National Human Rights Institutions Implementing Human Rights
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This booklet celebrates the 10th anniversary of the UN's adoption of the Paris Principles on National Human Rights Institutions. It gives an easily accessible historic overview of NHRIs from the first shaky step in 1946, and furthermore it reads like a testimony to democratization in the wake of the end of the Cold War.
The NHRIs respresent the collective institutional wisdom in the field of human rights and the serve to hold the state to its responsibilities towards its citizens and remind it of its obligations. NHRIs are unique in the sense that they are in a permanent state of adjustment to developments in the world around them. As no two states are identical, neither are the NHRI's. They mirror the societies that surround them.
NHRIs are states' promises th their citizens that they wish to take human rights seriously and lift them off out of the signed declarations and covenants and apply them. But once formed, a NHRI will often function in an atmosphere of accusations of "politicization" because they take the state's responsibility more seriously than the state itself.
And regretfully, this booklet also illustrates how human rights, following the tailwind of the 90es, now experiences ever growing stumbling blocks
The NHRIs respresent the collective institutional wisdom in the field of human rights and the serve to hold the state to its responsibilities towards its citizens and remind it of its obligations. NHRIs are unique in the sense that they are in a permanent state of adjustment to developments in the world around them. As no two states are identical, neither are the NHRI's. They mirror the societies that surround them.
NHRIs are states' promises th their citizens that they wish to take human rights seriously and lift them off out of the signed declarations and covenants and apply them. But once formed, a NHRI will often function in an atmosphere of accusations of "politicization" because they take the state's responsibility more seriously than the state itself.
And regretfully, this booklet also illustrates how human rights, following the tailwind of the 90es, now experiences ever growing stumbling blocks
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