International human rights law

understand the relationship between international humanitarian law and international human rights law, the foundation, development and overall intention of these separate sets of laws must be explored. International Humanitarian Law or IHL, is a set of international rules that has been established by treaties or customs for the intention of solving the humanitarian problems that arise directly from international or non-international armed conflicts. This universal body of law began in the…

International law is a broad body that operates within an anarchic system. It contains two sections of law as well as a multitude of organizations that work within the laws. These laws also are enforced, or attempted to be enforced, by international courts in which states hold each other accountable for their actions. International law contains two types, public and private. Public international law is legal norms such as treaties that apply to interactions between states or states and other…

self-determination of peoples and the sovereignty of states in contemporary international politics? 1 This report elucidates the link between sovereignty of states & self-determination of peoples therefore the focal point of this essay is to elaborate on the underlying concept of sovereignty as it incorporates the protection and the practice of various human rights as stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The main goal of this piece of research article is to…

In the short story, “The Lottery”, Shirley Jackson uses imagery and symbolism to show that evil can be present in the most innocent environment, resulting in society being tainted with dark illusion. Superstitious tradition symbolized an important role to the people in this village. Mr. Summers a man that was in charge of the majority of the events in the town, always spoke about making a new black box but never did. (134) The people of the village would rather keep the same box rather than…

Is it legitimate to intervene another state’s internal affairs? Do gross violations of human rights justify armed interventions to stop atrocities? According to the UN charter protection of human rights is the responsibility of the international community hence humanitarian interventions are foreign military actions which prevent or halt mass muyrder and other sever violations of human rights. In contrast the charter also prohibits forceful interference against the territorial intregrity and…

responsibility to protect human rights has seen extensive and exhaustive debate throughout history. Since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, the tension between state sovereignty and international intervention in pursuit of human rights protection has been contested. Over three centuries later, and the United Nations Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine has codified human rights protection in a global political commitment of the highest order. Following the international acceptance of the…

International law is mainly known for all the consisted rules and principles governing the relations and dealings of different nations with each other. For international law, there has never been a particular area or governing body so mainly their laws have varied which govern and impacted deals with the legal interactions between different nations, their governments and organizations included their rights and responsibilities in deals they make with other nations. International Law contains the…

I. INTRODUCTION The international community appears to believe that there is a direct correlation between military intervention and cessation of gross violations of human rights that are being committed by the government of a state, supposing that there will be an improvement in the conditions for those against whom these violations are being committed if there is a legal humanitarian intervention. This assumption is largely based on the concept that if an intervention is legal, it will be…

carried out by an multilateral force under international organizations like the UN (Kouchner, 4). The Kosovo precedent is key in understanding the intent of intervention and its flaws today. The intervention proved that the global community does not tolerate the killing of an entire people. It is undeniable that intervention was necessary in Kosovo. However, the style of…

Most countries have extradition laws. Most countries also have extradition treaties such as Mexico and the United States, as shown above. If two countries have an extradition treaty, they have an agreement to extradite each others wanted fugitives based upon the terms of the treaty; “considered simply as a contract between two independent Governments” (Spears 95). Even when a treaty is not present, extradition will usually be granted if it meets certain conditions regarding how the extradition…