The Unique Position of National Human Rights Institutions: A Mixed Blessing?

Smith, Anne

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1516209

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“…3 Locating NHRIs within a transgovernmental framework highlights the importance of disaggregating the state, as well as mapping out the multiple linkages and relative power of sections of the state bureaucracy dealing with human rights (Slaughter 2004). They are widely held to constitute an essential element of a strong national human rights system, acting as a bridge between governments and civil society, linking the rights of citizens with the responsibilities of the state, and creating connections between national laws and regional and international human rights mechanisms (Smith 2006).…”

Section: National Human Rights Institutions In Latin Americamentioning

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Bridging the Gap: National Human Rights Institutions and the Inter-American Human Rights System

Pegram

Rodriguez

2018

The Inter-American Human Rights System

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Section: National Human Rights Institutions In Latin Americamentioning

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Bridging the Gap: National Human Rights Institutions and the Inter-American Human Rights System

Pegram

Rodriguez

2018

The Inter-American Human Rights System

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“…23 While NHRIs and SNHRIs act independently, they nevertheless are state sponsored and funded, and are established by national or sub-national constitutions, legislation or decrees. 24 Although NHRIs and SNHRIs are sometimes deemed 'quasi-governmental' because of their functional independence, 25 such independence is relatively common for governmental participants in transgovernmental networks, and in fact earlier studies defined transgovernmental relations to require member sub-units to act autonomously from their governments. 26 Transgovernmental networks can be classified according to both the relationships that the networks establish and the functions that the networks perform.…”

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Sub-National Human Rights Institutions and Transgovernmental Networks

Wolman

2015

Nordic Journal of Human Rights

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Transgovernmental networks have played a prominent role in the evolution and development of national human rights institutions ('NHRIs') by promoting cooperation, best practices, and engagement at the international level, and providing NHRIs with legitimacy through the accreditation process. The role that transgovernmental networks play in the development of subnational human rights institutions ('SNHRIs'), however, has yet to be examined. This article attempts to fill this gap by comparing networking patterns of national and sub-national human rights institutions. This article concludes that while SNHRIs are able to derive certain benefits from their membership in ombudsman associations, they are currently missing out on many of the other benefits that NHRIs derive from their membership in the International Coordinating Committee for National Institutions for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights ('ICC') and its affiliated networks. This article therefore proposes that the ICC establish a separate membership category for SNHRIs, with membership conditioned on compliance with a set of principles based on the Paris Principles, but revised so as to be applicable to sub-national bodies.

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“…In contemporary Northern Ireland, the Political Unionist community tends to be openly hostile or at least wary of human rights, believing they are for 'them' not us. 23 For many Protestants/Unionists, even if they can see the benefit in human rights, to utilise them would be disloyal to the State. 24 Furthermore, the use of human rights rhetoric and mobilisation around rights within N.I society also concerns them.…”

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‘Exploring the local: vernacularizing economic and social rights for peacebuilding within the Protestant/Unionist borderland community in Northern Ireland’

Cahill-Ripley

2019

The International Journal of Human Rights

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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home-so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."

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The Unique Position of National Human Rights Institutions: A Mixed Blessing?

Cited by 12 publications

References 4 publications

Bridging the Gap: National Human Rights Institutions and the Inter-American Human Rights System

Bridging the Gap: National Human Rights Institutions and the Inter-American Human Rights System

Sub-National Human Rights Institutions and Transgovernmental Networks

‘Exploring the local: vernacularizing economic and social rights for peacebuilding within the Protestant/Unionist borderland community in Northern Ireland’

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