Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Editor: Paul C. Szasz -- Foreword / Paul C. Szasz -- Chapter One Introduction / Paul C. Szasz -- Chapter Two Ad Hoc and Extra-Conventional Means for Human Rights Monitoring / Allison L. Jernow -- Chapter Three Human Rights Monitoring: Universal and Regional Treaty Bodies / R. Andrew Painter -- Chapter Four Human Rights Monitoring: Procedures and Decision-Making of Standing United Nations Organs / Daniel A. Silien -- Chapter Five Protection of the Ozone Layer: The Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol / Sasha Thomas-Nuruddin -- Chapter Six Implementation of Biodiversity Treaties: Monitoring, Fact-Finding, and Dispute Resolution / Daniel Vice -- Chapter Seven The World Trade Organization, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the Canadian-US Free Trade Agreement: Dispute Resolution Procedures and the Environment / James E. Brown III -- Chapter Eight Monitoring Compliance with Nuclear Safety Standards: Peer Review through the International Atomic Energy Agency and Its Convention on Nuclear Safety / Monica J. Washington -- Chapter Nine Chemical and Biological Weapons: Monitoring Compliance with Arms Control Agreements / Jennifer D. Wheatley -- Appendix One The Environment, Arms Control, Human Rights, and the World Bank / Ibrahim F. I. Shihata -- Appendix Two Is It Monitoring Or Compliance-Control? / Winfried Lang -- Annex One Participants / Editor: Paul C. Szasz -- Annex Two Abbreviations / Editor: Paul C. Szasz -- Index / Editor: Paul C. Szasz.

This work is an in-depth examination of the monitoring controls in some of the world’s major international organizations and other treaty regimes. The editor, one of the foremost and most experienced authorities in this specialized but crucially important field, shows how monitoring is used in the common interest to ensure the stability and growth of global standards in such diverse areas as human rights, environmental protection and arms control. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

English

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