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Leadership in the Quest for Protection

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The Advent of Universal Protection of Human Rights

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Theo van Boven’s leadership sparked important policy innovations that transformed the United Nations capacity to engage in the protection of human rights. Whereas victims of violations of human rights had been petitioning the UN for a long time, it was during van Boven’s tenure that the UN developed the policies, mechanisms and procedures that finally enabled the UN to hear these petitions and to act on them.

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  1. 1.

    van Boven (1982), p. 63.

  2. 2.

    van Boven (1982), pp. 15–17.

  3. 3.

    van Boven (1982), p. 63.

  4. 4.

    van Boven (1982), p. 76.

  5. 5.

    van Boven was referring here to Cambodia under Pol Pot.

  6. 6.

    van Boven (1982), pp. 72–73.

  7. 7.

    van Boven (1982), pp. 65–66.

  8. 8.

    Ibid.

  9. 9.

    Ibid, p. 73.

  10. 10.

    Ibid., pp. 55–56.

  11. 11.

    van Boven (1982), pp. 83–84.

  12. 12.

    van Boven (1982), pp. 93–94.

  13. 13.

    van Boven (1982), p. 74.

  14. 14.

    van Boven (1982), p. 74.

  15. 15.

    van Boven (1982), p. 19.

  16. 16.

    van Boven (1982), p. 66.

  17. 17.

    Memorandum from William B. Buffum, Under-Secretary-General to Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, 9 June, 1980, Copy of Memorandum in the possession of the author.

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Ramcharan, B. (2018). Leadership in the Quest for Protection. In: The Advent of Universal Protection of Human Rights. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02221-1_2

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