02771nam 2200565Ia 450 991078826650332120230801231956.01-58901-896-6(CKB)3170000000046250(EBL)918776(OCoLC)793996921(SSID)ssj0000600695(PQKBManifestationID)11356595(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600695(PQKBWorkID)10600344(PQKB)11349746(MiAaPQ)EBC918776(MdBmJHUP)muse17399(Au-PeEL)EBL918776(CaPaEBR)ebr10563926(EXLCZ)99317000000004625020110824d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInsincere commitments[electronic resource] human rights treaties, abusive states, and citizen activism /Heather M. Smith-CannoyWashington D.C. Georgetown University Press20121 online resource (221 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-58901-887-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- A new approach to commitment and compliance -- Patterns of commitment -- Causes of commitment -- Individual petitions in Eastern Europe: racial discrimination in Slovakia -- Hungary and the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women -- The Human Rights Committee in Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan -- The causes and consequences of commitment reconsidered.Paradoxically, many governments that persistently violate human rights have also ratified international human rights treaties that empower their citizens to file grievances against them at the United Nations. Therefore, citizens in rights-repressing regimes find themselves with the potentially invaluable opportunity to challenge their government's abuses. Why would rights-violating governments ratify these treaties and thus afford their citizens this right? Can the mechanisms provided in these treaties actually help promote positive changes in human rights?Insincere Commitments uses both quantHuman rightsInternational cooperationHuman rightsGovernment policyHuman rights monitoringHuman rightsInternational cooperation.Human rightsGovernment policy.Human rights monitoring.341.4/8Smith-Cannoy Heather M1579119MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788266503321Insincere commitments3858976UNINA