The United Nations Treaty Bodies and Universal Periodic Review: Advancing Human Rights by Preventing Politicization?

Valentina Carraro*

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Abstract

The absence of politicization is widely considered an essential feature in ensuring the credibility of international organizations concerned with human rights monitoring. Nonetheless, hardly any empirical research has been conducted to systematically assess its presence and identify its consequences. Therefore, this article investigates the extent to which the state reporting process of the Treaty Bodies and the Universal Periodic Review are perceived to be politicized, and what consequences politicization has on their credibility. It claims that whereas politicization carries exclusively negative consequences in the Treaty Bodies, it has some unexpected positive consequences in the case of the Universal Periodic Review.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)943-970
Number of pages28
JournalHuman Rights Quarterly
Volume39
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2017

Keywords

  • CONVENTION
  • COUNCIL
  • EUROPEAN-UNION
  • EXPERTS
  • IMPLEMENTATION
  • OPPORTUNITIES
  • POLICY
  • SCIENCE

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