Title: 6. An Assessment of the ILC’s Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations
Abstract:As international organizations have international personality, it is not difficult to infer that such organizations can not only demand that other international persons be responsible to them, because...As international organizations have international personality, it is not difficult to infer that such organizations can not only demand that other international persons be responsible to them, because they have rights at international law, but they can also be held responsible to other international persons because they have obligations at international law. As to the international responsibility of international organizations, international practice has always recognized that such organizations are subject to such responsibility, particularly since the establishment of the United Nations (UN) and its specialized agencies. The underlying parallelism established by the International Law Commission (ILC) between the provisions in the two sets of articles is acceptable and correct. The reason for this is that much of what applies to a State, in regard to responsibility, could easily apply to a collection of States, even though the collection has its own international personality. Keywords: international law; International Law Commission (ILC); state responsibility; United Nations (UN)Read More
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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