The impact of the United Nations human rights treaties on the domestic level / Christof Heynes and Frans Viljoen.

The impact of the United Nations human rights treaties on the domestic level / Christof Heynes and Frans Viljoen.

The Hague ; New York : Kluwer Law International, [2002]

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viii, 648 pages ; 25 cm

This study was conducted between January 1999 and June 2000 in collaboration with correspondents from twenty selected countries, assessing the impact of the following treaties: the (i) International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, (ii) International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, (iii) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, together with the First Optional Protocol to this Covenant, (iv) the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, (v) Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and the (vi) Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Countries were selected with the aim of identifying a representative group of states in which the U.N. treaty system has had an opportunity to effect a change: Egypt, Senegal, South Africa and Zambia from the African region; India, Iran, Japan and the Philippines from the Asian region; the Czech Republic, Estonia, Romania and the Russian Federation from the Eastern European region; Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica, Mexico from the Latin American and Caribbean region; Australia, Canada, Finland and Spain from the Western Europe and Other region.

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