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van Boven sought to employ a ‘Hammarskjoldian’ innovation, that of the use of good offices by senior UN officials, to help the victims of human rights violations. He used every possible avenue at the UN to push the organization’s officials and organs to take up the cases of people in distress.
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- 1.
See on this Ramcharan (1983).
- 2.
van Boven (1982), p. 65.
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Guest (1990), p. 204.
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Guest (1990), p. 311.
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Waldheim was Secretary-General for most of the tenure of van Boven.
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See, further, Ramcharan (1983), pp. 61–71.
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Resolution 27 (XXXVI) of the Commission on Human Rights: “Good Offices of the Secretary-General in the field of human rights”.
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Theo C. van Boven, “Foreword”, in Ramcharan (1983), p. vii.
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Ramcharan BG (1983) Humanitarian Good Offices in International Law. The Good Offices of the United Nations Secretary-General in the Field of Human Rights. Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague
van Boven, TC (1982) People Matter. Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, 1982. (Edited by Hans Thoolen)
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Ramcharan, B. (2018). Human Rights Good Offices and Diplomacy. In: The Advent of Universal Protection of Human Rights. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02221-1_8
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