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Human Rights and the Universal Periodic Review : Rituals and Ritualism
A sustained analysis of the Universal Periodic Review of human rights, focusing on its rituals and potential ritualism.
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- "A sustained analysis of the Universal Periodic Review of human rights, focusing on its rituals and potential ritualism."@en
- ""This book is the result of a conference held at the Australian National University in Canberra in December 2012. The aim of the conference was to bring together scholars and human rights practitioners from around the world to examine the United Nations Human Rights Council's novel mechanism, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The first four year cycle of the UPR concluded in 2012 and the conference was designed to assess the UPR's progress as a technique to protect human rights at the international level"--"
- ""The Universal Periodic Review is an intriguing and ambitious development in human rights monitoring which breaks new ground by engaging all 193 members of the United Nations. This book provides the first sustained analysis of the Review and explains how the Review functions within the architecture of the United Nations. It draws on socio-legal scholarship and the insights of human rights practitioners with direct experience of the Review in order to consider its regulatory power and its capacity to influence the behaviour of states. It also highlights the significance of the embodied features of the Review, with its cyclical and intricately managed interactive dialogues. Additionally, it discusses the rituals associated with the Review, examines the tendency of the Review towards hollow ritualism (which undermines its aspiration to address human rights violations comprehensively) and suggests how this ritualism might be overcome"--"