The international human rights regimes: the gap between commitment and fulfillment
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https://doi.org/10.35487/rius.v11i40.2017.341Keywords:
human rights, international regime, international norms, international organs, commitment and compliance.Abstract
During the past seven decades, the international community has developed a dense set of international organs and norms for the promotion and protection of human rights in the world. This institutional machinery conforms what the International Relations literature would call an international regime”. To what extent has the international human rights regime achieved its objective—the promotion and protection of human rights? How well equipped is it to do so? Which are its assets and its main limitations? This article offers a preliminary approach to the arguments and the empirical evidence that the International Relations literature has developed around this issue. The article underlines the regime’s lack of “teeth” and the gap between commitment and compliance with international human rights norms and concludes with a discussion on the challenges faced by the regime to address its limited impact on state behaviour
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