The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

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Contents

Preface

Editorial Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Introduction

Part One: The Promise of the High Commissioner: Reflections on the Past and Proposals for the Future

Rights Inflation and Role Conflict in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: From the Personal to the Institutional

Address by the High Commissioner at the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights

A Conversation with the High Commissioner

Future Preventive Strategies of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Part Two: Promoting Universality of Rights: Global Leadership in an Era of Growing Particularism and Relativism

The High Commissioner and the Treaty Bodies

The High Commissioners’ Promotion of Universality of Human Rights

Part Three: Preventing Human Rights Violations and Effective Response

The High Commissioners and the Special Procedures: Colleagues and Competitors

Protection Through Presence: The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Field

Enhancing UN Human Rights Work on the Ground

The High Commissioner and National Human Rights Institutions

Part Four: Influencing Other Bodies to Act

The High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Council

Human Rights Prosecutors? The High Commissioner for Human Rights, International Justice, and the Example of Syria

Part Five: Hard Cases: Can the High Commissioner Make a Difference?

The High Commissioner, OHCHR, and China 1998–2005: Challenges and Achievements

The High Commissioner for Human Rights and North Korea

The Role of the High Commissioner in Protecting and Promoting Human Rights in Afghanistan and Sudan

The High Commissioner in the Russian Federation

The High Commissioner and Human Rights in Burma (Myanmar)

The Impact of the High Commissioner on Human Rights Protection in Colombia

Selected Bibliography

Index