National Human Rights Action Planning
Azadeh Chalabi
Abstract
This book deals with human rights action planning, as a largely under-researched area, from theoretical, doctrinal, empirical, and practical perspectives in order to put forward a new account of such planning. As such, the present work provides one of the most comprehensive studies of human rights planning to date. At the theoretical level, by advancing a novel general theory of human rights planning, it offers an alternative to the traditional state-centric model of planning. This new theory contains four sub-theories: contextual, substantive, procedural, and analytical ones.
At the doctrinal ... More
This book deals with human rights action planning, as a largely under-researched area, from theoretical, doctrinal, empirical, and practical perspectives in order to put forward a new account of such planning. As such, the present work provides one of the most comprehensive studies of human rights planning to date. At the theoretical level, by advancing a novel general theory of human rights planning, it offers an alternative to the traditional state-centric model of planning. This new theory contains four sub-theories: contextual, substantive, procedural, and analytical ones.
At the doctrinal level, a textual analysis of core human rights conventions is conducted in order to reveal the scope and nature of the obligation to adopt a national human rights action plan and to consider how to ensure that states are in compliance with this obligation. At the empirical level, a cross-case analysis of national human rights action plans of fifty-three countries is conducted exploring the major problems of these plans in different phases and uncovering the underlying causes. At the practical level, both national and supra-national human rights governance systems are examined. At the supra-national level, a networked model of global human rights governance is suggested as a practical response strategy against the extant global governance system which hardly works as an integrated system. At the national level, after suggesting the establishment of a nation-wide network for implementing human rights, the essential parts of human rights action planning are probed in four phases putting forward some methodological techniques for each phase.
Keywords:
national human rights action planning,
National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (NAP-BHR),
National Action Plan on Women,
Peace and Security (NAP-WPS),
global human rights governance,
human rights planning theory,
Human Rights-Based Approach to Development (HRBAD),
obligation to adopt a NHRAP,
phases of planning,
human rights implementation
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198822844 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2018 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198822844.001.0001 |