Experts in Special Proceedings of United Nations Human Rights System: Its legal status and other relevant matters
Keywords:
United Nations Human Rights System, Special Procedures, Legal status, Experts' mandates.Abstract
The special procedures of the United Nations system of human rights were created to check out some situations and go deeper into the exam of human rights issues, which may be of special interest to the international community. Besides that, they safeguard the transparency on the question of realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms and on the relation between the governments of Member States and the international bodies, as the Human Rights Commission, which deal with the monitoring of the compliance with the international norms of human rights. These procedures have been used more frequently in national situations or specific themes related to human rights, and have shown important results to the safeguard of the rights. In general, the mandates of these procedures are attributed to experts, which have special legal status, according to the international normative and the advisory opinions of the International Court of Justice.
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