Complaint procedures at the UN

In this video, I introduce (and compare) Charter- and treaty-based complaint procedures at the United Nations. 0:00 The purpose of complaint procedures 1:23 Charter-based procedures 3:16 Individual complaints before treaty bodies 5:34 Answer to reading question Reading: • Jane Connors, "United Nations", chapter 19 in Daniel Moeckli et al., International Human Rights Law (3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 2017) Reading question: • What are the main differences between the ‘Charter-based’ complaint procedure (formerly the ‘1503 procedure’) and the complaints mechanisms provided by UN treaty bodies? This video series was created for a third-year undergraduate course in international human rights law at University College Roosevelt in the Netherlands in 2021.