ABSTRACT
For most readers, the importance of human rights is as a mechanism by which one’s rights may be enforced. Although ideally each State should ensure all the human rights to everyone within their jurisdiction, this is not always the reality. This chapter will identify the key international and regional mechanisms deployed by the organisations mentioned in the previous chapter to effect human rights. The focus is on investigative mechanisms and independent fact-fi nding systems, as well as those systems through which organisations oversee all human rights (rather than those in a specifi c treaty).
