1st Edition

Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms of the Council of Europe

Edited By Gauthier de Beco Copyright 2012
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

The book studies the human rights monitoring mechanisms of the Council of Europe. It provides an in-depth examination of six such mechanisms: the Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the CPT), the European Committee of Social Rights (the ECSR), the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for... Read more

Preface by Thomas Hammarberg Introduction: The Role of European Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms, Gauthier de Beco 1. The Commissioner for Human Rights, Lauri Sivonen 2. The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (The CPT), Renate Kicker 3. The European Committee of Social Rights (The ECSR), Olivier De Schutter and Matthias Sant’Ana 4. The Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (The ACFC), Gauthier de Beco and Emma Lantschner 5. The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), Lanna Yael Hollo 6. the Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (The CECL), Robert Dunbar Conclusion: A Comparative Analysis of European Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms, Gauthier de Beco

Biography

Gauthier de Beco is an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Philosophy of Law at the University of Louvain, Belgium.