CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Almuhafdha, Sayed Yusuf |
|---|---|
| Title | States' Non-Compliance with International Human Rights Law Case Study of Bahrain |
| Summary | Although Bahrain is a signatory to various international treaties within the United Nations (UN) human rights system, the country has low compliance with international norms and international recommendations regarding its human rights commitments. Bahrain has not fully implemented international and national recommendations to tackle human rights violations and does not follow its own human rights obligations. This thesis illustrates the varied factors and reasons that lead to non-compliance with international human rights law and provides recommendations from legal, human rights, political, and geopolitical perspectives. This thesis includes expert testimony and opinions about Bahrain's non-compliance with human rights laws, as well as a discussion of the literature review and its findings. This thesis also highlights Bahrain's challenges, complications, and resistance to implementing international human rights norms into its domestic system. The findings are that Bahrain's signing of UN conventions represented a tokenistic and normative commitment to human rights law to avoid international consequences, support its sovereignty, promote its international reputation, and encourage international investment in Bahrain... Bahrain has partly succussed in silencing most of the critical voices internationally, not because it complied with human rights law, but rather because it developed various methods to counter every criticism. |
| Supervisor | Proessor Lorenzo Gasbarri |
| Department | Legal Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/almuhafdha_sayed.pdf |
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