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Relying on the scholarship analyzing the process of making states behave in compliance with international human rights law, the book provides for the definition of the political phenomenon in the background – the human rights backlash. According to this literature, international human rights norms taken by international organizations, Western states, and international and domestic non-governmental organizations – the “agents of norm internalization” are “internalized” in states. The final stage of this process is a stage where states act in compliance with human rights out of beliefs supporting it and not due to coercive action. This process is termed here the “norm internalization process”. Based on these insights, human rights backlash is defined as the states’ strong negative reaction against the agents and occasionally tools of human rights norm internalization. Although in most instances its impact does not result in the creation of the new norms, there are examples where this occurs. This study is dedicated to some of the new rules enacted as a reaction to the backlash. In order to explore “post-backlash human rights law”, I have selected three case studies. These are rules regulating reservations and withdrawals from human rights treaties, the right to foreign funding for civil society as part of the right to freedom of association, and the norm of immunities of senior state officials during their tenure of office. The principal focus of the book is on the processes that have preceded the rules. By process, I refer to the exchange of legal arguments before the new rules have appeared – justifications put forward by the opposing states and the arguments and the manner in which the international community has responded to them. The image of post-backlash human rights law emerging from this study is the one of a set of rules that reinforce the powers of the agents of norm internalization based on the moral authority of humanism and sometimes under the cover and legitimacy of substantive human rights while not taking into adequate consideration justifications invoked by backlashing states.

Index

“abuse of the principle of the universal jurisdiction”

,

ACmHPR

act of backlash

Benin

,

Bolivia

Cambodia

Cote d’Ivoire

,

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

Ethiopia

Greece

,

Guyana

human rights court

Hungary

India

Indonesia

Iran

Jamaica

North Korea

,

Pakistan

,

Peru

,

Rwanda

,

South Africa

Tanzania

Trinidad and Tobago

,

,

,

Turkey

Venezuela

,

,

,

,

,

ACtHPR

,

,

,

“active politics”

,

,

African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights. See see ACmHPR

African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. See see ACtHPR

African states

,

,

,

,

,

,

African states and the icc

agents of norm internalization

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

promoters of human rights

Amnesty International

,

Anthony Angie

,

Antje Wiener

,

Arrest Warrant

Article 46Abis of the Malabo Protocol

,

authoritarian

,

,

,

,

authoritarianism

authority

,

moral

,

backlash

economic and social rights

executive, legislative, and judicial

“legal” and “illegal”

singular and collective

type of

,

,

backlash reservation

,

,

,

,

,

Belilos v Switzerland

bindingness

Campbell and Others v Zimbabwe

Charles Jalloh

,

,

China and Russia

civic space

,

,

civicus

,

,

,

,

civil society

,

closing space of civil society

,

,

,

,

Committee of Eminent African Jurists

constructivism

,

,

conventional

,

critical

contestation

,

,

,

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

crimes of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity

,

Criminal Chamber of the future African Court of Justice and Human Rights

,

,

crisis

internal

decision-making process

Declaration of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the Promotion of International Law

,

democracy

,

,

,

,

,

democracy promotion

,

,

Didier Fassin

,

domestic affairs

,

,

domestic courts

domestic politics

,

,

,

donors

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

George Soros

SIDA

USAID

World Bank

ECmHR

economic and social rights

,

ECtHR

,

,

,

,

,

,

effectiveness

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

of human rights bodies

Ethiopian Charities and Societies Proclamation

Eurocentrism

European Commission of Human Rights. See see ECmHR

European Court of Human Rights. See see ECtHR

external interference

,

,

failed

foreign agent. See see Russian Foreign Agents’ Law

foreign aid

,

foreign interests

foreign interference

foreign policy

,

,

,

Forum Syd

fourth instance

free market

General Comment 24

,

,

,

General Comment 26

,

global human rights governance structure

,

,

,

Guide to Practice to Reservations to Treaties

Hilaire v Trinidad and Tobago

Hissène Habré

,

hrc

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

human rights backlash

act of

human rights change. See see norm internalization

Human Rights Committee

, See see HRC

human rights law promoters. See see agents of norm internalization

human rights movement

human rights project

human rights promotion. See see norm internalization

Human Rights Watch

humanitarianism

humanity

,

,

,

saving

IACmHR

,

,

,

,

IACtHR

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

icc

,

,

,

ICC Warrant of Arrest

,

Chad Decision

Djibouti and Uganda Decisions

DRC Decision

Jordan Decisions

Malawi Decision

South Africa Decision

icj

idea of human rights

,

,

idea of the agents of norm internalization

identities

,

,

imagination

immunity

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

functional

,

personal

,

immunity v impunity

,

impunity

,

India’s Foreign Contribution Regulation Act

Ingabire Vitorie Umuhoza v Rwanda

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. See see IACmHR

interests

,

,

,

,

,

internal affairs. See see domestic affairs

international community

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

international crimes

,

international stigma

“ironclad clause”

,

Issa Shivji

,

Jean d’Aspremont

justifications

,

,

Kathryn Sikkink

,

,

language of human rights

Laurence Helfer

,

,

legitimacy

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

local context

Loizidou v Turkey

Makau Mutua

,

,

,

,

,

Malabo Protocol

,

,

,

,

,

Martha Finnemore

Martti Koskenniemi

,

,

Michael Barnett

,

,

,

Michael Rosen

national interest. See see domestic affairs

national-security

Neera Chandhoke

Nicholas Onuf

non-compliance

norm implementation

norm internalization

,

,

,

agents

mechanisms

process

,

,

socialization process

tools

norm internalization structure

norm life cycle

,

norm-promoting agents. See see agents of norm internalization

Omar Al-Bashir

,

,

Parti Nationaliste Basque v. France

,

paternalism

peace

,

perspective

,

,

,

,

perspectivism

,

,

,

political activity

,

,

,

,

,

political nature. See see political activity

political neutrality

,

,

,

political norms

populism

post-backlash human rights law

powers

procedural human rights

,

,

,

Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association

,

right to be heard

right to freedom of association

,

Rome Statute

,

Article 27(2)

Article 98(1)

Russian Foreign Agents’ Law

,

,

,

sadc Tribunal

,

,

,

Samuel Moyn

,

,

severability

,

,

,

,

,

,

shrinking space of civil society. See see closing space of civil society

social transformation

soft law

solidarity

spiral model theory

,

,

,

state socialization. See see norm internalization

status quo

,

,

,

,

Steven Hopgood

,

,

,

“Stop Soros”

“Strengthening of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights”

subjects of international law

substantive human rights

Supreme Court of India

Technical Ad Hoc Expert Group

terrorism

The African Union-European Union Expert Report on the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction

The Arrest Warrant Case

Third World

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

Thomas Carothers

,

Thomas Risse

,

transnational actors

transparency and accountability

,

,

treaty interpretation

contractual

,

,

,

humanist

,

living instrument

,

object and purpose

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

special nature

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

Ugandan Anti Homosexuality Act

UN General Assembly

Upendra Baxi

values

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

higher

,

,

vclt

,

,

,

Venice Commission

,

victim

,

,

,

,

,

,

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. See see VCLT

Vijay Prashad

Western states

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

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Post-Backlash Human Rights Law

Series: Theory and Practice of Public International Law, Volume: 6

Cover Post-Backlash Human Rights Law

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004514799

Publisher:: Brill | Nijhoff

Print Publication Date:: 15 Oct 2022

Subjects
- International Law
  - International Law: General Interest
  - Public International Law

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