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Call for Researchers: Global Study on Domestic Impact of Human Rights Treaties

The Human Rights Center at the University of Dayton is seeking collaborators to conduct research on the impact of the UN human rights treaty system on the domestic level in the United States. This is in response to the call for human rights researchers worldwide to contribute to a global study which seeks to capture “the influence to date of the main United Nations human rights treaties, and the work of the committees that monitor compliance by States with these treaties, on the lives of people worldwide.” While a group of human rights researchers are currently engaged in a comprehensive ‘domestic impact study’ that will address this question in 20 countries, the Global Study group led by the University of Pretoria is encouraging researchers in other parts of the world to undertake research on the same issue in their home countries. The group has a detailed methodology and template available at the website. This initiative comes twenty years after the initial global study and ahead of the 2020 review aimed at optimizing the treaty body system.

The Human Rights Center is committed to contributing to increased research and knowledge sharing on the importance of international human rights mechanisms for the US. The Center will coordinate and support this collaborative effort, seeking researchers and/or research teams to claim and contribute work on specific treaties. The treaties that still require research are the ICCPR and CAT. If researchers are also interested in the impact of treaties and treaty bodies work in the US despite the lack of ratification, we also welcome this research (i.e., related to ICESCR, CRC, ICRMW, ICPED, and ICRPD, including their optional protocols).

The conveners of the global study have laid out an ideal timeline for the study: first drafts by 31 July 2019 and final drafts by 30 November 2019. We would work with research collaborators to determine a timeline for compilation of the chapter on the US with these aims in mind. 

If you are interested in engaging in this collaborative effort or have any questions, please contact Joel R. Pruce, jpruce1@udayton.edu

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