Human Rights Accountability Mechanisms of International Organizations - Language, Education, and the Nepali Nation

Establishes a framework for analyzing and assessing the accountability mechanisms of international organizations, and applies it to three case studies.

List of contents

1. Introduction; Part I. A framework: 2. The responsibility of IOs for human rights violations; 3. IO accountability mechanisms: definition, typology, and assessment; Part II. Three case studies: 4. Case study: The EU's Common Security and Defence Policy missions; 5. Case study: UNHCR-administered refugee camps; 6. Case study: The ICC Detention Centre; 7. Conclusion.

About the author

Stian Øby Johansen is Associate Professor at the Centre for European Law at the University of Oslo. His scholarship has appeared in European Papers, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, German Law Journal, and Oxford International Organizations. He is Secretary of the Norwegian Branch of the International Law Association.

Summary

International organizations are becoming increasingly powerful. Consequently, they are now more capable than ever of violating the rights of individuals. This book establishes a framework for analyzing and assessing the human rights accountability mechanisms of international organizations, and applies it to three case studies.

Product details

• Authors: Stian Johansen, Stian Øby Johansen, Stian Oby (Universitetet I Oslo) Johansen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781108495677
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49567-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Human rights & civil liberties law, International Relations, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, International Organisations & Institutions