Current legal framework does not properly address the impact that transnational corporations have on human rights. In response to in 2014 UN Human Rights Council established an open-ended intergovernmental working group with a mandate elaborate international legally binding instrument regulate activities of and other business enterprises. Although this decision was strongly contested initially ...

Summary The international human rights system became massive and often difficult to understand even for lawyers themselves. Do we really need different organisations operating both worldwide locally, dozens of treaties monitoring bodies? present paper focuses on the relation between UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Special Procedures Human Rights Council (SP), two mechanisms that may, at firs...

This paper argues that the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council can be a critical avenue for promoting a human rights-based approach to sexual and reproductive health and well-being due to its reliance on the principles of participation and accountability. Drawing on evidence from the UPR process since its inception in 2008, the paper analyzes the impact of...

Decades of social science research on human rights has mapped the conditions under which states sign and ratify treaties, abide by their conditions, promote or criticize in other states. Some norms contained core particularly civil political rights, are seen authoritarian as politically threatening. Autocracies can reshape through international institutions seek to change content over time. Thi...

world community is always seeking solutions and ways to improve peace and enhance development. human rights education which increases public awareness of human rights is one way for achieving peace and development. such education would result in changing society, understanding other nations and strengthening peace and prosperity. if a society grows up in all economic, social and cultural dimant...