Publication details
Mezinárodní závazky České republiky v oblasti lidských práv
| Title in English | International Obligations of the Czech Republic in the Field of Human Rights |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Středoevropské politické studie |
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| Web | http://www.cepsr.com/clanek.php?ID=520 |
| Field | Political sciences |
| Keywords | Human Rights; International Obligations; International Treaties; the Czech Republic; Normative Actor |
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| Description | The Czech Republic emphasizes in its foreign policy strategies the prominent place of the promotion of human rights. In order to be taken seriously, a state using normative argumentation should be credible – i.e. it should practice what it “preaches”. The article reduces the term “human rights credibility of a country” to its domestic performance (how it observes human rights at home), which is well covered by various reports of both governmental and non-governmental organizations, and its willingness to take on international human rights obligations. We quantitatively map how the Czech Republic signs and ratifies international treaties with a relevance to human rights and seek to determine, through comparison with other EU and Visegrad countries, if its self-presentation as a human rights observing and promoting country is credible. |
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