Immigration Problems Facing the European Union from the Perspective of United Nations Human Rights Council Mechanisms

Przegląd Prawniczy Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza 2018, nr 8, s. 77-86.

Wizyty specjalnych sprawozdawców ONZ w Polsce

Problemy Współczesnego Prawa Międzynarodowego, Europejskiego i Porównawczego 2018, t. 16, s. 130-142.

The UN Special Rapporteurs are independent experts holding mandates of special procedures established by the Human Rights Council. One of their main methods of work is conducting country visits, at the invitation of States. The article aims at assessing country visits as the way of monitoring the human rights situation at the national level. It provides an overview of the last visits in Poland, including the visit of the Special Rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers in October 2017, focusing on the recommendations issued by Special Rapporteurs in their reports presented to the Human Rights Council and the reaction of Polish Government to the Rapporteur’s findings. The Special Rapporteurs’ independence and expertise turns country visits reports into a valuable source of information on the situation of human rights that can be used, inter alia, by National Human Rights Institutions and non-governmental organizations. However, the impact of the visit depend mostly on the State’s will to implement the Special Rapporteurs’ recommendations.

Procedury specjalne a rozbudowa uniwersalnego systemu ochrony praw człowieka

Studia Prawnicze 2017, nr 3, s. 101-113.

Współautorstwo: Baranowska, Grażyna

The UN human rights system is constantly growing, as new treaties are adopted and new special procedures are established. While this strengthens the protection of some human rights, the development is also criticized for blurring recognized concepts, which consequently leads to the weakening of the protection of human rights. The article analyzes the quantitative expansion of UN special procedures, with an emphasis on thematic mandates. Reasons for their growing number are examined, as well as strengths and weaknesses that this development brings. In the second part the article scrutinizes when the activities and competences of thematic special procedures and treaty bodies overlap. The two groups act complementary, but a lack of cooperation between them can lead to competition and duplication. The article closes with possible solutions of dealing with the expansion of the universal system, that would strengthen human rights protection, while making best use of available financial, administrative and technical resources.