Human Rights
[Pages:237]Human Rights
Handbook for Parliamentarians N? 26
? Inter-Parliamentary Union 2016 This publication is co-published by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the United Nations (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights). For personal and non-commercial use, all or parts of this publication may be reproduced on condition that copyright and source indications are also copied and no modifications are made. Please inform the Inter-Parliamentary Union on the usage of the publication content.
Layout: Simplecom graphics Printed by Courand et Associ?s ISBN 978-92-9142-657-7 (IPU) HR/PUB/16/4 (UN)
Cover Page The principle of universality of human rights is the cornerstone of international human rights law. International human rights law lays down obligations of governments to act in certain ways or to refrain from certain acts in order to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms of all individuals or groups. ? Anadolu Agency/Serap Aydin
Contents
Acknowledgements
7
Foreword
8
Abbreviations
9
Boxes
13
Chapter 1
What are human rights?
19
Definition
19
Basic human rights principles
21
Human rights and State sovereignty
27
The Responsibility to Protect
27
Democracy, human rights and parliaments
29
Chapter 2
Which State obligations arise from human rights?
31
What does the "obligation to respect" mean?
32
What does the "obligation to protect" mean?
32
What does the "obligation to fulfil" mean?
33
The principle of progressive realization
34
The right to an effective remedy
35
The right to recourse to an international or regional human rights mechanism 36
The right to reparation for harm suffered
37
Remedies for violations of economic, social and cultural rights
38
Chapter 3
International human rights instruments
41
The emergence of international human rights law
41
The International Bill of Human Rights
42
Core international human rights treaties
43
Other human rights instruments of the United Nations
44
1
Chapter 4
May States restrict human rights?
47
Limitation clauses
48
Derogation during a state of emergency
48
Reservations
51
Chapter 5
United Nations human rights treaty monitoring bodies
53
Membership and functioning
54
Reporting procedure
54
Obligations of States
54
Examination of State reports
55
The role of NGOs, parliaments and other organizations in the treaty-body
procedure
55
General comments issued by treaty-monitoring bodies
56
Individual complaints procedure
57
Inter-State complaints procedure
59
Inquiry procedures
59
The system of regular visits to detention centres established under the Optional
Protocol to CAT
61
Follow-up to recommendations
61
Chapter 6
Charter-based system of human rights: the United Nations
Human Rights Council and its mechanisms
65
From the Commission on Human Rights to the Human Rights Council
66
The Commission on Human Rights
66
The Human Rights Council
67
The Universal Periodic Review
68
Special procedures
69
Human Rights Council complaint procedure
70
2
Chapter 7
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights
73
History
73
How OHCHR works
74
OHCHR in the field
76
Chapter 8
Regional human rights treaties and monitoring
79
Africa
79
The Americas
81
Arab region
82
Asia and the Pacific
83
Europe
84
Council of Europe
84
European Union
85
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
86
Chapter 9
Basic requirements for an effective parliamentary
contribution to human rights
89
Basic principles
89
Ensuring the representative nature of parliament
90
Protecting the freedom of expression of parliamentarians
91
Understanding the legal framework, in particular parliamentary procedure 94
Determining parliament's role in states of emergency
94
Chapter 10 Parliamentary functions to promote and protect human rights 95
Ratifying human rights treaties
95
3
Ensuring national implementation
97
Adopting enabling legislation
97
Approving the budget
100
Overseeing the executive branch
101
Following up on recommendations and decisions
101
Getting involved with the Universal Periodic Review
103
Mobilizing public opinion
105
Participating in international efforts
106
Chapter 11
Parliamentary institutional structure and relations with other
national stakeholders
111
Establishing parliamentary human rights bodies
111
Creating and supporting an institutional infrastructure
112
National human rights institutions
112
Ombudsperson's office
116
National human rights action plans
116
Relationship between parliaments and civil society
117
Chapter 12
What parliamentarians should know about civil and
political rights
119
The right to life
119
Prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment:
the right to personal integrity and dignity
129
The right to personal liberty and security
135
Administration of justice: the right to a fair trial
138
The right to privacy and the protection of family life
145
Freedom of movement
151
Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
154
Freedom of opinion and expression
157
Freedom of peaceful assembly and association
165
The right to participate in public affairs
168
4
Chapter 13
What parliamentarians should know about economic, social
and cultural rights and the right to development
173
Globalization, development and economic, social and cultural rights
174
The right to development
182
What is the right to development?
182
The right to development in the context of the 2030 Agenda, the
Sustainable Development Goals and related processes
183
The right to social security
184
The right to work and rights at work
187
The right to an adequate standard of living
191
The right to education
208
Cultural rights
213
Chapter 14
Human rights, terrorism and counter-terrorism
217
Is terrorism a violation of human rights?
218
The notion and definition of terrorism
219
States of emergency and the normal operation of counter-terrorism law
and practice
220
Chapter 15
Combating impunity: the international criminal court
223
Ad hoc international criminal tribunals: the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia (ICTY); the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR);
and internationalized (hybrid) tribunals
224
The International Criminal Court
225
Set of principles for the protection and promotion of human rights through
action to combat impunity
230
Annex:
The core international human rights instruments
233
5
6
................
................
In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.
To fulfill the demand for quickly locating and searching documents.
It is intelligent file search solution for home and business.
Related searches
- human rights issues 2019
- human rights news
- human rights violations 2019
- human rights issues today
- human rights words
- history of human rights pdf
- types of human rights pdf
- characteristics of human rights pdf
- human rights articles pdf
- definition of human rights pdf
- list of human rights pdf
- global human rights issues today