The security council and the protection of human rights

Abstract

This book emphasizes the centrality of human rights in the concepts of human security and in policies and strategies of realizing human security. Within this nexus of human rights and human security and the linkage between gross patterns of violations of human rights and the maintenance of peace, the role of the Security Council is becoming increasingly important. This book reviews the role of the Security Council over the last 50 years in dealing with the human rights imperatives and traces the influence of human rights in the areas of humanitarian intercession, conflict prevention, peace making, peace keeping and peace building. It also looks at the work of the Security Council in integrating a human rights dimension in combating terrorism and in its quest for justice in the face of gross violations of human rights. The book contains a very extensive annex listing and detailing resolutions and Presidential statements of the Security Council on human rights related issues.