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39 Hum. Rts. Q. 943 (2017)
The United Nations Treaty Bodies and Universal Periodic Review: Advancing Human Rights by Preventing Politicization?

handle is hein.journals/hurq39 and id is 961 raw text is: HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY The United Nations Treaty Bodies and Universal Periodic Review: Advancing Human Rights by Preventing Politicization? Valentina Carraro* ABSTRACT The absence of politicization is widely considered an essential feature in ensuring the credibility of international organizations concerned with human rights monitoring. Nonetheless, hardly any empirical research has been conducted to systematically assess its presence and identify its con- sequences. Therefore, this article investigates the extent to which the state reporting process of the Treaty Bodies and the Universal Periodic Review are perceived to be politicized, and what consequences politicization has on their credibility. It claims that whereas politicization carries exclusively negative consequences in the Treaty Bodies, it has some unexpected positive consequences in the case of the Universal Periodic Review. 1. INTRODUCTION In March 2005, when compiling his report In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All, the then United Nations * Valentina Carraro is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Maastricht University. Her work has previ- ously been published in European Integration online Papers (EloP). Acknowledgements: For highly helpful feedback and discussions, the author would like to warmly thankThomas Conzelmann, Sophie Vanhoonacker, Cees Flinterman, Gerald Neuman, Hortense Jongen, M. Joel Voss, Tannelie Blom, Niels Disbergen, and participants to the ISA Conference on Human Rights in an Age of Ambiguity (New York 2016), ISA Conference on Human Rights and Justice (The Hague 2015), Meeting of the Maastricht University Politics and Culture in Europe Group (Maastricht 2014), and Seminar on Understanding Complementary Institutions in Human Rights Implementation (Utrecht 2014). The author is also thankful to Ian Lovering and Ludger Wortmann for invaluable research assistance. Human Rights Quarterly 39 (2017) 943-970 C 2017 by Johns Hopkins University Press

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