Rhetorical inaction? Compliance and the human rights council of the United Nations

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2010

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Davies, Mathew

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Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc

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The Human Rights Council of the United Nations was inaugurated in 2006 to much acclaim. Promising to defuse the tensions that had overwhelmed its maligned predecessor, the Commission on Human Rights, the council is based on the belief that depoliticizing

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Keywords: Commissions; Human Rights; Politics; Reform; State Role; United Nations Compliance; Human rights; Human Rights Council; Persuasion; Rhetorical action; United Nations; Universal Periodic Review

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Alternatives: Global, Local and Political

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2037-12-31