Eponine Howarth

The United Nations Universal Periodic Review: an effective tool for the international protection of human rights?

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This article uses the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (‘DPRK’) as a case study to evaluate the successes and failures of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (‘UPR’). This process, established during the creation of the United Nations Human Rights Council (‘UNHRC’) in 2006, including all 193 Members of the UN, is a peer review […]

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Common But Differentiated Responsibilities: Inequitable and Ineffective?

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Abstract This article analyses the principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibility (CBDR), one of the guiding principles regulating the international rules and standards related to climate change, enshrined in the legal framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). CBDR establishes that all states are responsible for addressing global environmental destruction, but

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