Human Rights Remedies. from Judicial Collaboration to Judicial Competition
Human Rights Remedies. from Judicial Collaboration to Judicial Competition
Monday, 7 July 2025: 15:30
Location: FSE001 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
Oral Presentation
We know that one of the fundamental tools of human rights monitoring bodies are the recommendations they issue to countries. Through these recommendations, they seek to bring the conduct of states into line with the standards set out in international law instruments.
While there is a vast literature on countries' compliance with human rights obligations, less attention has been paid to the content of these recommendations and the type of actions they encourage to shape state behaviour. This paper seeks to deepen our understanding of the repertoires that these bodies use for these purposes and how they adapt them to country contexts.
To this end, through an original database, a comparative analysis is made of the recommendations issued by the Committee on Enforced Disappearances and the Committee against Torture to the countries of the Americas and the Council of Europe in the history of their operation.
In this way, at a time when the international human rights system is being questioned, the analysis will not only fill a gap in the literature but will also, through critical analysis, draw attention to the pattern of solutions being promoted.
While there is a vast literature on countries' compliance with human rights obligations, less attention has been paid to the content of these recommendations and the type of actions they encourage to shape state behaviour. This paper seeks to deepen our understanding of the repertoires that these bodies use for these purposes and how they adapt them to country contexts.
To this end, through an original database, a comparative analysis is made of the recommendations issued by the Committee on Enforced Disappearances and the Committee against Torture to the countries of the Americas and the Council of Europe in the history of their operation.
In this way, at a time when the international human rights system is being questioned, the analysis will not only fill a gap in the literature but will also, through critical analysis, draw attention to the pattern of solutions being promoted.