A New United Nations Mechanism for Encouraging the Ratification of Treaties

Authors

David Weissbrodt, University of Minnesota Law SchoolFollow

Publication

American Journal of International Law

Volume

76

Page

418

Year

1982

Abstract

The ratification of international human rights treaties is critical to the worldwide observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms. The United Nations General Assembly and Commission on Human Rights have repeatedly emphasized the importance of ratification and have frequently encouraged states to ratify the relevant international instruments. Despite these efforts, acceptance of human rights treaties has been uneven. A considerable number of states have failed to ratify.

Comments

Expanded version published at 4 Human Rights Quarterly 333 (1982).

Recommended Citation

David Weissbrodt, A New United Nations Mechanism for Encouraging the Ratification of Treaties, 76 Am. J. Int'l L. 418 (1982), available at https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/faculty_articles/227.