Contents: What are human rights?
-- What State obligations arise from human rights?
-- International human rights instruments
-- May Governments restrict human rights?
-- United Nations human rights treaty-monitoring bodies
-- Charter-based system of human rights protection and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
-- The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
-- Integrating human rights into the work of the United Nations
-- Regional human rights treaties and monitoring
-- Combating impunity : the International Criminal Court (ICC)
-- The role of parliamentarians in the protection and promotion of human rights -- What parliamentarians should know about the civil and political rights contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- What parliamentarians should know about the economic, social and cultural rights contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.