Human rights / Comment
The Human Rights Council , a bold step towards effective rights for all
14/04/2006 By Jessica Almqvist
The upcoming election to the Human Rights Council offers a crucial moment for the international community to demonstrate its readiness to address and respond to the implementation challenge facing the international human rights regime.
Whether the Council will be able to live up to expectations in the field of implementation will depend on the quality of its members: the Council will only be as effective as its members allow it to be.
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Civil society Human rights UNRelated publications
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Bio author: Jessica Almqvist
PhD in Law from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy (2002) and LL.M. in International Law and Cand. Jur. from the University of Lund, Sweden (1993).
Jessica Almqvist has worked on several topics, including international law, international justice, and human rights.
