Paper/Proposal Title
The United Nations Security Council and Human Rights Advocacy
Location
River Campus - Room 2006
Start Date
10-4-2013 9:30 AM
Abstract
This paper explores how human rights activism at the domestic and international level has led to the formal institutionalization of new accountability standards including formal guidelines on prosecutions and amnesties at the United Nations. The paper also explores how norm entrepreneurs inside and outside the UN Security Council have shaped Security Council practice such that it is now contributing to the protection of human rights through selective humanitarian intervention and referrals to the International Criminal Court; as well as the further development of the justice norm through its initiative on the rule of law and the endorsement of UN standards for transitional states. The paper examines how the advocacy practices of the human rights movement have contributed to these developments. It also asks the question whether or not particular Security Council practices should be understood as a new form of human rights advocacy and what the implications of increased Security Council involvement in the regulation of domestic human rights practices of states might be.
The United Nations Security Council and Human Rights Advocacy
River Campus - Room 2006
This paper explores how human rights activism at the domestic and international level has led to the formal institutionalization of new accountability standards including formal guidelines on prosecutions and amnesties at the United Nations. The paper also explores how norm entrepreneurs inside and outside the UN Security Council have shaped Security Council practice such that it is now contributing to the protection of human rights through selective humanitarian intervention and referrals to the International Criminal Court; as well as the further development of the justice norm through its initiative on the rule of law and the endorsement of UN standards for transitional states. The paper examines how the advocacy practices of the human rights movement have contributed to these developments. It also asks the question whether or not particular Security Council practices should be understood as a new form of human rights advocacy and what the implications of increased Security Council involvement in the regulation of domestic human rights practices of states might be.
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