TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moeckli,Daniel
AU  - Keller,Helen
AU  - Heri,Corina
TI  - The human rights covenants at 50: their past, present, and future 
SN  - 9780198825890
U1  - 323 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
KW  - (1966 December 16)
KW  - International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
KW  - Human rights
KW  - History
KW  - International law and human rights
N1  - 1. Introduction; Helen Keller and Daniel Moeckli; 2. The history of the Covenants : looking back half a century and beyond; Maya Hertig Randall; 3. Giving meaning and effect to human rights : the contributions of Human Rights Committee members; Gerald L. Neuman; 4. Interpretation of the ICESCR : between morality and state consent; Daniel Moeckli; 5. NGOs : essential actors for embedding the Covenants in the national context; Patrick Mutzenberg; 6. Influence of the ICESCR in Africa; Manisuli Ssenyonjo; 7. Influence of the ICCPR in the Middle East; Başak Çali; 8. Influence of the ICESCR in Latin America; Mónica Pinto and Martín Sigal; 9. Influence of the ICCPR in Asia; Yogesh Tyagi; 10. Influence of the ICESCR in Europe; Amrei Müller; 11. The influence of the two Covenants on states parties across regions : lessons for the role of comparative law and of regions in international human rights law; Samantha Besson; 12. The Covenants in the light of anthropogenic climate change; Stephen Humphreys; 13. The Covenants and financial crises; Christine Kaufmann; 14. The institutional future of the Covenants : a world court for human rights?; Felice D. Gaer
N2  - "Half a century ago, on 16 December 1966, the UN General Assembly adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). While the adoption of the two UN human rights covenants was celebrated all over the world, their 50th anniversary has received very little attention from the international community. The present book marks this anniversary by taking stock of the first half-century of the existence of what are probably the world's two most important human rights treaties. It does so by reflecting on what the covenants have achieved (or failed to achieve) in the years that have passed, by determining and comparing their current influence in the various regions of the world, and by assessing their potential roles in the future.

The book contains papers that were presented during a symposium held in Zurich in 2016, which brought together experts and stakeholders from a range of disciplines and world regions. Some fundamental issues that are addressed by the contributors are as old as the two covenants themselves. They concern, for example, the division of human rights into first- and second-generation rights, and the question of whether there should be one central monitoring body - possibly a world court - or more than just one. However, the contributors go beyond such questions that have been explored before; they develop new answers to old questions and point to new challenges."
ER  -