Dr. Bertrand G. Ramcharan Ll.M (LSE), Ph.D. (LSE), Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln’s Inn), Distinguished Fellow, Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham. Previously: First Swiss Chair of Human Rights, Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; Chancellor of the University of Guyana and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights a.i.

• Foreword J.Th. MöllerIntroductionChapter One: The Nature and Characteristics of International Human Rights Treaty LawChapter Two: The Requirement of a National Protection SystemChapter Three: Democracy and the Rule of LawChapter Four: Human Rights in Times of Crises or EmergenciesChapter Five: Preventive Strategies: Obligations to Prevent under International Human Rights Treaties and Jurisprudence Chapter Six: The Duty to Respect, Protect and Ensure Chapter Seven: The Duty to Provide RedressChapter Eight: The Essence of Supervision in Reporting SystemsChapter Nine: The Essence of Petitions and Fact-finding Procedures Chapter Ten: Universality, Equality and JusticeConclusion Appendix I General Comment No. 31 of the Human Rights CommitteeAppendix II General Comment No. 33 of the Human Rights CommitteeAppendix III The Limburg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsAppendix IV The Siracusa PrinciplesAppendix V The Council of Europe and the Rule of LawBibliography; Index.

Dr. Bertrand G. Ramcharan Ll.M (LSE), Ph.D. (LSE), Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln’s Inn), Distinguished Fellow, Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham. Previously: First Swiss Chair of Human Rights, Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; Chancellor of the University of Guyana and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights a.i.

• Foreword J.Th. MöllerIntroductionChapter One: The Nature and Characteristics of International Human Rights Treaty LawChapter Two: The Requirement of a National Protection SystemChapter Three: Democracy and the Rule of LawChapter Four: Human Rights in Times of Crises or EmergenciesChapter Five: Preventive Strategies: Obligations to Prevent under International Human Rights Treaties and Jurisprudence Chapter Six: The Duty to Respect, Protect and Ensure Chapter Seven: The Duty to Provide RedressChapter Eight: The Essence of Supervision in Reporting SystemsChapter Nine: The Essence of Petitions and Fact-finding Procedures Chapter Ten: Universality, Equality and JusticeConclusion Appendix I General Comment No. 31 of the Human Rights CommitteeAppendix II General Comment No. 33 of the Human Rights CommitteeAppendix III The Limburg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsAppendix IV The Siracusa PrinciplesAppendix V The Council of Europe and the Rule of LawBibliography; Index.

Dr. Bertrand G. Ramcharan Ll.M (LSE), Ph.D. (LSE), Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln’s Inn), Distinguished Fellow, Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham. Previously: First Swiss Chair of Human Rights, Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; Chancellor of the University of Guyana and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights a.i.

• Foreword J.Th. MöllerIntroductionChapter One: The Nature and Characteristics of International Human Rights Treaty LawChapter Two: The Requirement of a National Protection SystemChapter Three: Democracy and the Rule of LawChapter Four: Human Rights in Times of Crises or EmergenciesChapter Five: Preventive Strategies: Obligations to Prevent under International Human Rights Treaties and Jurisprudence Chapter Six: The Duty to Respect, Protect and Ensure Chapter Seven: The Duty to Provide RedressChapter Eight: The Essence of Supervision in Reporting SystemsChapter Nine: The Essence of Petitions and Fact-finding Procedures Chapter Ten: Universality, Equality and JusticeConclusion Appendix I General Comment No. 31 of the Human Rights CommitteeAppendix II General Comment No. 33 of the Human Rights CommitteeAppendix III The Limburg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsAppendix IV The Siracusa PrinciplesAppendix V The Council of Europe and the Rule of LawBibliography; Index.