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Go To Part I II III IV V Overview of International Human Rights Law and Mechanisms the interpretation of treaty provisions. To varying degrees, they also have the authority to accept individual communications concerning rights violations in states that have accepted this procedure. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights serves as secretariat to the Human Rights Council and its sub-bodies and to most of the treaty bodies, in addition to carrying out its own human rights promotion, education, technical assistance and monitoring functions. The International Committee of the Red Cross plays a unique role in promoting and monitoring compliance with humanitarian law, including certain direct services to protect civilians at risk. The International Criminal Court is designed to deter war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. The World Bank,which provides loans and guarantees to development projects to address world poverty, also has complaints mechanisms to respond to the problems caused by these projects. aT The regional level In africa, the primary human rights mechanisms are the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, its special rapporteurs, the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the African Committee of Experts on the Welfare of the Child. In the Americas, the main bodies are the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, its special rapporteurs, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the Inter-American Commission of Women. In both Africa and the Americas, the “Commissions” are expert bodies formed by treaties that act in many ways like the treaty bodies at the universal level, considering state reports, addressing individual complaints, and issuing interpretive guidelines. Both also play a gate-keeping function for their respective “Court,” as the Commissions must generally address all complaints before the Courts take them up. Also in both regions, the special rapporteurs of the Commissions are almost all members of the Commissions themselves. europe has created a number of human rights mechanisms associated with its varying parallel systems of regional cooperation, including the Council of Europe, the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The flagship of these mechanisms is the European Court of Human Rights, which can address individual complaints of violations of civil and political rights provided by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) and its protocols. Europe has a number of mechanisms that target issues of racism and minority rights, including the Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, and the High Commissioner on National Minorities. It also has several bodies that can address social and economic rights issues, including the European Committee of Social Rights, and the European Parliamentary Committee on Petitions. asia has no regional human rights-specific mechanisms; persons in this region must therefore turn to the universal mechanisms if domestic remedies are ineffective. Guide to International Human Rights Mechanisms for Internally Displaced Persons and their Advocates
Go To Part I II III IV V Overview of International Human Rights Law and Mechanisms Like the World Bank, the regional development banks in the Americas, Asia and Europe have developed complaints mechanisms for persons affected by their projects. FOR.MORE.INFORMATION The website of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights compiles the major human rights instruments and provides information on the Human Rights Council, its sub-bodies, and the treaty bodies: www.ohchr.org. The website of the International Committee of the Red Cross describes its functions and compiles the humanitarian law instruments: www.icrc.ch. The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library website compiles a number of refugee law instruments (www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/auov.htm), and a number of other relevant documents are available on the website of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (www. unhcr.ch). Human Rights Protection for Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Internally Displaced Persons: A Guide to International Mechanisms and Procedures ( Joan Fitzpatrick, ed., Transnational Publishers, Inc., 2002). Guide to International Human Rights Practice (Hurst Hannum, ed., 4th ed., Transnational Publishers, Inc., 2004). Thomas Buergenthal et al., Law in a Nutshell: International Human Rights (3rd ed., West Publishers 2005). Guide to International Human Rights Mechanisms for Internally Displaced Persons and their Advocates
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