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1.7.2004   Track 3

Human Rights and the Helsinki Process

How can the international human rights system be strengthened or reformed in order to better contribute to the advancement of human rights?

In his paper, Robert Archer from the International Council on Human Rights Policy, reviews the various mechanisms and actors in the international human rights system. In conclusion he suggests that four large areas of policy need particular attention from a human rights perspective. The problems of inequity and exclusion that underpin human insecurity cannot be resolved in the absence of coherent institutional performance in each of these four areas: role of the state, transnational obligations, democratic accountability and the protection of the unentitled and the “marginalised” communities.

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Article on Human Rights and the Helsinki Process [Word file]


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