The Law, Policy and Politics of the un Human Rights Council.

Intro -- The Law, Policy and Politics of the UN Human Rights Council -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Mandates, Roles, Organization of the Human Rights Council -- I: The Council and the Modern Human Rights Law of the Charter -- II: Human Rights as International Constitutional Law -- III: Public Policy Role -- IV: Human Rights and Security Challenges -- V: The National Responsibility to Protect Human Rights -- VI: National Protection in Practice? The ibsa Countries -- VII: International Cooperation: The Universal Periodic Review -- VIII: International Legislation -- IX: Prevention -- X: Fact-Finding -- XI: Protection -- XII: Justice -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliography -- Index.

It is the merit of this book to present the Human Rights Council in terms of its mandates, roles and organization while seeking to remind the membership and the international community at large that the Council must be anchored in the modern human rights law of the Charter - of which the author gives a superb presentation. The book then proceeds to make the case that human rights are part of international constitutional law and this is exceedingly important at a time when universal values have come under stress from various quarters including from terrorist formations. The argument of the book is essentially that the modern human rights law of the Charter and the human rights provisions of international constitutional law must take precedence for everyone, everywhere.

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