Non-governmental Human Rights Organizations in International Relations

by Baehr, Peter R.

• ISBN13: 9780230201347
• ISBN10: 0230201342
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Human rights play a crucial role in today's international relations. They provide standards to which states must conform when dealing with their own citizens. Non-governmental human rights organizations remind states of their obligations in that field. Without this, human rights would have drifted to the bottom of the international agenda.

Author Biography

PETER R. BAEHR is Honorary Professor of Human Rights and a former Director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. viii
List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Legitimacy	p. 9
Introduction	p. 9
Membership	p. 10
Accountability	p. 13
Reliability	p. 14
Access	p. 16
Cooperation among NGOs	p. 20
Conclusions	p. 25
Independence	p. 29
Introduction	p. 29
Financial independence	p. 31
Cultural relativism	p. 35
Supplying information to governments	p. 36
Media attention	p. 37
Timing	p. 38
Treaty-making	p. 40
Foreign policy	p. 40
Cases from recent Dutch foreign policy	p. 43
Conclusions	p. 45
The United Nations	p. 48
Introduction	p. 48
The Vienna World Conference on Human Rights	p. 50
Cooperation with governments and the UN	p. 52
The Cardozo Report	p. 54
The Geneva Office	p. 56
High Commissioner for Human Rights: ideal and reality	p. 58
The "international community"	p. 59
Conclusions	p. 61
The Promotion of Human Rights: Standard-Setting	p. 64
Introduction	p. 64
The prohibition of torture	p. 65
Involuntary disappearances	p. 67
Women's rights	p. 69
Children's rights	p. 71
Amnesty International and homosexuality	p. 73
Conclusions	p. 75
The Protection of Human Rights	p. 79
Introduction	p. 79
Prisoners of conscience	p. 80
Better or worse?	p. 81
Genocide	p. 85
Shadow reports	p. 88
An NGO's shadow report on the Netherlands	p. 89
Universal Periodic Review	p. 92
Globalization	p. 95
Amnesty International and globalization	p. 96
Conclusions	p. 99
Non-Governmental Entities	p. 102
Introduction	p. 102
Somalia	p. 105
Colombia	p. 109
Democratic Republic of the Congo	p. 111
Spain	p. 113
Afghanistan	p. 114
Conclusions	p. 118
Conclusions	p. 120
Introduction	p. 120
Legitimacy	p. 122
Impact	p. 123
Quiet versus public diplomacy	p. 125
Public officials	p. 126
The United Nations	p. 127
Standard-setting	p. 128
Protection of human rights	p. 128
Non-governmental entities	p. 129
The future of human rights NGOs	p. 129
ECOSOC Resolution E/1996/31: Consultative Relationship Between the United Nations and Non-Governmental Organizations	p. 130
International Non-Governmental Organizations: Accountability Charter	p. 148
Notes	p. 155
List of Interviewed Persons	p. 190
Bibliography	p. 191
Index	p. 195
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