Post-Backlash Human Rights Law

Sanja Dragić earned her Ph.D. in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

Acknowledgments


Introduction The Human Rights Backlash


1 New Rules for Human Rights Treaties

 1 Reservations

 1.1 Backlash Reservation


 1.2 vclt Is Not Enough: Need for the Additional Rules


 1.3 Regional Human Rights Bodies Establish the Solutions


 1.4 UN Bodies Confirm the New Practice?




 2 Withdrawals

 2.1 Denouncing Substantive Human Rights Treaties


 2.2 Withdrawing from the Jurisdiction of Treaty Monitoring Bodies




 3 The Picture




2 The Right to Foreign Funding for Civil Society

 1 Narratives in the Background

 1.1 State v Civil Society


 1.2 Civil Society v State




 2 Who’s Who?

 2.1 “Civil Society”


 2.2 Foreign Funding




 3 The (New) Norm

 3.1 The (Unrestricted) Right to Foreign Funding for Civil Society


 3.2 The Restricted Right to Foreign Funding for Political Parties




 4 The Picture




3 Immunities for Senior State Officials

 1 Situating the Post-Backlash Norms


 2 Before the Backlash: Can You Hear Us?

 2.1 Voices in the Universal Jurisdiction Debate


 2.2 Voices before the icc


 2.3 African Solution to African Problems




 3 The Picture




4 Insights from a Battle of Narratives

 1 Silencing the Voices

 1.1 The Ways of Silencing


 1.2 The Silent Arguments

 1.2.1 Sovereignty and Non-interference in Internal Matters


 1.2.2 The Dignity of the State


 1.2.3 Colonialism and Economic Development




 2 Humanizing the Law


 3 Recreating the Self


 4 Outcome in the Context


 5 The Picture of the Pictures




5 Conclusion On Rights and Rules



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