Title
Indirect power: A critical look at civil society in the new human rights council
Date Issued
01 January 2010
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Publisher(s)
Cambridge University Press
Abstract
The United Nations (UN) reform movement, as encapsulated in the High-Level Panel's A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, Secretary-General Kofi Annan's In Larger Freedom, and the World Summit Outcome, employs a human rights-based approach in its examination of collective security. The High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change (HLP) was charged with examining the major threats and challenges the world faces in the broad field of peace and security, including economic and social issues insofar as they relate to peace and security, and making recommendations for a collective response. The HLP defined the threats to collective security as threats to human security, thereby switching the object of collective security from member states to human individuals. The HLP also recommended a structural change through the creation of a new human rights body, a free-standing Human Rights Council that would restore the effectiveness and credibility of the UN's devotion to human rights protection as outlined in the Preamble to the UN Charter. In his report, Kofi Annan presented human rights protection as the means by which to achieve the ends of assured collective security. Thus, following the advice of the HLP and Annan, the General Assembly voted to dissolve the Human Rights Commission and set up the new Council. While the prescribed mission of the Council remains the same as its predecessor, it underwent various structural changes designed to make it more effective.
Start page
343
End page
364
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia política Sociología Sociología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84926997409
Resource of which it is part
United Nations Reform and the New Collective Security
ISBN of the container
978-051167596-6
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