The Human Rights Council and the Challenges of the United Nations System on Human Rights: Towards a Cultural Revolution?

Chetail, Vincent

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The Human Rights Council and the Challenges of the United Nations System on Human Rights: Towards a Cultural Revolution?

Vincent Chetail

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (HEI)

December 20, 2009

INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE QUEST FOR ITS IMPLEMENTATION: LIBER AMICORUM, pp. 193-241, V. Gowlland-Debbas, L. Boisson de Chazournes & M. Kohen, eds., Brill, 2010

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The article retraces the difficult and sometimes tortuous path which led to the establishment of the Human Rights Council and it analyzes its implications for the UN human rights system.

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Keywords: Human Rights Council, United Nations, Human Rights, World Court, Universal Periodic Review, Third World

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Date posted: July 23, 2010

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Chetail, Vincent, The Human Rights Council and the Challenges of the United Nations System on Human Rights: Towards a Cultural Revolution? (December 20, 2009). INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE QUEST FOR ITS IMPLEMENTATION: LIBER AMICORUM, pp. 193-241, V. Gowlland-Debbas, L. Boisson de Chazournes & M. Kohen, eds., Brill, 2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1647746

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Vincent Chetail (Contact Author)

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