Title: Human Rights and Collective Security: Is There an Emerging Right of Humanitarian Intervention?
Abstract:Abstract The links between international security and the protection of individual rights have been widely recognized for some years now. It is generally accepted today that the maintenance of peace p...Abstract The links between international security and the protection of individual rights have been widely recognized for some years now. It is generally accepted today that the maintenance of peace presupposes a certain respect for individual rights, and, conversely, that severe violations of fundamental rights may create a situation threatening international peace and security within the meaning of Chapter VII of the UN Charter. Based on this finding, two trends have developed in legal scholarship. The first considers that the link between maintaining the peace and protecting human rights does not call into question the cardinal principle of the sovereignty of states. The second trend interprets the strengthening of rules protecting human rights as a challenge to the principle of the sovereignty of states. This chapter seeks to choose between these two lines of scholarship in the light of recent developments in the concept and practice of the right of humanitarian intervention.Read More
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-09-11
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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