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Kaime, Thokozani:
Whose rights are they anyway? A critical analysis of the international supervision mechanisms for economic, social and cultural rights.
In: Zambia Law Journal.
Bd. 36
(2004)
.
- S. 1-19.
ISSN 1027-7862
Abstract
The prerceived differnces between civil and political rights on the one hand; and economic, social and cultural rights on the other, did not only result in the division of the rights contained inthe UniversalDeclaration of Human Rights into the ICCPR and the ICESCR, but it also resulted in the oprovison of radically different supervision mechanisms for the two instruments. Whilst the ICCPR was endowed with a compulsory periodic reporting procedure, an interstate complaint procedure, a friendly settlement procedure8 as well as an individual complaint procedure incorporated in a separate Optional Protocol, the ICESCR was only bequeathed with a periodic reporting procedure. The evident paucity of supervisory mechanisms both in quality and quantity has led scholars to question the effectiveness of a supervision system which entirely entrusts governments with the responsibility for reporting on themselves, once every five years, subject to soft questioning for a few hours by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ('the Committee')," which is elected by those very governments, and with almost no likelihood of serious censure or real sanctions. This analysis argues that the effectiveness of any human rights supervisory system is directly proportional to its ability to ensure the protection of the rights concerned to individual right-holders. Based on this premise, it is argued that the mechanism enshrined in the Covenant is not effective because of inherent structural deficiencies which disable it from realising the rights guaranteed in the Covenant for individuals. However, the system has attained a considerable level of effectiveness, thanks to a combination of several conceptual and practical developments which had not been envisaged (or intended) in the Covenant. Nevertheless, the system is not truly effective, as it still remains largely abstracted from individuals. Thus, whilst the effectiveness of the supervision mechanism has progressively developed, there is still a lot of room for improvement
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| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten Fakultäten > Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät > Fachgruppe Rechtswissenschaften > Lehrstuhl African Legal Studies > Lehrstuhl African Legal Studies - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thokozani Kaime Fakultäten > Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät Fakultäten > Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät > Fachgruppe Rechtswissenschaften Fakultäten > Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät > Fachgruppe Rechtswissenschaften > Lehrstuhl African Legal Studies |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Nein |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 340 Recht |
| Eingestellt am: | 10 Jul 2020 08:07 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 27 Jan 2022 10:35 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/55671 |