The future of United Nations as a supervisor of human rights

Abstract

The primary responsibility of states to realise human rights is towards the individual living under its jurisdiction. The international community represented by Intergovernmental organisations such as the UN has a legitimate interest in the promotion and protection of internationally recognised Human Rights Standards by these states. International implementation procedures have different purposes. Advisory function to help states parties to devise better national policies aimed at the realisation of HRs. Assistance function, including international action to assist materially or other forms of assistance. Corrective function is to focus and correct non-compliance with the international standards. Relief or Remedy function is to provide relief or remedy to victims of individuals or groups of HRs violations. Most of these have in common the characteristic of preventive function of HRs. They can play an important subsidiary or supplementary role by monitoring and helping states towards the convergence of the national and international standards of human rights. Effectiveness of these mechanisms depends on the quality and expertise of these mechanisms and on the political will of the state to co-operate in good faith with the international organisations in this regard. The UN has made a great advance in the field of standard setting as regard universal respect to HRs. The shift from the international legislative process towards effective implementation was through two steps. First by establishing a machinery by a decision from a political organ based on the Charter "Charter based organs" which transfer the matter to the responsible organ or take a decision by itself, such as the CHR. The second is a far-reaching measure by concluding a special Human Rights treaties and the acceptance of these treaties by number of states required.