The United Nations Commission on Human Rights: 'A Very Great Enterprise'

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John P. Pace (Senior Visiting Fellow, Senior Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales)

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights

'A Very Great Enterprise'

John P. Pace (Senior Visiting Fellow, Senior Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales)

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Oxford University Press
23 July 2020

United Nations & UN agencies; International human rights law; International organisations & institutions

In this book, John P. Pace provides the most complete account to-date of the United Nations human rights programme, both in substance and in chronological breadth. Pace worked at the heart of this programme for over thirty years, including as the Secretary of the Commission on Human Rights, and Coordinator of the World Conference on Human Rights, which took place in Vienna in 1993.

He traces the issues taken up by the Commission after its launch in 1946, and the methods undertaken to enhance absorption and domestication of international human rights standards. He lays out the special procedures carried out by the UN, and the emergence of international human rights law. The book then turns to the establishment of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the mainstreaming of human rights across the United Nations system, eventually leading to the establishment of the Human Rights Council to replace the Commission in 2006. Many of the problems we face today, including conflict, poverty, and environmental issues, have their roots in human rights problems. This book identifies what has been done at the international level in the past, and points towards what still needs to be done for the future.

By: John P. Pace (Senior Visiting Fellow Senior Visiting Fellow Faculty of Law University of New South Wales)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 253mm, Width: 180mm, Spine: 55mm
Weight: 1.694kg
ISBN: 9780198863151
ISBN 10: 0198863152
Pages: 880
Publication Date: 23 July 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Pace is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales and Adjunct at the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney. His UN career (1966-1999) coincided with the introduction of special procedures and the first human rights investigations. As human rights activities evolved, John was given responsibility for other, new, activities including the technical cooperation and the external relations programmes. As part of these responsibilities, the author travelled to many countries and witnessed first-hand the effect of human rights problems and the ongoing need to address them. His extensive field experience was balanced by his responsibility for the Commission on Human Rights as its Secretary (1978-1994), and as Coordinator of the World Conference on Human Rights which took place in Vienna in 1993. The author has continued to build his human rights experiences in the last twenty years, undertaking various responsibilities such as in Indonesia, Iraq, and Liberia among many others. John's current priorities include human rights of women, migrant workers and asylum seekers, administration of justice issues, and human rights in countering terrorism.

Reviews for The United Nations Commission on Human Rights: 'A Very Great Enterprise'

Those who own this book will find themselves often referring to its contents in substance and detail. More than merely useful, it turns out to be indispensable for all those involved in the wide area of human rights recognition and safeguard. It can perform, perhaps, also an educational task in that it might instruct the younger generations in the development of the constituent ideas and events, which have resulted in the worldwide affirmation of the rule of law and of the right to self-determination. * Hon. Ugo Mifsud-Bonnici, Former President of Malta, The Malta Independent *