Treaties, Human Rights, and Conditional Consent

Effects of International Human Rights Treaties

human rights treaties different atmosphere

arguing that human rights treaties by their nature are different from other international agreements, this article deals mainly with such questions as succession of states in respect of human rights treaties and reservations to such instruments.  in contrast to other treaties, which are generally “inter-states exchange of interests”, human rights documents are protective instruments according t...

Ratification of human rights treaties: the beginning not the end.

I appreciate Alexis Palmer and colleagues’ empirical research on the eff ects of ratifi cation of human rights treaties on population health (June 6, p 1987). Despite their conclusion that ratifi cation has no benefi ts on health, issues surrounding the eff ect of human rights norms within treaties are complex and might not be fully captured through an analysis of correlations between ratifi ca...

Estimating the Effects of Human Rights Treaties on State Behavior

Though research suggests that international regimes that coordinate economic and security policy can alter state behavior, research examining the effect of human rights treaties on state behavior has found that these agreements do little to curb repressive practices. However, those studies neglect to account for the fact that several of the statelevel characteristics which are known to affect r...

"Human Rights"؛ "Citizen Rights"؛ "Human Rights Declaration"؛ " Middle Eastern States"

حقوق بشر و حقوق شهروندی از حقوق ذاتی و طبیعی انسان نشأت گرفته و در طول تاریخ بین اندیشمندان مناطق مختلف جهان و همچنین در مکاتب الهی توجه خاصی به آنها شده است. اما متاسفانه تا پایان جنگ جهانی دوم حقوق بشر بصورت گسترده اقبالی کسب ننمود. اگر چه با اعلامیه جهانی حقوق بشر سال 1948 و دیگر کنوانسیون های مربوطه، حقوق بشر شکل جهان شمولی بخود گرفته ولی هنوز بسیاری از دولتهای خاورمیانه حاضر به پذیرش تمامی...