Head of the Czech Centre Jan Lhotský published on the reform of the UN human rights treaty bodies

In October, The Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) based in Venice published the final thesis of the head of the Czech Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, Jan Lhotský. EIUC annually publishes five of the best theses online from its E.MA human rights programme. In the text, Jan Lhotský analyses the functioning of the UN human rights treaty bodies that are based in Geneva and proposes a concrete reform for 2020 when the UN General Assembly is expected to decide on the necessary changes. The work is titled Human rights treaty body review 2020: towards an integrated treaty body system and its abstract as well as the whole text can be found here.