Modernizing the UN Human Rights System

ISBN: 9789004204980 出版年：2019 页码：257 Bertrand G Ramcharan Brill

The universal protection of human rights remains the core challenge of the united nations if it is to achieve its mission of a world of peace, development and justice. Yet, at a time of seismic changes in the world, when shocking violations of human rights are taking place world-wide, the un human rights system is in need of urgent modernization. This book, written by a foremost scholar-practitioner who previously exercised the functions of un high commissioner for human rights, advances a series of ideas to modernize the un protection system. Among a dozen key proposals are that the un human rights system should help alleviate the plight of the poorest, pay greater attention to the national protection system of each country, and establish a world court on human rights that can deal with c