International institutions Part 1

Establishing Protection Mechanisms for Bureaucrats – The Case of the Independent Oversight Board of Civil Service of Kosovo
Dren Doli, Fisnik Korenica & Artan Rogova
European Journal of Law Reform
Volume 12, Issue 1/2, 2010 p.106-133

This article discusses the position and powers of Kosovo’s Civil Service Oversight Board, mainly from a legal perspective. The article describes the reforms undertaken upon the Board and the civil service in Kosovo, while illustrating the central pillars of concern in regard to both the international presence and domestic institutions in Kosovo. The article then explains the three reforms and reviews each of the main legal changes the Board and the civil system have experienced, respectively. The last section of the article comprises an institutional review of the powers and the position of the current framework on the Civil Service Oversight Board, while allowing a part of the article to question its independence and pluralism. The article culminates with policy suggestions that would make the work of the Board, and the entire civil service, more independent and accountable to its mission.

Progressing Norm Socialisation: Why Membership Matters. The Impact of the Accreditation Process of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
Brodie, Meg
Nordic Journal of International Law
Volume 80, Number 2, 2011 p.143-192

Modest harvests: appraising the impact of human rights norms on international economic institutions in relation to Africa
Nlerum S. Okogbule
International Journal of Human Rights
Volume 15, Number 5, 2011 p.728-748

Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Dan Sarooshi (eds.), Issues of State Responsibility before International judicial institutions
Stephan Wittich
Austrian Review of International and European Law
Volume 12, 2007 p.457

ENGENDERING SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS
Sandra Fredman
South African Journal on Human Rights
Volume 25, Part 3, 2009 p.410

Socio-economic rights and equality have the potential to form a powerful partnership. However, the precise relationship in the context of gender remains controversial. In this article, I argue that simply extending socio-economic rights to women is not sufficient. This does little to address the gendered nature of social institutions and structures. Instead, socio-economic rights should be ‘engendered’ or infused with substantive gender equality. This article develops this argument first by developing a multi-dimensional understanding of substantive equality, and then analysing the effect of such an understanding on the characterisation of the right itself. Engendered socio-economic rights aim to take account of the power relations in which rights are exercised, in order to enhance the set of feasible options open to women, while at the same time supporting the values of interdependence, solidarity and care, whether or not based on choice. In the final part, I consider how this approach might inform the interpretation of equality and socio-economic rights in selected human rights instruments. At both regional and international level, there is scope for interpreting equality either as an add-on to rights, or as a means of engendering socio-economic rights. I suggest that the latter gives a richer and more effective way of taking equality and socio-economic rights forward.

A Taxonomy of International Rule of law Institutions
Cesare P.R. Romano
Journal of International Dispute Settlement
Volume 2, Issue 1, February 2011 p.241-277

The Power of International institutions : An Examination of U.S. Policy towards East Timor and Kosovo in 1999
Christopher Robert Cook
Journal of Politics and Law
Volume 3, Number 2, September 2010 p.26

ENGAGEMENT AND ESCAPE: INTERNATIONAL LEGAL INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLIC POLITICAL CONTESTATION
Journal of International Law and International Relations
Volume 6, Number 1, Summer 2010

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