"Pioneering ethnography of the UN Human Rights Committee that is essential for scholars, students, and practitioners. What takes place during the monitoring cycles of UN treaty bodies, and what impact do these cycles have both locally and globally? Movement in the Rights Direction explores these questions through the lens of the UN Human Rights Committee, the treaty body responsible for overseeing state compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), often considered the UN's most authoritative and lawlike human rights monitoring mechanism. Drawing on extensive multi-sited ethnographic practices, along with thorough documentary analysis and interviews, Miia Halme-Tuomisaari delves into the Committee's monitoring cycles from the perspectives of Committee members, UN Secretariat staff, state delegates, and NGOs. Written in an accessible, jargon-free style and based on embedded fieldwork, the book examines
| ISBN: | 9781512830392 |
| Publication date: | 15th December 2026 |
| Author: | Miia HalmeTuomisaari |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 296 pages |
| Series: | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights |
| Genres: |
Public international law: human rights Social and cultural anthropology |
"Pioneering ethnography of the UN Human Rights Committee that is essential for scholars, students, and practitioners. What takes place during the monitoring cycles of UN treaty bodies, and what impact do these cycles have both locally and globally? Movement in the Rights Direction explores these questions through the lens of the UN Human Rights Committee, the treaty body responsible for overseeing state compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), often considered the UN's most authoritative and lawlike human rights monitoring mechanism. Drawing on extensive multi-sited ethnographic practices, along with thorough documentary analysis and interviews, Miia Halme-Tuomisaari delves into the Committee's monitoring cycles from the perspectives of Committee members, UN Secretariat staff, state delegates, and NGOs. Written in an accessible, jargon-free style and based on embedded fieldwork, the book examines
Movement in the Rights Direction features in the following genres: Public international law: human rights, Social and cultural anthropology
Movement in the Rights Direction is available in Hardback
Movement in the Rights Direction was written by Miia HalmeTuomisaari and published by University of Pennsylvania Press
Movement in the Rights Direction has 296 pages
Yes it is part of Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series
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