Dormant Rights and Initiatives on the Agenda of the UN Human Rights Council

Abstract

The issue of international human rights norms which have not yet been
fully established within the existing international human rights standard
belongs at present to the essential components of the UN Human Rights
Council agenda. Based on a synthesis of legal and political notions of the
process of emergence of human rights norms, the paper attempts to
clearly define and classify these emerging norms, which are sometimes
called “new” human rights. At the same time it focuses on individual
emerging human rights that are included on the Council’s agenda,
examines the stages they reached in the international norm cycle and
briefly discusses the tools used by the UN Human Rights Council to achieve
progress in this respect and turn the norms in statu nascendi into full
international standards.