General information of the treaty system

For general on-line information:

The following two sources provide an excellent overview of the UN human rights treaty system and might be a good starting point:

Also, the follow-up procedures of the various treaty bodies is an invaluable resource in impact, because one will often find explicit statements by States during those processes on whether they have implemented views of concluding observations.

The documents produced by the treaty bodies can be accessed at:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/Pages/TreatyBodies.aspx

Particularly useful for follow-up to COBs under the ICCPR, and thus also for the question of causality is:
http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/FollowUp.aspx?Treaty=CCPR&Lang=en

You may also want to sign up for OHCHR’s Weekly Update: News and Events in the UN Human Rights Treaty Body System.  It is issued every Monday and covers the proceedings of the previous week. 

The Weekly Update focal point is:
Ms Elena Kountouri Tapiero
Tel: +41 22 917 96 72
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Books on the treaty system

Alston, P & Crawford, J (eds) (2000) The future of the UN human rights treaty system [Cambridge University Press]

Alston, P & Goodman, R (2013) International human rights [Oxford University Press]

Alston, P (ed) (2004) The United Nations and human rights: A critical appraisal [Clarendon Press]

De Schutter, O (2014) International human rights law [Cambridge University Press]

Egan, S (2011) The UN human rights treaty system: Law and procedure [Bloomsbury Professional]

Keller, H & Ulfstein, G (2012) UN human rights treaty bodies: Law and legitimacy [Cambridge University Press]

Shelton, D (2013) The Oxford handbook of international human rights law [Oxford University Press]

Weissbrodt, D et al (2009) Selected international human rights instruments and bibliography for research on international human rights law [LexisNexis]

Young, K (2002) The law and process of the UN Human Rights Committee [Transnational Publishers]

 

Journal articles on the treaty system

Boerefijn, I “Establishing state responsibility for breaching human rights Treaty obligations: Avenues under human rights treaties” (2009) 56(2) Netherlands International Law Review 167

Downs, G & Jones, M “Reputation, compliance, and international law” (2002) 31(1) The Journal of Legal Studies 95

Hathaway, O “Why do countries commit to human right treaties?” (2007) 51(4) Yale Law Journal 588

Kanetake, M “UN human rights treaty monitoring bodies before domestic courts” (2018) 67 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 201

Neumayer, E “Do international human rights treaties improve respect for human rights?” (2005) 49(6) Journal of Conflict Resolution 925

Buergenthal, T “The contemporary significance of international human rights law” (2009) 22(2) Leiden Journal of International Law 217

Krommendijk, J “The domestic effectiveness of international human rights
monitoring in established democracies: The case of the UN Human Rights treaty bodies” (2015) 10(4) The Review of International Organizations 489