Abstract
This chapter argues that parliaments are an important actor in facilitating the realisation of human rights. It shows that some recommendations of UN human rights treaty bodies (COs) have been effective and resulted in change as a result of the efforts of Members of Parliament (MPs) in the Netherlands, New Zealand and Finland. Nonetheless, parliaments can also pose an obstacle to the implementation of international human rights and COs. A wide parliamentary consensus on a certain practice is sometimes used as a simple excuse (by the government) for not acting upon COs. At the same time, MPs can be self-righteous and critical about the quality of UN human rights treaty bodies and hence argue against the implementation of COs. The last part of this chapter presents a tentative list of domestic variables conditioning the (difference) in the engagement of parliaments with COs.
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