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- Title
FACT-FINDING AND REPORT WRITING BY UN HUMAN RIGHTS MANDATE HOLDERS.
- Authors
Kirby, Michael; LaForgia, Rebecca
- Abstract
In this article, derived and enlarged from a recorded conversation, the participants explore the methodology of United Nations ('UN') human rights mandate holders as earlier examined by Philip Alston, Sarah Knuckey and others in The Transformation of Human Rights Fact- Finding.¹ By reference to his experience in the UN Commission of Inquiry ('COI') on Human Rights Violations in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ('the DPRK' or 'North Korea'), the Hon Michael Kirby explains: the reasons for, and consequences of, the distinctive methodology there adopted; the challenges of coping with often emotional testimony; available mechanisms for dispassion and their limitations; the tradition of public hearings in inquiries in Australia; approaches to 'the moment of decision' on contested issues; the follow-up to the report of the COI on the DPRK; and several general lessons about effectiveness of formal report writing. The article begins with an introduction by Rebecca LaForgia based on an analysis of recent scholarly examinations of the process of international human rights fact-finding.
- Subjects
REPORT writing; FACT finding (Law); HUMAN rights
- Publication
Adelaide Law Review, 2017, Vol 38, Issue 2, p464
- ISSN
0065-1915
- Publication type
Article