The future of UN human rights treaty monitoring

Table of Contents:
1 - The UN human rights treaty system: A system in crisis? pp 1-12
By James Crawford
A - The UN human rights monitoring system in action pp 13-14
2 - Individual claims in a world of massive violations: What role for the Human Rights Committee?pp 15-54
By Henry J. Steiner
3 - Decision-taking in the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discriminationpp 55-78
By Michael Banton
4 - The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women at the crossroads pp 79-112
By Mara R. Bustelo
5 - The reporting process under the Convention on the Rights of the Childpp 113-128
By Gerison Lansdown
6 - The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Catalyst for change in a system needing reformpp 129-144
By Scott Leckie
7 - Country-oriented procedures under the Convention against Torture: Towards a new dynamism pp 145-174
By Roland Bank
8 - UN human rights reporting procedures: An NGO perspective pp 175-198
By Andrew Clapham
B - National influences and responses pp 199-200
9 - Making human rights treaty obligations a reality: Working with new actors and partners pp 201-228
By Anne Gallagher
10 - Domestic implementation of international human rights treaties: Nordic and Baltic experiences pp 229-244
By Martin Scheinin
11 - The domestic impact of international human rights standards: The Japanese experiencepp 245-268
By Yuji Iwasawa
12 - The role of human rights treaty standards in domestic law: The Southern African experience pp 269-286
By John Dugard
13 - Uses and abuses of the treaty reporting procedure: Hong Kong between two systems pp 287-316
By Andrew Byrnes
14 - The United States and the international human rights treaty system: For export only? pp 317-330
By Stefanie Grant
C - Regional and sectoral comparisons pp 331-332
15 - Reporting in the Inter-American system of human rights protection pp 333-346
By Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade
16 - Lessons from the reporting system of the European Social Charter pp 347-360
By David Harris
17 - The role of reporting in international environmental treaties: Lessons for human rights supervision pp 361-380
By Daniel Bodansky
D - Common challenges for the treaty bodies pp 381-382
18 - The problem of overlapping among different treaty bodies pp 383-402
By Eric Tistounet
19 - Bodies of knowledge: A diversity promotion role for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rightspp 403-438
By Craig Scot
20 - Treaty bodies responding to states of emergency: The case of Bosnia and Herzegovinapp 439-460
By Michael O'Flaherty
21 - Ensuring effective supervisory procedures: The need for resources pp 461-480
By Elizabeth Evatt
22 - Servicing and financing human rights supervision pp 481-498
By Markus Schmidt
E - Looking to the future pp 499-500
23 - Beyond ‘them’ and ‘us’: Putting treaty body reform into perspective pp 501-526
By Philip Alston
Index pp 527-563