4.6 Arab System

The Arab League's line: the Arab Charter on Human Rights 2004 (in force 2008) — the revised version of the 1994 text; the Arab Human Rights Committee (the charter's expert body — the reporting dialogue); the charter's controversies (the Shari'a clause; the death penalty's retention for children — the critics' catalogue); the specialised instruments (the Arab Convention on Terrorism's rights tensions); the national systems' variety (the Gulf-to-Maghreb spectrum). The system's character: the newest and weakest of the regional regimes — the exam's one-line.