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Monitoring Compliance of International Standards Relating to Human Rights: The Experience of the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2009

Noreen Burrows
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The elaboration of international legal standards relating to the status of women in the Commission on the Status of Women has led to an increased interest within the Commission with the problem of the implementation of these principles for, as Landy states:

“the adoption of international legislation and its formal acceptance by a growing number of countries cannot, by themselves, add to the stability of inter-State relations, unless there also exists some degree of assurance that the contracting parties really comply with their obligations…”

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Netherlands International Law Review , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , December 1984 , pp. 332 - 354
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press 1984

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1. Landy, E.A., The Effectiveness of International Supervision (1966) p. 1Google Scholar.

2. Ibid., p. 2.

3. Humphrey, John P., “The International Law of Human Rights in the Middle Twentieth Century” in: Bos, M., The Present State of International Law and Other Essays (1973)Google Scholar.

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5. ECOSOC Res. 504 E (XVI), 1953.

6. UN Doc. E/3228.

7. Albania, Bulgaria, Byelorussia Soviet Socialist Republic, Canada, China (Taiwan), Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Finland, France, Greece, Guatamala, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Israel, Jordon, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Norway, Pakistan, Phillipines, Poland, Republic of Korea, Romania, Sweden, Thailand, Ukraine, Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Yugoslavia.

8. Bulgaria, China, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Lebanon, Yugoslavia, UN Doc E/CN.6/360 “Implementation of the Convention on the Political Rights of Women”, memorandum by the Secretary General.

9. Each report from individual governments is summarised by the Secretary General and the summary of the report is incorporated into his report. The Commission itself does not see the original reports, merely the report of the Secretary General. In this chapter I have summarised the report of the Secretary General in each case. The original reports from Governments are not available.

10. UN Doc. E/CN.6/360 Add. 1.

11. UN Doc. E/CN.6/360 Add 2.

12. ECOSOC Res. 961B (XXXVI), 1962.

13. UN Doc. E/CN.6/430 and Add. 1.

14. ECOSOC Res. 120A (VI), 1947.

15. UN Doc. E/4025.

16. ECOSOC Res. 1132 (XLI), 1965.

17. UN Doc. E/CN.6/470.

18. UN Doc. E/CN.6/470 Add. 1, Add. 2, Add. 3 and Add. 4.

19. Doc. E/CN.6/470.

20. UN Doc. A/7197.

21. Ibid.

22. UN Docs. A/8132 and Add. 1.

23. UN Doc. E/CN.6/565.

24. Landy, op. cit., in n. 1; Haas, op. cit. in n. 4.

25. UN Docs. E/CN.6/510and Add. 1 and 2.

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30. UN Doc. E/4831.

31. UN Docs E/CN.6/531 and Add. 1.

32. UN Doc. E/CN.6/548.

33. Ibid.

34. Ibid.

35. Ibid.

36. UN Doc. E/5109.

37. UN Doc. E/CN. 6/565.

38. ECOSOC Res. 1677 (III), 1972.

39. Res. 3 of the Commission on the Status of Women UN Doc. E/5109.

40. UN Doc. E/CN.6/571.

41. ECOSOC Res. 1852 (LVI), 1974.

42. See chapter 8 below.

43. ECOSOC Res. 624B (XXII), 1962.

44. ECOSOC Res. 888 B (XXXIV), 1962.

45. Ibid.

46. Ibid.

47. UN Doc. E/3606.

48. The Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights were in preparation in the Human Rights Commission at this time.

49. UN Doc. E/3606.

50. Ibid.

51. UN Doc. E/4025.

52. Ibid.

53. ECOSOC Res. 1074 (XLI), 1965.

54. Ibid.

55. UN Doc. E/4175.

56. Ibid.

57. UN Doc. E/4316.

58. Report of the Commission on Human Rights, twenty third session, 1967. Res. 16 (XXIII).

59. UN Doc. E/4472.

60. UN Doc. E/4619.

61. Ibid.

62. ECOSOC Res. 1596(L), 1972.

63. See note 62 supra.

64. UN Doc. E/4831.

65. Statement by the representative of Malta at the Enlarged Committee for Programme and Coordination quoted in Moskovitz, Moses, International Concern With Human Rights (1974), p. 178Google Scholar.