Съдържа: Introduction -- Opening of the Conference on Reservations to Human Rights Treaties / Percy MacLean -- Reservations to human rights treaties -- setting the stage: wishful thinking or prospects for development / Goran Melander. Part I: Elements of practice of human rights monitoring bodies -- Reservations by states under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its Optional Protocols, and the practice of the Human Rights Committee / Martin Scheinin -- A comment on the issue of reservations to the provisions of the Covenant Representing (Peremptory) Rules of General International Law / Eckart Klein -- Approaches to reservations by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination / Morten Kjaerum -- The Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment -- limitations, restrictions and reservations / Bent Sorensen and Paul Dalton -- Collective responsibility and reservatoins in a common European human rights area / Jorg Polakiewicz -- Declarations to the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of Naitonal Minorities: practice of the Advisory Committee / Rainer Hofmann. Part II: Elements of doctrinal debate -- On human rights treaties, contractual conceptions and reservations / Jan Klabbers -- The potentials fo the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties with respect to reservations to human rights treaties / Anja Seibert-Fohr -- Reservations to treaties and norms of jus cogens -- a comment on Human Rights Committee General Comment No. 24 / Ulf Linderfalk. Annex 1: Excerpts from the Second Rport on Reservations to Treaties prepared by Alain Pellet, Special Rapporteur on the Internatinal Law Commission -- 2: List of participants of the conference.*