New institutions for human rights protection / edited by Kevin Boyle. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xix, 217 p. ; 24 cm. - The collected courses of the Academy of European Law ; xviii/2 . - The collected courses of the Academy of European Law; xviii/2 .

Introduction. - 1. The United Nations Human Rights Council: origins, antecedents and prospects. - 2. The United Nations Human Rights Council, Its special procedures and its relationship with the Treaty bodies: complementarity or competition? - 3. Reforming the UN Human Rights Protection procedures: a legal perspective on the establishment of the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism. - 4. The EU Fundamental Rights Agency: genesis and potential. - 5. A comparative and European Examination of National Institutions in the Field of Racism and Discrimination. - 6. Minority Rights: norms and institutions.

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Human rights.

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