The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Editorial Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part One: The Promise of the High Commissioner: Reflections on the Past and Proposals for the Future -- Rights Inflation and Role Conflict in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights -- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: From the Personal to the Institutional -- Address by the High Commissioner at the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights -- A Conversation with the High Commissioner -- Future Preventive Strategies of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights -- Part Two: Promoting Universality of Rights: Global Leadership in an Era of Growing Particularism and Relativism -- The High Commissioner and the Treaty Bodies -- The High Commissioners' Promotion of Universality of Human Rights -- Part Three: Preventing Human Rights Violations and Effective Response -- The High Commissioners and the Special Procedures: Colleagues and Competitors -- Protection Through Presence: The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Field -- Enhancing UN Human Rights Work on the Ground -- The High Commissioner and National Human Rights Institutions -- Part Four: Influencing Other Bodies to Act -- The High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Council -- Human Rights Prosecutors? The High Commissioner for Human Rights, International Justice, and the Example of Syria -- Part Five: Hard Cases: Can the High Commissioner Make a Difference? -- The High Commissioner, OHCHR, and China 1998-2005: Challenges and Achievements -- The High Commissioner for Human Rights and North Korea -- The Role of the High Commissioner in Protecting and Promoting Human Rights in Afghanistan and Sudan.

The High Commissioner in the Russian Federation -- The High Commissioner and Human Rights in Burma (Myanmar) -- The Impact of the High Commissioner on Human Rights Protection in Colombia -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.