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- Title
Ukraine's Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights: Strengthening Human Rights Promotion and Protection?
- Authors
Reif, Linda C.
- Abstract
Ukraine's national human rights institution (NHRI), the Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights (PCHR), is a single-leader human rights ombudsman institution. The PCHR enjoys GANHRI A-status accreditation denoting full compliance with the UN Paris Principles, which are authoritative international standards for NHRIs. The PCHR has human rights protection and promotion mandates, serves as Ukraine's OPCAT National Preventive Mechanism, fights gender discrimination and informally prioritizes children's rights. Assessed against the Paris Principles, the PCHR has a relatively robust legislative framework but it has some deficiencies and the PCHR is underfunded. Other extra-legal factors influence the PCHR's effectiveness. The character of the outgoing Commissioner was instrumental in strengthening the PCHR's effectiveness since 2012. However, a resistant administration, legislators who try to curb the PCHR's independence, shallow democracy, internal armed conflict, a weak human rights culture and the PCHR's mixed popular legitimacy impede improved performance, and continued or new deficiencies may reduce the PCHR's effectiveness.
- Subjects
HUMAN rights; NATIONAL human rights institutions; SEX discrimination; LEGITIMACY of governments; UKRAINIAN social conditions
- Publication
Harvard Human Rights Journal, 2018, Vol 31, p113
- ISSN
1057-5057
- Publication type
Article