TY - BOOK ID - 85297127 TI - Human rights and the universal periodic review AU - Charlesworth, Hilary AU - Larking, Emma PY - 2014 SN - 1316191788 1316212130 1316189945 1316210294 1316206580 1107450918 1316091287 1316208435 1316204782 1316202941 1107086302 1322560943 9781107086302 9781316191781 9781316091289 9781316204788 9781316206584 9781322560946 9781316208434 9781107450912 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Human rights monitoring KW - Human rights KW - Monitoring, Human rights KW - Human rights advocacy KW - Monitoring KW - Human rights monitoring - Congresses UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85297127 AB - The Universal Periodic Review is an intriguing and ambitious development in human rights monitoring which breaks new ground by engaging all 193 members of the United Nations. This book provides the first sustained analysis of the Review and explains how the Review functions within the architecture of the United Nations. It draws on socio-legal scholarship and the insights of human rights practitioners with direct experience of the Review in order to consider its regulatory power and its capacity to influence the behaviour of states. It also highlights the significance of the embodied features of the Review, with its cyclical and intricately managed interactive dialogues. Additionally, it discusses the rituals associated with the Review, examines the tendency of the Review towards hollow ritualism (which undermines its aspiration to address human rights violations comprehensively) and suggests how this ritualism might be overcome. ER -