The human rights protection functions of the UN Human Rights Council's Special Procedures

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380058
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: International law
• Research Institution: Utsunomiya University
• Principal Investigator: Imai Tadashi 宇都宮大学, 国際学部, 教授 (70213212)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 国連人権理事会 / 特別手続 / 市民社会的メカニズム / 人権侵害対処機能 / 通報処理 / 訪問調査 / 国際人権法規範の明確化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The United Nations Human Rights Council's independent human rights experts system- otherwise known as ‘Special Procedures’ - are considered by many to be, in the words of then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the ‘crown jewel’ of the international human rights system. From their first appearance in 1967 , Special Procedures have grown into one of the international community’s most important tools for promoting and protecting human rights. Today, the UN human rights system boasts fifty-six separate Special Procedures mandates covering a wide-range of thematic and country-specific issues. By the rapid quantitative and qualitative expansion, the international community began to perceive of Special Procedures as a distinct and consolidated system, This research has analyzed and examined their roles, functions, and the obstacles that they confront in their work about the system as a whole.

Free Research Field

国際人権法