Since recently, non-state actors are claiming a place in making and interpreting of international law. Particularly treaty bodies are playing an important role in shaping interpretation of human rights treaties. With the power to monitor State compliance to human rights undertakings, the treaty bodies adopt a number of instruments guiding implementation of the treaties. Concluding observations are outcome documents of the reporting procedure. The status of these documents is hardly discussed by literature and the interplay of the instruments with binding international laws remained blurred. This book tried to give insight on the status of concluding observations at the international as well as domestic legal systems. Particular focus is given to the practice of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. Concluding observations are understanding of authoritative interpreting body. Hence, the observations serve as subsidiary source of human rights law. They are not, of course, binding. However, the recommendations of the Committee are soft laws as they proved some level of normativity and states sense of compliance.This book is relevant to human rights practitioners and academicians.

Anteneh Geremew, LLB: Debre Markos University, LLM : Human Rights at Addis Ababa University. Lecturer of Law at Debre Markos University, Ethiopia. Main areas of interest are Child Rights, Jurisprudence and International Law.