CONTENTS
Foreword by the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.................................xxvii
Foreword by the International Bar Association .................................................xxix
Acknowledgements.................................................................................................xxxi
Addendum – Major Recent Developments (2002 – March 2003) .................xxxii
Abbreviations.........................................................................................................xxxiv
Chapter 1
International Human Rights Law and the Role
of the Legal Professions: A General Introduction ................1
Learning Objectives .....................................................................................................1
Questions.......................................................................................................................1
1.
Introduction ..........................................................................................................2
2.
Origin, Meaning and Scope of International Human Rights Law................2
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
2.8
2.9
The Charter of the United Nations and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights ............................................................................2
The ethical dimension of human rights ............................................................4
Human rights and their impact on national and international peace,
security and development....................................................................................5
The sources of law................................................................................................6
2.4.1 International treaties.....................................................................................7
2.4.2 International customary law..........................................................................8
2.4.3 General principles of law recognized by the community of nations .................11
2.4.4 Subsidiary means for the determination of rules of law.................................11
International human rights law and international humanitarian law:
common concerns and basic differences........................................................12
Reservations and interpretative declarations to international
human rights treaties..........................................................................................13
Limitations on the exercise of rights ...............................................................15
Derogations from international legal obligations ..........................................16
International State responsibility for human rights violations ....................17
3.
Business Corporations and Human Rights ....................................................19
4.
International Human Rights Law at the Domestic Level ............................20
4.1
Incorporating international law into domestic legal systems.......................20
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