Reservations to human rights treaties and the Vienna Convention regime : conflict, harmony or reconciliation / edited by Ineta Ziemele.

"Deutsches Institut Fur Menschenrechte.".

Based on a conference held in December 2002 at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund, Sweden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Editor's preface -- Introduction: opening of the conference on reservations to human rights treaties -- Reservations to human rights treaties - setting the stage : wishful thinking or prospects for development -- Reservations to the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women : an unresolved issue or (no) new developments? -- Reservations by states under the international covenant on civil and political rights and its optional protocols, and the practice of the human rights committee -- A comment on the issue of reservations to the provisions of the covenant representing (peremptory) rules of general international law -- Approaches to reservations by the committee on the elimination of racial discrimination -- The convention against torture and other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment - limitations, restrictions and reservations -- Collective responsibility and reservations in a common European human rights area -- Declarations to the council of Europe framework convention for the protection of national minorities : practice of the advisory committee -- On human rights treaties, contractual conceptions and reservations -- The potentials of the Vienna convention on the law of treaties with respect to reservations to human rights treaties -- Reservations to treaties and norms of Jus Cogens - a comment on human rights committee general comment no. 24 -- Annex 1. Excerpts from the second report on reservations to treaties prepared by Alain Pellet, special rapporteur on the international law commission.

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