians, and activist judges. In the end, the book exposes and reflects upon the inherent inability of the dominant compliance-focused model to adequately capture the range of other ways - apart from via state compliance - in which the domestic invocation of IHIs like the African system can contribute - albeit to a modest extent - to the pro-human rights alterations that can sometimes occur in the self-understandings, conceptions of interest or senses of appropriateness held within key domestic institutions within states.
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The HRA represents a new beginning for the UK. For the first time rights which we have taken for granted are written down and enforceable against the government and all public bodies in our own courts. For the first time we have a higher law - a Bill of Rights - whose principles will influence all other law and policy. And for the first time we have a common set of ethical values to which everyone in this godless age can subscribe. Francesca Klug, joint winner of the 1998 Times/Justice award for an outstanding contribution to civil justice, tells the story of how the idea of rights has evolved from the Enlightenment to the present day. Controversially, she traces three "waves of rights to suggest that the modern idea of human rights is best understood as a synthesis of the values of liberty, community and mutuality. She assesses how far these values are compatible with those of a New Labour government committed to a culture of duties as well as rights. And she examines the concrete implications of the HRA for the legal and political culture of the UK. The HRA marks a historic turning-point and has an immense potential to transform our lives. This book should help us seize the opportunity.
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• The history of the special procedures : a learning-by-doing approach to human rights implementation / Elvira Dominguez-Redondo
• Special procedures : independence and impartiality / Jane Connors
• Picking and choosing? : country visits by thematic special procedures / Felice D. Gaer
• The UN special procedures system : the role of the coordination committee of special procedures / Najat Maala M'jid
• Strengthening cooperation : the key to unlocking the potential of the special procedures / Mare Limon
• Coping mechanisms for state non-cooperation / Ahmed Shaheed and Rose Parris Richter
• Doing it all and doing it well? : a mandate's challenges in terms of cooperation, fundraising and maintaining independence / Inga T. Winkler and Catarina de Albuquerque
• Working out a working group : a view from a former working group member / Olivier de Frouville
• Special procedures in the digital age / Ella McPherson and Thomas Probert
• Principle, politics and practice : the role of UN special rapporteurs on the right to adequate housing in the development of the right to housing in International law / Jessie Hohmann
• Life as a UN special rapporteur : the experience of the UN special rapporteur for human rights in Cambodia / Surya P. Subedi
• Business and human rights in the United Nations special procedures system / Daria Davitti
• The chalenge of non-state actors : the experience of the UN special rapporteur on the rights to the highest attainable standard of health (2002-08) / Paul Hunt
• The UN special rapporteur on torture in the developing architecture of UN torture protection / Malcolm Evans
• The African state and speical procedures : agency, leverage and legitimacy / Jonathan Fisher and Danielle Beswick
• Supporting of resisting? : the relationship between global north states and special procedures / Rosa Freedman and Franc̜ois Crépeau
• Ending resprisals : the role and responsibilities of the special procedures of the UN human rights council / Phil Lynch.

The United Nations Special Procedures system is a key element of the evolving international framework for human rights protection and promotion. However, despite the system's expansion, the range of roles and functions performed by mandate holders, and the mounting evidence of its strengths and limitations, there has been very little academic interrogation or analysis of Special Procedures. This lacuna is ever-more problematic given the growing profile and effectiveness of the Special Procedures' work, as well as the increasing attention and challenges that they face, both externally from States and internally from within the UN system. Given the current 'state of play' of Special Procedures, it is essential that scholarly attention be focussed upon the system. How does it contribute to international human rights protection? How, when and why does it fail to do so? What steps can and should be taken to address shortcomings both within the system and in terms of the legal and political context within which it operates? Featuring expert contributions from key players within, and expert commentators on, the Special Procedures system, this volume addresses these questions in an in-depth and rigorous scholarly manner.
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• Introduzione
• Dalla Commissione al Consiglio, quale principale Forum onusiano, in materia di promozione e protezione dei diritti umani
• Gli "ears and eyes" del Consiglio : Il ruolo della special procedures via-à-vis il Consiglio Diritti Umani
• Il Meccanismo de "the universal periodic peer review"
• Il Comitato consultivo del Consiglio : Un "expert advice"?
• Il ruolo delle NGOs, delle NHRIs e dell'OCHR via-à-vis il Consiglio Diritti Umani
• La Revisione--e non riforma--del Consiglio Diritti Umani, "within five years".