Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2001
Abstract
The Refugee Convention is the only major human rights treaty that is not externally supervised. Under all of the other key UN human rights accords — on the rights of women and children, against torture and racial discrimination, and to promote civil and political, as well as economic, social, and cultural rights — there is at least some effort made to ensure that States are held accountable for what they have signed onto.
Recommended Citation
Hathaway, James C. "Why Supervise the Refugee Convention?" Talk Back: Newsl. of Int'l Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA) 3, no. 5 (2001): 12-3.